Maple Leaf, 2011,
wool, dye, fabric, metal, plastic, and thread,
147 x 62 x 10 cm
Maple Leaf, 2011 (detail),
wool, dye, fabric, metal, plastic, and thread,
147 x 62 x 10 cm
Chinese Green, 2011,
wool, fabric, metal, thread and wood,
149 x 63 x 12 cm
Chinese Green, 2011 (detail),
wool, fabric, metal, thread and wood,
149 x 63 x 12 cm
Hudson’s Bay Double, 2011,
wool, fabric, metal, polymerized gypsum, and wood,
163 x 399 x 2.5 cm
Hudson’s Bay Double, 2011 (detail),
wool, fabric, metal, polymerized gypsum, and wood,
163 x 399 x 2.5 cm
Spearmint/Mouse, 2009,
polymerized gypsum, chewing gum, cigarette,
21 x 38 x 29 cm
Leather Ashtray on Table, 2009,
polymerized gypsum, cigarettes, wood,
57 x 121 x 63.5 cm
Stack (Racoon), 2009,
polymerized gypsum, ash, wood,
58 x 68 x 68 cm
Stack (Racoon), 2009 (detail),
polymerized gypsum, ash, wood,
58 x 68 x 68 cm
Bedside, 2007 (detail),
polymerized gypsum, hardware, lighting fixture,
305 x 244 x 46 cm
Wrap, 2003,
polymerized gypsum, fibreglass,
88 x 84 x 254 cm
Voyageur from Camping Portfolio, 2002,
edition of 3,
one of ten silver-gelatin photographs,
41 x 51 cm each
Civil War Scenes: Southern Boys in Battle, 1991,
edition of 2,
one of fourteen selenium toned silverprints,
41 x 51 cm each
Magor’s practice utilizes sculpture and photography to explore notions of memory, history, shelter, and survival. Exploring both natural and domestic themes, her sculptural works are forms of refuge that also confound the boundary between the real and the imagined.
“ I am always looking for comfort in a world disturbingly subject to change. Sometimes I find it in work, as a recording of my activity. Sometimes I find it in objects, things that sit still for awhile and slowly gather, then release, their history. I wanted to do work that would objectify some history of a life, or at least the life of a body and the process of change that affects that body. ”
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
The familiar transformed into the mysterious
by R.M. Vaughan (review)
The Globe and Mail, 7 May2011
Real Dead Ringers: The Art of Liz Magor
by E C Woodley (article)
Border Crossings, Spring 2011
Wilderness Escape - Liz Magor
and Emily Carr
by Shannon Heth (article)
Montecristo, Autumn 2010
City vs Country
by Leah Sandals (review)
The National Post, 2 January 2010
Nothing to Declare
by Sarah Milroy (review)
The Globe and Mail, 17 December 2009
Liz Magor
by Nicholas Brown (article)
Hunter and Cook, Fall 2009
What It Really Is
by Tejpal S. Ajji, Nicholas Brown, and Jen Hutton (exhibition brochure)
Toronto: Red Bull 381 Projects, 2009
Liz Magor: The Mouth and other storage facilities
by Sara Krajewski and Bill Jeffries (exhibition catalogue)
Seattle/Vancouver: The Henry Gallery/
Simon Fraser University Gallery, 2008
Take Me There Show Me the Way
by Michael Rooks (exhibition catalogue)
New York: Haunch of Venison, 2008
Not just another pile of laundry
by Sarah Milroy (review)
The Globe and Mail, 24 July 2007
Burrow
by Shannon Anderson (exhibition catalogue)
Oakville: Oakville Galleries, 2007
Look closer to grasp Molly’s Reach
by Gary Michael Dault (review)
The Globe and Mail, 12 March 2005
Elements of Nature
by Jonathan Shaugnessy (exhibition catalogue)
Ottawa/Shawinigan: National Gallery of Canada/La Cite de L’Energie, 2005
Histories des Amériques
Pierre Landry (exhibition catalogue)
Montréal: Musée d’art contemporain, 2004
Material Intelligence:
The Art of Liz Magor
by Robin Laurence (article)
Border Crossings, May 2003
Give her shelter
by Sarah Milroy (article)
The Globe and Mail, 19 December 2002
Liz Magor
by Grant Arnold and Philip Monk et. al. (exhibition catalogue)
Toronto/Vancouver: The Power Plant/Vancouver Art Gallery, 2002
’Flaws’ point to artist’s crucial theme: artificiality
by Blake Gopnik (article)
The Globe and Mail, 2 September 2000
Liz Magor
by Nancy Tousley (interview)
Canadian Art, Spring 2000
Liz Magor
by Nancy Tousley, Lucy Hogg and Reid Shier (exhibition catalogue)
Vancouver/Toronto: Contemporary Art Gallery/Art Gallery of York University, 2000
Liz Magor, Equinox Gallery
by Philip Monk (review)
C Magazine, September-November 1999
Report from Toronto: Opening Doors
Roni Feinstein (article)
Art in America, November 1994
Canada, une nouvelle generation
by Marc Mayer and Catherine Bedard (exhibition catalogue)
Getigne Clisson, France: FRAC des Pays de la Loire, 1993
Pour La Suite du Monde
by Gilles Godmer and Real Lussier (exhibition catalogue)
Montréal: Musée d’art contemporain, 1992
Cumulus from America: Places with a past
by Lynn Gumpert (review)
Parkett, Fall 1991
Places With a Past
by M.J. Jacobs (exhibition catalogue)
Charleston, South Carolina: Spoleto Festival, 1991
Canadian Biennial of Contemporary Art
by Diana Nemiroff (exhibition catalogue)
Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1989
A play of history (Jeu d’histoire);
The Power Plant
by Bruce Grenville (review)
Parachute, Sept/Oct/Nov 1987
Active Surplus: The Economy of the Object
by Bruce Grenville (exhibition catalogue)
Toronto: The Power Plant, 1987
Liz Magor: an Interview
by Ian Carr-Harris (interview)
C Magazine, Fall 1986
Liz Magor
by Philip Monk (exhibition catalogue)
Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1986
Aurora Borealis
by Elio Graziolo (review)
Flash Art, October-November 1985
Aurora Borealis
by Rene Blouin and Normand Theriault (exhibition catalogue)
Montréal: Le centre international d’art contemporain, 1985
Highlights of Festival
by Annelie Pohlen (review)
Artforum, September 1984
Kunst, Grenzenlos
by Michael Huebl (review)
Kunstforum International, June-August 1984
Ian Carr-Harris/Liz Magor: Canada XLI Biennale di Venezia
by Jessica Bradley (exhibition catalogue)
Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1984
Installation art wise choice for Venice
by John Bentley Mays (review)
The Globe and Mail, 28 January 1984
Contemporary Canadian Art
by David Burnett and Marilyn Schiff (book)
Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers Ltd., 1983
Four Places
by Alvin Balkind (article)
Vanguard, March 1977