Dyan Marie’s work explore urban issues, ideas and reflections on contemporary cultural experience with projects that engage and support local communities and advance initiatives to create – public art, community art interventions and events, new public space and new green space – as vehicles for urban vitalization. Dyan Marie co-founded C Magazine and Urban Surface and is the founder of Cold City Gallery, ARTATWORK, DIG IN and Dupont Projects and she is the director of her gallery, Dyan Marie Projects. Her work is represented in Toronto by Wynick Tuck Gallery. In 2007 she is working on Spot Culture, including a series of Toronto projects based along Bloor Street near Lansdowne Ave. www.spotculture.info www.dyanmarie.com

Selected Projects, Interventions and Initiatives

2007, “Bloor NIGHTLIGHT" Nuit Blanche event to take back the night, curated events, installations and preformances with over 60 professional artist and five schools along two blocks of Bloor Street including the House of Lansdowne strip club.

2007, “Vine People”: Vine People are ambassadors for green action: helping where needed. Some say they are super-heroes, others troublemakers. In a recent misadventure with poison ivy they broadcast, “Vine people are not terrorists”. Installations throughout Bloor Lansdowne and on YouTube athttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTKl4pev4VM

2006 “Bloor Gardens”: Six out-door urban painting projects, and related painting exhibition “The Paint Jam” at DMP, Toronto and Billboard painting in/with GSpots graffiti persona. www.greenspots.info. Bloor and Lansdowne, Toronto

2003 - 06 “Walk Here”, A community and public artwork that helps revitalize, green and connect Dupont West neighbourhoods in Toronto, by creating an art-embedded walking system throughout the at-risk community that pulls it together as a place and reconnects the area to the city at large. Walk Here won the City of Toronto’s Green and Beautiful Award. see www.walkhere.org

• The Tile Project:
  Over 100 artist, from 40 nations contribute to the Tile Project intallated in Walk Here, Wallace Emerson site.
• Walking Walk Here:
  Local children’s drawings that considered neighbourhood surroundings, environmental issues and ways to use parks were developed as stainless steel cut-outs and installed in the Walk Here walkway.
• Constellation:
  Bronze cast relief sculptures seed the surface of the Walk Here walkway based on drawings developed from participating artist contributors Vera Frenkel, Monica Tap, Dyan Marie, Lois Andison, Tony Shermann, Margaret Priest, John McKinnon, Ants Reigo, Blue Republic, Dionne Simpson, Snaige Sileika, Eldon Garnet, Guy Walter and Shelley Adler
• Contained:
  Garbage - what it contains, how it’s packaged, its chemical make-up, consuming and recycling ideas and observations, appreciation of design and shape: discarded pop bottles, water bottles, soap containers provided a starting point for this public/community art work. Garbage containers were filled with recycled glass, mirrors and cement then cut in half and installed in the Walk Here walkway to appear as beautiful reminders.

2004, “Look Out: Look Here: Holly Jones Project”, developed event and exhibition to respond to the brutal murder of local neighbourhood girl, Holly Jones. 250 camera distributed to Holly’s family, classmates and surrounding community to encourage their re-engagement in the neighbourhood, Dupont Projects, Toronto, more information see lookoutlookhere.dyanmarie.com

2004, “Bloor/Dupont West Festival”, developed six events including exhibitions at The Massage Gallery (reclaimed massage parlor) “Blind Spot” with UofT other events at Campbell Ave Park House and Dupont Projects, Toronto see www.digin.ca for event list. also festivals for 2005 and 2006

2003, “About Here”, artists, architects, landscape architects and community residents develop and exhibit neighbourhood ideas, plans and observations to focus and influence development direction, Dupont Projects, Toronto

2002 Dupont | Dyan Marie Projects:
Developed a project and gallery space focused on the exploration, support and advancement of the cultural, urban space as considered through visual community and public art, architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture, photography. Founder and on-going director. See www.dyanmarieprojects.com

2002 DIG IN: Diversified Initiatives Guide for Improving Neighborhoods,
Developed an urban intervention art project and a cultural and community initiative to provide a troubled urban neighborhoods with a renewal plan and an enactment guide. “Urban Intervention Community and Cultural Ideas Master Plan” exhibited and community-wide meetings at Wallace Emerson Community Center, Perth Dupont Library and the Portuguese Sporting Club. 2003 DIG IN: Dupont Improvement Group, a community improvement group was established to support the plan and develop on-going community improvement efforts. See www.digin.ca

