A distinguished visiting artist talk by Hazel Meyer as part of the Joan Carlisle-Irving Lecture Series
5:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Room 102, Frederic Lasserre Building
6333 Memorial Road, University of British Columbia
Forming a constellation of projects, research, archival images, and anecdotes, this talk surfaces the entwined politics of Hazel Meyer’s practice as it has developed over the past two decades. Championing iteration, leakage, and intuitive pathfinding, Meyer uses her experience of chronic illness to disrupt normative ways of being in and moving through the world. The veins of inquiry she traces and follows aim to recover the queer aesthetics, politics, and subjects often effaced within histories of disability, feminism, and sexuality.
Hazel Meyer is a multidisciplinary artist who works with installation, performance, and text to investigate the relationships between queer aesthetics, politics, and material culture. She received an MFA from OCAD University, Toronto (2010), and a BFA from Concordia University, Montréal (2002). Recent exhibitions include Copenhagen Contemporary (DK); Libby Leshgold Art Gallery (CA); Tale of a Tub (NL); Lowe Art Museum (US); the BFI London Film Festival (UK); and Le FIFA—The International Festival of Films on Art (CA). In 2023, Meyer received the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation VIVA Award and was longlisted for the Sobey Art Award in 2025.
Meyer lives in Vancouver, on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaɬ Nations with her frequent collaborator and partner Cait McKinney.
We acknowledge that the UBC Vancouver campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).
WEEPING CONCRETE, 2022. Photo credit: Andrew Williamson
