About my work
Until recently my work has taken the form of large-scale architectural installation, concentrated on the psycho-geography of the domestic interior and its double, the city. The paradoxical relationship between ‘interior’ and ‘exterior,’ as seeming opposites absorbed in ceaseless mimicry of one another, underpins much of my thinking about space. My work always begins with improbable premises and precarious material conditions that make finding the forms my thoughts might inhabit a trial at times. It is through generating such frisson and friction between thoughts and objects I am able to find the information needed to make the embellished claims instantiating these works stand up. The materials comprising these installations were broken down and repurposed from one exhibition to the next, slowly dematerializing over time, as I gradually divested myself of these burdens to shift focus elsewhere. Lately my material practice takes the shape of a small archive I tend; as creative, critical writing has become the focal point of my hyperbole-laden form of questioning.
Third person biography
Tricia Middleton lives and works in Montréal. She holds a BFA from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver (1997) and an MFA from Concordia University in Montréal (2005). Her solo exhibitions include presentations at Nordnorsk kunstnersenter, Svolvær (as part of LIAF, 2019), DOC!, Paris (2017), Anéxo7, Gatineau (2015), Oakville Galleries, Oakville (2012) Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver (2011) Mercer Union, Toronto (2010) Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge (2009), and Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2009). Middleton has participated in group exhibitions at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Montréal (2004), National Gallery of Canada (2007), Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2008), The Power Plant, Toronto (2010), Art Gallery of Alberta (2014), Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto (2014), Overgaden, Copenhagen (2017), and Galerie Néon, Lyon (2018). She has held international residencies at ISCP in New York (2013-14), Cité des Arts in Paris (2014), Hotel Amazonas in Bolzano, Italy (2016), and at DOC! in Paris (2017). ObsidianSituations is her first literary work, written over an extended period in Paris, published by Documents through the Centre for Expanded Poetics in Montréal (2023). She is currently writing a second novel, which was generously funded by the Periculum Foundation. After a long absence from the Montréal visual art exhibition scene, Middleton will open a solo show at Galerie B-312 in September 2027.
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triciamiddleton[at]proton.me
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