Alumna Janice Kerbel ('94) has been nominated for the 2015 Turner Prize for her nine part operatic performance work, DOUG, originally commissioned by the Common Guild.
The Turner Prize is awarded to a British artist under 50 for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the preceding year. The 2015 Turner Prize exhibition preview will take place September 30, 2015 at Tramway, Glasgow with a final Award Ceremony held on December 7, 2015.
Janice Kerbel is a London-based Canadian artist. Her work often explores imaginary situations through the examination of existing systems of organizing and presenting information. She borrows from and modifies the conventions of various disciplines within her work. Kerbel holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and an MFA from Goldsmith's College, University of London. She has been featured in numerous international exhibitions, including solo shows at Tate Britain in 2010, Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery in Ontario in 2009, the Kunsthalle Cologne in 2008, the Moderna Museet Stockholm in 2006, and the Norwich Gallery of Art in 2003, as well as group exhibitions at The Banff Centre, KW Berlin, the ICA London, Kunsthalle Wien, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montreal, De Appel Contemporary Arts Centre in Amsterdam, Artists Space, the Whitechapel Art Gallery, and Baltic in Newcastle.
Janice Kerbel's forthcoming exhibition will open at Catriona Jeffries in Vancouver, BC on September 17, 2015.