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Nadia Myre is a nationally renowned interdisciplinary artist and a member of the Algonquin Kitigan Zibi Anishnabeg Nation. Her notable works include the Indian Act (2002) and the Scar Project (2005-2013), exploring themes of belonging and positioning within Indigenous resistance and resilience. With an extensive exhibition history comprising 115 shows, including 25 solo exhibitions in just a decade, her work has been showcased in Canadian Embassies in New York, London, and Paris, as well as in Greece. Recent exhibitions feature her work in Volume 0 (Zuecca Project, Venice), Balancing Acts (Textile Museum, Toronto, 2019), Show Wound (Dom Wein, Vienna, 2018/19), and Tout ce qui reste/Scattered Remains (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2017/18). Myre has received several commissions and awards, including the 2014 Sobey Art Award for Canadian artists under 40 and was inducted into the Order of Arts and Letters of Quebec in 2019. She works across various disciplines including sculpture, fibers, material practice, photography, video, and performance art, and teaches undergraduate courses in the ArtX cluster and MFA Studio Classes in the Department of Studio Arts.
Administered by the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema; focuses on cinematic arts practice and research-creation.