KOURTNEY ROY [LAMBERT|LAMBERT] | Artist profiles
'SORRY, NO VACANCY'
Born in 1981 in the wilds of Northern Ontario, Canada, Kourtney Roy completed a fine arts education in Vancouver. Initially wanting to study painting, she credits tableaux from the Renaissance and baroque as an influence on her photographic vision.
'SORRY, NO VACANCY'
JOHN PEARSON, ESQUIRE
'DON'T SHOOT', MADAME FIGARO
After graduating, Kourtney moved to Paris, where she assisted various fashion photographers. Now, her work mixes art and fashion 'à la Guy Bourdin', but she keeps to her own style of ‘mise-en-scene self-portraiture’.
'LADY DEAUVILLE'
LES ECHOS
GALERIES LAFAYETTE
'FIXED IN NO TIME'
'LADY DIOR'
'THE AUTOPORTRAITS'
'I DRINK'
Kourtney is fascinatated with exploring the boundaries of liminal spaces; whether spatial, temporal or psychological. By using herself as the principal subject in her work, she creates a compelling, intimate universe inhabited by a multitude of diverse characters that explore those enigmatic themes.
'NORTHERN NOIR'
'ENTER AS FICTION'
Her work is bound up in an ambiguous and cinematic image making that borders the real and fantastic. Her approach to photography provokes contemplation and reconfiguration of common place subject via playful revelation of the bizarre and uncanny.
'IN DREAMS YOU'RE MINE'
CARTE BLANCHE PERNOD RICARD
Roy is currently based in Paris, France and has been exhibiting her work for over 10 years at such event venues as La Bal, Paris, the Musee Elysee, Lausanne, The Head on Photo Festival in Sydney and the Moscow International Photo Biennale.
'HOPE'
'CALIFORNIA'
LONE STAR, ESQUIRE
'DOLL'
YOOX NYC
She has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Prix Picto (2007), Carte Blanche PMU (2013), The Prix Elysee Nomination (2014) and the Canadian Council for the Arts artist grant (2015).
'PETALS'
CARTE BLANCHE PMU
'AZIMUT''
Several books have been published on her work, including Ils pensent déjà que je suis folle (Editions Filigranes, 2014), Northern Noir (Editions La Pionnière, 2016), California (Editions Louis Vuitton, 2016) and Sorry, no vacancy (2017).
CALIFORNIA, PUBLISHED BY LOUIS VUITTON EDITIONS, 2016
ENTER AS FICTION, PUBLISHED BY FILIGRANES, 2015
NORTHERN NOIR, PUBLISHED BY EDITIONS LA PIONNIERE, 2016
SORRY, NO VACANCY, PUBLISHED BY EDITIONS LA PIONNIERE, 2017
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