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Artists' Talks, Curator's Talk

Meryl McMaster in Conversation with Tarah Hogue

Join us at the AGGV for a talk with acclaimed Canadian artist, Meryl McMaster, and co-curator of the exhibition Meryl McMaster: Bloodline, Tarah Hogue.

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Meryl McMaster earned her BFA in Photography from the Ontario College of Art and Design University (2010) and is currently based in Québec, Canada. Known for her large-format self-portraits that have a distinct performative quality, she explores questions of self through land, lineage, history, and culture, with specific reference to her mixed nêhiyaw (Plains Cree), British and Dutch ancestry. Meryl is a citizen of Siksika Nation in Alberta and her family is also from Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan.

McMaster’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Heard Museum, Remai Modern, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Montclair Museum, Urban
Shaman, Merignac Photo, McCord Museum, Canada House London, Ikon Gallery, Ryerson Image Centre, Glenbow Museum, Momenta Biennale Montreal, Museum
of Contemporary Native Arts, and Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian New York, amongst others. Her work has also appeared in group exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Cummer Museum, Autry Museum, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Sprengel Museum, Heard Museum, Anchorage Museum, Australian Centre for Photography, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, National Gallery of Canada, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Denver Art Museum, Pérez Art Museum and Art Gallery of Alberta, to name a few.

She is the recipient of numerous awards including the King Charles III”s Coronation Medal, Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award, REVEAL Indigenous Art Award, Charles Pachter Prize for Emerging Artists, Canon Canada Prize, Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship and OCAD U Medal. She was shortlisted for the Rencontres d’Arles New Discovery Award 2019, Prix de la Photo Madame Figaro Arles 2019, and longlisted for the 2016 Sobey Art Award. McMaster is represented by Stephen Bulger Gallery (Toronto, Canada) and Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain (Montréal, Canada).

Tarah Hogue is a curator, writer, and cultural worker based in Treaty 6 and 7 territories and the Métis homeland. Hogue’s practice is grounded in relational geographies, attending to how people and artworks shape and are shaped by the territories they belong to and move through. She approaches curating as a form of generative inquiry and connection, where otherwise ways of being in the world emerge through encounters between artworks, spaces, and publics. She is committed to advancing Indigenous self-determination in the arts through initiatives that support institutional change, catalyze public engagement, and center cultural resurgence. Hogue is currently Adjunct Curator at Remai Modern, where she previously served as the institution’s inaugural Curator (Indigenous Art). Her past roles include curatorial fellowships at the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, a visiting curatorship at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane, and a curator-in-residence position at grunt gallery in Vancouver. Her upcoming exhibition, Dyani White Hawk: Love Language, co-curated with Siri Engberg, opens at the Walker Art Center in October 2025 before touring to Remai Modern. Raised alongside wâwâskêsiw sîpiy in central Alberta, Hogue is of Michif and Euro-Canadian ancestry. She is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta, with relatives from the communities of St. Charles and St. François Xavier in Manitoba.  

Image Credits: Meryl McMaster (detail), courtesy of the artist | Tarah Hogue, Adjunct Curator at Remai Modern. Photograph by Carey Shaw, courtesy of Tarah Hogue.