Maureen Gruben’s multi-media practice incorporates diverse organic and industrial materials that are often salvaged from her local environment. She was born and raised in Tuktoyaktuk where her parents were traditional Inuvialuit knowledge keepers and founders of E. Gruben’s Transport. Gruben holds a BFA from the University of Victoria as well as diplomas in Fine Art, Creative Writing, and Indigenous Leadership from the En’owkin Centre, Penticton.
Recent exhibitions include Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2024); Rovaniemi Art Museum Korundi, Rovaniemi (2024); Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle (2024); Bodenrader, Chicago (2023); Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo; Fogo Island Gallery, Fogo Island (2023); Women's Gallery & Darkroom, New York (2022); Cade Centre for Fine Arts, Baltimore (2022); Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada, Los Vegas (2022); Contemporary Native Art Biennial, Montreal (2022); public art installations for The Bentway Skate Trail & Canoe Landing, Toronto (2021); Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca (2021); The Rooms, St. John’s (2021); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (2020); and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2019). She was long listed for the 2019 Aesthetica Art Prize and the 2021 Sobey Art Prize, and her work is held in public and private collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Indigenous Art Centre, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada.
Contact:
maureengruben@hotmail.com