Join us for an evening with David Garneau in conversation with Ivan Coyote, presented in conjunction with Garneau’s solo exhibition Dark Chapters. Together, they will explore themes of artmaking, his Métis identity, and storytelling. This talk offers a deeper entry into Garneau’s practice as a painter, writer, and curator, and the ideas animating Dark Chapters. A co-presentation with Yukon University.
Bio: David Garneau (Métis) is a Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Regina. He is a painter, curator, and writer who engages creative and critical expressions of Indigenous contemporary ways of knowing, being, and doing. In 2023, he received the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Art: Outstanding Achievement and was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada. Garneau has curated more than two dozen exhibitions in Canada and internationally (including the Museum of the American Indian, NYC). He has given keynotes in Australia, New Zealand, and throughout Canada on re/conciliation, museums, Indigenous contemporary and public art. His performance, Dear John, featuring the spirit of Louis Riel meeting with John A. Macdonald statues, was presented in Regina, Kingston, and Ottawa. David recently installed a large public art work, the Tawatina Bridge paintings, in Edmonton and designed the Riel Commemorative Silver Dollar for the Canadian Mint. His painting exhibition, Dark Chapters tours Canada in 2025-8. Dark Chapters: Reading the Still Lives of David Garneau, a collection of poems and essays by eighteen authors (University of Regina Press), launched March 2025. Concordia University Press is publishing a collection of his critical texts in 2026.
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