Melany Nugent-Noble is a Canadian artist currently based in Kjipuktuk/Halifax Canada. Nugent-Noble’s research and practice regularly engages with the political nature of public spaces, texts, and speeches, and takes various forms including installation, art books, and performance.
Nugent-Noble holds an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver (2015).
Melany Nugent
(b. 1980, Canada)
Awards & Acknowledgements
2022 Lieutenant Governor’s Arts and Music Awards
2021 British Columbia Arts Council, Pivot Grant for Individuals
2018/19 Canada Council for the Arts, Professional Development Grant
2018 British Columbia Arts Council, Visual Arts Grant
2016 British Columbia Arts Council, Early Career Development Grant
2014 Pacific Leaders Scholarship, Government of British Columbia
2013 Pacific Leaders Scholarship, Government of British Columbia
Residencies, Internships & Fellowships
2020 City of Kelowna, Artist in Residence, Kelowna, Canada
2018 Fellow, The Art & Law Program, New York, USA
2018 The Evolving Book, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
2016 Convergent Studios, Kelowna, BC
2016 BAIR TEXT, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
2005 Practicum, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff New Media Institute, Banff, Canada
2003/04 Practicum, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Creative Electronic Environment Banff, Canada
2003 Internship, Latitude 53 Contemporary Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
Selected Exhibitions, Book Fairs & Presentations
2021 Invisible Threads are the Strongest Ties, Nocturne Festival/Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax,
Nova Scotia, Canada (October 16, 2021)
2020/21 Nothing to be done, Kelowna Art Gallery Courtyard, Kelowna, Canada (August 22, 2020-
August 29, 2021)
2020 When it is Necessary to Stand Still, Kelowna, Canada (September 10-October 16, 2020)
2019 Volume II, Montreal Art Book Fair, Société des arts technologiques, Montreal, Quebec
2019 third beach, Digital Carnival 2019, Richmond, Canada, (collaboration with Trent Noble)
2019 Vancouver Art Book Fair, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
2019 TEXT / SOUND / PERFORMANCE: Making in Canadian Space. University College Dublin, Ireland
2018 Vancouver Art Book Fair, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
2018 Moon Picnic (II), Nuit Blanche, Winnipeg Canada
2018 third beach, Nuit Blanche, Winnipeg Canada, (collaboration with Trent Noble)
2018 third beach, Lake Country Art Gallery, (collaboration with Trent Noble)
2017 Vancouver Art Book Fair, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2017 Toronto Art Book Fair, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON
2016 Moon (Picnic) Lake Country Art Gallery, Lake Country, BC
2016 Feeding the Machine: Translation of British Columbia's Speech from the Throne,
University of Calgary, Free Exchange Graduate Conference: Power & Politics in Print
(Calgary, Alberta)
2016 Performance, Speech from the Throne, 2016, Readings in Public and Other Performances,
the Club at The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta.
2016 Vancouver Art Book Fair, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2015 Stalemate Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Members’ Gallery, Kelowna, BC
Education
2015 Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Masters of Fine Arts (MFA)
2011 Athabasca University, Bachelor of Professional Arts, Communications
2003 Grant MacEwan University, Digital Arts and Media
Relevant Professional & Volunteer Experience Experience
2021- President, Board of Directors, CARFAC BC
2017- Assistant Director, Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, Canada
2013/15 Public Education Coordinator Multiculturalism & Anti-Racism, Government of British
Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
2012/14 ArtQuake, Board of Directors, Vancouver, Canada
2008/13 Program Advisor, Multiculturalism & Anti-Racism, Government of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada
2006/07 Desktop Publishing Coordinator, Ministry of Education, Government of Alberta, Edmonton,
Canada