Vikky Alexander

**Vikky Alexander** RCA (an haife ta a watan Janairu 30, 1959) 'yar wasan kwaikwayo ce na zamani na Kanada wanda ke Vancouver, British Columbia . Ta nuna a duniya tun 1981 a matsayin mai aiki a fagen daukar hoto-conceptualism, kuma a matsayin mai zane-zanen shigarwa wanda ke amfani da daukar hoto, zane, da haɗin gwiwa. Jigoginta sun haɗa da hoton da aka dace, da kuma yaudarar yanayi da sararin samaniya. Ayyukan zane-zanenta sun haɗa da madubai, ban gon bango na hoto, katunan gidan waya, bidiyo da daukar hoto.

An haifi Alexander a Victoria, British Columbia, Kanada kuma ta kammala karatun digiri na Kwalejin Art da Design ta Nova Scotia daga inda ta sami Bachelor of Fine Arts a 1979.  An san ta da manyan kayan aikin hoto-mural da fasahar multimedia waɗanda ke haɗa daukar hoto tare da abubuwa masu sassaka. Wadannan ayyuka suna gabatowa mai karfi da sha'awa ga tarihin gine-gine, filayen ƙira da salon da ke goyan bayan samar da zane da haɗin gwiwa. Amfani da Alexander na gine-ginen zamani da ƙirar masana'antu sun bin ciko batu tuwan fasaha da wakilci.  Aikin ta na farko ya sanar da motsin fasahar Haɓa kawa a farkon 1980s wanda tarihi ya san ta a matsa yin ƙaramar mai haɓaka ɗabi'a tare da Richard Prince, Louise Lawler, Barbara Kruger da Sherrie Levine .

Alexander has exhibited nationally and internationally in solo exhibitions including "CEPA", Buffalo 1983, New Museum, New York City 1985, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern 1990, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 1992 and 2019, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco 1992, Mercer Union, Toronto 1993, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver 1996, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor 1998, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver 1999, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 2000, State Gallery, Vancouver 2004, Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary 2009, Massey University, Wellington 2010. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Dia Art Foundation, New York, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama, Barbican Art Gallery, London, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle and in 2021, her work was included with Edward Burtynsky, Jane Buyers and others in *Making Space* at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax.

Hakanan an haɗa ta a cikin cikakkiyar nunin *Intertidal* na masu fasahar Makarantar Vancouver da aka gudanar a MuHKA a Antwerp a cikin 2004. Wannan nunin ya kasance mai tasiri a cikin manyan ƙungiyoyin fasaha guda biyu, ɗaya a New York, NY (Amurka) da ɗayan a Vancouver, BC (CAN); Aikinta na farko ya fito ne daga Fasahar Kyauta yayin da ayyukanta na baya suka zurfafa zurfafa harshen Photo-conceptualism, wanda wani bangare ne na rukunin daukar hoto da aka sani a duniya a matsayin Makarantar Vancouver. Ana iya samun tarin tarin ayyukanta a cikin Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Cibiyar Hotuna ta Duniya a Birnin New York, Gidan Gidan Gida na Kanada a Ottawa, da kuma Deste Foundation, Athens. Alexander yana wakiltar Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Wilding Cran, Los Angeles, Cooper Cole, Toronto, da Downs & Ross, New York. 

Alexander ta ci gaba da bin cika rikice-rikice tsakanin yanayi da al'adu a cikin aikin ta na baya-bayan nan.  Ayyuka na baya-bayan nan sun yi la'akari da abubuwan da suka dace na salon rayuwa ta hanyar amfani da kayay yaki, da kuma tsaka-tsakin kyau da kayan fasaha.  Ta yi ritaya daga koyar wa a Jami'ar Victoria, inda a yan zu take rike da mukamin farfesa Emerita . 

## Latsa
Mawal lafin Makaran tar Vancouver, Ian Wallace ta danganta aikinbta"bayani na tunanin tunani, inda ake aiwatar da tunanin bege da utopia a cikin mafarki na yau da kullum wanda ke kiran gaskiya a cikin tambaya. Waɗannan su ne ra'ayi na gama kai kuma suna da alaƙa da shahararren dandano na hotuna da suka wuce yau da kullum. Hotunan kyawawan kyawawan abubuwa, waɗanda suke da kyau. A ko'ina cikin al'adun kayay yaki, aiki a matsa yin wata al'ada ta kuɓuta daga yau da kullun, yayin da burin fasaha na fasaha da yawa ya kasance don gabatar da hotuna masu mahim manci waɗanda suka sabawa da kuma wargaza waɗannan tunanin tare da ƙarfin gaskiyar, aikin Vikky Alexander yana aiwatar da ƙarancin sha'awar da ke wanzuwa. cikin wadannan zato, yana kara mana fargaba da fargabar su daga ciki”. Mawallafin ra'ayi kuma mai suka Dan Graham ya yi tsokaci kan mahallin ƙira a cikin aikinta da dan gan takarta da masu sauraro a cikin 1980s.

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