Marina Roy is a Vancouver-based artist and writer. Her artwork investigates the grotesque, at the intersection of language, image, and materiality, and her research interests include ecology, posthumanism, psychoanalysis, and biopolitics. Humour is explored through a corporeal register—humans’ underlying animality and mortality. She has exhibited nationally and internationally. Roy was recipient of the VIVA award in 2010. She is the author of sign after the x (Arsenal/Artspeak, 2000) and Queuejumping (Information Office/Art Metropole, 2022). She is associate professor in visual art at the University of British Columbia.