Ellen Moffat


Ellen Moffat is a Canadian media artist who works with sound, image and text in installation and performance. Born in Toronto, Ontario, she now resides in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Education

Moffat obtained a BA in Anthropology at the University of Toronto, a BFA from Concordia University and an MFA from the University of Regina.

Artwork

As an artist, Moffat has exhibited her work throughout Canada and internationally and has completed a number of artist`s residencies. These include residencies at Video Vérité in Saskatoon, The Dunlop Gallery in Regina, CARFAC Saskatchewan in Prince Albert, and the Canada Council for the Arts' Paris Residency in 2012.
Moffat has also been involved in many art organizations as a cultural worker and as a board member and has worked as a sessional instructor at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Regina.
Language and speech have been ongoing subjects of exploration for Moffat. The installation entitled "COMP_OSE" exhibited in a national tour in 2008 and 2009, included two interactive interfaces - one creating language as sound, the other as text. These "instruments" engaged gallery goers in collaboration. These artistic concerns extend to include the slippage that occurs in translation, as in the work "she i her" exhibited at The Dunlop Gallery in 2015. In 2017 she was commissioned to create Small Sonorities: Material Signals, a four-minute, multi-screen video as part of the Remai Modern Art Gallery web commission project.
Over the years, she has collaborated with many other artists and musicians including Jeff Morton and Kim Morgan.

Solo exhibitions

Exhibitions featuring Moffat's work in chronological order: