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Amy Malbeuf

Amy Malbeuf

Canadian artist and educator

Amy Malbeuf is a Canadian-Métis visual artist, educator, and cultural tattoo practitioner born in Rich Lake, Alberta.[1][2]

Malbeuf examines notions of language, territory, nature and identity through a multidisciplinary approach.[3][4] Alongside her artistic practice, Malbeuf teaches the skills and traditions of caribou and moose hair tufting and embroidery. [4]

Education

Malbeuf received her BFA from the Alberta College of Art + Design in Calgary and an MFA in Visual Art from the University of British Columbia Okanagan in Kelowna.[4] She has participated in numerous international artist residencies, including programs at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, The Banff Centre, The Labrador Research Institute, and Santa Fe Art Institute.[3][5] She is also certified as a Native Cultural Arts Instructor by Portage College in Lac La Biche.[6][7]

Art

Caribou hair tufting, beadwork, installation, performance, and video are prominent in Malbeuf's work.[3] Her practice examines the relationships between humanity and nature by deconstructing misunderstandings of Native culture and exploring intersections between culture and race.[8]

Works such as Iskotew (2018), a sculpture of the Cree word for "Fire" described as ᐃᐢᑯᑌᐤ in Nēhiyawēwin, look at Native heritage through landscape and language.[9]

As a cultural tattoo practitioner, Malbeuf practices skin stitch, an indigenous tattoo process that sews thread dipped in ink into the skin.[10]

Selected exhibitions

Malbeuf has exhibited her works at national and international venues including the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Alberta, Contemporary Calgary, and Stride Gallery.[8][11]

Solo exhibitions

  • 2018 Tensions, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary[12][4]
  • 2018 The Length of Grief, AKA Centre, Saskatoon[13][4]
  • 2017 Inheritance, Kelowna Art Gallery, CAN[14][4]
  • 2017 Foundations, Queen Specific Window Space, Toronto, CAN[4]
  • 2016 apihkew, Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, CAN[4]
  • 2015 A Woman And This Bannock That She Made For You, Plain Red Gallery, First Nations University of Canada, Regina, CAN[4]
  • 2014 kayas-ago, Art Gallery of Alberta: RBC New Works Gallery, Edmonton, CAN[4]
  • 2011 Beyond..., Stride Gallery Project Room, Calgary, CAN[4]

Group exhibitions

  • 2018 In Dialogue, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, CAN[15]
  • 2017 Entering the Landscape, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, CAN[16]
  • 2017 Connective Tissue, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, US[17]
  • 2016 No Visible Horizon, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, CAN[18]
  • 2016 If We Never Met…, Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua, NZ[19]
  • 2015  Material Girls, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, CAN[20][21][22]
  • 2015  Future Station: Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, CAN[23][8][11]
  • 2014  Wayfinders, TREX, Art Gallery of Alberta, (four year travelling show)[24]
  • 2013  Gashka’oode: Tangled, Forest City Gallery, London, CAN[25][4]
  • 2012  Indigeneity, Feature Exhibit: The Works Festival, Edmonton, CAN[4]
  • 2011  Ancestral Teachings: Contemporary Perspectives, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, CAN[4]
  • 2010  Pioneer Whiskey, Marion Nicoll Gallery LRT Space, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, CAN (with Sarah Van Sloten)[4]

Public art commissions

  • 2018 Iskotew, sculpture, Indigenous Art Park, Edmonton Arts Council, CAN[4][26]
  • 2013 Upholstered Cultural Facets of a Pehonan, Ramble in the Bramble, Transitory public art project, Edmonton Arts Council[4][9]

Awards

Malbeuf has received awards such 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.[4][27]

References

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    "Amy Malbeuf". Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
  2. [2]
    "May 2 2018 – Métis Visual Arts | Faculty of Native Studies". www.ualberta.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
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    "Tensions | Artspace". artspace-arc.org. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
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    "About". Amy Malbeuf. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
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    "Amy Malbeuf | Art Gallery of Alberta". www.youraga.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
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    "Amy Malbeuf – Emnowaangosjig || Coming Out: The Shifting and Multiple Self". cargocollective.com. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
  7. [7]
    "Amy Malbeuf | OpenStudios at Athabasca University". openstudios.athabascau.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
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    "ART NOW – Amy Malbeuf Speaks February 29th, 2016 at Noon in the Recital Hall". www.uleth.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
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    "City of Edmonton Public Art Collection". edmontonpublicart.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
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    Hosein, Lise (March 21, 2019). "Skin stitch tattoos are exactly what they sound like – and for Amy Malbeuf, they embody culture". CBC. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
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    "2016 – Amy Malbeuf". LG Arts Awards. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
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    "Amy Malbeuf – Illingworth Kerr Gallery". Retrieved 2019-03-21.
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    "The Length of Grief: The daughters of Métis Mothers". Retrieved 2019-03-21.
  14. [14]
    "Inheritance: Amy Malbeuf | Curated by Cathy Mattes". Retrieved 2019-03-21.
  15. [15]
    "In Dialogue". Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  16. [16]
    "Entering the Landscape | September 30 to December 31, 2017". Plug In ICA. 2017-09-30. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
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    "Connective Tissue: New Approaches to Fiber in Contemporary Native Art > Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA)". Institute of American Indian Arts. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
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    "No Visible Horizon". www.banffcentre.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
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    "If we never met". Pataka. 2014-08-27. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
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    "Exhibition "Material Girls" at the Dunlop Art Gallery". Dominique Rey. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
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    "Dunlop Art Gallery – Material Girls". Issuu. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
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    Foundation, The Magenta (2016-05-19). "Material Girls". Magenta Magazine. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
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    "Exhibition | The 2015 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, AGA, January 24 to May 3, 2015". Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  24. [24]
    "Work of the Week: 2 artworks from the exhibition The Art of Truth and Reconciliation". Alberta Foundation for the Arts. 2018-04-04. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  25. [25]
    "Gashka'oode: Tangled | Forest City Gallery – London Ontario". forestcitygallery.com. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  26. [26]
    Clancy, Clare (August 13, 2018). "Indigenous Art Park to open in September". Edmonton Journal. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  27. [27]
    "Malbeuf in the running for $50,000 prize". Windspeaker.com. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
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