2001, Art and Health,
Developed an art and heath program for heath care facilities and applied it to a hospital-wide program at Oshawa General Hospital. The project improved the hospital’s atmosphere and worked to link the hospital to the city at large. Commissioned and managed art projects for seven hospital wards, corridors, lobbies and parkland and curated a related exhibition at the McLaughlin Gallery. www.dyanmarie.com/SHOW/artatworkprojects/lhc/index.html

1997 - 1999 Whirlwind Lectures:
Provided a lecture series bringing together corporate and cultural speakers in an effort to promote cross-disciplinary dialogue and projects.

1986 Cold City Gallery:
Founder of Cold City Gallery, a contemporary, commercial cooperative art gallery developed to support artists ability to bring their work to a public at a time that lacked commercial and institutional opportunities.

1984 C Magazine:
Co-founder, contributing editor and art director for Canadian contemporary art publication that was established to draw attention to the activities of the art community developing in the early 80’s

Solo Exhibitions:

September 2007, "Un-still Lives With Traffic" Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto
January 2004, "Brilliantly and Everything Else", (3 sites) Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Dupont Projects and Bloor | Dupont West Toronto
Oil paintings of a middle distance that incorporates a series of working website addresses that open up local urban issues, opportunities and observations in the at-risk Dupont West neighbourhood. Additionally, the sites addresses were installed outdoors throughout the Bloor/Dupont West area.
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• www.iamalive.ca - A reminder that you are alive. (move your mouse over the surface of the screen to find the message)
• www.digin.ca - An urban intervention art project that initiates inclusive community and cultural plans and actions that will contribute to sustaining neighbourhoods that are green, clean, safe and civil by fostering improvements in the areas of their social, environment, cultural, economic and physical make up.
• www.walkhere.org - A community and public artwork that helps vitalize, green and connect the Dupont West neighbourhood by creating an art-embedded walking system throughout the at-risk community that pulls it together as a place and reconnects the area to the city at large.
• www.onthecorner.biz - Imagine that you are a prostitute.
• www.talkhere.org - A collection of overheard local conversations that introduces a level of suspense and reflects localized thoughts of opportunity, frustration, concern or irritation
• lookoutlookhere.dyanmarie.com - A community-inclusive photographic project developed in response to the murder of local ten-year-old girl Holly Jones.

April 2001 "Black Flowers", Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
Seeing in the dark "Black flowers",
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1999 "Subjected to Change: Armatures for Standing Up" Wynick/Tuck Gallery Toronto, travel to Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC, fall 99
"Subjected to Change / Armatures For Standing Up" Teenage hockey players, established businesswomen, retired construction workers - Dyan Marie’s digital/photobased works on canvas build homes for them from the materials they touch.
‘This body of work proposes a series of houses, intended as monuments referencing everyday activities. These activities and related behaviors are framed by dramatically shifting expectations of what is appropriate. The homes are reflective places to see into and out from. They are sympathetic sites for constructing refreshed perspectives, armatures for standing up.
Each building is assembled from images of objects touched by the intended owner of the house. In Retired Construction Worker House, the images come from the garden where he spends his retirement growing flowers and vegetables. Teenage Hockey Player House is built from photographs of standard protective equipment found in a hockey bag. House for Businesswoman shows the contents collected in a purse and articles of office clothing.
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1997 "Murmurs and Messages", Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
"Murmurs and Messages", series of 25, photo based, digitally developed images of flowers, vines and plants seeded with a collection of single word poems.
"Murmurs and Messages is a group of close-up flower images primarily photographed from the modest local gardens on my block in the Lansdowne/Dupont neighborhood in Toronto. The photographs were scanned into a computer where they were digitally close-cropped to force an intense presentation of colour and view. The works were further pressed in and stretched open to create a confused space intended to read both as too small and too large simultaneously. Scattered over the surface of the flower images are tiny, colored, single words which attempt to locate a reflective state that is a middle ground. The words offer up a frame of mind, history or time that is not involved with energy, ambition, action or will, but rests somewhere between positions of young and old, high and low, passion and passivity.
The images and text work together by balancing their straight-forward face value while also embodying their opposition: the skewering of the beauty of the text."
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1996 "Learning to Count", Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
Learning to Count is a series of works that offers ten phases/ideas intended to represent the way issues surface in the mind. The work constructs a framework to situate continuous shifting concerns in a context of considering new ideas, remembering pass concerns and re-remembering pass concerns. Concerns and ideas that may be explored and repeated as individuals, as sequential generations and as endless history. These ten works proposed a counting/accounting system developed as a circular progression from one to ten.
One is represented by an image of lips pronouncing the word "one" but also appears as a cave of flesh, a dark opening, a mystery, another beginning, another end.
Two primordial mounds, part mud, moss, flesh, being kneaded into or out of form.
Three whirlwind shapes in the palm of my hand.
Four directions in an organization chart demonstrating planning for the progression of cumulus clouds
Five muddy reflecting pools scraped out of an aerial view of Toronto
Six electric points of attention on a fragmented root system
Seven plantings of tree formations; planned as an earthwork, developed as public gardens, and intended as a model to protect farmland from urban encroachment.
Eight pressure points on the folded creases of the body.
Nine o four fragmented, filtered, visions of holding my children hands
Nine o five fragmented, filtered, visions of caring, cleaning and holding children while thinking about stories of Cambodian women who became blind after witnessing great cruelty to their families by the Khmer Rouge.
Ten images of a child's lips sounding out the numbers one to ten. An endlessly repeating primal system of teaching in terms of an individual, generationally and historically.
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1992 "Push/Pull", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1989 "Mud and Flesh", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1988 "Gap", Or Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1988 "Lodestone", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1986 "Tropism", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1983 "Swamp/Lust for Life", Art Gallery of Brant, Brantford, Ontario
1982 "Serpentine", Gallery 76, Ontario College of Art, Toronto
1981 "Barrier", A Sculptural Situation," YYZ Gallery, Toronto

