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Amy Malbeuf is a Canadian Métis visual artist, designer, and cultural tattoo practitioner born in Rich Lake, Alberta. With her Métis heritage, Malbeuf examines notions of ecology, language, place, and identity through mediums such as caribou hair tufting, beadwork, installation, performance, and video. As a cultural tattoo practitioner, she practices the art of skin stitch, an indigenous tattoo process that involves running thread through ink and literally sewing it into the skin. In addition, Malbeuf also teaches and shares the artistic skills of caribou and moose hair tufting/embroidery.

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

Art
Malbeuf's works primarily consist of caribou hair tufting, beadwork, installation, performance, and video projects. Her practice examines the relationships between humanity and nature by deconstructing misunderstandings of Native culture and works to understand the intersections between culture and race.

For example, one of her such works is titled Iskotew which applied a sculptural depiction of the Cree word for "Fire" described as ᐃᐢᑯᑌᐤ in Nēhiyawēwin.

Selected exhibitions
Malbeuf has exhibited her works nationally and internationally. Some of the venues include the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Kamloops Art Gallery, Contemporary Calgary, and Stride Gallery.

Most recently Malbeuf exhibited at the Dunlop Art Gallery as part of Material Girls as well as in Future Station: Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Alberta.

Solo Exhibitions

 * 2018 Tensions, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary
 * 2018 The Length of Grief, AKA Gallery, Saskatoon
 * 2017 Inheritance, Kelowna Art Gallery, CAN
 * 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
 * 2017 Entering the Landscape, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, CAN
 * 2017 Connective Tissue, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, US
 * 2016 No Visible Horizon, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, CAN
 * 2016 If We Never Met…, Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua, NZ
 * 2015  Material Girls, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, CAN
 * 2015  Future Station: Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, CAN
 * 2014  Wayfinders, TREX, Art Gallery of Alberta, (four year travelling show)
 * 2013  Gashka’oode: Tangled, Forest City Gallery, London, CAN
 * 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 (forthcoming)
 * 2013 Upholstered Cultural Facets of a Pehonan, Ramble in the Bramble, Transitory public art project, Edmonton Arts Council

Awards
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.