YVONNE SINGER
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Professor Singer was born in Budapest, Hungary. She received a BA in English Literature from McGill University, Montreal and an MFA Honours from York University, Toronto. She also did additional studies at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Singer is a Full Professor at York University in the Department of Visual Art and Art History and the former Graduate Program Director in visual arts. Her community activities have included juror for public sculpture commissions, board membership on the Toronto Arts Council, C International Art magazine and the Koffler Centre for the Arts.

Professor Singer is a practising artist with an active national and international exhibition record. Her installation works employ multi-media techniques, often with cryptic texts to articulate cultural and psychological issues of disjuncture and perception. Singer is particularly interested in everyday language and the intersection of public and private histories. Recent exhibitions include writing a gesture , Katzman Contemporary, Mother Tongue, Varley Art Gallery Picturing Wellness, McMaster Museum of Art, The Game of Life;1 step forward, 10 steps backwards, art souterrain and Nuit Blanche, Montreal, jst wrds at the Cambridge Galleries, I do, I undo, I redo, at Critical Mass, Port Hope, IIIIwawawant at the Convenience Gallery and the Gladstone Hotel, just in time(or hanging by a thread), Loop Gallery, Toronto.  In 2011, Singer was invited by curator, Dr. Sarat Maharaj to present work at Goteborg International Contemporary Art Biennial, Goteborg, Sweden. She is the recipient of several grants including a Canada Council Travel Grant. Her work is in several museum collections.


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Education
Masters of Fine Arts, York University, Toronto, 1980
Bachelor of Arts, major in English Literature; McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1965


Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017                    writing a gesture, video, Kontort project space, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto
2014                    just in time (or hanging by a thread), Loop Gallery, Toronto
2013                     jst wrds, curator Iga Janik, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Ont.    
2011                     IIIwawawawant, KWT Contemporary, Toronto
2010                     IIIIIwawawawant, neon, convenience gallery, Toronto
2010                     Gone Missing, video and neon installation, Loop Gallery, Toronto.
2009                     Random Objects, Random Thoughts ,curator, Cheryl Sourkes, Akau Gallery, Toronto       
2008                     Signs of Life an intimate portrait of someone I don’t know, Loop Gallery, Toronto    
2003                     le stade du miroir, bronze and video installation, The Red Head Gallery, Toronto    
2002                     Family Album, video installation, The Red Head Gallery, Toronto        
2000                     doing time, 2 channel video installation, The Red Head Gallery, Toronto
1999                     Projections for the unseeing, (site-specific installation) Expression, galerie de l'art  contemporain, Michel Groleau, directeur; St-Hyacinthe,                                           Quebec.

Selected Group Exhibitions
2021                     
site-specific installation, waiting...still waiting, Umbrella Projects, Owens and Struts Galleries, Sackville, New Brunswick
2020                     The Ties That Bind Us, curator Anik Glaude, Varley Art Gallery, Markam, Ontario 
2017                     Mother Tongue, curator: Anik Glaude, Varley Art Gallery, Markham, Ontario
                              Drive-Thru, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto
2013                     I do, I undo I redo, Identity Project, Curator: Aurelie Collings, Critical Mass: Centre for Contemporary Art, Port Hope, Ontario
2013                     The Game of Life, 1 step forward, 10 steps backwards, art souterrain, Montreal
2012                     a fleeting conversation, LED display board, art souterrain and nuit blanche, Montreal    
2010                     Burnt Book Titles 6, Musée d'art de Joliette, PQ,Titles 7, Maclaren Art Centre, Barrie,Ontario
2009                     Burnt Book , Titles 5, curator, Yam Lau, Art Metropole, Toronto, Oct 09, 2008
                              Titles 4(An Exhibition of Artist’s Book Works) Forest City Gallery/Attic Books, London
2008                     Titles 3(An Exhibition of Artist’s Book Works) Articule Gallery, Librairie L'écume des Jours, Montreal 
2007                     Titles 2(An Exhibition of Artist’s Book Works) Art Gallery of University of Massachusetts/ Amherst Books, Amherst
2007                     Titles (An Exhibition of Artist’s Book Works)   Balfour Books, Toronto
2009                     Sometimes I like a happy ending; sometimes I like a sad ending; sculptural installation, Kiwi Sculpture Garden, Perth, Ontario
                             
curator: Mary Sue Rankin
2008                     Flex, exhibition for world  WASHI summit, Loop Gallery, Toronto
2006                      ….forest for the trees, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto/ IL GABBIANO,La Spezie, Italy/ Dell Gennai, Studio Gennai, Pisa, Italy/ At FX University Art                                                    Gallery, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Curators:
Anne O’Callaghan, Francesca Vivenza
2005-06                Picturing Her: Images of Girlhood, McCord Museum, Montreal, Curator:
Dr. Loren Lerner
2006                      Reflections, curator Joyce Millar, Stewart Hall Gallery Montreal, Pier 21,Halifax
2003-04                 Ironic Turn, touring exhibition of Canadian artists, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Germany/ Faux Mouvement, Metz, France/ Museum of Contemporary                                             Canadian Art, Toronto/ Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick

                              The Trouble with Translation, Ironic Turn, touring exhibition of Canadian artists, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Germany, Faux Mouvement, Metz, France,                                      Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick
2003                      Alpha-bets: Art and Language, Language in Art, Therese Bolliger, Brigitte Radiecki, curator; Joyce Millar, Stewart Hall, Montreal
                               exhibition catalogue essay by Robert Racine


​Recent Public Collections
2017                     Varley Art Gallery
​2016                     McMaster Museum of Art

                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
              
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