Studio H Canada International Artists Residencies

Multimedia, video, installation and sound

Residency Dates: November 2025

Studio H Canada is thrilled to welcome Zoë LeBrun (she/they), an emerging, multidisciplinary artist from and practicing on Treaty 1 Territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

While at Studio H, I will be conducting research and sonic experiments with the goal of creating a proposal for a new body of work that I will utilize for exhibition applications in 2025-26. Conceptually, this body of work will centre touch as an integral mechanical and conceptual component to sensing sound. By the end of my residency, I hope to have developed various project plans for this new work, written exhibition and performance proposals, and the composition of at least one new piece of experimental sound art, which will be support material for these exhibition and workshop proposals.

Some of the auditory elements that I anticipate experimenting with are as follows: creating algorithmic compositions, further incorporating language into my work, taking audio recordings of the landscape, and recording the sounds and music that I might make in outdoor environments. I’m so grateful to have this time of sonic exploration which will give me freedom to find the next step in my artistic practice conceptually and technically as my skills improve!

About the Artist

Their process-based practice rests at the intersections of video, installation, and sound art. Through these mediums, LeBrun seeks to better understand the human condition, utilizing materials and processes which embody metaphors of lived experience and bodily function to do so. The works she creates reveal themselves over time, underscoring themes such as temporality and existentialism and making the physical processes behind them indivisible from the conceptual core of their practice.

LeBrun’s work has been exhibited at aceartinc., Dornbacher Straße 59,  Artists for Women’s Art, the Poolside Gallery, and the School of Art Student Gallery. Their films have been screened at the Dave Barber Cinematheque, the Muriel Richardson Auditorium, the Winnipeg Art Gallery Rooftop, and at Graffiti Art Programming, where she has also performed live. LeBrun holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the School of Art at the University of Manitoba and her work is held in private collections in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Vienna, Austria. She is also a co-host of Eat Your Arts and Vegetables on CKUW 95.9 FM.

You can learn more about Zoë on their website: https://zoelebrun.github.io/ and follow them on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zo_lebrun.

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Zoë is joined by Kristi Poole Adler (textiles) from Whistler, BC this month who is returning once again. You can learn about Kristi on the previous post about her residency.

Artists of all media and disciplines are welcome to apply to Studio H Canada International Art Residency – please check out the link here to apply.

Check out previous posts about artists here.