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Known for Visual and media artist Awards K.M. Hunter Artist Award Education York University, University of Saskatchewan | ||
Risa horowitz visual arts
Risa Horowitz (born 1970) is a Canadian visual and media artist. Her works have been exhibited across Canada and internationally. Her work has been shown at Canada House in London, England, and is included in its permanent collection. She is currently an associate professor at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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Education
Horowitz received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts Studies in 1995 at York University, and completed her masters in Visual Arts in 2000 at the University of Saskatchewan. In 2012 she completed her PhD in Visual Arts at York University.
Career
She has lived and worked in seven different Canadian provinces and has taught critical issues for studio artists, photography, and digital imaging at York University and Grenfell Campus. She is currently an assistant professor of Visual Arts in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Regina, in Saskatchewan.
As an academic, Horowitz is interested in the ways in which information systems frame knowledge, and in practice-based scholarship and the shaping of art practice by university structures and expert/amateur distinctions.
In 2011, she co-founded the Working Group for Studio Art Practice and Research for the University Art Association of Canada with Annie Martin.
Imaging Saturn (2016)
Imaging Saturn (2016) is a multimedia installation that focuses on Saturn, its orbit, and the paths of the sun and surrounding stars. Incorporating aspects of participatory science and data visualization, the exhibit combines astronomy and astrophotography with mapping of Saturn's ecliptic, a mechanized orbiter (developed with Ray Peterson), kinetic sculptures, and video. It reflects an interest in Saturn going back to 2010.
Blurry Canada (2011)
During a road trip across Canada in 2010, Horowitz recorded 175 hours of continuous video and 20,000 images. Seventy-five chromogenic prints, and all 175 hours of video in a 13-day loop, were exhibited in her show Blurry Canada at Dunlop Sherwood Village Gallery in Regina in 2011. The exhibit was shown at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba in 2012.
Trio (2008)
Trio is a multichannel video installation that shows Horowitz' efforts to learn to play Franz Schubert's Piano Trio No. 2, a trio for piano, cello and violin. Trio was presented at the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide, Australia, in 2008.
Trees of Canada (2007)
For Trees of Canada Horowitz drew upon Canada's 2004 National Forest Inventory as an inspiration for examining indigenous and naturalized trees. Her resulting series of acrylic paintings was exhibited in 2007 at the Profiles Gallery, St. Albert, Alberta, and in 2008 at MKG127 Gallery, Toronto, Ontario. Twenty pieces from Trees of Canada (2007) were acquired by Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade for the permanent collection of Canada House in London, England. Horowitz attended the unveiling, at which Queen Elizabeth II was present.
Melitzah (2000–2007)
Melitzah (2000–2007) is an extensive vocal performance coupled with the Canadian Oxford Dictionary. Horowitz visualized every word in the dictionary with a waveform of her pronunciation of that word and documented her visualization in a set of 138 books and a website. Melitzah was selected for the FILE Electronic Language Interernational Festival, São Paulo Brazil, in 2005.
Awards
Horowitz was the recipient of the K.M. Hunter Artist Award in 2006.
Publications
Selected publications by Risa Horowitz: