Amy Malbeuf
{{Short description|Canadian artist and educator}}
Amy Malbeuf is a Canadian-Métis visual artist, educator, and cultural tattoo practitioner born in Rich Lake, Alberta.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ociciwan.ca/exhibition-essay-2|title=Amy Malbeuf|website=Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-21}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ualberta.ca/native-studies/research/rupertsland-centre-for-metis-research/news-and-events/events/metis-talks/may-2-2018|title=May 2 2018 – Métis Visual Arts {{!}} Faculty of Native Studies|website=www.ualberta.ca|access-date=2019-03-21}}
Malbeuf examines notions of language, territory, nature and identity through a multidisciplinary approach.{{Cite web|url=http://artspace-arc.org/exhibition/2122/|title=Tensions {{!}} Artspace|website=artspace-arc.org|access-date=2019-03-21}} Alongside her artistic practice, Malbeuf teaches the skills and traditions of caribou and moose hair tufting and embroidery.
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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.amymalbeuf.ca/about-amy|title=About|website=Amy Malbeuf|language=en-CA|access-date=2019-03-21}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youraga.ca/bio/amy-malbeuf|title=Amy Malbeuf {{!}} Art Gallery of Alberta|website=www.youraga.ca|access-date=2019-03-21}} She is also certified as a Native Cultural Arts Instructor by Portage College in Lac La Biche.{{Cite web|url=https://cargocollective.com/shiftingandmultiple/Amy-Malbeuf|title=Amy Malbeuf – Emnowaangosjig {{!}}{{!}} Coming Out: The Shifting and Multiple Self|website=cargocollective.com|access-date=2019-03-21}}{{Cite web|url=http://openstudios.athabascau.ca/?q=amalbeuf|title=Amy Malbeuf {{!}} OpenStudios at Athabasca University|website=openstudios.athabascau.ca|access-date=2019-03-21}}
Art
Caribou hair tufting, beadwork, installation, performance, and video are prominent in Malbeuf's work. Her practice examines the relationships between humanity and nature by deconstructing misunderstandings of Native culture and exploring intersections between culture and race.{{Cite web|url=https://www.uleth.ca/notice/events/art-now-amy-malbeuf-speaks-february-29th-2016-noon-recital-hall#.XJOu_ChKjIU|title=ART NOW – Amy Malbeuf Speaks February 29th, 2016 at Noon in the Recital Hall|website=www.uleth.ca|language=en|access-date=2019-03-21}}
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.{{Cite web|url=http://edmontonpublicart.ca/#!/details/185|title=City of Edmonton Public Art Collection|website=edmontonpublicart.ca|access-date=2019-03-25}}
As a cultural tattoo practitioner, Malbeuf practices skin stitch, an indigenous tattoo process that sews thread dipped in ink into the skin.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/arts/skin-stitch-tattoos-are-exactly-what-they-sound-like-and-for-amy-malbeuf-they-embody-culture-1.5066290|title=Skin stitch tattoos are exactly what they sound like – and for Amy Malbeuf, they embody culture|first=Lise|last=Hosein |date=March 21, 2019|website=CBC|language=en|access-date=2019-03-25}}
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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.artsawards.ca/emerging-artists/2016-amy-malbeuf/|title=2016 – Amy Malbeuf|website=LG Arts Awards|language=en-CA|access-date=2019-03-21}}
= Solo exhibitions =
- 2018 Tensions, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary{{Cite web|url=http://ikg.acad.ca/amy_malbeuf/|title=Amy Malbeuf – Illingworth Kerr Gallery|language=en-CA|access-date=2019-03-21}}
- 2018 The Length of Grief, AKA Centre, Saskatoon{{Cite web|url=http://akaartistrun.com/portfolio-item/the-length-of-grief-the-daughters-of-metis-mothers/|title=The Length of Grief: The daughters of Métis Mothers|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-21}}
- 2017 Inheritance, Kelowna Art Gallery, CAN{{Cite web|url=http://kelownaartgallery.com/inheritance/|title=Inheritance: Amy Malbeuf {{!}} Curated by Cathy Mattes|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-21}}
- 2017 Foundations, Queen Specific Window Space, Toronto, CAN
- 2016 apihkew, Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, CAN
- 2015 A Woman And This Bannock That She Made For You, Plain Red Gallery, First Nations University of Canada, Regina, CAN
- 2014 kayas-ago, Art Gallery of Alberta: RBC New Works Gallery, Edmonton, CAN
- 2011 Beyond..., Stride Gallery Project Room, Calgary, CAN
= Group exhibitions =
