Amy Malbeuf, photo by Nicole Lapierre.
Join us for an afternoon talk with Amy Malbeuf, a Métis visual artist from Rich Lake, Alberta (Treaty 6 territory).
In this presentation, Malbeuf discusses her performance work, wearable artworks, and other aspects of her artistic practice as they relate to ideas of the body. She also reflects on her return to Banff Centre, where she began to delve deeply into performance practice in 2011. Revisiting the same lands and questions that informed her early work, Malbeuf considers the ongoing interrelatedness of Indigenous feminism, identity, ecology, and embodied performance.
Malbeuf is a faculty member for the Winter 2026 Banff Artist in Residence program, a transformative five-week residency that provides mentorship, critical feedback, and studio time to visual artists and curators at any stage of their career.
This event is part of the Visual Arts Open Lecture Series, which presents talks by leading Canadian and international artists, curators, and academics.
Visual Arts is supported by the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Outstanding Artist Program.
About Amy Malbeuf
Amy Malbeuf
Amy Malbeuf is a Métis visual artist from Rich Lake, Alberta, Treaty 6 territory. She is grateful to currently be living and creating on unceded Mi’kmaq territory in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Through utilizing mediums such as caribou hair tufting, beadwork, installation, performance, video, and tattoo Malbeuf explores notions of identity, place, language, and ecology. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally in over forty shows at such venues as Art Mûr, Montréal, Winnipeg Art Gallery; Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton; Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe; and Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua, New Zealand. Malbeuf has participated in many international artist residencies including at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, (AUS); Fogo Island Arts; The Labrador Research Institute; and Santa Fe Art Institute (US). She holds a MFA in Visual Art from the University of British Columbia Okanagan. Malbeuf has been the recipient of such honours as the 2016 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award, the 2016 William and Meredith Saunderson Prize for Emerging Artists in Canada from the Hnatyshyn Foundation, a 2017 REVEAL award from the Hnatyshyn Foundation and was long listed for the 2017 and 2020 Sobey Art Award.