Artist Talk: NADIA MYRE

Born in Montreal, Nadia Myre is a First Nations artist who employs collaborative processes as a strategy for engaging in conversations about identity, resilience and politics of belonging. Recent accomplishments include an artist-in- residency at the McCord Museum culminating in her exhibition Decolonial Gestures or Doing it Wrong? Refaire le chemin (2016), artist presentations at Creative Time Summit:The Curriculum (Biennale Arte 2015,Venice) and l’Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art de Paris–Sorbonne (2013), winning the 2014 Sobey Art Award, and commissions for new work: Oraison/Orison (galerie Oboro, 2014), Formes et Paroles (Musée Dapper, Senegal, 2014), and Sakahàn (National Gallery of Canada, 2013). As well as having participated in international biennales (Shanghai 2014, Sydney 2012, and Montreal 2011), Myre’s work has been featured in prominent group exhibitions such as Water Diary (FRAC Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, FR), Changing Hands 3 (Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY), Pour une république des rêves (CRAC Alsace - Centre Rhénan d’Art Contemporain, Altkirch, FR),Time, Le temp du dessin (Ensemble Poirel, Nancy, France), Vantage Point (National Museum of American Indian National Mall,Washington, DC), It Is What It Is (National Gallery of Canada), and Femmes Artistes. L’éclatement des frontières 1965- 2000 (Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, QC).

Related Links:

• Nadia Myre - artist website
• Department of Studio Arts