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Jun 30, 1931 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Died on 27 Jun 1998 (aged 66)
Canadian film director
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About Joyce Wieland
- Joyce Wieland (June 30, 1930 – June 27, 1998) was a Canadian experimental filmmaker and mixed media artist.
- Wieland found success as a painter when she began her career in Toronto in the 1950s.
- In 1962, Wieland moved to New York City and expanded her career as an artist by including new materials and mixed media work.
- During that time, she also rose to prominence as an experimental filmmaker and soon, renowned institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York were showing her films.
- In 1971, Wieland's True Patriot Love exhibition was the first solo exhibition by a living Canadian female artist at the National Gallery of Canada.
- In 1982, Wieland received the honour of the Order of Canada and in 1987, she was awarded the Toronto Arts Foundation's Visual Arts Award.
- She was also a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
