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MCMASTER, MerylCanadian / Plains Cree, born 1988

EDUCATION

2010 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Majoring in Photography, Ontario College of

Art and Design University, Toronto, ON

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 Meryl McMaster: Second Self/Ancestral, Pierre-François Ouellette

Art Contemporain, Montreal, QC

Confluence, The Rooms, St. John’s, NL

Confluence, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB

2017 Threads of Self, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain,

Montreal, QC

Entre-Deux Mondes – In-Between Worlds, Montreal Museum of

Fine Arts, Montreal, QC

Confluence, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, MB

Confluence, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, ON

Confluence, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC

2016 Confluence, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto, ON

Confluence, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON

Collected Journeys, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS

Wanderings, Artspace, Peterborough, ON

2015 Meryl McMaster: Ancestral, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

Wanderings, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto, ON

Wanderings, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM

Meryl McMaster: Second Self, Smithsonian National Museum of the

American Indian, New York, NY

2013 In-Between Worlds, Art Gallery of Hamilton Design Annex,

Hamilton, ON

In-Between Worlds, Peterborough Art Gallery, Peterborough, ON

In-Between Worlds, Katzman Kamen Gallery, Toronto, ON

2012 In-Between Worlds, Station Gallery, Whitby, ON

2011 Second Self, The Latcham Gallery, Stouffville, ON

2011 Second Self, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, ON

2010 In-Between Worlds, Project Space, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto,

ON

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018 Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award, National Gallery of

Canada, Ottawa, ON

Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award, OCADU Onsite Gallery,

Toronto, ON

Resilience, National Billboard Project, across Canada

níchiwamiskwém | nimidet | ma soeur | my sister, Stewart Hall Art Gallery,

Pointe-Claire, QC

We’ll All Become Stories, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON

Niigaanikwewag, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, ON

Recover All That is Ours, Campbell River Art Gallery, Campbell River, B.C

Native Portraiture: Power and Perception, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma,

WA

Meryl McMaster and David Ellingsen: Betwixt, The Hospital Club, London,

England

Embodiment, Museum London, London, ON

From here to there (then and now), Portage Bridge Tunnel, Ottawa, ON

2017 150 Acts: Art, Activism, Impact, Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, ON

Meryl McMaster and David Ellingsen: Betwixt, The Hospital Club, London,

England

Native Art Now, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art,

Indianapolis, IN

Art in the Tunnels, Ottawa Portage Bridge, Ottawa, ON

First Nations Now II: Contemporary Innovations, The Baldwin Gallery,

London, England

My City My Six: home/place, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto, ON

Material Girls, Rodman Hall Art Centre, St. Catherine, ON

Future Memories (Present Tense): Contemporary Practices in

Perspective, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, AB

Entering the Landscape, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg,

MB

Continuum, Karsh Masson Gallery, Ottawa, ON

Great and North: Imago Mundi Project, Venice, Italy

Re-Enact, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON

Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto,

ON

It’s Complicated, Central Art Garage, Ottawa, ON

All-Day Breakfast, First Canadian Place, Toronto, ON

Drive-Thru, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto, ON

First Nations Now: Between Worlds, The Baldwin Gallery, London,

England

Coyote School, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON

The Sublunary World, Black Club, London, England

The Sublunary World, The Baldwin Gallery, London, England

Material Girls, University of Saskatchewan College Art Gallery, Saskatoon,

SK

Dar’a/Full Circle, Artcite Inc., Windsor, ON

25 x 25: Twenty-Five Years of Exhibition Announcements from Twenty-

Five Indigenous Artist, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives,

Ottawa, ON

From the Belly of Our Being, Oklahoma State University Museum of Art,

Stillwater, Oklahoma

2016 Aujourd’hui Encore, Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, AB

My Spirit is Strong, Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada Art Gallery,

Gatineau, QC

Reimagining Agora: 2016 Yorkville Village Arts Festival, Yorkville Village,

Toronto, ON

Back Where They Came From, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas

City, Missouri

Since Then, PLATORM Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts, Winnipeg,

MB

Material Girls, Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, AB

Counterpoints: Photography Through the Lens of Toronto Collections,

University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, ON

Canadian Belongings, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, ON

Future 33, YTB Gallery, Toronto, ON

Miller Time, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto, ON

Fifth World, Kitchen Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, ON

Material Girls, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto, ON

Temporal (Re)Imaginings, Canada Council for the Arts, Âjagemô

Art Space, Ottawa, ON

This is Us Now, Karsh-Masson Gallery, Ottawa, ON

2015 ORANGE 2015 – Visceral, ORANGE Pavilion, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC

Gazing Back, Looking Forward, Fort York National Historic Site Gallery,

Toronto, ON

Identity: Art Inspired by the Great Lakes, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario’s

Vice Regal Suite, Toronto, ON

Ontario in Âjagemô, Canada Council for the Arts Gallery, Ottawa,

ON

Fifth World, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK

Imago Mundi: Map of The New Art, Fondazione Giorgio Cini,

Venezia, Italy

The Rebel Yells: Dress and Political Re-dress in Contemporary

Indigenous Art, FOFA Gallery, Montréal, QC

in-between-in-between, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto, ON

Material Girls, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK

In Another Place, And Here, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, B.C.

