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'''Vera Frenkel''' (born November 10, 1938) is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto.<ref>{{cite web|title=Vera Frenkel|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/vera-frenkel/|publisher=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]|accessdate=1 February 2014}}</ref> Her installations, videotapes, performances and new media projects address the forces at work in human migration, the learning and unlearning of cultural memory, and the ever-increasing bureaucratization of experience.<ref>[http://www.verafrenkel.com verafrenkel.com]</ref>
'''Vera Frenkel''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|RCA|FRSC|size=100%}} (born November 10, 1938) is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto.<ref>{{cite web|title=Vera Frenkel|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/vera-frenkel|publisher=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]|access-date=1 February 2014}}</ref> Her installations, videotapes, performances and new media projects address the forces at work in human migration, the learning and unlearning of cultural memory, and the ever-increasing bureaucratization of experience.<ref name="vf">{{cite web| url=http://www.verafrenkel.com | title=VeraFrenkel.com}}</ref>


Vera Frenkel was born in Bratazalava, Czechoslovakia, lived in England during her childhood and resided in Canada for her adult life. Frenkel graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from [[McGill University]] in 1959, then pursued further studies in Montreal under [[Arthur Lismer]] and [[Albert Dumouchel]].
Vera Frenkel was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, lived in England during her childhood and resided in Canada for her adult life. Frenkel graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from [[McGill University]] in 1959, then pursued further studies in Montreal under [[Arthur Lismer]] and [[Albert Dumouchel]].


She has exhibited in solo and group shows in Canada and internationally since the early 1970s. Her work has been exhibited at [[Documenta|Documenta IX]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://frieze.com/article/vera-frenkel|title=Vera Frenkel|website=frieze.com|language=en|access-date=2017-03-04}}</ref> the Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz; the [[Setagaya Art Museum]], Tokyo, the [[National Gallery of Canada]], Ottawa, the [[Museum of Modern Art]], New York, and the [[Biennale di Venezia]].<ref>Selected Exhibitions, Cartographie d'un pratique / Mapping a Practice, [[Daniel Langlois Foundation]] 2010 [http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=2240]</ref>
She has exhibited in solo and group shows in Canada and internationally since the early 1970s. Her work has been exhibited at [[Documenta|Documenta IX]],<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://frieze.com/article/vera-frenkel|title=Vera Frenkel|journal=Frieze|date=12 August 2014|issue=165|language=en|access-date=2017-03-04|last1=Cwynar|first1=Kari}}</ref> the Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz; the [[Setagaya Art Museum]], Tokyo, the [[National Gallery of Canada]], Ottawa, the [[Museum of Modern Art]], New York, and the [[Biennale di Venezia]].<ref>Selected Exhibitions, Cartographie d'un pratique / Mapping a Practice, [[Daniel Langlois Foundation]] 2010 [http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=2240]</ref>


==Major Exhibitions==
==Major exhibitions==
Frenkel's solo exhibitions include the following: ''Likely Stories: Text/Image/Sound Works for Video and Installation'' ([[Agnes Etherington Art Centre]], Kingston, Ontario, 1982); ''Raincoats, Suitcases, Palms'' (Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, 1993); ''from the Transit Bar'' (Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, [[The Power Plant]] Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, 1994–95, and [[National Gallery of Canada]], 1996); and ''Body Missing'' (Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria 1996; Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany, 1996–97). In recent years, Frenkel has exhibited her works at [[centre culturel canadien]] (Paris, 2002) and the [[Freud Museum]] (London, UK, 2003). Between November 15 and December 28, 2014, the [[Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art]] presented ''Ways of Telling'', an exhibition presenting Frenkel's work from the early 1970s to present, including her more recent works. ''ONCE NEAR WATER: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive (2008)'' and ''The Blue Train (2012–2014)''. The exhibit was curated by the National Gallery of Canada's Associate Curator, Contemporary Art, [[Jonathan Shaughnessy]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Vera Frenkel: Ways of Telling|url=http://museumofcontemporaryart.ca/exhibition/vera-frenkel/|website=Museum of Contemporary Art_Toronto Canada|accessdate=5 March 2017}}</ref>
Frenkel's solo exhibitions include the following: ''Likely Stories: Text/Image/Sound Works for Video and Installation'' ([[Agnes Etherington Art Centre]], Kingston, Ontario, 1982); ''Raincoats, Suitcases, Palms'' (Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, 1993); ''from the Transit Bar'' (Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, [[The Power Plant]] Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, 1994–95, and [[National Gallery of Canada]], 1996); and ''Body Missing'' (Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria 1996; Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany, 1996–97). In recent years, Frenkel has exhibited her works at Centre Culturel Canadien (Paris, 2002) and the [[Freud Museum]] (London, UK, 2003). Between November 15 and December 28, 2014, the [[Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art]] presented ''Ways of Telling'', an exhibition presenting Frenkel's work from the early 1970s to present, including her more recent works. ''ONCE NEAR WATER: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive (2008)'' and ''The Blue Train (2012–2014)''. The exhibit was curated by the National Gallery of Canada's Associate Curator, Contemporary Art, [[Jonathan Shaughnessy]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Vera Frenkel: Ways of Telling|url=http://museumofcontemporaryart.ca/exhibition/vera-frenkel/|website=Museum of Contemporary Art_Toronto Canada|access-date=5 March 2017}}</ref>


