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-BIOGRAPHY-
Lyla Rye is Toronto based installation artist, who began her studies in architecture.  She received a BFA from York University, and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.  Her work has been exhibited across Canada including at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria;  The Power Plant, Toronto; the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax; The Esplanade Gallery, Medicine Hat;  the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston; the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, the Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown and the Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto.  Her international exhibitions include shows in San Francisco, New York, Adelaide, Paris, and Berlin. She has work in the collections of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, York University, Cadillac Fairview Corporation, The Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Harbourfront Centre and Robert McLaughlin Gallery.

-EDUCATION-
1994 - Master of Fine Arts San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
1989 - Bachelor of Fine Arts York University, Toronto, Ontario
1983-5 - Architecture University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario

-SOLO EXHIBITIONS-
2012 - Cyclorama - Southern Alberta Art Gallery. Lethbridge, Alberta
2012 - Cyclorama - Visual Arts Centre of Clarington. Bowmanville, Ontario
2011 - Swing Stage - Olga Korper Gallery (Koffler Gallery Offsite Project). Toronto, Ontario
2011 - Upstage - Durham Main Street - Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film. Durham, Ontario
2010 - Erratic Room - Art Gallery of Greater Victoria – Victoria, British Columbia
2009 - Topsy Turvy - Project Room - Art Gallery at Harbourfront (Images Festival). Toronto, Ontario
2008 - Closed for Renovations - Fly Gallery. Toronto, Ontario
2007 - Interplay - Herrmann & Wagner - Video Space. Berlin
2007 - The Home Show - Salem Ave. Toronto, Ontario
2007 - Hopscotch - Esplanade Gallery. Medicine Hat, Alberta
2006 - Hopscotch - Agnes Etherington Art Centre. Kingston, Ontario
2004 - Young Girl at an Open Window - Gallery 44 Vitrines. Toronto, Ontario
2003 - Byte - YYZ Gallery Window - Images Festival. Toronto, Ontario
2003 - Flesh and Blood - Cambridge Public Art Galleries. Cambridge, Ontario
2002 - Byte - eyelevelgallery. Halifax, Nova Scotia
2002 - Separation Anxieties - Grimsby Public Art Gallery. Grimsby, Ontario
2002 - Nomadic Architecture - Women’s Art Resource Centre. Toronto, Ontario
2001 - Lyla Rye - Gallery LARGEnss28. Toronto, Ontario
2000 - Nomadic Architecture - Gallery Connexion. Fredericton, New Brunswick
2000 - Siren - Mercer Union. Toronto, Ontario
1997 - Lyla Rye - Robert Birch Gallery. Toronto, Ontario
1996 - Peep - Women's Art Resource Centre. Toronto, Ontario
1995 - Attension - Southern Exposure Gallery. San Francisco
1995 - Between Here and Then - Glendon Gallery. Toronto, Ontario
1995 - Cross Hairs - Robert Birch Gallery. Toronto, Ontario
1994 - Phantom Architecture - Koffler Loggia Gallery. Toronto, Ontario

