Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby
Cooper Battersby (b. 1971, Penticton British Columbia, Canada) and Emily Vey Duke (b. 1972, Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada) have been working collaboratively since June 1994. They work in printed matter, installation, new media, curation and criticism, but their primary practice is in art video. They live in rural New York State.
Duke and Battersby’s work in video and sculpture has shown at The Whitney Museum, The Walker Center, The Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, The Power Plant, The Musee d’Art Contemporain Montréal, The New York Film Festival, The Toronto International Film Festival and the International Film Festival of Rotterdam.
Their 2019 work You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born has shown at Rotterdam, the Berwick Film and Media Festival, the Camden International Film Festival, the Block Museum, Chicago, Beursschouwburg Multidisciplinary Arts Center, Brussels, Lofoten International Arts Festival, Norway, and Kassel DocFest, Kassel Germany, among others.
Their 2015 work Dear Lorde won the Grand Prize at the European Media Arts Festival and showed at Videonale in Bonn Germany. In 2011, they were shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award, Canada’s most prestigious prize for emerging artists. They have received prizes from festivals across the globe and their work is in the libraries at Harvard and Princeton.
A book about their work called The Beauty Is Relentless, was published on Coach House Press/MOCCA in 2012. In 2015, Oakville Galleries published The Illuminations Project, a book documenting Duke’s 10-year collaboration with Shary Boyle. In summer 2019 they were Grantholders at the International Studio Arts Program Stockholm, and in spring 2020 they were fellows at MacDowell.
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