Joy Walker is a Montréal born, Toronto-based artist whose work takes the form of sculpture, video, drawing and printmaking. Her approach is guided by intuition and is marked by a strong interest in process, materiality and play. Her work has been exhibited widely, including 8eleven Gallery, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (Toronto), Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art (Winnipeg), Truck Gallery (Calgary), Dunlop Gallery (Regina), Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, (Halifax), Rodman Hall (St. Catharines, ON), Cambridge Galleries (ON), Venice (Italy), NYC, Chicago, and Miami. Walker’s works are held in several private and public collections including those of Cambridge Galleries (ON), le Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal (QC), The National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives (ON), BMO Financial Group Corporate Art Collection, Grant Thornton LLP, and TD Bank.
In May – June 2019, Walker produced an artist project at the TextielLab in Tilburg, and at the Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands. Joy Walker would like to acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council, The Toronto Arts Council and The Canada Council for the Arts.
- Tatum Dooley, Exhibition Review of “A Line Becomes a Thread”, 2024.
- Alex J MacPherson, “Who’s Afraid of A Few Windows,” Verb Magazine, 2014.
- Christina Ritchie, “Making it Make Itself,” Canadian Art, September 20, 2013.
- “Artist’s Book of the Moment Shortlist,” Art Gallery of York University, 2013.
- Gareth Bate and Dawne Rudman, “Artist Interview: Joy Walker,” World of Threads, 2013.
- Murray Whyte, “Surprises in store arund Queen West,” Toronto Star, November 25, 2010.
- Gary Michael Dault, “Joy Walker at MKG127,” The Globe and Mail, September 27, 2008.
- Gary Michael Dault, “Pattern Theory,” Border Crossings #105, February 2008.
- Leslie Jen, “Checking In,” Canadian Architect, September 1, 2005.