Lou Sheppard works in interdisciplinary audio, performance, and installation. He focuses on the climate crisis, loss, and queer bodies and ecologies, responding to social and material histories of sites, bodies, and environments. Sheppard has performed and exhibited across Canada and Europe and has participated in numerous residencies, including at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (New York), La Cité internationale des arts (Paris), and Rupert (Vilnius), and as participant and faculty at the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity. He was longlisted for the Sobey Art Award in 2018 and 2021, and received the award in 2020. He is a settler on the traditional and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq in Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia.

Exhibition produced in partnership with OPTICA.

Countries / Nations / Communities

Canada

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lousheppard.com