2014 I:ke - I have motion, ASpace/ IMAGINENative Film Festival, Toronto, ON

Flash Forward 10th Anniversary Exhibition: Uncanny Worlds, OCAD

University ONSITE Gallery, Toronto, ON

Storytelling: Contemporary Native Art Biennale, Ottawa School of Art

Shenkman Arts Centre, Ottawa, ON

The Ontario-Jiangsu Photography Project, Ontario Ministry of

Tourism/Ontario Arts Council online exhibition, Toronto, ON

Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival: Identity, MOCCA, Toronto,

ON

Storytelling: Contemporary Native Art Biennal, Art Mûr, Montréal, QC

2013 RED: Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, The Eiteljorg Museum

of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN

AGO First Thursday, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON

Trade Marks, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON

In the Flesh, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON

Face to Face, Durham Art Gallery, Durham, ON

2012 Spotlight on 40 Years: Artworks from the Canada Council Art Bank,

Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON

New Faces: Portraits from the Collection of the Canada Council Art

Bank, Jardins de Métis – Reford Gardens, Grand-Métis, QC

Flash Forward 2011 Group Show, Fairmont Battery Wharf, Boston,

Massachusetts

1812-2012: A Contemporary Perspective, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto,

ON

Fashionality: Dress and Identity in Contemporary Canadian Art,

McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, ON

Flash Forward 2011, The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Portland,

Maine

2011 Flash Forward 2011, Airship 37, Toronto, ON

Being She: Photography Exhibition, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON

Photopia 2011, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON

Faves, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, ON

Merge, AGO Art Rental + Sales Gallery, Toronto, ON

2010 Past Now, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON

Past Now, OCAD Graduate Gallery, Toronto, ON

94th Annual Graduate Exhibition, Ontario College of Art and Design,

Toronto, ON

We Are Wild, XPACE Gallery, Toronto, ON

OCAD Thesis Group Exhibition, Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto, ON

Endaian, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, ON

Passages: First Peoples at OCAD, OCAD, Toronto, ON

PROOF 17: Emerging Canadian Photographers, Gallery 44,

Toronto, ON

2009 Latin-Afro-First Nations Festival 09, Hosted by the Latino Canadian

Cultural Association at Fork York, Toronto, ON

Bring to Light, Contact Photography Festival, Steam Whistle Brewery

Roundhouse, Toronto, ON

2007 Gatherings, XPACE Gallery, Toronto, ON

2006 Undercover, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, ON

Pathways: Students Interpret the Firestone Collection of Canadian art,

Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON

COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

2017 Wrapped in Culture, City of Ottawa/Carleton University, Ottawa, ON

2015 Wandering Together: Johannes Zits and Meryl McMaster, Katzman

Contemporary, Toronto, ON

ART FAIRS

2018 Papier Art Fair, Montréal, Canada

VOLTA NY Art Fair, New York, NY, USA

2017 Art Toronto 2017: Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada

2015 Feature Contemporary Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario

Papier 15 Art Fair, Montréal, Canada

2012 Art Toronto 2012: Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada

RESIDENCIES

2015 Canadian Residency Program, Detroit, Michigan

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2018 Short-Term Project Grant – Creating, Knowing and Sharing: The

Arts and Cultures of Frist Nations, Inuit and Metis; Canada Council

for the Arts

Scotiabank’s New Generation Photography Award

2017 REVEAL Indigenous Art Award, The Hnatyshyn Foundation

2016 Sobey Art Award Long List

2015 Visual Artists: Emerging Grant, Ontario Arts Council

Creation and Production Fund for Professional Artists, City of

Ottawa

2013 Creation & Production Grant for Emerging Artists, City of Ottawa

Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellow, The Eiteljorg Museum of

American Indians and Western Art

2012 Charles Pachter Prize for Emerging Artists, The Hnatyshyn

Foundation

Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council

2010 Canon Canada Prize

Nora E. Vaughan Award

Ontario College of Art and Design Medal, Photography

Spoke Club Membership Prize

Vaughan Imagination Zone Award

Vistek Photography Award

REVIEWS

Gismondi, Chris J. “Meryl McMaster, Pierre-François Ouellette Art

Contemporain” Canadian Art, August 23, 2018 (Web)