- GROUP EXHIBITIONS-
2013 - Suitcase Project - Art Gallery of Peterborough. Peterborough, Ontario
2013 - Under New Management - ODD Gallery. Dawson City, ???
2013 - NetherMind - University of Waterloo Art Gallery. Waterloo, Ontario
2012 - Mirabilia: Nether Mind - St Anne’s Church. Toronto, Ontario
2012 - Exhibit 27 - Dupont Projects. Toronto, Ontario
2011 - Hardwired For Narrative - Robert McLaughlin Gallery (permanent collection). Oshawa, Ontario
2011 - Paradise Lost - Fly Gallery. Toronto, Ontario
2011 - POW: Power of Women - Tom Thomson Gallery. Owen Sound, Ontario
2010 - Art School Dismissed – Shaw Street Public School – Toronto, Ontario
2009 - Closed for Renovations - Confederation Centre for the Arts – Charlottetown, PEI
2009 - Play/Ground – York Quay Gallery, Harbourfront.  Toronto, Ontario
2009 - Into the Streets – Southern Alberta Gallery.  Lethbridge, Alberta
2009 - Within You Without You – Owen’s Art Gallery. Sackville, New Brunswick
2009 - Personal Volare: EXPO – Tom Thomson Art Gallery.  Owen Sound, Ontario
2008 - Toi / You - Manif D’Art – Biennale de Quebec - Quebec City, Quebec
2008 - Dream Home - Central YMCA - Zone A - Nuit Blanche. Toronto, Ontario
2008 - Video Appart - Private Apartments. Paris
2007 - Whirligig - Nuit Blanche. Toronto, Ontario
2007 - Granite Club - The Tree Museum. Gravenhurst, Ontario
2007 - The Road North/The Road South - Case Studies, Harbourfront Centre. Toronto, Ontario
2007 - Sales Performance - Prefix Photo Gallery. Toronto, Ontario
2007 - Sculpture Now - Herrmann & Wagner Galerie. Berlin
2006 - Placed - Case Studies, Harbourfront Cenre. Toronto, Ontario
2006 - hic - Hart House, U of Toronto. Toronto, Ontario
2005 - Canadian Club - Rodman Hall, Brock University. St. Catherines, Ontario
2005 - Canadian Club - Canadian Cultural Centre. Paris, France
2004 - Constructive Folly - Doris McCarthy Gallery. Toronto, Ontario
2004 - Toronto Comes Downtown - Downtown Art Space. Adelaide
2003 - Persona Cantare - 517 College St. Toronto, Ontario
2003 - Screen Kiss - Pace University Digital Gallery. New York
2003 - Motherlode - Women’s Art Resource Centre. Toronto, Ontario
2002 - The Tree Museum - York Quay Gallery, Harbourfront Centre. Toronto, Ontario
2002 - Domesticate - Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Halifax, Nova Scotia
2001 - Comfort Zones - Textile Museum of Canada. Toronto, Ontario
2001 - Art in Architecture - Robert McLaughlin Gallery. Oshawa, Ontario
2000 - Flash 2000 - www.23rdroom.org Internet & CD ROM
1999 - Little Worlds - Mendel Art Gallery. Saskatoon, SK
1998 - Little Worlds - The Dunlop Art Gallery. Regina, SK
1998 - Threshold - The Power Plant. Toronto, Ontario
1998 - Temporalite - La Chambre Blanche. Quebec City, PQ
1997 - Let's Talk About Art - Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto, Ontario
1997 - 5 Things - Phoebe Street Project. Toronto, Ontario
1997 - Real World - New Langton Arts. San Francisco
1996 - Duke-u-menta - Duke of Connaught Tavern. Toronto, Ontario
1995 - Nether Mind - 376 Dufferin St. Toronto, Ontario
1994 - Dreaming of You - Garnet Press Gallery. Toronto, Ontario
1994 - TA DA! - Fort Mason. San Francisco
1993 - Maggie Perry & Lyla Rye - Diego Rivera Gallery. San Francisco
1993 - Nether Mind - 135 Liberty St - basement. Toronto, Ontario
1993 - Dickson, Hefford & Rye - Koffler Loggia Gallery. Toronto , Ontario
1993 - Spring Show - Walter/McBean Gallery. San Francisco
1993 - Chronicles/Chroniques - Galerie d'Art de l'Universite de Moncton. Moncton, NB
1992 - Nether Mind - 125 George St. Toronto, Ontario
1991 - Volumes - The Red Head Gallery. Toronto, Ontario
1991 - Nether Mind - 511 King St West - basement. Toronto, Ontario
1990 - Four Installations - Gallery 76. Toronto, Ontario

- VIDEO SCREENINGS-
2012 - Rendezvous with Madness - Workman Arts at the TIFF Lighbox. Toronto, Ontario
2008 - Bleeding Light - MAWA-Winnipeg Film Group’s Cinematheque. Winnipeg, Manitoba
2007 - Blow Out - Prefix Photo. Toronto, Ontario
2005 - Soundplay - Pleasure Dome. Toronto, Ontario
2005 - Feminist Video Feast - ( ) Ette Collective. Lethbridge, Alberta
2004 - future_feed_forward - Museum London. London, Ontario
2004 - Fundraiser - Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. Toronto, Ontario

- COMMISSIONS-
2008 - Kiosk – Video Sculpture - commissioned by Cadillac Fairview Corp, Toronto, Ontario
2008 - Plato’s Drive-In - Artist Garden – commissioned by Harbourfront Centre - Toronto, Ontario
2002 - Locus - The Tree Museum – Gravenhurst, Ontario