Some examples of Frenkel's group exhibitions include the following: ''OKanada'' ([[Academy of Arts, Berlin|Akademie der Künste]], Berlin, 1982–83); ''Vestiges of Empire'' ([[Camden Arts Centre]], London, UK, 1984); [[Rebel Girls: A Survey of Canadian Feminist Videotapes 1974-1988|''Rebel Girls:'' ''A Survey of Canadian Feminist Videotapes 1974-1988'']] ([[National Gallery of Canada]], Ottawa, Canada, 1989);''...from the Transit Bar'' ([[Documenta 9|Documenta ''IX'']]'','' Kassel, Germany, 1992); ''Shifting Paradigms'' (Bucharest, 1994); ''Beyond National Identities'' (Tokyo, Kyoto, and Sapporo, Japan, 1995); and Archival Dialogues: Reading the Black Star Collection (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2012).
Some examples of Frenkel's group exhibitions include the following: ''OKanada'' ([[Academy of Arts, Berlin|Akademie der Künste]], Berlin, 1982–83); ''Vestiges of Empire'' ([[Camden Arts Centre]], London, UK, 1984); [[Rebel Girls: A Survey of Canadian Feminist Videotapes 1974-1988|''Rebel Girls:'' ''A Survey of Canadian Feminist Videotapes 1974-1988'']] ([[National Gallery of Canada]], Ottawa, Canada, 1989);''...from the Transit Bar'' ([[Documenta 9|Documenta ''IX'']]'','' Kassel, Germany, 1992); ''Shifting Paradigms'' (Bucharest, 1994); ''Beyond National Identities'' (Tokyo, Kyoto, and Sapporo, Japan, 1995); and Archival Dialogues: Reading the Black Star Collection (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2012).


==Work==
==Work==
In 1974, Frenkel worked with the [[Bell Canada|Bell Canada Teleconferencing Studios]] to produce the work ''String Games: Improvisations for Inter-City Video'', the first artwork in Canada to use telecommunications technologies. This was an early work of [[Internet art]].
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One of Frenkel's major works, ''...from the Transit Bar'', is a multi-media installation with a functioning bar and video monitors playing individuals testimonials recounting themes such as exile, translation and cultural migration.<ref>{{cite web|title=Vera Frenkel|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/vera-frenkel/|website=The Canadian Encyclopedia|accessdate=5 March 2017}}</ref> It was a collaboration between the [[National Gallery of Canada]] and [[The Power Plant]]. It was initially exhibited in 1992 at documenta IX in Kassel, Germany, toured Europe in the 1990s and has been most recently re-exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada in the spring and summer of 2014.<ref>http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/exhibitions/current/details/from-the-transit-bar-7569</ref>


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One of Frenkel's major works, ''...from the Transit Bar'' (1992),<ref name="transit">{{Cite web |title=...from the Transit Bar |url=https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/exhibitions-and-galleries/from-the-transit-bar|access-date=17 November 2022 |website=National Gallery of Canada}}</ref> is a multi-media installation with a functioning bar and video monitors playing individuals testimonials recounting themes such as exile, translation and cultural migration.<ref>{{cite web|title=Vera Frenkel|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/vera-frenkel/|website=The Canadian Encyclopedia|access-date=5 March 2017}}</ref> It was a collaboration between the [[National Gallery of Canada]] and [[The Power Plant]]. It was initially exhibited in 1992 at documenta IX in Kassel, Germany, toured Europe in the 1990s and has been most recently re-exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada in the spring and summer of 2014.<ref name="transit"/>
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''ONCE NEAR WATER: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive (2008)'' is a videotape about a city cut off from its lake and uses the scaffolding as a metaphor for both aspiration and loss. In the opening lines, its voice over narrative discusses the lake and sets the stage for the piece. According to the artist's website, "''This report is about a lake, and about longing.'' ''Also about greed, and about ways of bearing witness.'' ''I don't know the whole story, one never does."'' <ref>VeraFrenkel.com</ref>


