Jan Peacock
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Jan Peacock (born November 6, 1955) is a Canadian interdisciplinary and/or mixed media artist, Curator and Writer based in Halifax. She teaches at NSCAD University.
Biography
Peacock was born in Barrie, Ontario.[1] She studied at the University of Western Ontario, receiving her BFA in 1978, and went on to the University of California in San Diego for her MFA in 1981.[2] She has completed over twenty video works and installations and has exhibited widely throughout Canada, as well as in France, Holland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Her published texts include “presence” in Point and Shoot: Performance et photographie (eds. Michèle Thériault and France Choinière, Montreal: Editions Dazibao, 2005), “Ready Access” in Public, No 25: Experimentalism (Toronto: Public Access, 2002), “Move This” and “4/14/99” (with Paula Levine) in LUX: A Decade of Artists’ Film and Video, ed. Steve Reinke and Tom Taylor (Toronto: YYZ Books, 1998), “(in)Script” and “SiRENSONG” in By the Skin of Their Tongues: Artists’ Video Scripts, ed. Nelson Henricks and Steve Reinke (Toronto: YYZ Books, 1996), and Corpus Loquendi (Body for Speaking): Body-Centred Video in Halifax 1972- 1982 (Halifax: Dalhousie Art Gallery, 1994). Her work is found in international public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Ludwig Museum in Cologne.
She has received several Canada Council grants, and has won awards at the Atlantic Film & Video Festival, the Chicago International Film & Video Festival, and the Atlanta Film & Video Festival. She is a recipient of the Bell Canada Award and the Canada Council Medal for her contribution to the field of video. Peacock received the Governor General's award in Visual and Media Arts in 2012.[3]
Works
- Stop Watch (1983)
- Pie Y Cafe (1984)
- Nuits Blanches: Dark Days, Sleepless Nights, Voice and Nothing More (1990)
- White Wash (1991)
- Reader By The Window (1993)
- The Road Rises To Meet You
- Union
External links
References
- ^ "Jan Peacock". Retrieved March 8, 2015.
- ^ "Koenig, Peacock exhibitions open". Halifax Mail Star. May 31, 1986.
- ^ "NSCAD professor wins GG Award". February 28, 2012.
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