Enright, Robert “Picturing The Red Line”, Border Crossings, Issue 146, Vol. 37

No. 2, pg. 36 – 48, June 2018

Borderviews “Taking Back the Territory”, Border Crossings, Issue 146, Vol. 37

No. 2, pg. 14 – 15, June 2018

Wine, Rachel “ Meryl McMaster exhibition confronts history of Indigenous

representation”, Globe and Mail, May 22, 1028

Saxberg, Lynn “ Check out work by the New Generation Photography Award

Winners”, Ottawa Citizen, April 12, 2018

Saxberg, Lynn “And the first New Generation Photography awards go to…”,

Ottawa Citizen, March 13, 2018

Everett-Green, Robert “Through the lens of Ottawa photographer Meryl

McMaster”, The Globe and Mail, December 13, 2017

Korducki, Kelli “Moving through Grief”, Canadian Art, February 6, 2018

Gaudet, Manon “Crossovers: Meryl McMaster”, Border Crossings, Issue 141,

Vol. 36 No. 1, pg. 91-92, March 2017

Charron, Marie-Eve “Staging of self and power in Momenta”, Le Devoir,

September 23, 2017

Yvon, Anne-Marie “The imagined worlds of Meryl McMaster”, ICI Radio-Canada,

September 8, 2017

Beurton, Clémence, “Meryl McMaster: La fabrique de l’identité artistique”, La

Source, Vol. 17 No. 1, pg. 8, January 10 – 24, 2017

Paul, Gessell, “Meryl McMaster’s Dreamscape”, Gallery West Magazine, January

13, 2017

Dick, Terence, “Canadian Belonging(s) at the Art Gallery of Mississauga”,

Akimblog, June 8, 2016 (Web)

Simpson, Peter, “Meryl McMaster at Carleton University Art Gallery”, Ottawa

Citizen, May 15, 2016

Jaeger, Ann, “Meryl McMaster’s Wanderings”, The Capilano Review 3.28, Winter

2016

Robb, Peter, “Ottawa artist Meryl McMaster on the long list for 2016 Sobey

Award”, Ottawa Citizen, April 14, 2016

Jaeger, Ann, “Meryl McMaster – Wanderings”, Electric City Magazine, Mar 23,

2016

Hunter, Benjamin, “Meryl McMaster’s Next Chapter”, Canadian Art, Nov 2, 2015

(Web)

Green, Christopher, “Meryl McMaster: Second Self”, The Brooklyn Rail, Sept 8,

2015 (Web)

Limón, Enrique, “Appropriate This: Seven Native American Artists Confront

Stereotypes Head-On”, Santa Fe Reporter, pg. 24 – 25, August 19-25, 2015

Spivey, Whitney, “Summer Shows at MoCNA”, Santa Fean Magazine, pg. 44 –

45, Summer 2015

Meier, Allison, “Drawn Self-Portraits Materialized as Masks”, Hyperallergic,

August 11, 2015 (Web)

Walker, Ellyn, “Identity as Contingency: Meryl McMaster’s In-Between Worlds”,

Black Flash Magazine, pg. 5 – 9, Volume 32, Issue 3, August – December 2015

Simpson, Peter, “Meryl McMaster takes New York with her elaborate selfportraits

and portraits”, Ottawa Citizen, June 12, 2015

Gazzola, Bart, “Perfect Goodbye: The Fifth World Exemplifies Everything

Excellent About the Mendel”, Plant S Magazine, Vol. 13, Issue 26, April 30, 2015

Fournier, Lauren, “Material Girls Takes up Space at the Dunlop”, Canadian Art,

April 2, 2015 (Web)

Walker, Ellyn, “Representing the Self through Ancestry: Meryl McMaster’s

Ancestral Portraits”, Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, Vol. 15,

No, 1, 2015 (Web)

Ryan Smith, Matthew, “Notes on Curating Autobiographical Art”, Esse Arts +

Opinions Magazine, pg. 34 – 39, Issue 84 2015

Falvey, Emily, “Storytelling: The Contemporary Native Art Biennial”, Canadian Art

Magazine, pg. 186, Fall 2014

Meier, Rhonda, “Storytelling: The Contemporary Native Art Biennial, 2nd Edition”,

First American Art Magazine, No. 4, pg. 22, 75-76, Fall 2014

Bruce, Kira, “Stories Retold”, Adone Magazine, Issue: Carte Blanche, 2014

Krunak-Hajagos, Emese, “In-Between Worlds: The photographs of Meryl

McMaster”, NY Arts Magazine, Volume 21. N.I, pg. 40 – 41, Winter 2014

Brereton, William, “Surrealist Self-Portraiture: Aesthetic Mediations of Mixed-

Race Women’s Stories”, Kapsula Magazine, December 2013 (Web)