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''ONCE NEAR WATER: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive (2008)'' is a videotape about a city cut off from its lake and uses the scaffolding as a metaphor for both aspiration and loss. In the opening lines, its voice over narrative discusses the lake and sets the stage for the piece. According to the artist's website, "''This report is about a lake, and about longing.'' ''Also about greed, and about ways of bearing witness.'' ''I don't know the whole story, one never does."'' <ref name="vf"/>
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==Awards==

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Frenkel is recipient of the 1989 [[Molson Prize|Canada Council Molson Prize]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.canada.ca/en/news/archive/2006/03/governor-general-awards-visual-media-arts-announcement-winners.html|title=Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts: Announcement of winners - Canada.ca|last=Canada|first=Employment and Social Development|website=www.canada.ca|language=en|access-date=2017-03-04}}</ref> the 1994 Toronto Arts Foundation Visual Arts Award, the 1993 [[Gershon Iskowitz#Winners of the Gershon Iskowitz Prize|Gershon Iskowitz Prize]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://iskowitzfoundation.ca/portfolio/1993-vera-frenkel/|title=1993 {{!}} Vera Frenkel - Gershon Iskowitz Foundation|work=Gershon Iskowitz Foundation|access-date=2017-03-04|language=en-US}}</ref> the 1999 Bell Canada Award for Video Art<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/frenkel-nets-award/article1042062/|title=Frenkel nets award|work=The Globe and Mail|access-date=2017-03-04|language=en-ca}}</ref> and the 2007 iDMAa Pioneering Achievement Award.<ref>{{cite web|title=International Digital Media and Arts Association - Award Winners|url=http://idmaa.org/conferences/past-conferences/award-winners/|work=idmaa.org|publisher=International Digital Media and Arts Association|accessdate=9 February 2014}}</ref> In 2005 she was awarded the [[Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts]] by the [[Canada Council for the Arts]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://canadacouncil.ca/en/council/grants/past-recipients?recipient%3DVera+Frenkel%26sort1%3Ddiscipline%26sort2%3Dprogram%26sort3%3Drecipient |title=Archived copy |accessdate=February 9, 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221233043/http://canadacouncil.ca/en/council/grants/past-recipients?recipient=Vera+Frenkel&sort1=discipline&sort2=program&sort3=recipient |archivedate=February 21, 2014 }}</ref>
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==Awards and honours==
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Frenkel is recipient of the 1989 [[Molson Prize|Canada Council Molson Prize]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.canada.ca/en/news/archive/2006/03/governor-general-awards-visual-media-arts-announcement-winners.html|title=Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts: Announcement of winners - Canada.ca|last=Canada|first=Employment and Social Development|website=www.canada.ca|date=14 March 2006|language=en|access-date=2017-03-04}}</ref> the 1994 Toronto Arts Foundation Visual Arts Award, the 1993 [[Gershon Iskowitz#Winners of the Gershon Iskowitz Prize|Gershon Iskowitz Prize]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://iskowitzfoundation.ca/portfolio/1993-vera-frenkel/|title=1993 {{!}} Vera Frenkel - Gershon Iskowitz Foundation|work=Gershon Iskowitz Foundation|access-date=2017-03-04|language=en-US}}</ref> the 1999 Bell Canada Award for Video Art<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/frenkel-nets-award/article1042062/|title=Frenkel nets award|work=The Globe and Mail|access-date=2017-03-04|language=en-ca}}</ref> and the 2007 iDMAa Pioneering Achievement Award.<ref>{{cite web|title=International Digital Media and Arts Association - Award Winners|url=http://idmaa.org/conferences/past-conferences/award-winners/|work=idmaa.org|publisher=International Digital Media and Arts Association|access-date=9 February 2014}}</ref> In 2005 she was awarded the [[Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts]] by the [[Canada Council for the Arts]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://canadacouncil.ca/en/council/grants/past-recipients?recipient%3DVera+Frenkel%26sort1%3Ddiscipline%26sort2%3Dprogram%26sort3%3Drecipient |title=Past recipients &#124; the Canada Council for the Arts |access-date=February 9, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221233043/http://canadacouncil.ca/en/council/grants/past-recipients?recipient=Vera+Frenkel&sort1=discipline&sort2=program&sort3=recipient |archive-date=February 21, 2014 }}</ref> She has received honorary doctorates from the [[Nova Scotia College of Art and Design]] (NSCAD) (1996) and the [[Emily Carr Institute]] (2004),<ref>{{cite web |title=Hon Degree Recipients |url=https://www.ecuad.ca/about/leadership-and-governance/honours-awards/honorary-awards#previous-honorary-degrees |website=www.ecuad.ca |date=19 June 2015 |publisher=Emily Carr U |access-date=21 December 2022}}</ref> and is a member of the [[Royal Canadian Academy of Arts]]<ref name=RCA1880>{{cite web|title=Members since 1880 |url=http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |publisher=Royal Canadian Academy of Arts |accessdate=2022-12-21|url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526215339/http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |archivedate=May 26, 2011 }}</ref> and inducted into the Royal Society of Canada Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences in 2006.<ref>{{cite web |title=Faculty profiles |url=https://vaah.ampd.yorku.ca/profile/vera-frenkel |website=vaah.ampd.yorku.ca |publisher=York U Toronto |access-date=21 December 2022}}</ref>


