In Studio with Megan Kyak-Monteith
Megan Kyak-Monteith. Large Feast On A Bed Of Cardboard. Photo by: David Lipnowski
Watch the video to hear Kyak-Monteith talk about her work and process:
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Megan Kyak-Monteith
1997
Painter and illustrator Megan Kyak-Monteith is an early career artist from Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet), NU based in Halifax, NS. A recent graduate of NSCAD University where she studied Interdisciplinary Arts, her work is oftern rooted in explorations of memory and personal narrative. Kyak-Montieth’s work has been widely published, including as the cover of the Winter 2020 issue of the Inuit Art Quarterly on “Painting”. In the accompanying feature story “Matchbox Mountaintops”, author Tarralik Duffy characterizes her work as “vividly articulat[ing] a sense of reminiscence, longing and displacement.” Kyak-Monteith’s work has been exhibited across Canada including at Mount St. Vincent University Art Gallery in Halifax, NS and the Winnipeg Art Gallery in Manitoba.
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