- COLLECTIONS-
Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario
Cadillac Fairview Corporation. Toronto, Ontario
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Halifax, Nova Scotia
Robert McLaughlin Gallery. Oshawa, Ontario
York University, Toronto, Ontario
E.P. Taylor Library, Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto, Ontario

- AWARDS-
Residency Herrmann & Wagner Galerie. Berlin - 2007
Individual Artist's Grant. Toronto Arts Council - 2013, 2010, 2008, 2005, 1999, 1991
Individual Artist's Grant. Canada Council - 2006, 2004, 2000, 1997, 1996, 1994
Individual Artist's Grant. Ontario Arts Council - 2010, 2008, 2006, 2003, 1995, 1992, 1990
Travel Grant. Canada Council - 2007, 1995
Artist's Book Competition Winner. San Francisco Art Institute - 1994
Graduate Merit Scholarship. San Francisco Art Institute - 1993, 1992
Creative Artists in the School Grant. Ontario Arts Council - 1990
Worked with Enzo Cucchi on mural. York University - 1989
Laya Liberman Scholarship. York University - 1989
Mural Competition Winner. York University - 1988

- REVIEWS - ARTICLES - INTERVIEWS - PUBLICATIONS -
see bibliography

- ARTIST TALKS -
2010 - Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Victoria, British Columbia
2009 - The Artfulness of Play - University of Western Ontario Graduate Conference . London, Ontario
2008 - New Media in Sculptural Practice – Toronto School of Art. Toronto, Ontario
2007 - Esplanade Art Gallery. Medicine Hat, Alberta
2006 - Agnes Etherington Art Gallery. Kingston, Ontario
2006 - York University - Sculpture Department .Toronto, Ontario
2006 - MOCCA – Education Department. Toronto, Ontario
2006 - Earl Haig High School for the Arts. Toronto, Ontario
2005 - Ongoing Co-ordinator of the Independent Studio Program at Toronto School of Art
2005 - Ongoing Sessional Faculty at Ontario College of Art and Design
2005 - Hart House Censorship Panel - U of T. Toronto, Ontario
2004 - OISE - University of Toronto. Toronto, Ontario
2003 - University of Regina Sculpture Conference. Regina, SK
2003 - Art Gallery of Ontario, Education Department. Toronto, Ontario
2003 - Cambridge Public Galleries. Cambridge, Ontario
2002 - Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Halifax, Nova Scotia
2002 - Grimsby Public Art Gallery. Grimsby, Ontario
2002 - The Tree Museum. Gravenhurst , Ontario
2002 - Contemporary Art Forum. Kitchener, Ontario
2001 - Toronto School of Art. Toronto, Ontario
2001 - University of Toronto School of Architecture. Toronto, Ontario
2000 - OAAG Conference. Toronto , Ontario
2000 - Gallery Connexion. Fredericton, NB
1998 - Brock University Sculpture Conference. St. Catherines, Ontario
1998 - The Power Plant. Toronto, Ontario
1997 - Ontario College of Art. Toronto, Ontario
1996 - Queen's Univesity. Kingston, Ontario
1996 - George Vanier High School. Toronto, Ontario
1996 - Earl Haight High School for the Arts. Toronto, Ontario
1996 - York University. Toronto, Ontario
1996 - Emily Carr College of Art. Vancouver, British Columbia
1995 - Glendon Gallery. Toronto, Ontario
1995 - Dundas Valley School of Art. Dundas, Ontario
1993 - San Francisco Art Institute. San Francisco
1991 - The Red Head Gallery. Toronto, Ontario

- OTHER ACTIVITIES-
2011-12 – Board member of Trinity Square Video
2010 – Board member of The Tree Musuem and Trinity Square Video
2010 – Art/Science Camp – Subtle Technologies Conference. Toronto, Ontario
2010 – Member of female hacklab – Slhackers
2009 - Sessional Faculty at Sheridan College with the Art and Art History Program
2008 - Adjudicator for OCAD entrance
2005 - Sessional Instructor at Ontario College of Art and Design
2005-10 - Co-ordinator of the Independent Studio Program at Toronto School of Art
2003-09 - Ongoing member of Persona Volare collective
2003 - Member of Hart House Installation Collective (hic)
2003-07 - Adjudicator Etobicoke School of the Arts entrance - visual arts
1998-01 - Visual Arts Steering Committee Member - Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts
1997 - Member of 5 Things collective
1999 - Jury Member - Ontario Arts Council
1991-05 - Founding member of Nether Mind collective participated in all 4 exhibitions