19 Facts About Joyce Wieland

In 1962, Joyce Wieland moved to New York City and expanded her career as an artist by including new materials and mixed media work.

In 1982, Joyce Wieland received the honour of an Officer of the Order of Canada and in 1987, she was awarded the Toronto Arts Foundation's Visual Arts Award.

Joyce Wieland was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

Joyce Wieland was born on June 30,1930, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to British immigrant parents.

Joyce Wieland was the daughter of Sydney Arthur Wieland and Rosetta Amelia Watson.

Joyce Wieland's father died from heart disease in 1937, and her mother followed soon after, leaving three children in financially difficult circumstances.

Joyce Wieland first enrolled in dress design and hoped it would help her land a job since she thought art would not be financially rewarding.

Joyce Wieland saw potential in Wieland and convinced her to transfer into the art department.

In 1953, Joyce Wieland joined Graphic Associates, an animation studio where she learned techniques she would later apply in her own films.

Joyce Wieland had her first solo exhibition in 1960 at the Isaacs Gallery in Toronto, making her the only woman that the prestigious gallery represented and earning her greater recognition for her work.

Joyce Wieland moved to New York in 1962 and throughout the decade produced most of her experimental films.

Joyce Wieland said she could not make art anymore in America due to its ideological orientation.

Joyce Wieland was a central figure in Canadian art during the 1960s and 1970s.

Internationally, Joyce Wieland is best known as an experimental feminist filmmaker.

Joyce Wieland's works introduced physical manipulation of the filmstrip that inscribed an explicitly female craft tradition into her films while playing with the facticity of photographed images.

Joyce Wieland's output was small but received considerable attention in comparison to other female avant-garde filmmakers of her time.

In 1956, Joyce Wieland married filmmaker Michael Snow, whom she had met through her job at the animation studio.

Joyce Wieland was the aunt of filmmaker and video artist Su Rynard.

The year 2025 begins a year-long celebration of her work with a major travelling retrospective titled Joyce Wieland: Heart-On organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.