Elisabeth Belliveau

Elisabeth Belliveau (born November 27, 1979) is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist and author of five graphic novels. Currently based in Treaty Six Territory, Amiskwaciwâskahikan, Edmonton, Alberta, she is an assistant professor of fine arts at Grant MacEwan University Faculty of Fine Arts and Communications. She previously taught at the Grande Prairie Regional College in Alberta, and at Concordia University in Montreal.

Belliveau served on the board of directors for one of the province's largest and oldest centres for Canadian contemporary art, Latitude 53, and is an advisory council member for Grant MacEwan University's John and Maggie Mitchell Gallery in Edmonton, Alberta. Met with high approbation, Belliveau's works have been endorsed internationally by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts. Belliveau was awarded the William Blair Bruce Scholarship.

Residencies In 2002, Belliveau was awarded her first ever residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Banff, Alberta. As a featured artist of the Biennale's sixteenth edition, The Life of Things, which aimed to "[address] the relationships built between individuals and their environment," Belliveau's submission to the group exhibition was a video installation entitled Still Life with Fallen Fruit (after a Breath of Life, Clarice Lispector) (2017-2019). Belliveau's submission contributed to the exhibition's overall calling to attention of how notions of place - and displacement - are enforced by imaginary 'borders' within our sociopolitical structures. The Biennial of Contemporary Art's official statement notes that all submitted works act to "[call] attention to how borders are expressed, who can enforce them, and what is confined by their limits." A selection of her works have also been collected by ARTEXT Montreal, the Confederation Centre for the Arts Prince Edward Island, Musée Ambulant Quebec City QC, Brucebo Foundation Sweden, Women's Studio Workshop NY, [and] various [other] private national and international collections. Her previous graphic novels include One Year in America and Something to Pet the Cat About