Monique Motut-Firth

Monique Motut-Firth is an award winning multidisciplinary visual artist, writer and arts educator. A graduate from the MFA Visual Arts program at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, her work has been shown nationally and internationally. She also holds a BFA from Emily Carr and a BA from the University of British Columbia where she was awarded the Margaret Lawrence Scholarship for the Arts. Her current work investigates the use of collage as a critical strategy for exploring popular culture and knowledge making (and un-making).

She has gained international recognition for her animation shorts and has exhibited in a number of solo and group shows including, The Pendulum Gallery (Vancouver), Ryerson University (Toronto), Two Rivers Gallery (Prince George), Eyelevel Gallery (Halifax), Access Gallery, Charles H. Scott Gallery, 221A and the Helen Pitt Gallery in Vancouver. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts and has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts.

Motut-Firth is a 3rd generation settler of mixed heritage, Russian Doukhobor and French Roman Catholic. She would like to acknowledge that she grew up in the shadow of St. Mary’s Mission Indian Residential School (1861-1984), on the ancestral and shared territory of the Stol:Lo people. She gratefully continues to live, work and play on the beautiful and unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh nations.