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2007 “Love Hate”, New Crowned Glory in the GTA, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto
2006 “Making Room”, Wallace Ave Project / Gallery Space, Toronto
2006 “Glow: Archive’s 10th Aniversory, Exhibition” Archive, Toronto
2006 “Toronto International Art Fair” Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto
2006 “Photorama”, Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto
2005 “Cold City Years” The Power Plant, Toronto
2005 “Lakefront” Gallery 1313, Toronto2004 "8 at 1444", Dupont Projects
2004 "Walk Here", Dupont Projects, Toronto
2003 "About Here". Dupont Projects, Toronto
2000 "Physics: Ideas for Public Space", DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto
2000,"Dark Places", Toronto Photographer’s Workshop, Curated by Gary Micheal Dault, Toronto
2000 "Montreal/Toronto Art?, curated by PADAC, exhibited in Toronto and Montreal
2000 "ArchiTexture", Archive Inc, curated by Gary Micheal Dault, Toronto
2000 "Time", Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto
2000 "Informal Ideas 00.3 (Play)", Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1999 "Art 1999 Chicago", Wynick/Tuck Gallery at Art 1999 Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
1999 "The Hand" Powerplant Gallery, Toronto Harbourfront, Toronto
1999 "Informal Ideas, 99.9", Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1999 "City of Toronto: Dundas Square Competition", Toronto City Hall, Toronto
1998 "The Word", Art Gallery of North York, North York
1998 "Layers", Chicago International Art fair, Chicago, USA
1997 "The photographic Immaterial Of the Fantastic and the Grotesque", The Museum Of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada, Canadian Cultural Center, Paris, France
1997 "List at ARCO", ARCO, Madrid, Spain
1996 "The Electronic City", The Design Center, Toronto
1996 "Ten", Cold City Tenth Anniversary, Mercer Union & Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1996 "The Middle Show", Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1996 "List", Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1995 "Gallery Artist", Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1995 "Tropism/an earthwork", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1995 "Home" Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1994 "Dreaming of You", Garnet Press, Toronto
1994 "CCG Member's Exhibition", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1994 "Mediatrics", CBC Building, Toronto
1993 "Cold City Inaugural Exhibition", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1993 "Daley, Marie, Yanover", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1993 "Art on the Edge", York Quay Gallery, Toronto
1992 "Daley, Marie, Legarra", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1992 "Parts", Canadian Cultural Center, Paris, France and Galeria Carles Poy, Barcelona, Spain
1992 "Beau", Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa and Canadian Cultural Center, Paris
1991 "Surrounding Identity", The Gallery, Scarborough Campus, University of Toronto
1991 "Artists' Working Research", The Print and Drawing Gallery, Toronto
1990 "Recent Work", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1990 "Lansdowne/Rideau Public Art Exhibition", City Hall, and CHP Heritage Center, Toronto
1990 "Photographic Work", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1989 "Scaled to the Body", The Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough
1989 "Body is a Loaded Word", Evelyn Aimis Gallery, Toronto
1989 "Cold City: New Work Exhibition", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1989 "Faculty & Student Exhibition", Dundas Valley Art School, Dundas
1989 "13 Works", Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
1988 "Little Mysteries", Art Gallery of the University of Lethbridge, Alberta
1988 "International Gallery Invitational", New York, New York
1987 "Group Show", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1987 "Temporal Icons", ARC & Mercer Union, Toronto
1986 "Quick Draw", Gallery 76, Toronto
1986 "Inaugural Exhibition", Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1985 "18th Sao Paulo Biennial", Sao Paulo, Brazil
1984 "The New City of Sculpture", Mercer Union/YYZ, Toronto
1984 "80/1/2/3/4 Toronto", Mercer Union, Toronto (Exhibition traveled to Open Space Gallery, Victoria and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver)
1984 "On The Wall", Glendon Art Gallery, Toronto
1983 "Chromaliving", Chromazone at Harridges, Toronto
1983 "Locations National - Lust For Life/Swamp", Mercer Union, Toronto; installation at C.N. Tower Walkway; exhibition maquette at Mercer Union, Toronto; Open Space, Victoria, Off Center Center, Calgary; Optica, Montreal; Eye Level Halifax
1983 "Critics' Choice", Art Rental Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1983 "Storefronting", Women's Cultural Building, Toronto
1983 "Ideas in Motion", VAV GAllery, Concordia University, Montreal, "Chromazone/New Year", Chromazone Gallery, Toronto
1982 "Monumenta", YYZ, Toronto
1981 "New Faces", Glendon Art Gallery, Toronto

