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Megan Kyak-Monteith

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Biography

Megan Kyak-Monteith is a talented emerging artist from Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet), NU who resides in Halifax, NS. Kyak-Monteith is a student at NSCAD University where she studies Interdisciplinary Arts focusing mostly on painting and illustration.

Kyak-Monteith’s work often revolves around memory and piecing together memories with images and stories shared with her. In her painting Marble Island (2018) Kyak-Monteith depicts two figures exploring the rocks and beaches of Nunavut’s Marble Island. Kyak-Monteith’s final work brings together her own experiences as well as documented imagery giving a dream-like feeling to the work.

ᑎᑎᕋᐅᔭᖅᑎ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐅᖃᓕᒫᒐᓕᐅᖅᑎ ᒦᒐᓐ ᖃᔮᖅ−ᒫᓐᑎᖦ ᑎᑎᕋᐅᔭᖅᑎᐅᑲᐅᑎᒋᔪᖅ ᒥᑦᑎᒪᑕᓕᖕᒥᖔᖅᖢᓂ, ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᕼᐊᓚᕚᒃᓯ, ᓅᕙᔅᑰᓴᒥᐅᑕᐅᓪᓗᓂ. ᖃᖓᑦᑎᐊᓵᖅ ᐃᓱᓕᑦᑎᓚᐅᖅᑐᖅ ᓅᕙᔅᑰᓴ ᑎᑎᕋᐅᔭᕐᓂᕐᒧ ᐋᖅᑭᒃᓱᐃᓂᕐᒧᓪᓗ (NSCAD) ᓯᓚᑦᑐᖅᓴᕐᕕᒡᔪᐊᒥ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᓚᐅᖅᖢᓂᓗ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᒐᒃᓴᒐᓚᖕᓂ ᑎᑎᕋᐅᔭᕐᓂᕐᓂ, ᓴᓇᔭᖏ ᑐᙵᒐᔪᒃᑐᑦ ᐃᖅᑲᐅᒪᔭᐅᔪᓂᒃ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐃᒻᒥᒨᖅᑐᓂᒃ ᐅᓂᒃᑳᖑᔪᓂᒃ. ᖃᔮᖅ−ᒫᓐᑎᖦᐅᑉ ᓴᓇᔭᖏ ᐅᖃᓕᒫᒐᓕᐅᖓᒐᔪᒃᑐᑦ, ᐃᓚᖃᖅᖢᑎᒃ ᕿᒥᕐᕈᐊᒐᐅᑉ ᖄᖓᓃᑦᑐᒥ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᑎᑎᕋᐅᔭᖅᑎᓄᑦ ᕿᒥᕐᕈᐊᒐᓂᒃ 2020 ᐅᑭᐅᖓᓂᒃ ᓴᖅᑭᑕᐅᔪᒥᒃ ᐊᑎᖃᖅᖢᓂ “ᑎᑎᕋᐅᔭᕐᓂᕐᒥ”. ᐅᓂᒃᑳᖅ ᐃᓚᖃᑕᐅᔪᒥ ᐊᑎᖃᖅᖢᓂ “ᐃᒡᓗᑯᓗᖕᒥ ᖃᖅᑲᐅᑉ ᖄᖓᓂ”, ᐅᖃᓕᒫᒐᓕᐅᖅᑎ ᑕᕐᕋᓕᒃ ᑕᕕ ᓴᓇᔭᓂ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᕆᔭᖓ “ᐅᔾᔨᕐᓇᖅᑐᖅ ᑲᑎᙵᑦᑎᐊᕐᓂᖓᓂ ᐃᖅᑕᐅᒪᓂᕐᒥ, ᐱᔪᒪᔭᖃᕐᓂᕐᒥ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐃᓃᔭᖅᑕᐅᖓᓂ.” ᖃᔮᖅ−ᒫᓐᑎᖦᐅᑉ ᓴᓇᔭᖏ ᑕᑯᔭᒐᕐᒦᓯᒪᔪᑦ ᑲᓇᑕᓕᒫᒥ ᐃᓚᖃᖅᖢᓂ ᒪᐅᓐᑎ ᓴᐃᓐᑎ ᕕᓐᓴᓐᑎ ᓯᓚᑦᑐᖅᓴᕐᕕᒡᔪᐊ ᑎᑎᕋᐅᔭᖅᑐᓄ ᑕᑯᔭᒐᕐᓂᒃ ᕼᐊᓚᕚᒃᓯ, ᓅᕙᔅᑰᓴᒥ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐅᐊᓇᐲᒃ ᑎᑎᕋᐅᔭᖅᑐᓄ ᑕᑯᔭᒐᕐᓂᒃ ᒫᓂᑑᐸᒥ.

Artist Work

About Megan Kyak-Monteith

Medium:

Graphic Arts, Painting

Artistic Community:

Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet), Nunavut, Inuit Nunangat

Date of Birth:

Artists may have multiple birth years listed as a result of when and where they were born. For example, an artist born in the early twentieth century in a camp outside of a community centre may not know/have known their exact date of birth and identified different years.

Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet), NU
1997
Publication

INUA Catalogue, 2021

Exhibition

Whale Hunt - I Think Everyone is Here, 2020

Filmography

Pandemonium: Chaos & Confusion, 2016