CCCA Canadian Art Database

Shary Boyle

Toronto, Ontario Shary Boyle works across diverse media, including sculpture, painting, installation and drawing. She is known for her bold, fantastical explorations of the figure. Highly crafted and deeply imaginative, her practice is activated through collaboration and mentorship. Boyle’s work considers the social history of ceramic figurines, animist mythologies and folk art forms to create a symbolic, feminist and politically charged language uniquely her own. Shary Boyle is exhibited and collected internationally. She has performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY (2008), The Hammer Museum, LA (2006) and the Olympia Theatre, Paris (2005), and her work has been included in the National Gallery of Canada’s previous three Canadian Biennales. In 2016 she exhibited in Ceramix : Ceramics and art from Rodin to Schutte, organized by the Bonnefantenmuseum in the Netherlands and travelling to La Maison Rouge in Paris, and Cite de la ceramique in Sevres, France. In 2017, Boyle co-curated and participated in the Esker Foundation-produced touring exhibition Earthlings, her sculptures were featured in South Korea’s Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale, and the Phaidon, UK publication Vitamin C: Clay and Ceramic in Contemporary Art. Shary Boyle is the recipient of the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize. She represented Canada with her project Music for Silence at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. Shary Boyle’s public art commission Cracked Wheat was installed August 2018 on the front grounds of the Gardiner Museum in Toronto. Her work will be featured at the museum in a major solo exhibition opening January 2021.
Creator Id: 86
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Ontario
Year of Birth: 1972
City: Toronto
Country: Canada
Type of Creator: Artist
Gender: Female
Mediums: drawing, painting, performance, sculpture
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Work by Shary Boyle

Untitled (Spider)

Work ID: 82971

Measurements: 24 x 20 x 20 cm

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Ouroboros

Work ID: 82951

Measurements: 16 x 26 x 18 cm

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Rejection of Pluto

Work ID: 82972

Description: Commissioned by the Art Gallery of Ontario, in response to a bronze sculpture from the AGO collection titled The Rape of Proserpine by Pluto, by 18th century Italian artist Giovanni Foggini.


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Angel Trumpet Flower of Death

Work ID: 82973

Description: From The Illuminations Project, a drawing/text collaboration with video artist and writer Emily Vey Duke.


Measurements: 107 x 114 cm.

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White Light

Work ID: 82956

Measurements: variable: approx. 305 x 305 x 183 cm

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Burden I

Work ID: 82954

Measurements: 36 x 36 x 30 cm

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Live Old

Work ID: 82952

Measurements: 22 x 26 x 30 cm

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King Cobra

Work ID: 82955

Measurements: 28 x 36 x 26 cm

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The Lute Player

Work ID: 82953

Measurements: 24 x 24 x 26 cm

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Ophiodea

Work ID: 82958

Measurements: 143 x 63 x 70 cm

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The Widow

Work ID: 82957

Measurements: 36 x 25 x 25 cm

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The Cave Painter

Work ID: 82960

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Sea Change

Work ID: 82974

Description: Commissioned by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, in response to their Inuit art collection. Porcelain, china paint, lustre, plexiglass. 60 x 40 x 40cm.


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Black Marble (collaboration with Shuvinai Ashoona)

Work ID: 82963

Measurements: 91 x 107 cm

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InaGodadavida (collaboration with Shuvinai Ashoona)

Work ID: 82964

Measurements: 123 x 218 cm

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Axis + Revolution

Work ID: 82966

Measurements: range from 10 x 10 x 10 cm to 20 x 16 x 12 cm

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Facing Forward (Pierre Aupilardjuk and Shary Boyle)

Work ID: 82965

Description: Figure sculpted and painted by Boyle; three heads sculpted and smoke-fired by Aupilardjuk.

Measurements: porcelain, underglaze and smoke-fired stoneware

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Ventriloquist

Work ID: 82967

Measurements: 120 x 114 cm

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The Snifter

Work ID: 82970

Measurements: 92 x 86 cm

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Trumpet

Work ID: 82969

Measurements: 40 x 22 x 41 cm

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Cracked Wheat

Work ID: 82968

Description: Created for the front grounds of the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada.

Measurements: 275 x 122 x 122 cm

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