Public Art Short-listed and Winning Commissions and :

• “College Park Residency”, Design for large-scale, free-standing out-door glass sculpture for College and Bay Street. Finalist, 2006
• “Keniston Park”, Lead design for a new park with incorporated public art. One of three finalist, 2006
• “Markham Centre”,
“The Park Is Now”, Six acre park plan intended to become the heart of a new community and new city - Markham City Centre, One of three finalist, Markham, 2004
• "Garden of Hope", High Park, Concept and plan for a large scale garden that includes a series of fifteen sculptures, Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, Toronto, 2001- 2003
• "Oshawa General Hospital", Oshawa, “Meadows” Photobased images for the Mother and Child Lobby and Ward. 2001
• Royal York Hotel: Digital-bases large-scale images on canvas 2001
• GTAA, Lester B. Pearson International Airport”, Baggage Claim Hall, short list. 2000
• "The Dundas Square", International competition for the City of Toronto, Toronto, Winning proposal for artworks located at Young and Dundas St., one block site area to be designed as a major public square. Upon winning the competition the art agreement was withdrawn. Budget: $2,500,000, 1998/9.
• "Art and Healing at Oshawa General Hospital", Oshawa, Ontario, 21 patients rooms, corridors and lobby, 1998
• "Public Art For Whitby Phyiatric Hospital", Whitby Phyiatric Hospital, Finalist, 1995
• "Public Art Ideas Competition for Toronto's Inner Harbour", City of Toronto, Honorable Mention, Budget: $750,000,1993
• "Lansdowne/Rideau Underpass Pubic Art Commission", Commissioned from the City of Toronto, Budget: $85,000, 1993
• "Swamp:Lust for Life", CN Lands, CN, Temporary Walkway, 1983


Reviews:

