Nadia Myre
Pronouns: She/Her
- Associate Professor, Studio Arts
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Nadia Myre is an interdisciplinary artist and a member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation. Her practice spans sculpture, ceramics, fibres and material practices, photography, video, sound, public art, and publicly engaged and community-based practices. Since early works such as Indian Act (2002) and The Scar Project (2005–2013), Myre’s practice has explored the politics of belonging, positioning personal and collective narratives within broader frameworks of Indigenous resistance, resilience, and relationality.
Her work has been presented widely in Canada and internationally. Recent monographic exhibitions include Des océans et des ombres at Domaine de Chamarande, France; Waves of Want at the National Gallery of Canada; and Ropes and Lines at CIAPV, France. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections and has been commissioned for major public sites. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Prix du Québec – Paul-Émile Borduas (2025), the Emily Award (2024), the Prix Louis-Comtois (2021), the Sobey Art Award (2014), and the Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship (2002). In 2019, she was named a member of the Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec, and in 2023 she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Myre is an Associate Professor in the Department of Studio Arts at Concordia University in Montréal. Her teaching includes ARTX and Sculpture at the undergraduate level, as well as ASEMs and graduate studio seminars in Sculpture and Fibres and Material Practices.