Wanda Koop: Who Owns the Moon

Wanda Koop was born in Vancouver to parents from the Zaporizhia region of present-day Ukraine. In this new corpus, the artist’s engagement with her Ukrainian heritage and the trauma of the ongoing war are the point of departure for broader painterly meditations on questions of territory, the environment, memory, loss and the pervasiveness of war in our shared historical moment.

Wanda Koop lives and works in Winnipeg. She is one of Canada’s most renowned living artists and has had more than sixty solo shows. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, India, Brazil, China, Japan and Italy. Alongside her artistic practice, she is a community activist. In 1998, she founded Art City, a free community art centre for inner city youth in Winnipeg.