Maggy Hamel-Metsos

Biography

1997, Montreal, Canada

Maggy Hamel Metsos is an emerging artist based in Montreal. Working primarily from a sculptural perspective, Metsos' practice is a negotiation between the singular (the personal) and the common (the cultural). She is interested in the mechanisms of reduction, expansion and abstraction present in language. While she mobilizes the written word in her practice, she makes use of these same linguistic strategies in her material proposals. Her work has been exhibited and collected in Canada, Germany and the United States. Caretakers, her first solo exhibition at Eli Kerr, was followed by a second solo show entitled Whole Wide World. Recent exhibitions include O.W.M.B/ Shell 1 at Joe Project, Montreal, Life's Marching Band at Pumice Raft, Toronto and My Whole World at Baader Meinhof (Omaha). She is the winner of the Saunderson Prize, the BMO 1st Art Award and the Darling Foundry's Montreal Workshop Program 2023-2026.