View from Here May 1-23, 2009
Wanda Koop is one of Canada’s most distinguished and inventive artists. Her painting and video career spans three decades and includes over 50 solo exhibitions.
Born in Vancouver, BC, the daughter of Russian Mennonite immigrants, Koop graduated from the University of Manitoba School of Art in 1973. She has traveled extensively, exhibiting in Canada, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Brazil, Japan, USA and Italy (in conjunction with 2001 Venice Biennale) and most recently in India and China.
Koop has received numerous awards, including an induction to the Order of Canada in 2006. She received her Doctor of Letters from the University of Winnipeg in 2002 and from the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design in 2007. In May 2009 Koop received her third honourary degree, a Doctor of Law, from the University of Manitoba.
Currently, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada are co-producing a 30-year survey exhibition of Koop’s work entitled “On the Edge of Experience” that will premier at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in October 2010 and then travel to the National Gallery of Canada in February 2011.