[4] Her early interest in music and performance incorporated costume, poster and T-shirt design and the creation and free distribution of small photocopied 'zines.
[3] Her work explores themes of gender, identity, sexuality, power and class, evoking emotional and psychic resonance through craftsmanship.
The series was introduced in a solo exhibition at the Power Plant in Toronto called Lace Figures, curated by Reid Sheir, 2006.
[7] In 2008, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Lethbridge showcased her work in a solo show titled The History of Light,[8] and in 2009 Boyle's work was first exhibited with Kinngait artist Shuvinai Ashoona in the exhibition Noise Ghost at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Art Museum University of Toronto, curated by Nancy Campbell.
[3][10] Boyle represented Canada at the 2013 Venice Biennale with her project Music for Silence, an installation of which the central component was The Cave Painter in plaster, of a mermaid, holding a newborn to her breast[11][4][1] In 2014, she participated in Shine a Light: Canadian Biennial 2014.
[13] She also has collaborated for a second time with Shuvinai Ashoona, travelling to the Kinngait Studios on Baffin Island, Nunavik, to do so in 2015 The drawings they created together, as well as their independent drawings and sculptures, were presented in a show titled Universal Cobra in 2015 at the private gallery of Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain in Montreal in a co-produced exhibition with Feheley Fine Art in Toronto.
[19] In 2014, Boyle and Fellows collaborated on a new live multi-disciplinary performance called Spell to Bring Lost Creature Home, by invitation of the Northern Arts and Cultural Centre.
The pair presented Spell to Bring Lost Creatures Home on a five-date small plane tour of the Northwest Territories in October 2014, and across Canada for 10 dates in 2015.
[21] In 2021, the Gardiner Museum gave Boyle a solo exhibition Outside the palace of Me, an installation with drawing, ceramic sculpture, mirrors and an interactive score, in which she mined her anxiety about global crises.