Brice Canyon

Brice Canyon (né MacNeil) (1960-2019) was a seminal queer artist, writer, editor and curator in the Vancouver art scene during the 1980s and 1990s, later moving to Montreal with his partner Claude Perreault in 2000. As an artist, Canyon worked primarily in collage, video and performance art. Through his writing and curating, Canyon played a significant role in the careers of many emerging Vancouver artists in the 1990s, including Kate Craig, Laiwan, Judy Radul, Jin-me Yoon, Kelly Wood, Cornelia Wyngaarden and Glenn Lewis. Canyon was exhibition and archives curator at Western Front (1987-93) as well as editor (1993-94) and producer (1994-97) of Front Magazine. At grunt gallery, Canyon was instrumental in the early arrangement and development of its archive during the late 1990s. With Glenn Alteen, Canyon co-curated the 1999 performance art performance festival Life at the End of the Century, a five-week festival in galleries across Vancouver that evolved into LIVE Biennale.