an early work of Internet art. One of Frenkel's major works, ...from the Transit Bar (1992), is a multi-media installation with a functioning bar and video monitors playing individuals testimonials recounting themes such as exile, translation and cultural migration. It was a collaboration between the National Gallery of Canada and The Power Plant. It was initially exhibited in 1992 at documenta IX in Kassel, Germany, toured Europe in the 1990s and has been most recently re-exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada in the spring and summer of 2014. ONCE NEAR WATER: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive (2008) is a videotape about a city cut off from its lake and uses the scaffolding as a metaphor for both aspiration and loss. In the opening lines, its voice over narrative discusses the lake and sets the stage for the piece. According to the artist's website, "This report is about a lake, and about longing. Also about greed, and about ways of bearing witness. I don't know the whole story, one never does." Awards and honours Frenkel is recipient of the 1989 Canada Council Molson Prize, the 1994 Toronto Arts Foundation Visual Arts Award, the 1993 Gershon Iskowitz Prize, the 1999 Bell Canada Award for Video Art and the 2007 iDMAa Pioneering Achievement Award. In 2005 she was awarded the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts by the Canada Council for the Arts. She has received honorary doctorates from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) (1996) and the Emily Carr Institute (2004), and is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and inducted into the Royal Society of Canada Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences in 2006. Bibliography References External links Mapping a Practice, SBC Gallery Vera Frenkel - National Gallery of Canada Ryerson Image Centre 1938 births Living people 20th-century Canadian women artists 21st-century Canadian women artists Canadian contemporary artists Canadian multimedia artists Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts winners McGill University alumni Canadian installation artists Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts