Dyan Marie

Dyan Marie’s work includes sculpture, photography, text and she creates civic and ecological place-making initiatives with projects of public art, curating, walking systems, publications, festivals and poetry events. A founder of C Magazine, Cold City Gallery, DIG IN, Urban Surface, Walk Here, Dupont Projects, B.I.G with the Bloor Festival and Civic Studies. Dyan is the recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal, the Canadian Urban Institute’s City Soul, a Davenport, Toronto Environment recipient, the Kathy Acker Award and the BIG on Bloor Festival of Arts and Culture Lifetime Achievement Award among other art, ecology and community building honours. Her work is represented publicly including at the National Gallery of Canada, The Vancouver Art Gallery and the Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal, and she has exhibited internationally with work in Tokyo, Barcelona, London, Paris, Sao Paulo, Ghent, Boston, New York, Miami and Venice. Dyan lives in Spirit Bay, a village by and on Sc’ianew First Nation lands, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada where her work presently includes forests and ocean ecology-related projects.

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My work includes sculpture, photography, painting, and text. I also create civic and ecological place-making initiatives. I live in Spirit Bay, a village located on Sc'ianew First Nation lands on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. My projects presently respond to the surrounding wildlife, forests, fields, and the ocean, within the context of rapid redevelopment and resource exploitation in the area.