Career
She is best known for her 2006 work The Lactation Station. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Women's Studies from Oberlin College, and an Master of Fine Arts in Performance Art from Rutgers University. She is a Fellow at the Mark South. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto.
Her body often figures prominently in her performances, such as Fee for Service a performance installation where audience members were invited to sharpen a pencil in Dobkin"s vagina.
Dobkin is also known as a community organizer and often combines this with her creative work. In May 2015, after a successful crowdfunding campaign, she collaborated with many Toronto artists to create an alternative newsstand in a vacant kiosk at the Chester Subway Station for one year.
The newsstand provides artists space to exhibit their work, providing a "creative exchange" for the commuters at the same time it sells newspapers, magazines, and snacks for a "monetary exchange."
In 2006, Dobkin exhibited The Lactation Station in Toronto at the Ontario College of Art and Design"s Professional Gallery, curated by Paul Couillard of FADO. The exhibition, which was partly funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, gained widespread attention, and prompted Health Canada to issue a national warning against the online sale of human breast milk. lieutenant was remounted in 2012 as part of the OFFTA Festival in Montreal.
How Many Performance Artists Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb (Foreign Martha Wilson), Images Festival, 2015
Everything I"ve Got, 2010
The Lactation Station, Ontario College of Art and Design Professional Gallery, 2006.
