Tanya Mars
Tanya Mars is a performance and video artist based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
| Tanya Mars | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Tanya Ann Marshall 1948 Monroe, Michigan, United States of America |
| Known for | Multidisciplinary performance, video art |
| Website | http://tanyamars.com |
Life
Mars was born in Monroe, Michigan in 1948, and has lived in Canada since 1967.[1] She was educated at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and at Loyola College, Montreal (now incorporated into Concordia University).[2]
Mars currently teaches in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media in the University of Toronto Scarborough.[3]
Work
Mars was a founder and director of Powerhouse Gallery (La Centrale) in Montreal, one of Canada's first feminist art collectives. She went on to edit Parallelogramme, an arts journal.[3][4]
During the 1970s and 1980s, Mars was a member and secretary of the Association of National Non-Profit Artist-Run Centres, a national lobby group for artist-run centres (1976-1989).[5] She is a past president and member of FADO, a non-profit artist-run centre for performance art based in Toronto, Canada.[5]
Tyranny of Bliss took place in 2004 in Toronto which had audiences travel by car to 14 tableaux representing the seven heavenly virtues and seven deadly sins. [6]
With Johanna Householder, Mars co-edited the 2004 anthology Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women.[7]
Mars' performance work received in-depth treatment in a 2008 critical anthology edited by Paul Couillard.[8]
Videography[9][10]
- The Granny Suites, Part 1: Happy Birthday to You - 2006
- 7 Deadly Sins/ 7 Deadly Virtues - 2004
- Hot! - 1998
- Doom - 1996
- Bronco's Kiss - 1996
- Mz. Frankenstein - 1993
- End of Nature, The - 1991
- PURE HELL - 1990
- Pure Sin - 1990
- Pure Nonsense - 1987
- Pure Sin - 1986
- Pure Virtue - 1985
- 24 Postcards - 1983
- Picnic In The Drift - 1981
Awards
- Mars was awarded a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2008.
- Mars was awarded "Artist of the Year," Untitled Arts Awards, Toronto in 2005. [11]
References
- ↑ Couillard, edited by Paul (2008). Ironic to iconic : the performance works of Tanya Mars. Toronto: Fado Performance Inc. p. 203. ISBN 0973088311.
- ↑ Couillard, edited by Paul (2008). Ironic to iconic : the performance works of Tanya Mars. Toronto: Fado Performance Inc. p. 203. ISBN 0973088311.
- 1 2 "Tanya Mars | Department of Arts, Culture and Media". University of Toronto. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- ↑ "40 Years of La Centrale Programming Series". La Centrale. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- 1 2 Mars, Tanya; Householder, Johanna, eds. (2004). Caught in the Act: an anthology of performance art by Canadian women. Toronto, ON, Canada: YYZ Books. p. 427. ISBN 0-920397-84-0.
- ↑ Adams, James (March 26, 2008). "A $200,000 day". Globe and Mail.
- ↑ Mars, Tanya and Johanna Householder, eds. Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women. Toronto: YYZ Books, 2004
- ↑ Couillard, Paul, ed. Ironic to Iconic: The Performance Works of Tanya Mars. Toronto: Fado Performance Inc., 2008
- ↑ "Artist | Vtape". www.vtape.org. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- ↑ "Tanya Mars". tanyamars.com. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- ↑ Couillard, edited by Paul (2008). Ironic to iconic : the performance works of Tanya Mars. Toronto: Fado Performance Inc. p. 226. ISBN 0973088311.