14 Facts About Shary Boyle

Shary Boyle was born on May 26,1972 and is a contemporary Canadian visual artist working in the mediums of sculpture using the medium of ceramics, drawing, painting and performance art.

Shary Boyle attended Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts high school where she studied art and music theatre, then went on to post-secondary studies at the Ontario College of Art, graduating in 1994.

Shary Boyle was involved in the Toronto punk and hardcore music scene in her high school and early college years, singing in a band.

Shary Boyle is particularly known for her explorations of the figure through porcelain sculpture.

Shary Boyle represented Canada at the 2013 Venice Biennale with her project Music for Silence, an installation of which the central component was The Cave Painter in plaster, of a mermaid, holding a newborn to her breast In 2014, she participated in Shine a Light: Canadian Biennial 2014.

Shary Boyle has collaborated for a second time with Shuvinai Ashoona, travelling to the Kinngait Studios on Baffin Island, Nunavik, to do so in 2015 The drawings they created together, as well as their independent drawings and sculptures, were presented in a show titled Universal Cobra in 2015 at the private gallery of Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain in Montreal in a co-produced exhibition with Feheley Fine Art in Toronto.

Shary Boyle proposed, researched and co-organized the show Earthlings, an artist-curated exhibition produced by the Esker Foundation in Calgary in 2017.

In 2006, Shary Boyle was invited to perform at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in a show titled A Night with Kramers Ergot, where she presented a live solo performance in costume with a curated soundtrack.

Shary Boyle collaborated with Doug Paisley to form an opening act for Will Oldham's 10-date 2006 California tour.

Shary Boyle has worked with Feist in Paris, Peaches in Berlin, and Christine Fellows in Canada.

Shary Boyle's work is included in many public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal, and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.

Shary Boyle worked exclusively with the Toronto contemporary commercial art gallery Jessica Bradley Art + Projects from 2007 until she left to become independent in 2014.

Shary Boyle is a public speaker, with an extensive and broadly-based history.

In 2014, Shary Boyle was lead faculty on The Universe and Other Systems residency at The Banff Centre.