Meryl McMaster, Echoes Across the Field, 2022, pigment print on archival paper mounted to aluminum composite panel, 101.6 x 152.4 cm
Meryl McMaster is a Canadian artist with nêhiyaw (Plains Cree), Métis, British and Dutch ancestry. Her lens-based practice incorporates the production of hand crafted materials and performance forming a synergy that transports the viewer out of the ordinary and into a space of contemplation and introspection. She explores the self in relation to land, lineage, history, culture and the more-than-human world.
She will be presenting, Wednesday, February 5 at 11 a.m. via Zoom as part of the NIU School of Art and Design’s Elizabeth Allen Scholars in Art History Lecture Series. The lecture is free and open to the public.
McMaster is the recipient of the Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award, the REVEAL Indigenous Art Award, Charles Pachter Prize for Emerging Artists, the Canon Canada Prize, the Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, the OCAD U Medal and was short listed for the Recontres d’Arles New Discovery Award 2019, the Prix de la Photo Madame Figaro Arles 2019 and long listed for the 2016 Sobey Art Award.
The Elizabeth Allen Lectures are sponsored by the Art History Division of NIU’s School of Art and Design. They are free and open to the public. For information, please contact Sarah Evans at sevans@niu.edu.
