Photo: Conor McNally
Tiffany Shaw is a Métis architect, artist and curator based in Alberta. She holds a BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) University, a Masters in Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and is currently working at Reimagine Architects and recently started an Indigenous owned consulting company, named Reimagine Gathering. Shaw has exhibited widely including the Architecture Venice Biennale, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Pier 21, Agnes Etherington Art Centre and the Chicago Architecture Biennial. She has been the recipient of multiple public art commissions such as Edmonton's Indigenous Art Park and Winnipeg’s Markham Bus Station. Among her public art projects Tiffany has produced several notable transitory art works and is a core member of Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective.
Oscillating between digital and analogue methodologies Shaw’s work gathers notions of craft, memory and atmosphere. Her practice is often guided by communal interventions as a way to engage a lifted understanding of place. While born in Calgary and raised in Edmonton, Shaw’s Métis lineage derives from Fort McMurray via Fort McKay/Fort Chipewyan and the Red River.
contact: tiffanysc at gmail.com
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Tiffany Shaw is a Métis Nation of Alberta Citizen and currently resides in the North Saskatchewan River Territory: Jasper House Métis District (7). Family names through her Métis lineage on her mother’s side are connected to Tourangeau and Piche in Fort McMurray, that stem back into Fort McKay/Fort Chipewyan via the Red River which also include the family names Laroque, and Vadet. Along with being Métis Shaw also carries Scottish (Shaw) and Acadian (Paulin) ancestry on her mother’s side. Shaw’s biological father was British and immigrated to Canada in his teens.