Artist-in-Residence
Amy Malbeuf
Amy Malbeuf is a Métis visual artist and cultural tattoo practitioner from Rich Lake, Alberta in Treaty Six territory. She currently works and lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, NS). Malbeuf creates art works in mediums such as animal hair tufting and embroidery, beadwork, sculpture, video and installation Malbeuf explores notions of identity, place, language, and ecology. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally in over forty shows at such venues as Art Mûr, Montréal, Winnipeg Art Gallery; Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton; Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe; and Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua, New Zealand. Malbeuf has participated in many international artist residencies including at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; The Banff Centre; The Labrador Research Institute; and Santa Fe Art Institute. She holds an MFA in visual art from the University of British Columbia Okanagan. Malbeuf has been the recipient of such honours as the 2016 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award, the 2016 William and Meredith Saunderson Prize for Emerging Artists in Canada from the Hnatyshyn Foundation, a 2017 REVEAL award from the Hnatyshyn Foundation and was long listed for the 2017 Sobey Art Award and was a longlist Sobey Art Award winner in 2020.