Marian Penner Bancroft

Marian Penner Bancroft works with photography, text, video, sculpture and sound. Recent work addresses issues of public history (both Canadian and European) and the construction of the visual imagination, particularly as they relate to music and mapping strategies in representing the landscape. Bancroft studied at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver School of Art, and Ryerson University. National and international exhibitions include those at Vancouver Art Gallery, Sala Uno in Rome, Italy, and Centre Culturel Canadien in Paris. Her work is in the collections of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, National Gallery of Canada, Burnaby Art Gallery, Belkin Gallery, Canada Council Art Bank, and Canada House in London, UK. Bancroft was the 2009 recipient of the City of Vancouver's Mayor’s Arts Award for Visual Art and the 2012 Audain Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts. She is a Professor Emeritus at Emily Carr University and is represented by the Republic Gallery.