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Silent Trans-FormingEntry/Object ID
2015.11.01Description
Raymond Boisjoly (b. 1981) is an artist of Haida and Québécois descent, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Boisjoly graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia after receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
His work combines satirical writing and poetry with technology, intentionally imitating, reusing, and appropriating the practices and techniques of other artists to provoke the viewer to consider how culture adapts and is incorporated into daily life. He frequently examines how representations of Indigenous art and artists are still shaped and defined by colonial artifacts and language.
Silent Trans-Forming (2014) uses language to reference historical change and the passage of time . The phrase "WHERE WE WERE IS NO LONGER WHERE WE ARE AND WHERE WE WILL BE IS NOT YET" considers the ambiguity of the future and points toward the inevitable fact that this future will be different from the past.
Boisjoly is an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (2022); Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (2021); The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver (2020); VOX, Montreal (2016); Carleton University, Ottawa (2015); Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts, Winnipeg (2014); Simon Fraser University Gallery, Vancouver (2013). He has been featured internationally in exhibitions including at the Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca (2021); Honolulu Biennial (2020); Daegu Photo Biennale, South Korea (2018); Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2017); Triangle France, Marseille (2015); SITElines, Santa Fe (2014); Camera Austria, Vienna (2014) as well as exhibitions at La Biennale de Montréal (2014); The Power Plant, Toronto (2012); and the Vancouver Art Gallery (2018, 2016 and 2012-14).