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Lisa Myers is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University, where she holds the York Research Chair in Indigenous Art and Curatorial Practice. She is also the Program Coordinator for Environmental Arts & Justice. A member of Beausoleil First Nation, Myers is based in Port Severn and Toronto, Ontario, and works as an independent curator and interdisciplinary artist.
- AOCA, OCAD University
- BFA, OCAD University
- MFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practice, OCAD University
Her research centers on Indigenous art, socially engaged and participatory art practices, curatorial theory, food studies, and land-based knowledge systems. She explores the intersections of art, ecology, and Indigenous epistemologies through performance, printmaking, animation, and community collaboration. Her work often involves food as both medium and metaphor, emphasizing reciprocity, memory, and place.
Myers’s recent curatorial and artistic projects, such as Shore Lunch, Post Script, and Carry Forward, examine oral history, treaty relationships, and the role of voice and listening in Indigenous worldviews. Her publications and exhibitions interrogate colonial museum practices, land acknowledgment, and the resilience of Indigenous cultural forms.
- York Research Chair in Indigenous Art and Curatorial Practice
She has advised numerous emerging artists and collaborative projects, including Carnivora, and has led community workshops such as Cooking-as-Inquiry: Wild Rice/Manoomin. Her work bridges academic research, public art, and community engagement, often hosted in galleries, public spaces, and festivals across Canada.
Myers has exhibited and curated nationally and published in journals such as Senses and Society, C Magazine, and FUSE Magazine. Her recent writings appear in the anthology Other Places and she continues to expand interdisciplinary approaches through projects like Finding Flowers, which connects pollinator conservation with Indigenous art and pedagogy.
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