Marisa Gallemit is a Canadian-born Pilipina visual artist dwelling in place on the traditional territories of the Anishinaabeg, the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat. Through an ongoing exploration of third culture futurity, found entities, and their potential energies, her practice leans deeply into Buckminster Fuller’s poetic prompt: “Now, how do we make this spaceship work?”

Gallemit talks story, makes performances, builds objects, designs site-specific installations, and produces temporary public artworks with the goal of triangulating our precise cultural coordinates according to current local time.

Since 2009, Gallemit has presented storytelling and performative works, designed installations for music and art festivals, facilitated art-making workshops, curated art programs for several Ottawa non-gallery venues, and produced a large-scale public art installation for the City of Mississauga. She is the recipient of the City of Ottawa Grow Grant (2022), the Ontario Arts Council Arts Response Initiative Project Grant (2021), the City of Ottawa Creation and Production Fund (2020), and the SAW Prize for New Works (2020).

Marisa Gallemit gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the City of Ottawa, the Ontario Arts Council and Galerie SAW Gallery.

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts (Film Studies), Carleton University, 1997, Ottawa, Canada
Film Production Certificate, New York Film Academy, 1998, NYC, USA

EXHIBITIONS + PROJECTS

2023
STAGES 2023 Biennial [temporary public art installation] Plug In ICA, Winnipeg *upcoming XL [group exhibition] AXENÉO7, Gatineau Human Touch [virtual residency] Centre d’Exposition L’Imagier, Gatineau Soothsayer Serenades [contributor w/ Amrita Hepi] Plug In ICA, Winnipeg
Canada Council for the Arts [peer assessment committee member] Ontario Arts Council [peer assessment committee member]

2022
Pantayo x Marisa Gallemit [stage design + co-production w/ Debaser] Pique, Arts Court, Ottawa Untitled WIP [costume assistant] film by Laura Taler, Ottawa
Tethering: Entanglement [installation + artist talk] Transpositions, Centre[3], Hamilton
Tethering: Entanglement [installation] SAW Prize Group Exhibition, Galerie SAW Gallery, Ottawa Tender Circuits [project coordinator + podcast host] Digital Arts Resource Centre, Ottawa PAMBIHIRA/extraordinary3 [sculpture] Place des Arts Farrellton, Farrellton QC Traversing the Void: Marisa Gallemit x Rhiannon Vogl [contributor] Newest Magazine, Toronto Artistic Practices [panel member] Women in Music + Arts Conference, National Arts Centre, Ottawa STAGES 2023 [artist talk] Plug In ICA, Winnipeg
City of Ottawa Cultural Funding [peer assessment committee member]
Canada Council for the Arts [peer assessment committee member]
Digital Arts Resource Centre Media Art Production Fund [peer assessment committee member]

2021 Tethering: Entanglement [durational performance] The Parkette Projects w/ Gallery TPW, ArtworxTO Manila-Acapulco [exhibition w/ Guillermo Trejo + Claudia Gutierrez] Ottawa City Hall Gallery Karanfil / Carnation [costume design] film by Laura Taler, National Arts Centre, Ottawa
Pique | Debaser [wearable artwork for Orchidae] Galerie SAW Gallery, Ottawa
Direct Purchase Program [acquisition of sculpture Bilog 2021] City of Ottawa
Public Art Lab: Concepts, Site as Muse [presenter] CIty of Ottawa Public Art, Ottawa
Canada Council for the Arts [peer assessment committee member]

2020
Mother’s Dusters [sculpture project w/ Dipna Horra] in progress
Summer Alone [sculpture] film by Travis Boisvenue
Ottawa Art Gallery | LeParty Art Auction Fundraiser [sculpture] Critics Choice Award, Ottawa
Ottawa Arts Council [research coordinator] Counting the Cost of Covid, Arts Impact Study
Pagkakaisa discussion [panelist] Gallery101, Ottawa
Labouring Practice: Parenting, Art + the Internet [panelist] a graph, a lovely tree symposium, SAW Video Artscape Atelier + Zibi Public Art [ peer assessment committee member + panel mediator]
City of Ottawa Direct Purchase Program [peer assessment committee member]

2019
Allnighter [site-specific sculpture] Ottawa Chamberfest, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa
WE ARE HERE / nandito kami [site specific installation] Asian Heritage Month, Possible Worlds, Ottawa Noli Me Tangere [sculpture series] Int’l Women’s Day group show, Clover, Ottawa Ottawa Art Gallery | LeParty Art Auction Fundraiser [assemblage] Critics Choice Award, Ottawa
Signal: 2019 Additions to the City of Ottawa Art Collection [group show] Ottawa City Hall Gallery Roundtable Residency: Resistance [artist residency + group show] Dragon Academy, Toronto
Direct Purchase Program [acquisition of 3 sculptures] City of Ottawa
The Future of Museums w/ Jasper Visser [panelist] Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa AFTERdark: A Creative City [panelist] National Arts Centre,Ottawa
Ottawa International Writers Festival [on-stage interview w/ Mona Eltahawy] Ottawa
Creative Mornings Ottawa [guest speaker] Ottawa
Elgin Street Renewal Public Art Project [community engagement coordinator] City of Ottawa Public Art In the Making / Sculpture Workshop [facilitator] Being Studio, Ottawa

