b. 1975, Canada
Taqralik Partridge (b. 1975, Montréal/Québec, Canada)
Taqralik is an artist, writer, spoken word poet and curator originally from Kuujjuaq, Nunavut. She is the Director of the Nordic Lab at Galerie SAW Gallery in Ottawa. Taqralik’s visual art has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Montreal) and the Biennale of Sydney. She co-curated Tunirrusiangit (2018) at the Art Gallery of Ontario and Qautamaat | Every day / everyday at the Art Gallery of Guelph (2020). Her performance work has been featured on CBC Radio One and she has toured with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Kent Nagano and with Les Productions Troublemakers. Taqralik’s writing focuses on both life in the North and in southern urban centres, as well as the experiences of Inuit people. A collection of her poetry, curved against the hull of a peterhead, was published in 2020.