background photo by Kevin MacCormack
Colleen Arcturus MacIsaac (they/them) is a transdisciplinary queer artist who attempts to wrangle with ecosystems of all kinds as a settler on unceded Mi’kmaw land. Prioritizing impulse, discovery, and audience consideration, Colleen works across performance, installation, media arts, theatre, comics, video, illustration, animation, and graphic design.
Having received a bachelor of media arts from Emily Carr University and a master of fine arts at NSCAD University, they are a prolific creator. Interested in iterative and sequential works, they have explored a daily art practice at numerous points in their career, most significantly creating daily illustrations for 3536 consecutive days over nine and a half years.
A Theatre Nova Scotia Robert Merritt Award nominee, Colleen is also the winner of the Halifax Mayor’s Award for Emerging Theatre Artist, The Joseph Buoys Memorial Scholarship, the Bhayana Foundation Invisible Champion Award, and the Helen Hill Animated Award. Their work has been published by Nimbus Publishing, Conundrum Press, Visual Arts News, The New Quarterly, Broken Pencil, and The Coast, and they have been on residency at Caravan Farm Theatre, MOTHRA, Ironbound Creative Residency, and Ross Creek Centre for the Arts.
An experimenter and a maker, a collaborator and a ponderer, Colleen uses humour, chance, and curiosity in an attempt to wrangle with queer futures, the polycrisis, and our search for connection in a vast universe.
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