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Who?

Grace Stamler

Toronto born, based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal, Grace Stamler uses experimental video to explore the multidimensional nature of queerness. Her work offers asylum to the strange. Feral girls in gowns, gore, eroticism, and discarded places permeate uncanny worlds. Here, Grace fosters conversation about patriarchy, capitalism, the mental health industrial complex, and lesbian/queer experience.

Grace holds a Studio Arts BFA from Concordia University. She has exhibited work in galleries across Canada and internationally. At an artist residency in Bogotá, Colombia, she created a piece to exhibit at International ImageFestival (2024). Grace co-runs MUD—an art collective with a mission of uplifting underrepresented artists. This year MUD curated exhibitions at artist-run-centre Ada X and galerie POPOP with the two-time support of FASA’s Community Contribution Special Project Grant (2024, 2025).

CV

Education

2025 Concordia University, BFA in Studio Arts and Psychology, Montreal QC

Curatorial Projects

2025 Co-curator of Pile, at Galerie POPOP, Montreal QC

2025 Co-curator of Glue, at Ada X, Montreal QC

Residencies

2024 Art, Music, Design, and Science Interactions, at Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Bogotá Colombia

Grants

2025 Community Contribution Special Project Grant, FASA, Montreal QC

2024 Community Contribution Special Project Grant, FASA, Montreal QC

2024 Leadership Fund Grant, L’Asterisk, Montreal QC

2024 Peter N. Thomson Family Field School Awards, Montreal QC

Exhibitions & Publications

2025 There’d Better Be A Mirrorball, Sawa House, Montreal QC

2024 Ballads of Displacement, VAV Gallery, Montreal QC

2024 Mitochondrial Drama, 4th Space, Montreal QC

2024 ImageFest, UTadeo, Bogotá Colombia

2024 MAGNIFIED Arts Spring Exhibition, Typist Studios, Toronto ON

2024 FASA Community Art Exhibit, FARR, Montreal QC

2024 Soliloquies Anthology Edition 28.1, Montreal QC

2023 IMCA 400 Fundraiser Screening, Notre-Dame-Des-Quilles, Montreal QC

Cake It

Single channel video,

7:20; 1920×1080.

Cake It is an single-channel experimental video that explores the cycle of idolization and destruction through cakes representing figures of influence. The work critiques how capitalism commodifies figures of power, turning them into fleeting, consumable objects. Using rapid-cut editing, vibrant colors, and glitchy imagery, the piece reflects on the ephemerality of iconicity and iconoclasm. By exploring the religious nature of how modern capitalism is revered, Cake It exposes the make-believe nature of capitalism, thus the opportunity to reclaim personal agency in a commodified world.

Cake It still image

Accept All Cookies (2025), Concordia University, Montréal QC

Dissection

Video installation, 4:31 (looped); Dirt, video projection.

Dimensions variable.

In Dissection, the preparation of chicken exists as the congenital nature of internalized misogyny. The two women respond differently to their circumstance, though in neither is the “body” left untouched. In the end, the women join to care for the bones through burial, giving the body back to the earth—back to itself.

Dissection still image

Grace Stamler, Dissection (2024)

Give out Light

Double channel video on two CRT monitors, bedside tables, bed, spotlight

Dimensions variable.

Give out Light is a two channel video installation offering a double narrative. In one, a suited figure, presented as an ambiguous authority, inspects a sleeping body: poking, prodding, and taking notes. In the second, the sleeping person chases the suited figure through a dark, abandoned church, together reaching a stained-glass-lit expanse. The video installation, presenting as a bedroom scene, questions institutionalized power structures by telling the story of parallel truths.

Give out Light installation view

Give out Light, installation view.

amorphisms II

Single-channel video, 2:54

2:54; 1920×1080.

In trance states, the barrier between being and universe breaks down. amorphisms II uses experimental video to document the smallest and most amorphous forms of being—eggs and cells—exploring rebirth through the incomprehensible.

amorphisms II is one slice of a multi-part collaborative work, into the unified field. The work was created for exhibition at International ImageFestival 2024 as part of UTadeo’s artist residency program in Bogotá, Colombia.

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ImageFestival (2024), UTadeo, Bogotá Colombia

Kissing Lessons

Single-channel video

2:16; 3840×2160.

Kissing Lessons invites the viewer to participate in lighthearted slumber party antics overlain with horror and unease. It is a classic lesbian coming of age story gone sadistic—in hyperbolic extension of how these experiences are understood at the time.

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There’d Better be a Mirrorball (2025), Art Matters at Sawa House, Montréal QC

Fish Department

Single-channel video

1:51; 3840×2160.

In Fish Department, the fish is the spectacle, hoping to be chosen; always observed but never seen. When the subject gains awareness of this construction, its internalization and inescapability become clear. The aisles of glass tanks and the murky pool exist as reflection, the gaze is both upon her and is her.

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Ballads of Displacement (2024), VAV Gallery, Montréal QC

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