Nancy Boyd
paintings
Works on Paper
Biography
Nancy was born in Hamilton in 1949 and studied art at Ontario College of Art as well as at the University of Waterloo before moving to Vancouver. For years she worked as a designer and architectural renderer, most notably for Expo 86. Nancy taught design, drawing and painting at Capilano University for 23 years before she retired in 2010. Her work retains the influences of her design and architectural rendering background as evident in her fascination with 'views' and the conflation of scale between the microscopic and the cosmic. All her work, either representational or abstract, is infused with an ongoing sense of wonder and attention to the beautiful.
Nancy has shown extensively in the Lower Mainland and western Canada as well as internationally in the US, Japan and Australia. Her work can be seen at the Vancouver Art Gallery and Burnaby Art Gallery Rental Programs and at Wallace Galleries in Calgary.
Solo Exhibitions
2016 Making Matters, South Main Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2015 More Wabi Sabi, Wallace Galleries, Calgary, AB
2014 Wabi Sabi: Dark Matter (with Stephen Booth) SOPA Gallery, Kelowna, BC
2008 New Work, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2006 Against the Cold, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2006 New Work (with Andy Petterson), Wallace Galleries, Calgary, Alberta
2004 New Work (with Camrose Ducote), Wallace Galleries, Calgary, Alberta
2004 SCANQUEST, Elliot Louis Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2002 Resonance Imaging, Ballard/Lederer Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2001 Resonance Imaging, Ramsay Gallery, Vancouver BC
1999 Portrait Analogs, Ramsay Gallery, Vancouver BC
1999 Recent Drawings of Classical Sculpture, Ramsay Gallery, Vancouver BC
1999 Portrait Analogs, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby BC
1999 Portrait Analogs, Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam BC
1998 Beyond Random, Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks BC
1997 Geography Duets, Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria BC
1997 Opening, Ramsay Gallery, Vancouver BC
1994 Into the Labyrinth, Ramsay Gallery, Vancouver BC
1993 Vessels, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond BC
1992 Vessels, Patrick Doheny Fine Arts, Vancouver BC
1991 New Drawings, Patrick Doheny Fine Arts, Vancouver BC
1990 New Paintings and Drawings, Patrick Doheny Fine Arts, Vancouver BC
1990 Nancy Boyd: 1984-1990, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey BC
Group Exhibitions
2017 Finalists, Salt Spring Island National Art Prize, Salt Spring Island, BC
2017 Works on Paper with Scott Plear and Wendy Skog, SOMA Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2016 Summer Show, Gallery Artists, SOMA Gallery, Vancouver BC
2014 Final Capilano Grad and Faculty Exhibition, Gordon Smith Gallery, North Vancouver, BC
2013 Exploring Abstraction, Wallace Galleries, Calgary 2009 Under 8, SOPA Gallery, Kelowna, BC
2012 New Artists, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver
2007 Faculty Exhibit, Capilano College, Vancouver, BC
2007 Splash, (also 2006, 2005) Vancouver, BC
2006 Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2006 Splash, Vancouver, BC
2006 Faculty Exhibit, Capilano Colleg, Vancouver, BC
2006 Faculty Exchange Exhibit, U. of Wollongong, Australia
2005 Art for Life, Vancouver, BC
2002 Volumes: Sculptural Artist's Books, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby BC
1999 Art for Life, Vancouver BC
1998 Art of the Book, Community Arts Council, Vancouver BC
1998 Printmakers, Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria BC
1997 Art for Life, Vancouver BC
1997 Art for Life, Vancouver BC
1997 Ji Ku/Space-Time, Asian Centre, UBC, Vancouver BC
1996 Ramsay Gallery, Vancouver BC
1994 Capilano College Art Gallery, North Vancouver BC
1993 Ramsay Gallery, Vancouver BC
1993 Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria BC
1992 Aichi Gekusan College, Japan
1990 Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver BC
Collections
Air Canada
Boughton, Peterson, Yan, Anderson
Briant, Angus, McClellan and Ruebenstein
City of Vancouver Art Collection
Fireside Industries International
First City Financial Corporation
Hotel Georgia, Vancouver BC
Lignum Ltd.
Lions Gate Hospital
MacAulay McColl
McDonald's of Canada
Telesat Canada
St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver
Peterson, Yan, Anderson, Vancouver
The Keg, Toronto
Bibliography
"Five Artists Selling in the West", Galleries West Magazine, Fall/Winter 2013
''Artists at Capilano College, The Capilano Review, 2007
''Global Relations'', Ilawarra Mercury News, Australia, 2006
''Nancy Boyd at the Evergreen Cultural Centre, Asian Art News, March/April, 1999
Nancy Boyd: Portrait Anaglogs, Johnson, Mia, PREVIEW, November 1998
The Power and the Glory, The Vancouver Sun, November 14, 1992
New Drawings from Nancy Boyd, The Vancouver Sun, June 28, 1991
Works from a Female Perspective, The Vancouver Sun, May 12, 1990
Visual Puns Compelling, The Province, May 11, 1987
Artist
Price range: $500-$5000
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