Vera Frenkel's multidisciplinary and new media projects have been seen at documenta IX, Kassel, 1992; the Biennale di Venezia (Club Media, 1997; Headstart, 2001) and were the featured 'Spotlight' of the 1997 Images Film, Video and New Media Festival, Toronto.
Solo exhibitions include the Riksutställningar tour of her work through Scandinavia and Poland, 1997-98; centrepiece installations at Vidéo Art Plastique, Centre d'Art Contemporain Basse-Normandie, 1998 and Videoculture2000, Detroit. Site-specific versions of her Body Missing video-web-photo project (http://www.yorku.ca/BodyMissing) were installed through 2001-02 at the Goethe-Institut, Toronto, the Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris and the Georg Kargl Gallery, Vienna, en route to the Freud Museum, London for a forthcoming exhibition and symposium.
The artist's current project, The Institute: Or, What We Do for Love, is a video-Web poly-serial narrative on the travails of a large cultural institution, an early version of which was introduced at the World Wide Video & New Media Festival, Amsterdam, 2001.
Artist-residencies include, among others, the Slade School of Art, London; the School of the Chicago Art Institute; the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, the Royal University of Stockholm, the University of Bremen, and the Arbeitsgruppe Museologie, Vienna. She has also lectured and screened work at venues such as the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; the OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, the Museum of Modern Art, NY, and the Konfigurationen - Zwischen Kunst und Media, Symposium, Kassel.
Recipient of two of Canada's major prizes awarded to a living artist, followed by an honorary doctorate from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Vera Frenkel served from 1996 - 2000 on the international advisory committee for the ISEA/Inter-Society for Electronic Arts. Until her 1995 decision to focus fully on her practice, she was professor in and co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Studio Programme, Dept. of Fine Arts, York University. Vera Frenkel's writings have appeared in Capital Culture (McGill-Queen's Press, 2000), Archive et Mémoire (Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal, 2001), Kunst als Beute (Turia & Kant, Vienna, 2001), and her most recent text, 'A Kind of Listening', is included in the anthology, Penser l'indiscipline (Optica, Montréal, 2001).