Kourtney Roy
Works
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Kourtney Roy, Yellow Ferry, 2019-2020
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Kourtney Roy, I Heart You, 2019-2020
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Kourtney Roy, Diving Board, 2019-2020
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Kourtney Roy, Landscape 1, 2019-2020
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Kourtney Roy, Marilyn Wig, 2019-2020
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Kourtney Roy, Landscape 16, 2019-2020
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Kourtney Roy, Queen, 2019-2020
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Kourtney Roy, Landscape 13, 2019-2020
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Kourtney Roy, Morning Smoke, 2019-2020
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Kourtney Roy, Enter as Fiction 4
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Kourtney Roy, Enter as Fiction 63
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Kourtney Roy, Enter as Fiction 46
From the series ‘Enter as Fiction’
Biography
Kourtney Roy Biography
The Canadian photographer Kourtney Roy was born in Northern Ontario in 1981. Intrigued by the possibility of creating a tragic mythology of the self, she conjures an intimate universe pervaded by both wonder and mystery. Kourtney Roy's photographer’s eye is drawn to places and settings whose lyrical qualities underscore the sublime banality of everyday life.
Roy’s studies in photography, at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver and later at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, inspired her to develop her finicky aesthetic, which lends itself particularly well to both glossy paper and film. Roy works extensively as an independent photographer/filmmaker in the art world. Instilled with a dark sense of humor, taking their clues as much from the grotesque nature of seemingly placid settings as from the tensions simmering just under the surface, her photographs have garnered many prizes, including the Prix Picto in 2007, The Emily Award in Canada in 2012 and the Prix Carte Blanche PMU/Le Bal in 2013 and the Pernod Ricard Carte Blanche in 2018. In 2019 she won best experimental film at the Brest European Short Film Festival with her dark and dreamy piece, Morning, Vegas.
Roy’s work has been exhibited widely in France, but also abroad. She has been seen at the Planche(s) Contact Festival in Deauville in 2012, The Portraits Festival in Vichy in 2015 and at Le Bal in 2014 and a solo show at Paris photo in 2018, among other events and venues. Internationally Kourtney Roy’s photography has been featured at exhibitions in China, as well as Italy, Switzerland, The United States, Australia, the Moscow Photo Biennale in 2017 and at the Incadaqués International Photo Festival in Spain in 2019.
Roy has also released several publications on her work including an accompanying artist book to Le Bal’s exhibition Ils pensent déjà que je suis folle and an artist’s book Enter as Fiction, both published by Filigrane Editions, as well as Northern Noir published by Editions La Pionnière. California is edited by Editions Louis Vuitton and was released in 2016 and her latest publication, The Tourist, is published by André Frérè Editions and was released in November 2020.
