Allyson Clay

Allyson Clay (born 1953) is a Canadian visual artist, curator, and educator based in Vancouver, B.C.

[1] Clay was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1953, and spent much of her childhood and adolescence in Italy.

[2] She obtained a BFA in Painting from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1980, and an MFA from the University of British Columbia in 1985.

[4] Clay has an interdisciplinary artistic practice that encompasses photography, painting, and installation.

[5] Her artwork has often examined "the problematic, contradictory nature of contemporary urbanism" through "experiments with conceptual theory and traditional colour.

Allyson Clay, *Untitled (He didn't ask her much...),* 1990, screenprint on paper, collection of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.