Liz Magor was born on 1948 and is a Canadian visual artist based in Vancouver.
10 Facts About Liz Magor
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Liz Magor is well known for her sculptures that address themes of history, shelter and survival through objects that reference still life, domesticity and wildlife.
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Liz Magor 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.
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Liz Magor's internationally exhibited and produced work usually takes the form of sculpture, installation, or photography.
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Liz Magor has been recognized with civic, national, and international awards.
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For example, Liz Magor has created facsimiles of food items and their containers, as well as other objects such as driftwood, logs, tree stumps, and clothing.
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In previous work, Liz Magor used mold-making and casting techniques to make replicas of coats, trays and cutlery as receptacles for other materials.
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Liz Magor's art refutes such consolidation: irresolution prevails and closure eludes us.
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Liz Magor is represented by Susan Hobbs Gallery and Catriona Jeffries in Canada, Andrew Kreps Gallery in the United States, and Marcelle Alix in France.
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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 Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal, 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 Ile-de-France in France.