Audrey Capel Doray

Audrey Capel Doray (Canadian, b. 1931) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work has been acknowledged widely for its social criticism and investigation into pop art and feminist archetypes. Beginning in the 1960s, she engaged with experiments in painting, printmaking, interactive and kinetic art, and electronic communications that often incorporated computers, lighting, electronics and other new media. She and her late husband Victor Doray (Canadian, 1930-2007) were community leaders in the 1960s Vancouver art scene, including involvement in Intermedia, which operated during the 1960s-70s, as well as other experimental formations influenced by the philosopher Marshall McLuhan (Canadian, 1911-1980). Doray received a BFA from McGill University and went on to study at Atelier 17 in Paris and at the Central School of Art in London. After moving to Vancouver in 1957, Doray taught at the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University of Art and Design) from 1959-1961. In 1962, Doray joined Alvin Balkind and Abraham Rogatnick’s New Design Gallery, an influential art space that presented live theatre, visual art, films, concerts, lectures and poetry readings. Doray has been the recipient of four Canada Council Awards. Her work is held in numerous private and public collections both internationally and nationally, including the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa and the Tate Modern in London.