Amy Malbeuf

Amy Malbeuf is a Canadian-Métis visual artist, educator, and cultural tattoo practitioner born in Rich Lake, Alberta.

Malbeuf examines notions of language, territory, nature and identity through a multidisciplinary approach. She has participated in numerous international artist residencies, including programs at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, The Banff Centre, The Labrador Research Institute, and Santa Fe Art Institute. She is also certified as a Native Cultural Arts Instructor by Portage College in Lac La Biche.

Art Caribou hair tufting, beadwork, installation, performance, and video are prominent in Malbeuf's work.

Works such as Iskotew (2018), a sculpture of the Cree word for "Fire" described as ᐃᐢᑯᑌᐤ in Nēhiyawēwin, look at Native heritage through landscape and language.

As a cultural tattoo practitioner, Malbeuf practices skin stitch, an indigenous tattoo process that sews thread dipped in ink into the skin.

Selected exhibitions Malbeuf has exhibited her works at national and international venues including the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Alberta, Contemporary Calgary, and Stride Gallery. Solo exhibitions

2018 Tensions, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary 2017 Entering the Landscape, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, CAN 2017 Connective Tissue, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, US 2016 No Visible Horizon, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, CAN 2016 If We Never Met…, Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua, NZ 2015 Material Girls, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, CAN 2015 Future Station: Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, CAN 2013 Gashka’oode: Tangled, Forest City Gallery, London, CAN 2013 Upholstered Cultural Facets of a Pehonan, Ramble in the Bramble, Transitory public art project, Edmonton Arts Council