MISSY LEBLANC

Missy LeBlanc (Métis, nêhiyaw, and Polish) is a curator, writer, and currently the Curatorial Resident at TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary, AB. In 2019, she was the winner of the Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators and a runner-up for the Canadian Art Writing Prize. LeBlanc holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Alberta, double majoring in the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture and Sociology (2015) and a Diploma in Arts & Cultural Management from MacEwan University (2018). In September 2021, LeBlanc will be starting the Master of Arts, Cultural Studies: Curatorial Practices program at the University of Winnipeg. As the inaugural Emerging Curatorial Resident at TRUCK (2019-present), LeBlanc curated two exhibitions—Taskoch pipon kona kah nipa muskoseya, nepin pesim eti pimachihew | Like the winter snow kills the grass, the summer sun revives it and Mamanaw Pekiskwewina | Mother Tongues—and a one day gathering centered on Indigenous language revitalization and epistemologies in November/December 2019. The project will be going on tour across so-called Canada in 2021 and 2022.

LeBlanc was born, raised, and has ancestral ties to amiskwacîwâskahikan/Beaver Hills House/Edmonton and is currently based in Mohkínstsis/Kootsisáwa/Wincheesh-pah/Calgary.

Photo credit: Chelsea-Yang Smith