Meagan Musseau

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Meagan Musseau is a L’nu woman, artist, and dancer from Elmastukwek, Ktaqmkuk territory (Bay of Islands, Newfoundland). She nourishes an interdisciplinary arts practice by working with customary art forms and new media, such as basketry, beadwork, land-based performance, video, and installation. Musseau’s artwork has been exhibited nationally in solo exhibitions Pi’tawkewaq | our people up river at grunt gallery, Vancouver, BC; and Pejipuk at AKA artist-run centre, Saskatoon, SK & Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s, NL., as well as in notable group exhibitions such as Woven Together at Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC.; this land is lonely for us at Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB.; Oneself, and one another at AceArt Inc., Winnipeg, MB.; The Life of Things at MOMENTA | biennale de l’image, Montreal, QC.; and Boarder X, a touring exhibition circulated by the Winnipeg Art Gallery. She has performed at Spirit Song Festival (2019), Bonavista Biennale (2019), #THIRDSHIFT (2017), as well as in landscapes across Turtle Island.

Musseau graduated with a BFA in Visual Art from Grenfell Campus Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador (2014), and a Visual Arts Diploma from College of the North Atlantic, Bay St. George Campus (2010). She participated in artist residencies at Neighbourhood Dance Works (2019), Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (2018 and 2017), Indigenous Emerging Artist Program (2015-16), Columbia College Chicago, USA (2014), and University of Brighton, UK (2013). Her practice has been supported by awards including the Atlantic Canadian Emerging Artist, Hnatyshyn Foundation (2018); Emerging Artist Award, VANL-CARFAC (2018); Aboriginal Arts Development Award, First Peoples’ Cultural Council (2016), and Corner Brook Emerging Artist of the Year (2013).

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