Born in 1985 in Toronto, Canada
Lives and works in New Haven, USA
Natia Lemay was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and holds a BFA from Ontario College of Art and Design (2021). She is an Afro-indigenous artist and curator of Black, Mi'kmaw, and Settler descent. Lemay plays with objectivity and subjectivity in her paintings, using light to excavate an all-black space. Sculpturally, she communicates an unsettled and precarious physicality through curvilinear works. She carves, shapes, and scrapes stone and wood to convey present and past traumas through multiple mediums. She explores themes of identity, consciousness, and visibility to problematize the conditions that have attempted to erase the humanity of racialized, indigenous and gendered people.
