Dana Wyse

Dana Wyse was born in 1965 in Vancouver (Canada). She lives and works between Gibsons (Canada) and Paris (France).

In 1996, Dana Wyse began her best known artwork, a pill-themed installation called Jesus Had A Sister Productions. Drawing on the fantastical promises of advertising, infomercials, and pop pyschology, her's pharmacy offers the possibility of instant personal change. It is a philosophical work-in-progress to which Dana Wyse adds new elements each year. The artist incorporates advertising images from the 1960s into her work to underline the absurdity of these images as well as lust for shopping and mass consumption.

She received her BFA from the University of British Columbia in 1991. Dana Wyse has participated in many solo and group exhibitions, including at Artcore Gallery in Toronto (Canada), Third Avenue Gallery in Vancouver, Galerie Anton Weller in Paris, Torch Gallery in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and New Art Barcelona (Spain). Her works are on permanent display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (USA), New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York (USA), Les Abattoirs in Toulouse (France), Museum of Modern Art de la Ville de Paris, Palais de Tokyo in Paris and Museum of Contemporary Art in the Château de Montsoreau (France). Dana Wyse is the co-author of two books and edited the fanzine "Housewife" from 1997 until 2000.