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Born in 1981 in London, England. Lives and works in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
EDUCATION
2022–2024 MFA in Visual Arts, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador
Supervisor: D’Arcy Wilson
Certificate: Teaching Skills Enhancement Program (for graduate students, completed in 2023), Memorial University, NL
1999–2003 BA, Specialization in Communication Studies (Film Production stream), minor in Creative Writing, Concordia University, Montréal.
3rd-year exchange programme: Media Arts Department, Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK.
EXHIBITIONS
2024 MFA final exhibition (solo), St.Francis Xavier Art Gallery, Antigonish, Nova Scotia
2022 Etudes (solo), The Peoples’ Place, Antigonish Town and County Library, Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
2021 Toil Here: Works from Rural Mi’kma’ki (group), Curated by The Khyber Centre for the Arts & Mayworks Kjipuktuk,
The Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, NS.
2020 St. Francis Xavier University Art Department Faculty Exhibition (group), curated by Andrea Terry, Mulroney Centre Art Gallery. StFX.
ART FESTIVALS
2022 CB Nuit: Art After Dark Festival (Newfoundland and Labrador)
Lumière Art Festival (Nova Scotia)
Art in the Open (Prince Edward Island)
Project: Exploring the Treaty Relationship, Collaboration with Michelle Sylliboy, Jessica Mensch, and Leigh Gillam
2021 Nocturne: Art at Night, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Exploring the Treaty Relationship, Collaboration with M. Sylliboy, J. Mensch, L. Gillam.
2020 Antigonight Art After Dark Festival, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. A New Season at the Loom.
Antigonight Art After Dark Festival, Antigonish, NS. For the Love of the Land. Collaboration with MB Carty, L. Carty, S. Doiron.
FILMOGRAPHY
2021 EXPLORING THE TREATY RELATIONSHIP
co-directors: Antoinette Karuna, Michelle Sylliboy, Leigh Gillam, and Jessica Mensch, experimental animation, HD, 5 min.
2014 A FILM SET IN FIVE CHAPTERS (FÜNF KAPITEL VOM DREH)
director/cinematographer/sound recordist, documentary, HDDV, 24 min. production: Rommel Film
2006 THE BROKEN HEARTED (writer/director, short fiction, 35 mm, 11 min., production: Screen Machine
FILM FESTIVALS & SCREENING EVENTS
Exploring the Treaty Relationship
2022 ImagiNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival (Toronto)
FIN Atlantic International Film Festival (Nova Scotia)
Atlantic Arts Symposium (New Brunswick)
Antimatter [Media Art] (Vancouver)
The Broken Hearted
2015 Retrospective Cours écrire ton court – Fantasia Film Festival
2007 Festival international des films pour enfants de Montréal
2006 Toronto International Film Festival (Official Competition)
Vancouver Intl Film Festival (Official Competition)
Malibu International Film Festival (Official Competition)
Bucheon Intl Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) (Official Competition)
Leeds Intl Film Festival (Official Competition)
Closing night film- Les rendez-vous du cinéma québécois
Trouville Off-Courts (Official Competition)
Cine-World Film Festival (Best of TIFF shorts)
San Diego Women Film Festival (Official Competition)
Brno 16 Film Festival (Official Competition)
Women in Film and Television Ireland: French Women Film Festival
DC Shorts Film Festival (Official Competition)
Festival des 3-Amériques (Official Competition)
Sherbrooke Film Festival (Official Competition)
Festival du cinéma en cours
Regard sur le court métrage au Saguenay
Silence, on court (NFB)
Market: International Short Film Festival of Clermont-Ferrand
2005 SODEC screening- Festival du nouveau Cinéma
THEATRICAL RELEASE, DISTRIBUTION & TELEVISION
A Film Set in Five Chapters
2015 Pandora Film
The Broken Hearted
2007 FOX Italy
2006 Télé-Québec
Movieola: the short film channel
Locomotion Films
Cinéma Le Parisien
Cinéma Beaubien
AWARDS
2006 Best Original Screenplay at the Malibu International Film Festival for The Broken Hearted.
2006 Jury Award at the San Diego Women Film Festival for The Broken Hearted.
2004 1st Prize: Best Short Script: SODEC & Festival du nouveau cinéma Cours écrire ton court for The Broken Hearted.
ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIPS
2022 Canada Graduate Scholarships – Master’s program, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) (1 year)
2022 Academic Excellence Award, Memorial University (1 year)
GRANTS
2023 Arts Nova Scotia (professional development grant) for MFA studies
2022 Canada Council for the Arts (professional development grant)
2021 Arts Nova Scotia (creation grant)
2021 Change Lab Action Research Initiative (CLARI) (project grant)
2007 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) (scriptwriting grant)
2006 Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC) (scriptwriting grant)
2006 Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant (travel grant)
2006 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) (travel grant)
2004 Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC) (production grant)
2004 National Film Board of Canada (NFB) (production grant)
2004 Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC) (scriptwriting grant)
ARTIST RESIDENCY
2020 ASAP Artist-Run Centre, Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
ARTIST TALKS
2021 The Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, Nova Scotia for TOIL HERE: Works from Rural Mi’kma’ki.
2020 & 2021 Course: Introduction to Colour, St Francis Xavier University,
2020 Course: The Practice of Oral History, St Francis Xavier University.
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES / ACADEMIC LECTURE SERIES
2024 Critical Mixed-Race Studies Conference, Ohio State University, Ohio, US.
2024 Hive for Feminist Research, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia
PRESS
2021 At Home on the North Shore, Meet Antigonish Visual Artist Antoinette Karuna, artist profile, article by Shelley Cameron-McCarron.
2021 Chatelaine Magazine, Rug Hooking in Nova Scotia, article by Morgan Mullin.
2021 Visual Arts News. Exhibition review: TOIL HERE: Works from Rural Mi'kma'ki, Khyber Centre for the Arts & Mayworks Kjipuktuk,
article by M. Hanna.
2005 SEQUENCES, issue 235, January–February, pp. 18–19; review of The Broken Hearted.
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Interview with artist Padma Rajendran, BODY Literature Journal (Winter issue).
https://www.bodyliterature.com/2023/04/27/interview-with-artist-padma-rajendran/
2023 “Treaty Education Resource for Nova Scotia Teachers,” written by Antoinette Karuna, Karen Fish, Naiomi Metallic, and Gillian Allen,
published by Mi’kmaw Kina’matnewey & the Treaty Education Department of Nova Scotia. https://www.kinu.ca/resources
2022 “Peace and Friendship: Living with the Land,” Mi’kmaw Educational Magazine in Treaty Education,” interviews by Antoinette Karuna,
published by Mi’kmaw Kina’matnewey, Education and Early Childhood Development & the Treaty Education Department of Nova
Scotia. https://www.kinu.ca/resources
2021 “Mi’kmaw Kina’matnewey Style Guide,” written by Antoinette Karuna and Lorraine Price, published by Mi’kmaw Kina’matnewey.
https://www.kinu.ca/resources
ACADEMIC COMMITTEE
2023 Curriculum Committee, Art Department , St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia.
PEER ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE
Arts Nova Scotia
CURRENT ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2020–present Part-Time Academic Instructor, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia.
Departments: Art Department & Centre for Online Learning & Professional Studies.
Courses: Introductory Filmmaking (ART 259)
Intermediate Filmmaking (ART 386)
OTHER ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2022–2023 Teaching Assistant
Visual Arts Department, Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador
Courses: Introductory Textiles and Fibre Art
Advanced Textiles and Fibre Art
Art History Survey I
2023 Teaching Mentee through the programme Teaching Skills Enhancement Programme
Visual Arts Department, Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador
Course: Extended Practice in Printed Multiples
2000–2002 Teaching Assistant
Communications Studies Department, Concordia University, Montreal
Courses: Film I
Film II