Premio Combat Prize

Artist’s Statement: With drawing and painting as the base of her practice, Tanya Morand also does photography, printmaking, works with light, and creates installations. Her most recent paintings and silkscreen prints fragment images of cities into botanical motifs, splits and arabesques to allow green, light and space to enter. Influenced by Gordon Matta-Clark, Morand sees change in cities as a process that involves urban planning, architecture and the visual arts. In Matta Clark’s words, in order to imagine a new space, one ”cuts through the familiar”. Mixing cities and neighbourhoods, these visual collages show heteroclite and imaginative rather than linear and orderly views of cities. Intending to evoke porosity between what is human and spatial or architectural, these images resonate with multiple experiences, contrasting the monumental and vernacular, the sublime and strange, and the opulent and abandoned.
Canadian artist Tanya Morand’s most recent exhibitions in Madrid were presented at Espacio de Creacion Quinta del Sordo in March 2017 and at Brita Prinz Arte in 2015. New silkscreen prints were presented at the 10th World Triennial of Prints and Original Engravings in Chamalières, France from September 23rd to November 5th, 2017. Exhibitions of her work have been featured in Canada, in the United States and Europe. Her artwork is included in the collections of The CPOA of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, the Inno-Centre Collection in Montreal and the Art Bank of the Canada Council for the Arts, as well as numerous private collections. Her work has merited awards and grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, The Council of Arts and Letters of Quebec, SODEC and The Cecil Buller Foundation. Having completed a BFA at Concordia University, her MFA studies were funded by a Concordia University Graduate Fellowship and an F.C.A.R grant.
Artist’s website: http://www.tanyamorand.com