Artists
Mallory Lowe Mpoka
Mallory Lowe Mpoka is a queer Cameroonian-Belgian artist and cultural worker based in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal. In her multidisciplinary practice, which includes photography, textiles, and ceramics, she explores the intersections of place, home, memorialization, and subversion, addressing these themes through a personal and political lens. She has received the Malick Sidibé Prize at the African Biennale of Photography (2022) and the New Generation Photography Award (2024), and her work has been exhibited globally, including at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Gardiner Museum, 1-54 NYC, and SAVVY Contemporary. She released her debut artist book, Architecture of the Self: What Lives Within Us, in November 2024, and her most recent body of work is currently featured at the National Gallery of Canada.
Exhibition produced in partnership with Fonderie Darling.
- Countries / Nations / Communities
- Canada, Cameroon, and Belgium
- Website
- lowemallory.com

Works

The Matriarch: Unraveled Threads (detail), ongoing since 2021. Linen, cotton, acrylic, screen print, embroidery, sewing, photo transfer, variable dimensions. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid. © Mallory Lowe Mpoka