ABOUT
Lyla Rye is a multi-disciplinary artist who explores our perception of space: natural, architectural or interpersonal. Coming from a background in site-specific installation, her process is responsive, be it to site, materials or found footage. As a sculptor working in video, she sculpts footage like a material. Video installations are the core of her current practice yet often lead to analogous explorations in other media ranging from photography, drawing, sculpture and embroidery. In all of these Rye creates immersive spatial encounters that incite movement, envelop the viewer and engage physically, optically, and conceptually.
Lyla Rye is a Toronto based artist who began her studies in architecture. She works in installation, sculpture, video and photography to explore our experience of architectural space. Rye studied at the University of Waterloo, York University and the San Francisco Art Institute. For over 30 years her work has been exhibited in galleries and screenings across Canada and internationally including New York, San Francisco, Adelaide, Auckland, Paris, and Berlin. She has exhibited at The Power Plant, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Prefix ICA, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, The Textile Museum of Canada and Olga Korper Gallery among others. 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 Ways of Something at The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY.