David Garneau

Professor – Visual Arts Department - University of Regina
Métis

David Garneau, born 1962 in Edmonton Alberta, is a professor of Visual Arts at the University of Regina. Along with his teaching profession he also has an artistic practice. This work includes oil paintings, acrylic, collage, drawing, and sculpture. Some of the paintings can be found in the collections of the Canadian Parliament, Indian and Inuit Art Collection, and Canadian Museum of History. His own Métis identity has been the focus of some of his work along with the themes of masculinity, history, and identity. Having graduated from the University of Calgary in 1989 with his Bachelor of Fine Arts, he went on to study and receive his Masters in American Literature in 1993.

Since teaching at the University of Calgary, he moved in 1999 to Regina where he teaches drawing, painting and criticism. While teaching and working as a practicing artist, he has also delved into critical writing and curation. In his writing work he has been engrossed in metaphysics, materialism, and the impact of nature and culture. Early on in his career he co- founded the visual arts-quarterly Artichoke in 1989, which was published until 2005. David has also curated shows for the Mackenzie Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Regina. He has been part of a SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) funded research-creation curatorial project called Creative Conciliation: Sensory Entanglements in Australia and Canada.