{{short description|Canadian multimedia artist (born 1961)}} {{Infobox artist | name = Deborah Margo | image = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1961}} | birth_place = Montreal, Quebec | nationality = | education = {{Plainlist|* {{nowrap|Tyler School of Art at Temple University (MFA)}} * Banff Centre School of Fine Arts * Concordia University (BFA) * {{nowrap|Haystack Mountain School of Crafts}}}} | known_for = Installation artist, sculptor, graphic artist | website = {{URL|http://deborahmargo.ca/index.htm|Artist website}} }} '''Deborah Margo''' (born 1961 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian multimedia artist known for her temporary installations, sculpture, and drawings. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, the United States, and Mexico.<ref name="Falvey 2006" /> She currently lives and works in Ottawa, Ontario.
== Biography == Born in Montreal, Quebec, Margo attended the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine before graduating from Concordia University in Montreal with a Bachelor in Fine Arts in 1984. Margo later attended the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts, before receiving a Masters of Fine Arts from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia.<ref name="Falvey 2006">{{Cite book|title=Deborah Margo: castings = vestiges |last1=Falvey |first1=Emily |last2=Dion |first2=François |publisher=Ottawa Art Gallery = Galerie d'art d'Ottawa |date=2006 |isbn=978-1-894906-27-2 |location=Ottawa |oclc=75087633}}</ref> Margo has been a professor of sculpture at the University of Ottawa since 1999.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://arts.uottawa.ca/visualarts/people/margo-deborah|title=MARGO, Deborah|work=Visual Arts|access-date=2018-03-08|language=en}}</ref>
== Work == Working with a variety of mediums, Margo's artistic practice focuses on temporary and ephemeral site-specific installations and object-making.<ref name="Falvey 2006" /> Margo's practice is influenced by post-minimalism and methods of process art<ref name="Falvey 2006" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://canadianart.ca/reviews/deborah-margo/|title=Deborah Margo: Sweet Stuff – Canadian Art|work=Canadian Art|access-date=2018-03-08|language=en-US}}</ref> and her work often engages with themes of growth, change, the passage of time, impressions of travel, memory, and the identity of public and private spaces.<ref name="Falvey 2006" />
During her time at Concordia University, Margo participated in ''Interface'', a student art event in Montreal that contributed to the rise of installation work on the Montreal art scene in the early 1980s.<ref name="Falvey 2006" /> Margo continued to work with sculpture and installation, and graduated from the Tyler School of Art with an MFA in sculpture in 1990. She completed an artist residency at Struts Gallery in Sackville, New Brunswick in 1999, where she began an installation called ''Registers of Attendanc''e.<ref name="Falvey 2006" /> Other examples of her site-specific installation works include ''Reservoir – an Installation in Four Rooms'' (1994), ''Light-Earth Drawings'' for the Owens Art Gallery in Sackville, New Brunswick (2005), ''Medical Histories'' (2002–),<ref name="Falvey 2006" /> ''Before and After Hurricane Irene'' (2011)<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://vermontartguide.com/content/deborah-margo/|title=Deborah Margo|date=2011-06-26|work=Vermont Art Guide|access-date=2018-03-08|language=en-US}}</ref> and ''Apidictor Symphony'' created with multi-media artist Annette Hegel (2017).<ref name="Falvey 2006" />
Margo's work appears in the collections of the Ottawa Art Gallery, the City of Ottawa Art Collection, and the Owens Art Gallery. She has completed a number of public commissions around Ottawa, such as works for OC Transpo,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ottawa.ca/en/residents/arts-heritage-and-culture/galleries-and-exhibitions-spaces/karsh-masson-gallery/past-2|title=Past exhibitions 2016|last=Dept.|first=Parks, Recreation & Cultural Services|date=2017-01-16|website=ottawa.ca|language=en|access-date=2018-03-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.octranspo.com/about-octranspo/public_art_oc_transpo|title=OC Transpo - Public Art at OC Transpo|website=www.octranspo.com|language=en-CA|access-date=2018-03-08|archive-date=2018-03-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314171354/http://www.octranspo.com/about-octranspo/public_art_oc_transpo|url-status=dead}}</ref> as well as the new Ottawa Art Gallery's expansion project.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.ottawamfa.com/blog/2017/10/3/hbzipv35xkig13pyh8t4xwlmagitl6|title=uOttawa MAV {{!}} MFA|access-date=2018-03-08|language=en-CA}}</ref>
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * [http://deborahmargo.ca/index.htm Artist website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910223850/http://deborahmargo.ca/index.htm |date=2016-09-10 }} * [https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/158/31629.html CKCU: FM 93.1 Radio with Annette Hegel and Deborah Margo]
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