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Samuel Roy-Bois, MFA
Associate Professor
Creative Studies, Visual Arts
On Leave Until: June 30, 2023Other Titles: 3D Sculpture
Office: CCS 166
Phone: 250.807.8786
Email: samuel.roy-bois@ubc.ca
Graduate student supervisor
Research Summary
Sculpture, installation, photography performance, object oriented ontology (OOO), built environment.
Courses & Teaching
Visual Art, creative and critical theory, sculpture, studio practices.
Biography
Samuel Roy-Bois is an award-winning artist and Assistant Professor in Creative Studies at The University of British Columbia, Okanagan and also director of the Research Studio for Spaces and Things at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus. He is widely recognized for his large-scale installations and his interdisciplinary practice exploring the complex dynamics defining our relationship to the built environment. His work, which includes sculpture, installation, performance, photography, drawing and writing, explores the role of objects in our relationship with the world, and draws on the everyday, the history of architecture, the critique of different modes of cultural production and the pure pleasure of making.
Roy-Bois has an MFA Degree in Studio Arts from Concordia University (Montréal) and a BFA from Université Laval, (Quebec city). His work has been presented at Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; 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.
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
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
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
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
Rylan Broadbent, MFA Visual Art, 2020