2018
Analemma [sculptural installation & artist talk] Stantec Window Gallery, Toronto
Kolab project [site-specific sculptural installation + product design] Ottawa
GALLEMIT + THERIAULT Duo show [sculptures + assemblages] Studio 66, Ottawa
Ottawa Art Gallery | LeParty Art Auction Fundraiser [assemblage] Ottawa
Foundations | Futures Group show [sculpture] Studio 66, Ottawa
Art & Democracy Project [sculpture & artist talk] Community Knowledge Exchange, Ottawa
Rive Gauche: When Art Becomes Fashion [performer], AxeNeo7 Gatineau
Sculpture Workshop [facilitator] Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa
Synapcity Placemaking Project @Blair House / 205 Gladstone [artist consultant] Ottawa

2017
Future Proof [participatory sculpture] Youth Art Symposium, National Arts Centre, Ottawa Memphis Milano [site-specific installation] Victoire Boutique, Ottawa The Past Three Nights by Vincent Tiley [performer, durational installation] AxeNeo7, Gatineau Festival Site Design [site-specific installations] Arboretum Arts Festival, Ottawa
IN-HABIT [sculpture series] Studio 66, Ottawa
Articulations Group show [sculpture] Studio 66, Ottawa
CBC Pop-Up [storytelling] Bar Robo, Ottawa
Canterbury Covered Rink Project [peer assessment committee member] City of Ottawa Public Art

2016
Plenty [sculpture w/ Taline Jirian] private collection, town restaurant, Ottawa
Never For Money / Only For Love [sculpture series] Arboretum Arts Festival, Ottawa
Future Proof [wearable sculptures w/ Alexis Boyle] Subtle Technologies, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto Ottawa Art Gallery Summer Camp [guest artist seminar] Ottawa
Community Radio Fund of Canada Gala [lighting installation] City Hall, Ottawa
Megaphono Music Festival [site specific installation] Chaudière Island, Ottawa / Gatineau OSIRIS-REx / NASA [digital image of artwork included on satellite mission] Asteroid Bennu

2015
The Lifeline Project [site-specific outdoor winter installation] Mississauga Public Art, Mississauga Cheerleader Project [interactive installation] Nuit Blanche Ottawa+Gatineau, Ottawa Art Gallery Reach [site-specific installations] Arboretum Arts Festival, Ottawa
Reincarnated [(installation] La Petite Mort Gallery, Ottawa
Sculpture Making Workshop [facilitator] Youville Centre, Ottawa

2013 / 14
Wild Air Vision Electro [live installation w/ Gene Pendon] Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto Skins [site specific installation] Chinatown Remixed Arts Festival, Ottawa
Young Lions [festival decor + concept design] Arboretum Arts Festival, Ottawa
Tabarnac [jewelry design] Benchworks Project, Magpie, Ottawa
Breaking Ground [festival decor + concept design] Arboretum Arts Festival, Ottawa
I Am You [site-specific public installation] Chinatown Remixed Arts Festival, Ottawa Landscapes of 50 Days [sculpture] Ottawa Art Gallery Fundraiser Group Show, Ottawa Cathexis Revisited [sculpture series] Herd Magazine Issue 2 Launch, Ottawa
My Superpower Group Show [storytelling] La Petite Mort Gallery, Ottawa

2009 / 10 / 11 / 12
R2.5 [sculpture] Self-Propelled Group Show, Grey Area Gallery, Ottawa
The Depths [sculpture series] Chinatown Remixed Arts Festival, Ottawa Gluttony [sculpture] Seven Deadly Sins Group Show, Gallery 101, Ottawa Chopsticks [sculpture series] Chinatown Remixed Arts Festival, Ottawa Looking For You V2.0 [assemblage] Arc Poetry Magazine, Ekphrasis Project Past Lives [sculpture series] Wurm Gallery, Ottawa
Cone of Silence [sculpture] Cycle Logik Group Show, Ottawa
Topography [sculpture series] Chinatown Remixed Arts Festival, Ottawa Couette [sculpture] Cycle Logik Group Show, Ottawa
Headdress [sculpture] Cycle Logik Group Show, Ottawa

AFFILIATIONS + AWARDS

2023 Ottawa Arts Council Peter Honeywell Mid-Career Artist Award 2022 City of Ottawa Grow Grant
2021 Ontario Arts Council Arts Response Project Grant
2020 City of Ottawa Creation + Production Fund for Emerging Artists
2020 SAW Prize for New Works
2020 Ottawa Art Gallery | LeParty Art Auction Fundraiser, Critics Choice Award 2019 Ottawa Art Gallery | LeParty Art Auction Fundraiser, Critics Choice Award

Curator / director of visual art program, The Manx, Ottawa (2011-2021)
Curator / director of visual art program, Pressed Cafe, Ottawa (2017-2019)
Art Editor, Ottawa Beat Magazine (2016-2018)
Art Committee Lead, Innovations Centre at Bayview Yards, Ottawa (2016-2017)
Art Installation Design Team, Arboretum Festival, Ottawa (2013-2017)
Donations review committee member, City of Ottawa Public Art Program (2020-present)