Shaun Morin – 2014 Deep Bay Artists’ Residency

Shaun graduated from the University of Manitoba with a BFA in 2003. His works have been shown across Canada and the US in numerous group and solo exhibitions. Shaun was a member of Too Sicks, a Winnipeg art collective whose distribution method was random installations of street art to enhance public spaces. Residency project WhileRead More

Melanie Rocan – 2014 Deep Bay Artists’ Residency

Melanie is a Manitoba-raised artist whose paintings sensitively explore fragile, subconscious states. She received an MFA in painting from Concordia University. A three-time semi-finalist for the RBC Painting Competition, Melanie has exhibited at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Plug-In ICA, MOCCA and The Power Plant in Toronto, the Museé d’art contemporain de Montreal, as well asRead More

Dominique Rey – 2014 Deep Bay Artists’ Residency

Dominique is a multidisciplinary artist working in photography, painting, performance, and installation. Her work has been exhibited across Canada and the United States, Germany, and Slovakia. She holds a MFA from Bard College, New York, and the Transart Institute in Berlin. Residency project Dominique’s most recent work, a video-based piece entitled Erlking, is drawn fromRead More

Divya Mehra – 2014 Major Arts Grant

Divya Mehra is a visual artist (MFA, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A.) whose research-fueled practice often explores marginalization, otherness and the empty promise of “diversity”. Through appropriating, editing and reassembling a variety of literary, comedic and musical sources, she creates an acerbic dialogue on the commandeering, consumption and construction of race and identity politics. OftenRead More

J.J. Kegan McFadden – 2013 Major Arts Grant

J.J. Kegan McFadden has spent the last ten years developing a hybridized practice as a writer, publisher, curator, and artist. Having toured exhibitions to public, university, and artist-run galleries throughout Canada and beyond, he has also contributed critical and creative texts for publications through various galleries as well as reviews for national magazines. McFadden isRead More

J.J. Kegan McFadden – 2013 Deep Bay Artists’ Residency

An active writer, curator, and artist, J.J. Kegan McFadden has exhibited and published his work throughout Canada and beyond since receiving his Master’s degree in Critical and Curatorial Studies from the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia. McFadden is currently on a one-year research leave from hisRead More

Shannon Leitch – 2013 Deep Bay Artists’ Residency

Shannon Leitch received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Hawai’i and her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Regina. Residing in Brandon, she continues to work in two-dimensional media. Shannon’s work has been featured in Honolulu Magazine and Studio Visit Magazine. Residency project During her time at DeepRead More