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Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, ON
At Art Toronto 2026, Fazakas Gallery presents the work of Métis and Cree artist Audie Murray, whose practice explores material, memory, ancestry, and care through processes of transformation. Murray’s work asks us to slow down and reconsider what can constitute a medium, a drawing, or a permanent artwork. Working across installation, beadwork, sculpture, and drawing, she transforms materials connected to the body, land, animals, and everyday life—including rose petals, smoke, ash, bison bone, bear grease, and discarded objects—into carriers of memory and relation. Central to the presentation is Rootless, an installation of approximately 100 sheets of artificial grass and live roses that will naturally decay throughout the fair. Rather than treating decay as an endpoint, Murray will collect the roses and transform them into pigment, extending their life into new works. A drawing made from rose pigment from an earlier iteration of Rootless will be presented alongside the installation. This process of decay, transformation, and renewal reflects Murray’s broader commitment to slowness as a form of resistance to colonial productivity. Her works invite sustained attention, asking viewers to remain with materials and processes that unfold gradually, and to consider how care, memory, and ancestral knowledge can move between generations. Murray is based in Treaty 4 and Treaty 6 territories, with ties to the Meadow Lake and Lebret communities of Saskatchewan. She is currently shortlisted for the 2026 Sobey Art Award. – Audie Murray (b. 1993, Saskatoon, SK; Métis, Cree) is a visual artist whose practice is rooted in process and material intervention. Working across mediums such as beadwork, drawing, media, and installation, her engagement with ancestral knowledge systems explores how bodies carry memory, defiance and care, expanding on the multiplicities of contemporary Indigenous life. Murray is Métis and Cree from the Lebret and Meadow Lake communities located on Treaty 4 & 6 territories, and is a member of Flying Dust First Nation. She is currently based in Oskana kâ-asastêki (Regina, Saskatchewan). Murray holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Regina, 2017 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Calgary, 2022. She has exhibited widely, including the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; The Power Station of Art, Shanghai; and the Hessel Museum of Art, USA. In 2024 she was longlisted for the Sobey Art Award, in 2025 she received the Ohpinamake Award, and in 2026 she was shortlisted as a Sobey Art Award finalist. Murray is represented by Fazakas Gallery, located on the traditional territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ, and xʷməθkʷəy ̓ əm (Vancouver, B.C.).
