{{Infobox | name = Infobox/doc | bodystyle = width: 20em | titlestyle = | above = Life of a Craphead | headerstyle = background-color: #eee; | labelstyle = width: 33% | datastyle = | header1 = | label1 = Members | data1 = Amy Ching-Yan Lam & Jon McCurley | header2 = | label2 = Years Active | data2 = 2006 - 2020 | header4 = | label4 = Website | data4 = {{ URL | www.lifeofacraphead.com/}} | header3 = | label3 = Known For | data3 = Performance, comedy, conceptual art }}
'''Life of a Craphead''' was a Toronto-based performance artist duo made up of Amy Ching-Yan Lam and Jon McCurley.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/what-is-life-of-a-craphead-and-is-it-funny/article10568138/|title=What is Life of a Craphead? (And is it funny?)|last=Krishtalka|first=Sholem|date=29 March 2013|work=The Globe and Mail|accessdate=17 May 2013}}</ref> Lam and McCurley began working together in 2006 as a sketch comedy troupe after meeting at a zine fair.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Life of a Craphead: Fifty Year Retrospective |url=https://ago.ca/exhibitions/life-craphead-fifty-year-retrospective |access-date=2025-03-15 |website=Art Gallery of Ontario |language=en}}</ref> They continued to expand their practice which is noted for experimenting with performance, film, installation, theatre, and sculpture.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-12-20 |title=Life of a Craphead Has Fun with Fiction at the AGO - Canadian Art |url=http://www.canadianart.ca/reviews/2013/04/19/life-of-a-craphead-ago/ |access-date=2025-03-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220073742/http://www.canadianart.ca/reviews/2013/04/19/life-of-a-craphead-ago/ |archive-date=20 December 2013 }}</ref> They have shown widely across Canada, including at the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Power Plant, Gallery TPW, Centre Clark, Dazibao, AKA, Truck Gallery, and the Banff Centre.
Life of a Craphead was the Art Gallery of Ontario's Artist-in-Residence<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ago.net/life-of-a-craphead |title=Life of a Craphead |work=ago.net |publisher=Art Gallery of Ontario |accessdate=17 May 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130707152931/http://www.ago.net/life-of-a-craphead |archivedate=7 July 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> from January to March 2013. In April they were selected to organize and curated an artistic seminar and performance event for Trampoline Hall at the Garrison, Toronto.<ref>[http://ossingtonvillage.com/2013/04/monthly-series-trampoline-hall-at-the-garrison/ "Monthly Series: Trampoline Hall at The Garrison" by Melinda M, on April 19th, 2013"]. ''Ossington Village''.</ref>
Every Sunday from October 29 until November 29, 2017, Life of a Craphead performed ''King Edward VII Equestrian Statue Floating Down the Don'', floating a replica of an equestrian sculpture of King Edward VII down the Don River.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/2017/11/03/king-edward-down-a-river-without-a-paddle-courtesy-of-craphead.html|title=King Edward, down the Don River without a paddle|last=Whyte|first=Murray|date=2017-11-03|work=The Toronto Star|access-date=2017-11-15|language=en-CA|issn=0319-0781}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/dumping-statue-in-the-don-river-a-statement-about-colonialism-performance-artists-say-1.4376266|title=A replica of this Queen's Park statue is being thrown in the Don River ... and you can watch|work=CBC News|access-date=2017-11-15|language=en}}</ref> The original 15-foot bronze sculpture was erected in India in 1922 to commemorate the Edward VII's reign as emperor.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://nowtoronto.com/art-and-books/art/a-king-edward-vii-statue-will-float-down-the-don-river-this-/|title=A statue of King Edward VII will float down the Don River this weekend|date=2017-11-03|work=NOW Magazine|access-date=2017-11-15|language=en-us}}</ref> Toronto businessman Harry Jackman paid to have the bronze figure moved to Toronto from India, where it had been placed in storage after the India became independent in 1947.<ref name=":0" /> It was installed in Queens Park in 1969.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.metronews.ca/news/toronto/2017/10/24/toronto-artists-are-using-a-floating-king-to-dump-on-colonialism.html|title=Toronto artists are using a floating king to dump on colonialism {{!}} Metro Toronto|work=metronews.ca|access-date=2017-11-15|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://torontoist.com/2014/12/historicist-here-comes-the-equestrian-statue/|title=Historicist: Here Comes the Equestrian Statue|last=Torontoist|date=2014-12-06|work=Torontoist|access-date=2017-11-15|language=en-US}}</ref>
== Selection of Work == Source:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Histories and Setups: Interview with Life of a Craphead |url=https://cmagazine.com/articles/histories-and-setups-interview-with-life-of-a-craphead |access-date=2025-03-15 |website=Histories and Setups: Interview with Life of a Craphead |language=en}}</ref> * ''Entertaining Every Second'' (2019) * ''$100 Bill With South Asian Scientist Added Back In'' (2019) * ''Find the US Soldier Who Killed Your Grandma'' (2018) * ''Angry Edit'' (2018) * ''The Quiet American but Only the Parts Where the White Man Main Character Tells the Asian Woman to Do Stuff for Him'' (2018) * ''King Edward VII Equestrian Statue Floating Down the Don'' (2017) * ''Doored'' (2012–2017) * ''Bugs'' (2015) * ''The Life of a Craphead Fifty Year Retrospective, 2006-2056'' (2013) * ''Double Double Land'' (2009) * ''Free Lunch'' (2007) * ''Musical Road'' (2007)
== References == {{reflist}}
Category:Canadian artist groups and collectives Category:Artists from Toronto Category:Canadian comedy duos
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