Myfanwy Macleod

Myfanwy Macleod
Myfanwy Macleod's The Birds (2010) sculpture
Born	1961 Oakville, Ontario
Nationality	Canadian
Education	Concordia University
Alma mater	École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
Known for	Exhibited work in Canada, the United States of America, and Europe
Notable work	Whole Lotta Love
Awards	La Fondation André Piolat (1995), VIVA award from the Doris and Jack Shadbolt Foundation

Myfanwy MacLeod (born 1961) is a Canadian artist who currently lives, and works, in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has exhibited work in Canada, the United States of America, and Europe. MacLeod received an award from La Fondation André Piolat (1995), and a VIVA award from the Doris and Jack Shadbolt Foundation (1999). She has work in public, and private collections, including at the National Art Gallery of Canada, and the Vancouver Art Gallery.

MacLeod grew up between Oakville, Ontario, and London, Ontario. Upon completing high school, she traveled throughout Europe. Coming back to Canada, MacLeod attended Concordia University, in Montreal, Quebec, where she studied film before changing her major to visual arts.

MacLeod uses humor, satire, allusions to pop culture, and often references various folklore traditions in her work. She takes interest in how an image or object can be transformed to change its meaning. Since the 1990s, MacLeod has become known for creating art that extends across, and links together, high culture with mass entertainment. In recent work, MacLeod directs focus towards how popular culture has portrayed masculinity through the lens of modernist art history. Artistic mediums that MacLeod works in are sculpture, drawing, painting, and photography, performance video, and sound installation. MacLeod has also written works, including published essays, and an artist book titled “Whole Lotta Love” (2012). MacLeod is represented by the Catriona Jeffries Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia.

MacLeod attended Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, where she earned a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in 1990. In 1994, MacLeod completed an independent study at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. MacLeod completed her Masters of Fine Arts at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1995.