Judith Price
Judith Price (MFA, UBC, 1988) combines a 30+ year transdisciplinary art practice with a background in modern dance. Her body of work includes performances (street actions, interventions, and collaborative, durational works), video installations, site-specific installations and short films. Solo performances have included still images, video projections, and sculpture, often merging performance and video installation.
Over the past two decades, much of her film and video work has focused on the ephemeral, transitory nature of memory and the vicissitudes of the act of remembering. Two recent solo projects speak to those concerns: Here/Not Here, an 8-channel video installation for the Flux Greenlight Project, Victoria, 2019 and Bearing Witness, a performance with video, Open Space, Victoria, 2017.
Since 2020, Price has collaborated with Johanna Householder on an improvised performance project over Zoom, resulting in the Diptychs Project. The 6 Episodes were presented online at the Dunlop Gallery, Regina, in 2022 and as a video installation at the Aird Gallery, Toronto, for the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, in 2023 and at the Flux Media Gallery, Victoria, BC in 2024. Other episodes were shown online for the IMAF Festival 2020, Serbia; R-A-W, Belfast, 2021; and Digital Moments, Victoria, 2021.
Extending their experimental collaborations, they took up production residencies at PAVED ARTS in Saskatoon and Flux Media, Victoria, in 2024. Crow Stories, 2025, a two-chapter video work, grew from the residencies.
The British Columbia Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the City of Victoria have funded her works, and they have been shown nationally and internationally.
Price is a founding member of the Open Action performance collective, and is retired from post-secondary teaching (time-based art), living and working in Victoria, BC; an uninvited guest on the unceded territories of the Lekwungen (Esquimalt, Songhees) and W̱SÁNEĆ nations.