==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
* {{cite book|title=Vera Frenkel|publisher=Hatje Cantz|location=Ostfildern|isbn=9783775732475|author= Sigrid Schade (ed.)|author2=Vera Frenkel |author3=Dot Tuer |author4=Anne Benichou |author5=Griselda Pollock |author6=Ryszard W. Kluszcynski |author7=John Bentley Mays |author8=Elizabeth Legge |author9=Sylvie Lacerte |author10=Frank Wagner |editor=Sigrid Schade|year=2013}}
* {{cite book|title=Vera Frenkel|publisher=Hatje Cantz|location=Ostfildern|isbn=9783775732475|editor= Sigrid Schade |author1=Vera Frenkel |author1-link=Vera Frenkel |author3=Dot Tuer |author4=Anne Benichou |author5=Griselda Pollock |author5-link=Griselda Pollock |author6=Ryszard W. Kluszcynski |author7=John Bentley Mays |author7-link=John Bentley Mays |author8=Elizabeth Legge |author9=Sylvie Lacerte |author2=Frank Wagner |year=2013}}
* {{cite book|title=Vera Frenkel:...from the Transit Bar|publisher=The Power Plant, the National Gallery of Canada|location=Toronto,ON|isbn=0921047754|author= The Power Plant and the National Gallery (ed.)|author2=Jean Gagnon}}
* {{cite book|title=Vera Frenkel:...from the Transit Bar|publisher=The Power Plant, the National Gallery of Canada|location=Toronto,ON|isbn=0921047754 |author=Jean Gagnon|year=1994}}


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* [http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artist.php?iartistid=1880 Vera Frenkel - National Gallery of Canada]
* [http://www.ryerson.ca/ric/exhibitions/adialogues.html Ryerson Image Centre]
* [http://www.ryerson.ca/ric/exhibitions/adialogues.html Ryerson Image Centre]

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Vera Frenkel
Born (1938-11-10) November 10, 1938 (age 86)
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
EducationFine Arts
Alma materMcGill University(1959),
Notable workString Games (1974), ...from the Transit Bar (1992), ONCE NEAR WATER: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive (2008), The Blue Train (2012-2014)
AwardsGovernor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts (2005)
Websitewww.verafrenkel.com

Vera Frenkel RCA FRSC (born November 10, 1938) is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto.[1] Her installations, videotapes, performances and new media projects address the forces at work in human migration, the learning and unlearning of cultural memory, and the ever-increasing bureaucratization of experience.[2]

Vera Frenkel was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, lived in England during her childhood and resided in Canada for her adult life. Frenkel graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from McGill University in 1959, then pursued further studies in Montreal under Arthur Lismer and Albert Dumouchel.

