EDUCATION

Master of Fine Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS

Bachelor of Arts (French Literature), Université Laval, Québec City

EMPLOYMENT

2002-present                 Assistant professor, Department of Art History, Visual Art, & Theory, University of British Columbia

2001-2002                     Sessional instructor (studio), Department of Art History, Visual Art, & Theory, UBC

2000-2001                     Sessional instructor (studio), Department of Visual Art, University of Victoria

1999-2000                     Sessional instructor (studio), Department of Art History,Visual Art, & Theory, UBC

EXHIBITION RECORD

Upcoming Exhibitions (group show)

2006                              No Place as Home: New Art From Vancouver , Galerie fuer zeitgenoessichkunst, Leipzig, German

Solo exhibitions

September 2004            New Work, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Feb.-March 2004          Roy and McHardy   (with Natasha McHardy) , Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Feb.-March 2004          Roy and McHardy   (with Natasha McHardy), VAV Gallery (visiting artist program), Concordia, Montreal

November 2002             -- , Struts Art Gallery, Sackville, NB

July 2002                       Greener Pastures (with Abbas Akhavan), Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC

March-April 2001            ... , Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, BC

April 1997                       26 Manic Types , Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, NS

July 1994                       Errant , Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, NS

June 1993                     Booked Solid , Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS

Group exhibitions

March - April 2005         No Place as Home: New Art From Vancouver (curated by Seamus Kealy), Galerie AP-4 Art, Geneva, Switzerland

Feburary 2005               No Place as Home: New Art From Vancouver (curated by Seamus Kealy), Viktor Bucher Projektraum, Vienna, Austria

Nov.-Dec. 2003             I am a Curator (curated by Per Huttner), Chisenhale Gallery, London

May-June 2003             Saturday Society (Explorations in Psychic Geography), Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Jan.-March 2003          Various Properties , Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

September 1999            Empty Returns , MFA Graduation Exhibition, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

March-April 1999          Contemporary Artist's Books , Arizona State University Art Gallery, Tempe, AZ

Sept.-Nov, 1997           Working Papers , Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS

December 1995            Stereotypes, Anna Leonowens Art Gallery, Halifax, NS

April-May 1995             The Food Show , Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS

October 1994               Artist's Books , Struts Art Gallery, Sackville, NB

February 1994             Artist's Books , Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS

Nov.-Dec. 1993           Last to be done, first to be seen , Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, NS

December 1992          Polyliths , Philadelphia College of Art, Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

EXHIBITION REVIEWS

Kathy Ann Bates, Roy & McHardy, www.sfu.ca/sca/visart/threesixtyseven/kathyann.htm
Reinhardt Braun, Review of Roy & McHardy , Camera Austria #86, Graz, Austria, June 2004.
Adrian Chamberlain, "Artists tickle our British fancy" (review of Greener Pastures ), Times Colonist (Victoria, BC), B1, July 13, 2002.
Exhibition review: Meg Walker, "Come Together", in Monday Magazine, Issue 28, July 11-17, 2002, Victoria, BC
Michael Turner, "Marina Roy" (review of ... , Artspeak), Last Call , vol. 1, issue 1, Summer 2001, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.
Robin Metcalfe, "Working papers", Artsatlantic 60, Spring 1998.
Liz Bolton, "Marina Roy: 26 Manic Types," Visual Arts News , Volume 19, NO. 1, 1997.
Elissa Barnard, "Artist's Books", The Chronicle Herald , March 18, 1994.

CATALOGUE ESSAYS

Jeremy Todd, "Some errant thoughts" in d'Or: Explorations in Psychic Geography , Vancouver: OR Gallery, 2004.
Jenifer Papararo, Contemporary Art Gallery, September 2004
Amy Pederson, essay about "night errant", Struts Art Gallery, 2002.
Amy Pederson, "Less than 20 per cent," Empty Returns , Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, 1999.
The Art of the Book 1998, The Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild, Toronto, 1998.
Max Henze, Stereotypes . Anna Leonowens Art Gallery, 1995.
Storme Arden, "Digest," The Food Show, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, 1995.
Barbara Lounder, Last to be Done, First to be Seen , Eye Level Gallery, 1993.

PUBLICATION

Marina Roy. "As the Hammer Strikes", review of John Massey's film shown at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver,
Fillip Magazine, Summer 2005.
_________."Colour Theory", exhibition essay for Christine Donofrio, Strange Agencies , Helen Pitt Gallery, September 2004.
_________. "Performative Utterances in Photography" in Prefix Photo , Spring 2004.
_________. "Saddam's Arms" in Public Magazine , Winter 2004.
_________. "Cast downward", exhibition essay for Jeremy Todd, Xeno Gallery, Jan. 2004
_________. "One Thousand Miles of Dust and Ashes by Lucy Pullen", Canadian Art Magazine, Fall 2003.
_________. "Songstress by Althea Thauberger", Canadian Art Magazine , Spring 2003.
_________. "I love you" in Gillian Wearing: A Trilogy (exhibition catalogue),Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2002.
_________. "on location" in Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver, Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press/Presentation House Gallery, 2002.
_________. Sign after the x ________. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press/Artspeak, 2001.
_________. "These days" (review ), Last Call , vol. 1, issue 2, Vancouver: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 2001.
_________. "thumbsketches," The Capilano Review , series 2, no. 32, Vancouver, 2000.
_________. "Corporeal Returns," Canadian Art Magazine , Toronto, 2001.

BOOK REVIEWS     

Marcel Danesi, "Sign after the x," Toronto: University of Toronto Quarterly, volume 73, number 1, Winter 2003/4
Megan Purn, "Sign after the x," The Portland Mercury , Volume 11, Sept. 5-11, 2002.
Anne Borden, "Sign after the x," The Danforth Review , www.danforthreview.com/review/nonfiction/roy.htm
Gale Zoe Garnett, "This book is x-rated," The Globe and Mail, Sat. February 2, 2002, D4.
Anne Fleming, "Eunoia/Sign after the x," The Georgia Straight, Jan. 31-Feb. 7 2002, vol. 36, no.1780.
Ron Nurwisah, "Sign after the x," The Ubyssey , vol. 83, issue 27, Jan. 2002, p. 5.
Valerie MacEwen, "The impossibility of a cosmological proof of the existence of x," Popmatters (website), 2001.

CONFERENCES PAPERS

The Recreation of Reality: from the Prison World of Everyday Life to the Cinematic Adventure to be presented at conference (Artful Deceptions: Verbal and Visual Trickery in French Culture), University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, April 17-18, 2004)

Nationalist and Orientalist Tendencies in Iraqi Monuments , XXVII International Colloquium of Art History, East-West, Art and the Other's Gaze, Veracruz, Mexico ; Nov. 2003 (to be published)

COLLECTIONS

The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery

AWARDS/GRANTS

Hampton Research Grant, University of British Columbia, 2005-2007

SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanaities Research Council of Canada (Research/Creation Grant in Fine Arts) 2004-2007

Canada Council Creative Production Grant (Emerging) 2003

Canada Council Creative Production Grant (Emerging) 2002

B.C. Binning Fellowship Award (Drawing), 1998, UBC

UBC Fine Arts Book Award, 1998, UBC

William Souter Memorial Scholarship, 1993, NSCAD

Centennial Foundation Scholarship, 1993, NSCAD