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Tanya mars vanitas for an arctic landscape
Tanya Mars (born 1948) is a performance and video artist based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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- Tanya mars vanitas for an arctic landscape
- Tanya mars s in pursuit of happiness
- Life
- Work
- Videography
- Awards
- References
Tanya mars s in pursuit of happiness
Life
Mars was born in Monroe, Michigan in 1948, and has lived in Canada since 1967. She was educated at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and at Loyola College, Montreal (now incorporated into Concordia University).
Mars currently teaches in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media in the University of Toronto Scarborough.
Work
Mars was a founder and director of Powerhouse Gallery (La Centrale) in Montreal, one of Canada's first feminist art collectives. She went on to edit Parallelogramme, an arts journal.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Mars was a member and secretary of the Association of National Non-Profit Artist-Run Centres, a national lobby group for artist-run centres (1976-1989). She is a past president and member of FADO, a non-profit artist-run centre for performance art based in Toronto, Canada.
Tyranny of Bliss took place in 2004 in Toronto which had audiences travel by car to 14 tableaux representing the seven heavenly virtues and seven deadly sins.
With Johanna Householder, Mars co-edited the 2004 anthology Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women.
Mars' performance work received in-depth treatment in a 2008 critical anthology edited by Paul Couillard.