ABOUT JOYCE YAM

Joyce Yam is a multi-disciplinary artist and architect living in Montreal. She has been maintaining a full-time architectural practice, since graduating with a M. Arch degree from McGill University, while completing a BFA, at Concordia University and a MFA from Emily Carr University. The two fields of study have created a hybrid form of practice that has been ultra complementary; comprehension of the user in space, processes of making and interconnectivity of concepts.

Joyce’s work focuses on the exploration of the poetics of the 'animal' and the 'other'. In recent years, her practice has revolved around the traces created and left behind by living beings, and the distance humans have placed between themselves and other species, which often negatively disturbs the interconnections between the two. The work explores the trace of the human being versus the trace of the 'other' and the effects of human consumption on the common landscape.