Niap, also known as Nancy Saunders, is a multidisciplinary Inuk artist born in Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, Quebec. Currently based in Montréal, she divides her time between the city and her home community, which continues to profoundly influence her practice. Her work has been acquired by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Art Gallery of Ontario, among others. In 2017, she created Ilurqusivut (Our Ways), a large-scale mural, for the Canadian Museum of Nature’s Canada Goose Arctic Gallery in Ottawa. In 2022, Niap was the Indigenous artist-in-residence at the McCord Stewart Museum in Montréal, where she presented the exhibition Piqutiapiit. She is represented by the Feheley Fine Arts gallery in Toronto.

Exhibition produced in partnership with the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.

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Inuk