2026 Artist in Residence
September 30 - October 25
Chris Dufour (they/them) is an interdisciplinary social practice artist working between Kanien’kehá:ka and Mi’gma’gi. Chris uses mediums of plants, gardening, ecological wandering, textiles, quilting, installation, darkroom manipulation, leather tanning, and sculpture. Of Irish and Quebecois heritage, Chris grew up outside of Kjipuktuk (so called Halifax, Nova Scotia) and has spent the last 8 years working and living across many territories on Turtle Island. After attending the Yukon School of Visual Arts, Chris took on a practice of grassroots learning that brought them to social practice, permaculture, ecology, and community-based education. Throughout, Chris values projects which seek to utilize material practices as a facilitator, to process connections and relationships to ecologies, modalities of care, alternative futures, and ruminations about world building. In recent years, they’ve been working with lichen mobile programming space, Oxygen Arts Centre, and L’imprimerie, centre d’artistes producing new work and conducting material research.