User:Merinoleschuk/sandbox/Lisa Myers (artist)

LISA MYERS is a Canadian Mixed media artist and curator. She is a Mixed media artist whose work addresses concepts of geography, food and memory. From September 8, 2015 to November 6, 2015, Myers is Artist-in-residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario. . Myers works in a range of media including photography, printmaking, video, and sound.

Myers works include "NOT SO FAST" (2013) at York Quay Centre at the Harbourfront in Toronto, Ontario and "past now" (2010) at the MacLaren Art Centre, "Night Kitchen Under the Table Top" (2012) for Scotiabank [Nuit Blanche] in Toronto, and "Recast" (2014) at Gallery 44 in the same city. In 2009, for the exhibition Blueprints for a long walk Myers walked from Sault Ste. Marie to Espanola, Ontario, retracing the steps of Myers’s grandfather when he ran away from Shingwauk Indian Residential School (now Algoma University).

Her major work is titled "Each Portion" (2015), a stop motion animation for Nuit Blanche in Toronto, completed as part of her Artist-in-residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Meyers has an MFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practice (OCAD, 2011). Her thesis exhibition was entitled, "Best Before: Recipes and Food in Contemporary Aboriginal Art."

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Category:Canadian women artists Category:First Nations artists