Kyla Mallett

Kyla Mallett completed her MFA at UBC in 2004 following her BFA at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2000. Her lens and media-based work consistently deals with the intersection of language and the social realm, utilizing pseudo-anthropological strategies of research, collecting and archiving. She has often focused on transgressive activities in such cultural arenas as adolescence, girlhood, feminism, academia and art, using interview/statistical research, installation, photography, sound and video. Alongside Notes, Mallett has made video work about girl bullying, a sound installation about gossip, a public art project and series on marginalia in library books, and a series of spirit photographs investigating an art gallery haunting. These works, along with more recent projects on Parapsychology and Self-Help materials, all demonstrate Mallett’s focus on marginal and devalued forms of language and communication. Mallett has received critical attention for her national and international exhibitions over the past fifteen years, and has presented work at such institutions as the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Alberta, Presentation House Gallery, Artspeak, ThreeWalls in Chicago, Mount St. Vincent University Gallery in Halifax, Chicago’s Paris London Hong Kong Gallery, Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver, and Mercer Union in Toronto. Mallett is Dean, Audain Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.