Elizabeth Zvonar

Elizabeth Zvonar
Elizabeth Zvonar, Headshot, Verdant, 2016, inkjet print.
Born 1972 (age 45–46)
Thunder Bay, Ontario
Nationality Canadian
Education BFA, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, 2002
Known for Collage, sculpture
Website www.elizabethzvonar.com
Elizabeth Zvonar, Origin of the World, Peaches in Space, 2010, inkjet print on Kodak semi-matte paper. Collection of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.

Elizabeth Zvonar (born 1972) is a Canadian contemporary artist that works primarily with mixed-media collage and sculpture based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.[1] She is currently represented by Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[2]

Life and education

Zvonar was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario.[2] She has attended Aichi Gakusen University in Toyota City, Japan (1994), Capilano College in North Vancouver, Canada (1995), and Hokkaido University of Art & Design in Sapporo, Japan (1996).[2] She ultimately received a BFA at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada in 2002, the same institution that would later reward her with the Emily Award for Outstanding Achievement by an Emily Carr Alumna in 2011.[2]

Work

Working extensively with collage materials, Zvonar’s practice works towards presenting a new history by collecting images from a variety of sources (advertisements, lifestyle, and art history) and reinterpreting them through juxtaposition. By working with images of the female body, Zvonar’s work reinterprets the use of female representation through a reductive and additive process that investigates the nuances and disparities of printed material in relation to identity formation.

Solo Exhibitions

Zvonar has exhibited at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Daniel Faria Gallery, Artspeak, and the Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite.[1] In 2017, Zvonar participated in a residency at the Burrard Arts Foundation, where she exhibited her solo show To You it Was Fast. [3]

THE CHALLENGE OF ABSTRACTION, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto (2015)

THE CHALLENGE OF ABSTRACTION was exhibited at the Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto from May 2 to June 6, 2015.[4] Zvonar exhibited collages, sculptures, and casts. One of her featured works, IT’S THE GAPS THAT CHANGE THE SEQUENCE, "presents two different images of open legs arranged in a mesmerizing spiral."[5] Another work, DOUBLEHEADER, was a collage "printed onto an enormous piece of silk and hanging from the ceiling," which inverted Marcel Duchamp’s Etant donnes (1946-1966).

Banal Baroque, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto (2013)

Banal Baroque was a solo exhibition by Zvonar at Daniel Faria Gallery, which explored themes of "bodily and sexual excess" by "recontextualizing mass-produced objects, mass media objects, magazines, and mannequin parts to animate the uncanny treatment of the human figure that lies dormant in this source material."[6] Her work is noted to evoke Surrealist and Dadaist collage, particularly those of Hannah Höch.[7]

Amongst the exhibited works were Marcel Meets Judy (2013), which featured a "mass-produced pink seashell candy dish."[7] This object was rendered obsolete from its function and references Marcel Duchamp’s readymades and Judy Chicago’s porcelain vagina-flowers in The Dinner Party, 1974-1979.[7]

Artworks in Collections

Elizabeth Zvonar's artworks can be found in the following collections:

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

  • The Future Is Coming Everyday. 2017. Coquitlam: Evergreen Cultural Centre.[9]
  • To you it was fast. 2017. Vancouver: Burrard Arts Foundation.[9]
  • The Experience. 2015. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite.[9]
  • THE CHALLENGE OF ABSTRACTION. 2015. Toronto: Daniel Faria Gallery.[9]
  • I Really Do Believe The Best Thing A Person Can Do With Themselves Is To Expand Their Minds. 2014. Vancouver: Gallery 295.[9]
  • Banal Baroque. 2013. Toronto: Daniel Faria Gallery.[9]
  • On Time. 2009. Vancouver: Contemporary Art Gallery.[9]
  • There Are No Rules. 2009. Vancouver: The Western Front.[9]
  • Super Human Be In. 2008. Vancouver: Malaspina Printmakers.[9]
  • Parallel Dimension: 2007. Vancouver: Artspeak Gallery.[9]

