Irene Loughlin is a Canadian performance artist and writer.

Loughlin was born in Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...

. She has studied at the Ontario College of Art and Simon Fraser University

Simon Fraser University

Simon Fraser University is a Canadian public research university in British Columbia with its main campus on Burnaby Mountain in Burnaby, and satellite campuses in Vancouver and Surrey. The main campus in Burnaby, located from downtown Vancouver, was established in 1965 and has more than 34,000...

, and has attended the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design studio program in Tribeca, New York. She has presented her work in national and international contexts, including the work "light as a feather/heavy as lead" for the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo and the Klaus Steinmetz Gallery (San Jose, Costa Rica), the Western Front, Grunt Gallery, Xeno Gallery, Gallery Gachet, and the Society for Disability Art and Culture (Vancouver), 7a11d Festival (Toronto), Centre for Art Tapes (Halifax), and Projet/Projo - Studio 303 (Montreal).

Recognition

Loughlin received the Canada Council for the Arts Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award

Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award

The Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award is a monetary award given since 1971 by the Canada Council for the Arts to Canadian artists judged to be outstanding in their mid-careers....

for 2005 in recognition for outstanding work as a mid-career artist.

External links

• Official Site