She has exhibited in solo and group shows in Canada and internationally since the early 1970s. Her work has been exhibited at Documenta IX,[3] the Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz; the Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Biennale di Venezia.[4]

Major exhibitions

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Frenkel's solo exhibitions include the following: Likely Stories: Text/Image/Sound Works for Video and Installation (Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario, 1982); Raincoats, Suitcases, Palms (Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, 1993); from the Transit Bar (Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, 1994–95, and National Gallery of Canada, 1996); and Body Missing (Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria 1996; Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany, 1996–97). In recent years, Frenkel has exhibited her works at Centre Culturel Canadien (Paris, 2002) and the Freud Museum (London, UK, 2003). Between November 15 and December 28, 2014, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art presented Ways of Telling, an exhibition presenting Frenkel's work from the early 1970s to present, including her more recent works. ONCE NEAR WATER: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive (2008) and The Blue Train (2012–2014). The exhibit was curated by the National Gallery of Canada's Associate Curator, Contemporary Art, Jonathan Shaughnessy.[5]

Some examples of Frenkel's group exhibitions include the following: OKanada (Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 1982–83); Vestiges of Empire (Camden Arts Centre, London, UK, 1984); Rebel Girls: A Survey of Canadian Feminist Videotapes 1974-1988 (National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 1989);...from the Transit Bar (Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany, 1992); Shifting Paradigms (Bucharest, 1994); Beyond National Identities (Tokyo, Kyoto, and Sapporo, Japan, 1995); and Archival Dialogues: Reading the Black Star Collection (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2012).

Work

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In 1974, Frenkel worked with the Bell Canada Teleconferencing Studios to produce the work String Games: Improvisations for Inter-City Video, the first artwork in Canada to use telecommunications technologies. This was an early work of Internet art.

One of Frenkel's major works, ...from the Transit Bar (1992),[6] is a multi-media installation with a functioning bar and video monitors playing individuals testimonials recounting themes such as exile, translation and cultural migration.[7] It was a collaboration between the National Gallery of Canada and The Power Plant. It was initially exhibited in 1992 at documenta IX in Kassel, Germany, toured Europe in the 1990s and has been most recently re-exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada in the spring and summer of 2014.[6]

ONCE NEAR WATER: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive (2008) is a videotape about a city cut off from its lake and uses the scaffolding as a metaphor for both aspiration and loss. In the opening lines, its voice over narrative discusses the lake and sets the stage for the piece. According to the artist's website, "This report is about a lake, and about longing. Also about greed, and about ways of bearing witness. I don't know the whole story, one never does." [2]

Awards and honours

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Frenkel is recipient of the 1989 Canada Council Molson Prize,[8] the 1994 Toronto Arts Foundation Visual Arts Award, the 1993 Gershon Iskowitz Prize,[9] the 1999 Bell Canada Award for Video Art[10] and the 2007 iDMAa Pioneering Achievement Award.[11] In 2005 she was awarded the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts by the Canada Council for the Arts.[12] She has received honorary doctorates from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) (1996) and the Emily Carr Institute (2004),[13] and is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts[14] and inducted into the Royal Society of Canada Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences in 2006.[15]

Bibliography

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  • Vera Frenkel; Frank Wagner; Dot Tuer; Anne Benichou; Griselda Pollock; Ryszard W. Kluszcynski; John Bentley Mays; Elizabeth Legge; Sylvie Lacerte (2013). Sigrid Schade (ed.). Vera Frenkel. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz. ISBN 9783775732475.
  • Jean Gagnon (1994). Vera Frenkel:...from the Transit Bar. Toronto,ON: The Power Plant, the National Gallery of Canada. ISBN 0921047754.

References

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  1. ^ "Vera Frenkel". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  2. ^ a b "VeraFrenkel.com".
  3. ^ Cwynar, Kari (12 August 2014). "Vera Frenkel". Frieze (165). Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  4. ^ Selected Exhibitions, Cartographie d'un pratique / Mapping a Practice, Daniel Langlois Foundation 2010 [1]
  5. ^ "Vera Frenkel: Ways of Telling". Museum of Contemporary Art_Toronto Canada. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  6. ^ a b "...from the Transit Bar". National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
  7. ^ "Vera Frenkel". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  8. ^ Canada, Employment and Social Development (14 March 2006). "Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts: Announcement of winners - Canada.ca". www.canada.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  9. ^ "1993 | Vera Frenkel - Gershon Iskowitz Foundation". Gershon Iskowitz Foundation. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  10. ^ "Frenkel nets award". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  11. ^ "International Digital Media and Arts Association - Award Winners". idmaa.org. International Digital Media and Arts Association. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  12. ^ "Past recipients | the Canada Council for the Arts". Archived from the original on February 21, 2014. Retrieved February 9, 2014.
  13. ^ "Hon Degree Recipients". www.ecuad.ca. Emily Carr U. 19 June 2015. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
  14. ^ "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on May 26, 2011. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  15. ^ "Faculty profiles". vaah.ampd.yorku.ca. York U Toronto. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
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