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Artist Talk with Lucas Morneau
Artist Talk with Lucas Morneau

Wed, Feb 12

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Online via Zoom

Artist Talk with Lucas Morneau

Join us for an Artist Talk with Lucas Morneau on February 12th from 7pm - 8pm via Zoom.

Time & Location

Feb 12, 2025, 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Online via Zoom

About the Event

Join us for an Artist Talk with Lucas Morneau on February 12th from 7pm - 8pm via Zoom to hear about the exhibition Queer Newfoundland Hockey League on view in the State of Flux Gallery.


MEET LUCAS

Lucas Morneau (they/he) is an interdisciplinary artist and curator from the island  of Ktaqmtuk/Newfoundland. Blending drag with textiles, photography, video  performance, and sculpture, their practice queers Newfoundland/Canadian  cultural pastimes and traditions, exploring gender performativity and critiquing  hegemonic masculinity in so-called Canada and Newfoundland. 


Morneau has exhibited solo exhibitions throughout Canada, as well as exhibited  in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. Notable exhibitions  include Queer Newfoundland Hockey League, at ODD Gallery in Dawson City,  YK, Kamloops Art Gallery in Kamloops, BC, and Forest City Gallery in London,  ON, and The Queer Mummer at Grenfell Art Gallery in Corner Brook, NL,  Acadian University Art Gallery in Wolfville, NS, and Cape Breton University Art  Gallery in Sydney, NS. 


Morneau has participated in residencies across Canada, including Critical Mass’  2021 Artist in Residence program in Port Hope, Ontario, the 41e Symposium  international d‘art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul in Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec  in 2023, and La Napoule Canadian Artist Residency in Mandelieu-La-Napoule,  France in 2024. 


Morneau has won multiple awards and honours, including the 2016 BMO 1st Art  Award for Newfoundland and Labrador, the 2018 Cox & Palmer Pivotal Point  Grant, the 2018 and 2021 Scotiabank New Generations Photography Award Shortlist, and the 2024 Sobey Art Award Longlist. They have also received  multiple grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, ArtsNL, and ArtsNB.  


Morneau holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Memorial University of  Newfoundland—Grenfell Campus (2016) and a Master of Fine Arts from  University of Saskatchewan (2018). They currently live in the Siknikt distric of  Mi’kma’ki — Sackville, New Brunswick, where they work as the Production  Manager for artist run-centre Struts Gallery. 









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