Maria Ezcurra

Maria Ezcurra is the mentor for you if you are interested in: exploring textiles, sculpture, installation, drawing, participatory work, research-creation, art education, ecofeminism, migration, memory, and gender identity, or simply seeking a welcoming and thoughtful space to reflect on art and life.

Maria Ezcurra (she/elle/ella) is a Latina Canadian visual artist and educator born in Argentina, raised in Mexico City, and currently based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Quebec. Her artistic practice has developed over three decades through a sustained investigation into the cultural power of personal objects, the social construction of gender through clothing, and the relationships between memory, identity, belonging, and migration.

Through installations, sculpture, drawing, performance, and participatory projects, Ezcurra works with garments, reused textiles, and everyday objects that function as sensitive archives of affect, labour, and lived experience. From an ecofeminist and intersectional perspective, her work explores how bodies, particularly feminized bodies, are shaped by social norms, displacement, forms of care, and processes of exclusion and oppression, bringing into dialogue personal histories, collective contexts, and relationships between human and nonhuman worlds.

Her work has been widely presented in Canada, Mexico, and internationally, in institutions such as the Museo de Arte Moderno, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo and the Museo Carrillo Gil in Mexico City, the Musée national des beaux arts du Québec, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, as well as in independent spaces and artist run centres such as OBORO, La Centrale Powerhouse, and Projet Casa. In 2026, she presents a mid-career  retrospective at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City.

She has participated in several artist residencies and creation programs, including Adélard in 2022 and the Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie Saint Paul, Quebec, in 2025, and is a founding member of the Intervals collective, focused on the social role of art.

Ezcurra holds a PhD in Art Education from Concordia University, an MFA from the Chelsea School of Arts in London, UK, and studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. She has taught art in universities and organizations in Mexico and Canada for over twenty years, including McGill and Concordia in Montreal.

Her career has been recognized with the Prix de la Diversité en Arts Visuels from the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the Powerhouse Award, and the Prix Charles Biddle, and she was a finalist for the Prix d’art actuel from the Musée national des beaux arts du Québec, in addition to receiving grants from the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte in Mexico and the Canada Council for the Arts.