Ava Margueritte

THE ARTIST

Ava Margueritte is a neurodiverse multi-disciplinary artist, primarily focused on photo-based works and drawing, painting, and writing. Margueritte has a BFA from OCAD University in Fine Arts Photography and a Diploma from School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa. Using various photographic mediums including, but not limited to, medium format, large format film, and digital, she explores different narratives to document physical reactions to other emotional states. By absorbing her surroundings, she evaluates the connection between body and mind. Drawing from several different mediums to execute her narrative, and is inspired by other multidisciplinary artists such as Egon Schiele, Wes Anderson, Cindy Sherman, Irving Penn, Tim Walker, and Suzy Lake. Margueritte has shown nationally, internationally; she received an honourable mention in photography at the 60th Toronto Outdoor Art Fair (TOAF 60). Her work is in the City of Ottawa Direct Purchase program and the collection of several personal collectors. In 2021 she received the Youth and Culture Pilot program grant, which the City of Ottawa awarded.

STATEMENT & CV

Previously collected work

  • Ekstasis, SOLD

  • Continuum, SOLD

  • Obscurity [Ed. 2/3], SOLD

  • The Hardy Boys... [Ed. 1/3], SOLD