- Artist
- Koenig, Ingrid
- Title
- Self Defence Mechanism
- Technique
- graphite
- Date
- 1997
- Dimensions
- 96.52cm height x 127.0cm width
- Type
- drawing
- Accession Number
- EC2021.2.2
- Collection
- Education Collection
Gift of Ingrid Koenig
Ingrid Koenig’s Vancouver based studio practice traverses the fields of theoretical physics, social history, and narratives of science through visual art and relational projects. Koenig is Artist in Residence (until 2021) at TRIUMF, Canada’s particle accelerator centre and co-organizes processes of collaboration between artists and physicists.Koenig has exhibited her drawings and paintings in public galleries across Canada, in Europe, and New Zealand. Koenig earned her MFA at NSCAD, Halifax. She is an associate professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver. In 2019 she was awarded a Canada Council for the Arts grant to join the Arctic Circle art and science residency in the international territory of Svalbard.