• National Post, Steps Toward Urban Renewal, David Hamilon, Sat. Oct 20. 2007
• Living In Toronto, Live interview: http://www.cbc.ca/livingintoronto/2007/10/green_spots.html CBC 2007
•EYE Weekly, Cover Story, "Nuit Blanche, Dyan Marie brightens up Bloor and Lansdowne's shadowy streets during the annual all night art party", David Balzer, Sept 27, 2007
•The Globe and Mail, Unstill Lives With Traffic, Gary Micheal Dault, Sept 22, 2007
•The Globe and Mail, Painting the Town: At Bloor and Lansdowne, artist Dyan Marie sees the whole neighbourhood as a work of art. Bert Archer, Sat, January 20, 2007
• Reading Toronto, GSpots and Vine People, “Spot Culture….are initiatives that incubate art projects in spots that need attentions..”Gary Michael Dault, January 3, 2007
• Spacing Wired, Vine People, Leah Sandals, January 17, 2007
• Woman And Environment Magazine, Transformation In Toronto: The Projects of Dyan Marie, “Dyan Marie has created a series of public art projects to unite and activate her community…”
By Joanne West, Fall/Winter, 2006
• Toronto Star, Painter’s Jam, Peter Goddard, Nov. 30, 2006
• Spacing Magazine, Gallery Under Foot, Fall 2006
• Globe and Mail, Life’s a beach and then you exhibit, Gary Michael Dault, July 9, 2005
• This Magazine, Question Authority, Nov/Dec, 2004
• Toronto Life, Neighbourhoods, Andrea Curtis, May 2004
• The Globe and Mail, Dyan Marie, Gary Dault, Jan 24, 2004
• The National Post, Graffiti-based activism/Brilliantly and Everything Else, Julia Dault, Jan 8, 2004
• The Villager, “DIG IN Neighbourhood” June 2003
• The Globe and Mail, “ Images to Wander through, if only in the mind”, Gillian MacKay, May 12, 2001
• The Globe and Mail, “The Yearning Ache of Growth”, Gary Michael Dault,  April 14, 2001
• The National Post, Getting “Back to the Garden”,John Bentley Mays,  April 21, 2001
• The Globe and Mail, “Dyan Marie and James Lahey at Wynick/Tuck, Gary Micheal Dault, May 8, 1999• The Globe and Mail, "Calm eye in urban storm", Pamela Young, January 2, 1999
• The Globe and Mail, "Colour-saturated photography exhibit says it with flowers", Gillian McKay Sept.13, 1997
• Parachute Magazine,  "The photographic Immaterial Of the Fantastic and the Grotesque", Vivicent Lavoie
• The Globe and Mail, "Artist achieves digital depth", John B Mays, May 29,1996
• The Toronto Star, "Sweet Marie", Christopher Hume, May 9, 1996
• Globe and Mail, "These Lists Can't Be Missed",  John Bently Mays, Feb. 10, 1996
• Globe and Mail, "Public Art", John Bently Mays,  April 1, 1995
• Canadian Art, "Unsuspecting urban", Sarah Milroy, Fall 1993, Volume 10, Number 3
• The Toronto Star, "Brovo to city for artsy tunnel", Christopher Hume, Sept. 4, 1993
• The Sun, "Open to the Public", Lisa Balford Bowen, August 15, 1993
• The Globe and Mail, "Daley, Marie, Lagarra", Kate Taylor, Nov., 1992• The Globe and Mail, "Dyan Marie", Kate Taylor, Feb. 14, 1992
• The Globe and Mail, "Two underpasses in Toronto win awards for good design", March 26, 1990
• The Globe and Mail, "Seeking a Fresh Take on the Body", Sept. 4, 1989
• The Globe and Mail, "Summer Exhibitions", John Bently Mays, July 9, 1988
• The Globe and Mail, "Hot stuff at Cold City", John Bently Mays, Feb. 6, 1988
• Now Magazine, "Temporal Icons", Jane Perdue, March, 1987
• The Globe and Mail, "Gems amid the ruins of Queen St. scene.", John B. Mays, Mar. 14, 1987.
• Vanguard, "Dyan Marie", Jennifer Oille Sinclair, Feb./March, 1987
• The Globe and Mail, "Tropism", John Bently Mays, October 30,1986
• The Toronto Star, "Hot and Cold", Christopher Hume, Sept. 5, 1986
• The Globe and Mail, "New set of rules", Robert Evertt-Green, Sept. 4,1986
• Now Magazine, "Inaugural Exhibition", Jane Perdue, Aug. 21, 1986
• Artnews, "Alternatives to the Alternative Gallery", Fall, 1986
• C Magazine, "Free at Last, Toronto Painting & Sculpture", Donald Kuspit, Winter 1985
• Vanguard, "New City of Sculpture", Goldie Rans, Nov., 1984
• The Globe & Mail, "The flowering of a creative discontent", John Bentley Mays, Sat. March 17, 1984
• Vanguard, "Chromazone/New Year", Jennifer Oille, May 1983
• The Toronto Star, "January doldrums broken by group show", Christopher Hume, Jan. 22,1983

