Nadia Myre is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores themes of language, culture, and memory, and who sources the culture of her Algonquin ancestors as a way of confronting contemporary
realities. In concert with this investigation is a keen interest in creating works which expand over time and foster participatory involvement. Myre attracted international attention when, in
2000-2002, she beaded over all 56 pages of the annotated Indian Act with the help of over 200 participants. In 2005, she started The Scar Project, an ongoing 'open lab' where viewers
participate by sewing their scars ��eal or symbolic��onto stretched canvases and writing their 'scar stories' on paper. This monograph provides a first comprehensive look at the Montreal-based
artist's remarkable young career. In English and French.Nadia Myre has participated in numerous high-profile exhibitions throughout Canada and the United States: Hide: Skins as Material and
Metaphor (Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Sata Fe, 2011), It Is What It Is: Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art (National Gallery of Canada, 2011), and Vantage Point: The Contemporary
Native Art Collection (Museum of the American Indian, Washington, 2010).
