Nancy Petry has recently exhibited at Espace 522, Montreal, in Nancy Petry: Peregrinations, Simon Blais Gallery, Montreal, in L'Abstraction à Montréal 1950-1970 and in the Agnès Lefort Art Gallery, Montreal 1950-1961 exhibition at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery at Concordia University, Montreal. Her website project, Sacred Sites of the Khmer, was created especially for the London Biennale 2000, London, England.

She studied painting with John Lyman at the McGill School of Fine Arts in Montreal, and, in Paris, at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and Atelier 17 with William Hayter. After post-graduate lithography at the Slade School in England, she worked at the Print Workshop, London, and Graff in Montreal.

Nancy Petry has been represented in Montreal by the Agnès Lefort Art Gallery, the Mira Godard Gallery and Gallery Esperanza, as well as by Nancy Poole Gallery in Toronto and Anthony Tooth Gallery in London. She has been the recipients of grants from the Canada Council and the Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Quebec and her work is represented in many public and private collections, such as: The Canada Council Art Bank, Le Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal, The Confederation Art Gallery, Charlottetown, P.E.I., The National Library of Canada, Ottawa, La Bibliothèque National du Québec, Montreal, Rothchild's Bank, London, England, The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and the British Museum, London.

She was on the Board of Directors of Véhicule Art, Montreal, and Vice-Chairman from 1977-1980. During this time she was instrumental in introducing numerous international artists to Montreal including: Nan Hoover, Miller and Cameron, Reindeer Work, Federica Marangoni, Augusto Concato, Paul Burwell and Anna Bean. She represented Véhicule Art at the Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy in 1977 and 1978 thus establishing the gallery as the main venue of performance art in Canada.

Education: 1978 London Film-maker's Co-op, London, England, 16 mm film-making course, Jenny Okun
1967 Slade School, University College, London, England, post-graduate lithography, Stanley Jones
1954-58 Académie Julien, Paris, Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, Henri Goetz; Atelier 17, Paris, William Hayter
1948-52 McGill University, B.F.A., John Lyman, John Fox, Gordon Webber, Henry Eveleigh

Solo Exhibitions: 1996 Espace 522, Montreal
1985 Galerie Esperanza, Montreal
1979 Véhicule Art, Montreal (collaboration Rondelli, Allen)

Group Exhibitions: 2000 London Biennale 2000, London, England (website project - Sacred Sites of the Khmer)
1996 La Galerie Agnès Lefort, Montreal 1950-61, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal
1995 Exposition d'Été, Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal

Dance: 1994 Eric O'Connor Series - Light Out of Darkness, Les Naiades, collaborative performance with Sophie Roy and Bonnier Farmer, Concordia University, Montreal
1979 Shadow Figure, collaborative performance with Michelle Fèbvre and Edward Locke, Vehicule Art, Montreal

Grants: The Canada Council, 1981, 1978, 1971, 1969; Ministère des affaires culturelles du Québec, 1976.

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