Gallpen, Britt, “Emerging Indigenous Artists Make Their Mark at Prefix”,

Canadian Art, November 6, 2013 (Web)

Smith, Matthew Ryan, “Exhibition Review: Trade Marks”, Magenta Magazine,

November 2013 (Web)

Krunak-Hajagos, Emese, “Meryl McMaster: In-Between Worlds”, Art Toronto,

September 2013 (Web)

Simpson, Peter, “Meryl McMaster shines at Ottawa Art Gallery”, Ottawa Citizen,

Arts, June 24, 2013, Ottawa, ON

Gessell, Paul, “Meryl McMaster’s stunning costumed self-portraits steal the show

again and again”, Ottawa Magazine, June 26, 2013

Jordan, Betty Ann, “The Wilding: Artists and designers are poaching untamed

animals as a way to explore what it means to be human,” Fashion Magazine, pg.

184-186, October 2011

SOLO EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Confluence, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON, May 2016

GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

We’ll All Become Stories, The Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON, 2017

What Does The Image Stand For?, Momenta Biennale de L’image, Montreal,

QC, September 2017

Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON,

June 2017

From the Belly of Our Being: art by and about Native creation, Oklahoma State

University Museum of Art, Stillwater, Oklahoma, January 2017

In Another Place, And Here, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, B.C.,

January 2015

RED: Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN,

2013

In the Flesh, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON, 2013

Flash Forward Tenth, The Magenta Foundation, Toronto, ON, Oct 2014

Flash Forward: Emerging Photographers 2011, The Magenta Foundation,

Toronto, ON, 2011

PUBLICATIONS

Performance Studies In Canada, Edited by Laura Levin and Marlis Schweitzer,

McGill-Queen’s University Press 2017

Arc Poetry Magazine, Issue 82, Winter 2017

In Translation, Room 38.1 Magazine, Vancouver, B.C., March 2015

Colour & Two-Dimensional Design, OCAD University, Toronto, ON, 2014

Min Joo Chae (Ed.). “Break the Rules,” ARTZINE (Art + Magazine), October

Issue No.3, pg. 92-97, Sun in Jang Creative Agency, Seoul, South Korea, 2011

FILM/TELEVISION FEATURES

Feb 2018 “Native Art Now!”, The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and

Western Art, Produced/Writer by Viki Anderson, Indianapolis, IN

Jan 2017 “Meryl McMaster: Confluence”, Richmond Art Gallery, Filmed in

Richmond, B.C

Jan 2015 “Metrópolis - imagineNATIVE 2014”, Spanish Television Public

Network, Filmed in Toronto, ON

Oct 2014 The Ontario-Jiangsu Photography Project, Powerline Films, Ontario Arts

Council, Filmed in Ottawa, ON

Oct 2012 “Canada Council Art Bank—Contemporary Art for Canadians,”

Filmed in Ottawa, ON

Feb 2012 “Meryl McMaster: In-Between Worlds,” Station Gallery, Filmed in

Whitby, ON

Feb 2011 “Meryl McMaster: ‘Second Self’,” Interview by Tali Dudin at Leo

Kamen Gallery, ArtSync Television, Filmed in Toronto, ON

COLLECTIONS

AIMIA Art Collection

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

Art Gallery of Ontario

BMO Art Collection

Canada Council Art Bank

Carleton University Art Gallery

City of Ottawa Fine Art Collection

Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada

Desjardins Bank Art Collection

Doris McCarthy Gallery

Eiteljorg Museum

Guelph Art Gallery

Justina M. Barnicke Gallery

Lerners LLP Art Collection

McMaster Museum of Art

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Munich Re Art Collection

Museum London

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Ottawa Art Gallery

Private Collections

RBC Art Collection

Schingoethe Museum

Schulich School of Business

Stewart Hall Museum

The Canadian Museum of History

The Donovan Collection

The Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada Art Collection

The National Gallery of Canada

The National Museum of American Indian

Toronto Dominion Bank Art Collection

University of Victoria Legacy Art Galleries

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    Weight of the Shadow, from the Wanderings series
    MCMASTER, Meryl
    Date: 2015
    Medium: Archival pigment print on watercolour paper, mounted to dibond
    Object number: 2017.013.0001
    Avian Wanderer I, II, III, from the Wanderings series
    MCMASTER, Meryl
    Date: 2015
    Medium: Archival pigment print on watercolour paper, mounted to dibond
    Object number: 2017.013.0002