Photo: Neeko Paluzzi
Meryl McMaster earned her BFA in Photography from the Ontario College of Art and Design University (2010). 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), Métis, British and Dutch ancestry. McMaster’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Remai Modern (2023), Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2019), and Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, New York (2015) to name a few. She was shortlisted for the Rencontres d’Arles New Discovery Award 2019 and longlisted for the 2016 Sobey Art Award and has been awarded the 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.
