Liz Magor

Liz Magor studied at University of British Columbia and Vancouver School of Arts and Academics. Work by Liz Magor is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Canada, Musée d'art de Joliette, Vancouver Art Gallery, Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts and Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. Distinctions recorded are Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts and Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.

• Name — Liz Magor • Born — 1948 • Birthplace — Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada • Field — Sculptor, photographer • Education — University of British Columbia

Magor was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1948. Magor studied at the University of British Columbia from 1966–1968, and Parsons School of Design in New York from 1968–1970. Subsequently, she completed her diploma at the Vancouver School of Art in 1971. She had a career as a respected educator at the Ontario College of Art and Design before moving to Vancouver to continue her teaching at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design where she continued to be major influence on a younger generation of artists. Alongside Stan Douglas, Brian Jungen, and Jeff Wall, Magor's work and studio practice was featured in the Vancouver episode of season 8 of the PBS broadcast Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century. Magor's internationally exhibited and produced work usually takes the form of sculpture, installation, or photography. Major solo exhibitions of her work have been presented internationally at The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge; The Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of Nice; Kunstverein in Hamburg; Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich, among other venues. In Canada, she has exhibited widely at prominent institutions such as the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and the National Gallery of Canada. Alongside Ian Carr-Harris, she represented Canada at the XLI Biennale of Venice, Italy, in 1984 in a show organized by Jessica Bradley, and she was invited to participate at documenta 8 in Kassel, in 1987. Magor has been recognized with civic, national, and international awards. In 2001, awarded the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. In Vancouver, she was recognized with the sixth annual Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts in 2009. In 2014, she was the recipient of the Gershon Iskowitz Prize, awarded by the Art Gallery of Ontario with a solo exhibition. In 2019, she was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France.

Liz Magor's work is found in public and private collections in Canada and internationally, such as the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, at The University of British Columbia, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, and the National Gallery of Canada, in Canada; the Henry Art Gallery, in the United States; as well as the collections of Centre national des arts plastiques, Frac Corse, and Frac Île-de-France in France.