Awards:

2006, Province of Ontario Good Citizen Award,
2005, City of Toronto, Clean and Beautiful Award for DIG IN: Walk Here
2002, 03 Ontario arts Council, Artist in the Community
1988, 99 Canada Council, B Grant
1988, 92 Canada Council, Travel Grant
1984, 85, 86, 87 Canada Council, Short Term Grant
1981, 82, 91, 94 Canada Council, Project Cost Grant
1982, 86, 88, 92 Ontario Arts Council, Project Cost
1980-84, 86, 87, 92 Ontario Arts Council, Material Assistance Grants

Collections:

Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Museum of Photography, Ottawa
National Gallery Of Canada, Ottawa
Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belguim
University of Leithbridge Gallery, Alberta
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
The City of Toronto, Toronto
Business Development Bank of Canada
Fidelity Investments
Lenczne, Slaght, Royse, Smith, Griffen
Morneau, Sobeco, Cooper & Lybrand Osler, Hoskin, Harcourt, Toronto, Ontario
Tory, Tory DesLauriers and Binnington, Toronto, Ontario
Lakeridge Health Corporation, Oshawa, Ontario
Kelowna Art Institute, Kelowna, BC
Various corporate and private collections

Education:

Graduate of Ontario College of Art and Design,
1974 - 1977

University Teaching Experience:
University of Waterloo, taught advanced digital image making, 2002
University of Guelph, advanced sculpture, 1988
Dundas Valley School of Art, sculpture, 1989

Recent lectures regarding art & cultural projects:
2006 University of Toronto: Natural City Conference
2006 University of Toronto: Curating Cold City
2006 Power Plant: artist talk
2004, 05 George Brown: Sustainable Cities
2004, Brantford Ideas Conference, Brantford
2002-05, DIG IN talk - numerous schools, clubs, community centers in Tronto’s west end
2002, YYZ, 1444 creating artists’ live/work space

Recent Press Quotes:

The National Post, Jan. 8, 2004
Writes “... Dyan Marie makes the term “Multi - disciplinary artist” seem too easy. One gets the sense that her work is like a watering hole, providing a moment of pause for the tireless and wholly dedicated community master planner. She’s like a modest Jane Jacobs, armed with art supplies”

Toronto Star, November 25, 2006
Audio cast... “Dyan Marie is making a tough part of town a smart part of own”.

Spacing Magazine, Fall Issue, 2006
Writes... “Dyan Marie has a simple plan for changing neighbourhoods. It starts by walking - in only four years she has already mobilized community residents to build this dream, titled Walk Here”.

Globe and Mail, March 25, 2006
Writes...“Toronto-based artist Dyan Marie reserves her project space for the exhibiting of those all-too-rare emblematic moments in contemporary art where the visual world’s conventional aesthetic and sociological concerns are joined...”

This Magazine, Nov./Dec.... Issue 2004
Writes “... Dyan Marie’s work lies at the junction of art and activism, in recent years, she’s acquired a reputation as one of the city’s fiercest community advocates.

The Expositor, Oct. 21, 2004
Writes “... Dyan Marie has created a number of art Interventions – interactive exhibitions which tackle inner city ills. “I’m responsive to the environment around me,” she says of her extensive experience in public art, “and that informs the works I make.”

Globe and Mail, Jan. 24, 2004
Writes “...energetic Toronto-based sculptor, photographer, urban activist and now painter Dyan Marie work relates, in varying ways, to the artist’s remarkably fierce and tireless dedication to urban reinvigoration.”

Eye, Jan. 8, 2004
Writes ...“Marie consolidates her exploration of the ramifications of development in her work,
“Brilliantly and Everything Else”

Canadian Art Magazine, Winter Issue 2004
Writes... “A catalyst for social awareness in this urban intervention by artist Dyan Marie who brings the idea of community to the art world.”

Toronto Life, May 2004, Neighourhoods
“Dyan Marie’s passion for the community is contagious. She calls the proposed community walking system “Walk Here”, an “art-embedded” walking system, a sort of plein-air gallery with individual works created by local tradespeople and artists. “Our idea is that people can use the park and path as a community centre. It will be a source of pride and indigenous expression.”

For more information

telephone: 416- 539-8129
email: dyan@dyanmarie.com
website: dyanmarie.com