Zoe Kreye

Individual

Roles

Artist, Educator

Biography

Zoe Kreye received a Master’s in Public Art & New Artistic Strategies from the Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany, in 2009 where she specialized in Social Practice. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Arts at Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, in 2003. Recent exhibitions include Uncommon Language (Vancouver Art Gallery, 2021), Art By Post (Southbank Centre London, Leicester Gallery De Montfort University, 2021), The School of WE ( Graz Austria, 2021), Person/ne (Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver, 2019), Cloth Culture (Lake Country Art Gallery, 2019), Myths (WAAP Vancouver, 2018). Kreye has been an instructor and lead artist for residencies and programming at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, University of British Columbia, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Vancouver Art Gallery, Museum of Vancouver, Graz University of Technology Austria, Bauhaus University Weimar, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, and Vancouver Parks Board. She is a full-time artist and mother currently living in Vancouver, the unceded, traditional and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. Kreye’s lineage is of white Northern European ancestry (German, British, Scottish, Scandinavian) as well as western art historical, spiritual, and educational values. Her work seeks to unlearn the myths of separation and supremacy that uphold these legacies. 

Kamloops Art Gallery, 2024

Website

http://zoekreye.ca/

Collection

grunt gallery Programming Archive (Artist)

Related program

FutureLoss (Artist)