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Samuel Roy-Bois, MFA
Associate Professor
Creative Studies, Visual Arts
Other Titles: 3D SculptureOffice: CCS 166
Phone: 250.807.8786
Email: samuel.roy-bois@ubc.ca
Graduate student supervisor
Research Summary
Sculpture, installation, photography, performance and the built environment.
Courses & Teaching
Visual Art, creative and critical theory, sculpture, studio practices.
Biography
Samuel Roy-Bois is an award-winning artist and Associate Professor in Creative Studies at The University of British Columbia, Okanagan where he also directs the Research Studio for Spaces and Things. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Laval University in 1996 and a Master of Fine Arts from Concordia University in 2000. Roy-Bois’ artistic practice encompasses installation, sculpture, and photography, focusing on the built environment, vernacular practices, and art as an emergent phenomenon. His work has garnered national and international recognition, featured in exhibitions at esteemed institutions including the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; the Audain Art Museum in Whistler, Esker Foundation, Calgary; Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Musée National des Beaux Arts du Québec, Québec city; SFU Art Gallery, Burnaby; Oakville Art Galleries, Oakville; Kamloops Art Gallery; Vancouver Art Gallery and Point éphémère, Paris. Additionally, his work is included in numerous Canadian collections, such as the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Simon Fraser Art Gallery and the Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal. In recognition of his contributions, Roy-Bois was honored with the Vancouver Mayor’s Award in 2012 and VIVA Award in 2021.
Websites
canadianart.ca/features/samuel-roy-bois-spreads-the-love-for-oeil-de-poissons-30th-anniversary/
www.cafka.org/cafka14/13-samuel-roy-bois
www.oakvillegalleries.com/digital-archives/details/54/Samuel-Roy-Bois
www.contemporaryartgallery.ca/exhibitions/samuel-roy-bois/
fonderiedarling.org/en/faire-lindépendance.html
Degrees
MFA, Concordia University, BFA Laval University
Selected Grants & Awards
Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI); British Columbia Knowledge Fund (BCKDF); Canada Council for the Arts; BC Arts Council, Conseil des Arts du Québec; Danish Arts Council.
Awards & Distinctions
VIVA Award, 2021
Ontario Association of Art Galleries, Innovation in collection-based exhibition, 2015
Vancouver Mayor’s Award for Public Art, 2012
Ontario Association of Art Galleries, exhibition design and installation award, 2012
Solo exhibitions
Life is a Tool like any Other, Musée d’art de Joliette, 2022
It’s Not Me, It’s My Central Nervous System, WAAP, Vancouver, 2021
Presences, Esker Foundation, Calgary, 2020
Presences, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, 2019
Steam Donkey, Campbell River Art Gallery, Campbell River, 2016
La pyramide, Galerie L’oeil de poisson, Quebec, 2015
Not a new world, just an old trick, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, 2015
Not a new world, just an old trick, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, 2014
Not a new world, just an old trick, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, 2013
J’ai moonwalké, sans cesse, jusqu’à l’épuisement, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, 2013
Nothing blank forever, Fina Gallery, UBC Okanagan, Kelowna,2013
I had a great trip despite a brutal feeling of cognitive dissonance, Artspeak, Vancouver, 2012
Nothing Blank Forever, Langara College Center for Art in Public Spaces, Vancouver, 2012
Polarizer, Rodman Hall, Brock University, St. Catherines, 2011
Candid, Republic Gallery, Vancouver, 2010
Polarizer, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, 2009
Polarizer, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa,2009
Let us, then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate, still achieving, still pursuing,
learn to labor and to wait, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2008
Almost, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, 2008
Divertissements, Point éphémère, Paris, 2007
“It’s a big machine!”, Republic Gallery, Vancouver, 2007
Improbable and ridiculous, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, 2006
Group exhibitions
Kelowna Art Gallery, 2023
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, 2023
Out of Control: The Concrete Art of Skateboarding, Audain Museum, Whistler, 2022
SFU Art Galleries, Vancouver, 2021
3 Sculptors, Trapp Projects, Vancouver, 2019
Art in the Open, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, 2019
A perte de vue / Endless Landscape, Axe Neo 7, Gatineau, 2017
Goods, Living Things Festival, Kelowna, 2017
What it means to be the problem? Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, 2016
It Should Always be this Way, CAFKA, Kitchener, 2014
Here, to there, Access Gallery, Vancouver, 2014
Vendu/Sold, Esse auction, Montreal Fine Arts Museum, Montreal, 2013
Another look: 20 years of art auction, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Montreal, 2012
Manif Internationale d’Art de Québec / Architecsonic, Québec, 2010
Flyvefisken, Sølyst, Denmark, 2009
How Soon is Now, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2009
Blue like an orange, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, 2009
C’est arrivé près de chez vous, Musée national des beaux arts du Québec, Quebec, 2008
Burrow, Musée d’art de Joliette, 2008
Stop, Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Montreal, 2008
Burrow, Saint-Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, 2008
Artefact-Montréal 2007, Montréal, 2007
Collector, Point Ephemère (FIAC), Paris, 2007
Burrow, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, 2007
Nuit Blanche, Toronto, 2006
Graduate Supervisions
Jenifer Lafrance, MFA Visual Art: My May Cleary, 2016
Joe Fowler, MFA, Visual Art, 2019
Lindsay Kirker, MFA Visual Art, 2020
Scott Moore, 2022
Nasim Pirhadi, 2023