Marie-Eve G. Castonguay

Marie-Eve G. Castonguay is an artist, independent curator, educator, writer, and emerging scholar who lives and works in Tiohtià:ke | Mooniyang | Montréal. She is currently pursuing a MA in art history at Concordia University, and her main research interest is contemporary craft practices. She holds a BFA in jewelry design and metalsmithing from NSCAD University (2013) and a college diploma from the École de Joaillerie de Québec (2011). From 2014 to 2018, she was a full-time artist-in-residence at Harbourfront Centre, in Toronto. Her work has been featured in many exhibitions in Canada and abroad, and she has received numerous grants and awards, including the Autor-Joya Award in 2015 and the Jean-Cartier Award in 2020.

Her curatorial practice is focused on contemporary jewelry, but also on contemporary craft practices in a more comprehensive way. Her articles have been published in Bazzart, Metalsmith magazine, Vie des Arts and Ateliers d'Art, and she has written several texts for various exhibition catalogs and booklets. She teaches in the college program at the École de Joaillerie de Montréal.

Photo: Alex Tran