- 2018 In Dialogue, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, CAN{{Cite web|url=https://artmuseum.utoronto.ca/exhibition/in-dialogue/|title=In Dialogue|website=Art Museum at the University of Toronto|language=en-CA|access-date=2019-03-25}}
- 2017 Entering the Landscape, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, CAN{{Cite web|url=https://plugin.org/exhibitions/entering-the-landscape/|title=Entering the Landscape {{!}} September 30 to December 31, 2017|date=2017-09-30|website=Plug In ICA|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-25}}
- 2017 Connective Tissue, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, US{{Cite web|url=https://iaia.edu/event/connective-tissue-new-approaches-fiber-contemporary-native-art/|title=Connective Tissue: New Approaches to Fiber in Contemporary Native Art > Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA)|website=Institute of American Indian Arts|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-25}}
- 2016 No Visible Horizon, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, CAN{{Cite web|url=https://www.banffcentre.ca/no-visible-horizon|title=No Visible Horizon|website=www.banffcentre.ca|language=en|access-date=2019-03-25}}
- 2016 If We Never Met…, Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua, NZ{{Cite web|url=https://www.pataka.org.nz/if-we-never-met/|title=If we never met|date=2014-08-27|website=Pataka|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-25}}
- 2015 Material Girls, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, CAN{{Cite web|url=https://dominiquerey.com/news/2017/3/15/exhibition-material-girls-at-the-dunlop-art-gallery|title=Exhibition "Material Girls" at the Dunlop Art Gallery|website=Dominique Rey|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-25}}{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/reginapubliclibrary/docs/material_girls|title=Dunlop Art Gallery – Material Girls|website=Issuu|language=en|access-date=2019-03-26}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.magentafoundation.org/magazine/material-girls/|title=Material Girls|last=Foundation|first=The Magenta|date=2016-05-19|website=Magenta Magazine|language=en|access-date=2019-03-26}}
- 2015 Future Station: Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, CAN{{Cite web|url=http://www.brendanmcgillicuddy.com/future-station-2015-alberta-biennial-of-contemporary-art/|title=Exhibition {{!}} The 2015 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, AGA, January 24 to May 3, 2015|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-25}}
- 2014 Wayfinders, TREX, Art Gallery of Alberta, (four year travelling show){{Cite web|url=https://www.affta.ab.ca/news/work-week-2-artworks-exhibition-art-truth-and-reconciliation|title=Work of the Week: 2 artworks from the exhibition The Art of Truth and Reconciliation|date=2018-04-04|website=Alberta Foundation for the Arts|language=en|access-date=2019-03-25}}
- 2013 Gashka’oode: Tangled, Forest City Gallery, London, CAN{{Cite web|url=https://forestcitygallery.com/node/142|title=Gashka'oode: Tangled {{!}} Forest City Gallery – London Ontario|website=forestcitygallery.com|access-date=2019-03-25}}
- 2012 Indigeneity, Feature Exhibit: The Works Festival, Edmonton, CAN
- 2011 Ancestral Teachings: Contemporary Perspectives, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, CAN
- 2010 Pioneer Whiskey, Marion Nicoll Gallery LRT Space, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, CAN (with Sarah Van Sloten)
= Public art commissions =
- 2018 Iskotew, sculpture, Indigenous Art Park, Edmonton Arts Council, CAN{{Cite web|url=https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/a-gift-for-the-city-indigenous-art-park-just-weeks-away-from-september-opening|title=Indigenous Art Park to open in September|publisher=Edmonton Journal|date=August 13, 2018|first=Clare|last=Clancy|language=en|access-date=2019-03-25}}
- 2013 Upholstered Cultural Facets of a Pehonan, Ramble in the Bramble, Transitory public art project, Edmonton Arts Council
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.{{Cite web|url=https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/malbeuf-in-the-running-for-50000-prize|title=Malbeuf in the running for $50,000 prize|website=Windspeaker.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-26}}
References
External links
- [http://www.amymalbeuf.ca/ Amy Malbeuf's Official Website]
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Category:Canadian women artists
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:University of British Columbia alumni