ABOUT
My practice is based upon responsiveness, be it to site, materials or footage. I have investigated concerns that range from the personal to the planetary. I am interested in creating embodied encounters for viewers that often take the form of video installations. Coming from a sculpture background, but working with video, I use the filmic form’s texture to reveal the source of the imagery.
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This processed-based approach carries over into all the media I use. This ranges from embroidery, collage, photography, drawing to, most recently, digital 3D modelling. These other media are a way to rethink ideas that often began in the form of video installations and discover new aspects to the concepts.
Lyla Rye is a Toronto based artist who studied at the University of Waterloo, York University and the San Francisco Art Institute. For over 35 years her work has been exhibited in galleries and screenings across Canada and internationally. She has exhibited at The Power Plant, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and in 2019 as part of the Karachi Biennale in Pakistan. She has work in the public collections of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, York University, Cadillac Fairview Corporation, The Tom Thomson Art Gallery, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery and as part of Lorna Mills’ Ways of Something at The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include, Mirage, curated by Betty Julian for Prefix ICA, Toronto (2020) and Illusion’s Obstacles, curated by Marcie Bronson, at Cambridge Art Galleries in (2022). She has received numerous grants from the CC, OAC, TAC and, most recently was the recipient of a Chalmers Artist Fellowship. She is represented by General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto.