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SARA MERICLE

BIO


Sara Mericle is a ceramic artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang (Montréal) that creates evocative, uncanny forms blending archival and futuristic notions of time, space and matter. Her work appears both fragile and permanent while highlighting the formal and psychological tensions between organic and inorganic subjects. These tensions explore the uncertainty we face within ecosystems and the indeterminate aspects of all creation. Her technical detail and delicate use of materials contrasts with the transformative, fluid and abstract nature of her work. The nuanced impressions cast by her work are both mutable and immutable, and speaks to our shared primordial past and our fragile, interconnected future.

Mericle has been an artist in residence at the Medalta International Artists Centre (Medicine Hat, AB, 2024), CASA (Lethbridge, AB, 2023), and Guldagergaard International Ceramics Research Center (Skælskør, Denmark, 2022). She has presented the solo exhibition Infinite Vessel (2024), and participated in group shows at Projet Casa (2024), Art Mûr (2023), Ada X (2023), V.A.V. Gallery (2022), and Eastern Bloc (2022). Her practice has been supported by grants and awards from Concordia University (2021-2024) and she has collaborated on projects funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Her recent works explore the reuse of ceramic waste as an alternative material source, and she works within a collective that explores the use of local materials. In 2023-2024 she worked as a Project Coordinator at Concordia University to advance sustainable systems within the field of ceramics and develop research, community projects, and workshops. 



SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024   Infinite Vessel, Ateliers Belleville, Montreal, QC
            Curated by María Escalona

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025  Relic, Earth Tones Museum, Online Exhbition
2024  Synbiosis, Projet CASA, Montreal, QC

2023  Shaping Perspective, CCSA, Montreal, QC  
2023  Emerge, Galerie 2112, Montreal, QC
2023  Everything Already Present, Art Mûr, Montreal, QC
2023  Temporal Gardens, Parc Jean Drapeau, Montreal, QC
2023  Edging, Ada X, Montreal, QC   
2022  Haptic Nature, The V.A.V. Gallery, Montreal, QC 
2022  From the Ground, Eastern Bloc, Montreal, QC 
2022  Emerging, Le Livart, Montreal, QC
2022  Touch Screen, Art Matters Espace POP, Montreal, QC  
2021  The Human Event, V.A.V. Gallery, Montreal, QC 
2021  Transference, Galerie le 1040, Montreal, QC 

PUBLIC ARTWORK
23|24 Ascension, Public Art Sculpture (Collaboration),
           Concordia University, Montreal, QC 

ARTIST RESIDENCIES 
2024  Artist in Residence, Medalta
            Medicine Hat, AB 
2023  Artist in Residence, CASA, Lethbridge, AB
2022  Keramik Residency, Guldagergaard International 
           Ceramic Research Center, Skaelskor, Denmark


AWARDS & GRANTS
2023  Public Sculpture Award | Concordia University
2023  FAAR Publication Grant | Concordia University
2023  CCSL Grant | Concordia University
2022  FASA Community Grant | Concordia University
2022  Sarah & Louise Leaney Award | Concordia University
2022  FASA Special Project Grant | Concordia University