Group Exhibitions

  • Beginning with the Seventies: GLUT. 2018. Vancouver: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.[9]
  • Skin Deep, Skimming the Pages. 2017. Toronto: The Drake One Fifty.[9]
  • The Future Is Coming Everyday. 2017. Coquitlam: Evergreen Cultural Centre.[9]
  • Here: Locating Contemporary Canadian Artists. 2017. Toronto: Aga Khan Museum.[9]
  • AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize. 2016. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario.[9]
  • Just Visiting. 2016. Seattle: Soil Gallery.[9]
  • Teleportation. 2016. Shanghai: Art Labour Gallery.[9]
  • New Acquisitions. 2016. Burnaby: Burnaby Art Gallery.[9]
  • Histories of Art. 2016. Toronto: Daniel Faria Gallery.[9]
  • Cut. 2015. Vancouver: Western Front.[9]
  • All Rise. 2015. Seattle: The Quiet Music Festival of Portland in Seattle.[9]
  • On Stage: Recent Acquisitions. 2014. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery.[9]
  • Unreal. 2014. Kamloops: Kamloops Art Gallery.[9]
  • Beside Yourself. 2014. Vancouver: AHVA, University of British Columbia.[9]
  • Parallels, Biography of the Image. 2013. Vancouver: SFU Audain Gallery.[9]
  • Crystal Tongue. 2013. Vancouver: Exercise Projects.[9]
  • Elegant Disorder: Perspectives on Porcelain. 2012. Vancouver: Belkin Satellite.[9]
  • Cut & Paste. 2012. Vancouver: Equinox Project Space.[9]
  • Phantasmagoria. 2012. North Vancouver: Presentation House Gallery.[9]
  • Freedom of Assembly, Oakville Gallery, Oakville, Canada.[9]
  • New Meditations. 2012. Toronto: Daniel Faria Gallery.[9]
  • Science Fiction 18: The Future from Memory. 2012. Vancouver: Or Gallery.[9]
  • An Era of Discontent: Art as Occupation. 2012. Kamloops: Kamloops Art Gallery.[9]
  • Unreal. 2011. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery.[9]
  • Museum of Longing and Failure. Jan. 28 – Mar. 4, 2011. Bergen, Norway.[9]
  • Post It. 2010. Malmo, Sweden: Galerie Rostrum.[9]
  • Sea Change. 2010. Vancouver: The Lion’s Den.[9]
  • The Things We Do. 2010. Vancouver: Simon Fraser University Gallery.[9]
  • The New Paradigm: Models, Diagrams and Proposals for the Coming Age. 2010. Vancouver: The Pavilion.[9]
  • Days of the Eclipse. 2010. Toronto: Mercer Union.[9]
  • Endlessly Traversed Landscapes. 2010. Vancouver: City of Vancouver Cultural Olympiad.[9]
  • All That’s Solid Melts Into Air, (Part II: The Thing). 2009. Mechelen, Belgium: Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen.[9]
  • Exponential Future. 2008. Vancouver: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.[9]
  • Fade Away and Radiate. 2007. New York: Cohan and Leslie Gallery.[9]
  • Concrete Language. 2006. Vancouver: Contemporary Art Gallery.[9]
  • Until Then Then. 2006. Vancouver: Western Front Gallery.[9]
  • The End. 2006. Brisbane, Australia: Queensland University of Technology, H Block Gallery.[9]
  • Something Pale Pink. 2006. Tokyo: Geisai #9.[9]
  • The Contemporary Library Project. 2005. Pristina, Kosovo: The National University Library.[9]
  • Birdo Flugas Project. 2005. Tokyo: Sign Gaienmae Gallery.[9]
  • Production, Consumption & Function: Exploring Alternative Economies. 2004. Vancouver: Helen Pitt Gallery.[9]

Residencies

  • 2017 Burrard Arts Foundation, January – March, Vancouver[7]
  • 2016 AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize (Shortlisted)[7] Residency Unlimited, February – April, New York[7] City of Vancouver’s Artist in Residence, Vancouver[7]
  • 2013 Artscape Residency Program, Toronto Island[7]
  • 2008 The Banff Centre, Cosmic Ray Research Residency, Banff, Canada[7] Malaspina Printmakers, Print Research Residency, Vancouver[7]

Awards

  • 2016 AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize (Shortlisted)[7]
  • 2015 VIVA AWARD, The Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation for The Visual Arts[7]
  • 2012-15 City of Vancouver Artist in Residence Award[7]
  • 2011 Emily Award, Outstanding achievement by an Emily Carr Alumna, Emily Carr University[7]
  • 2009 City of Vancouver Mayor’s Award, Emerging Visual Artist[7]
  • 2007 VADA (Vancouver Art Development Award)[7]

References

  1. 1 2 - Sinkewicz, - Alison (April 4, 2017). "Monte Cristo Magazine" (PDF). Daniel Faria Gallery.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Residency Unlimited | Elizabeth Zvonar". www.residencyunlimited.org. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  3. ↑ "Burrard Arts Foundation". 2017.
  4. ↑ Genda, Dagmara (August 2015). ""Elizabeth Zvonar"". Border Crossings Magazine. 34: 105–107.
  5. ↑ Healey, Emma (Autumn 2015). "Elizabeth Zvonar: THE CHALLENGE OF ABSTRACTION". C Magazine. 127: 60.
  6. ↑ "Elizabeth Zvonar at Daniel Faria Gallery". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 "Elizabeth Zvonar | Artspace". Artspace. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  8. 1 2 3 4 "Daniel Faria Gallery | Elizabeth Zvonar". danielfariagallery.com. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 "Daniel Faria Gallery | Elizabeth Zvonar". danielfariagallery.com. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
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