ARTIST BIO

Paige Smith is an interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates how bodies and places are intertwined. She works with moving-image, installation, performance, and print materials to examine how external environments materially affect the body, and how our bodies, in turn, can interact with place.

She received her MFA (Studio Art) from the University of Waterloo, and her BFA (Film) and Post Baccalaureate Diploma (Contemporary Art) from Simon Fraser University. Her artistic-research has been supported by various institutions including the Social Science and Humanity Research Council of Canada and the British Columbia Art Council. Additionally, she has exhibited internationally in France, the United States, and Canada, including recently with the Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) and University of Waterloo Art Gallery (UWAG). Her work can be found in the permanent collection of Video Out Distribution.

Paige has taught as a sessional lecturer with the University of Waterloo’s Fine Arts Department and as a sessional instructor assistant with the University of Toronto for video production courses. She has led workshops with organizations such as the Contemporary Art Gallery and VIVO Media Arts Centre, and worked as an art instructor for the City of Kitchener and Artshine. Additionally, Paige has worked in arts programming and development with the University of Waterloo’s Student Art Innovation Lab and SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement.

Paige lives in Waterloo, Ontario, which is situated within the Haldimand Tract, land that was granted to the Six Nations of the Grand River, and within the territory of the Attawandaron, Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee peoples. She was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. 

ARTIST STATEMENT

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