Canadian
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arts writer and
curator
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Alberta
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, in 1982 and grew up in
Whitehorse
Whitehorse () is the capital of Yukon, and the largest city in Northern Canada. It was incorporated in 1950 and is located at kilometre 1426 (Historic Mile 918) on the Alaska Highway in southern Yukon. Whitehorse's downtown and Riverdale areas ...
,
Yukon
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New Brunswick
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Confederation Centre Art Gallery
The Confederation Centre Art Gallery (CCAG; french: Musée d’art du Centre de la Confédération) is an art museum that forms a part of the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. The art museum pavilion ...
in
Prince Edward Island
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from 2008 to 2010. She is currently Curator of Contemporary Art at
The Rooms
The Rooms is a cultural facility in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The facility opened in 2005 and houses the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Provincial Muse ...
in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. She was Curator of Canadian Art from 2011 to 2013.
Eagan has written for several catalogues, magazines, and newspapers such as canadianart.ca, '' eremagazine'', and others. In 2017, Eagan was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence in Digital Publishing for her article on
Christopher Pratt
John Christopher Pratt (December 9, 1935 – June 5, 2022) was a Canadian painter and printmaker.CARFAC
Canadian Artists' Representation/ (CARFAC) is a non-profit corporation that serves as the national voice of Canada's professional visual artists.
The mandate of CARFAC is to promote the visual arts in Canada, to promote a socio-economic climate ...
.
In 2013, she was the Atlantic juror for the
Sobey Art Award The Sobey Art Award is Canada's largest prize for young Canadian artists. It is named after Canadian businessperson and art collector Frank H. Sobey, who established The Sobey Art Foundation. It is an annual prize given to an artist 40 and under wh ...
Mireille Eagan has curated exhibitions with institutions across Canada, as well as internationally.
In 2010, she curated ''inbetween'' at the
Confederation Centre Art Gallery
The Confederation Centre Art Gallery (CCAG; french: Musée d’art du Centre de la Confédération) is an art museum that forms a part of the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. The art museum pavilion ...
which travelled to the
Doris McCarthy
Doris McCarthy, LL. D. (July 7, 1910 – November 25, 2010) was a Canadian artist known for her abstracted landscapes.
Life and career
Born in Calgary, Alberta, McCarthy attended the Ontario College of Art from 1926 to 1930, where she was award ...
Gallery, Scarborough. In 2013, she co-curated an official collateral project with the 55th
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...
alongside curator Bruce Johnson. Titled ''About Turn: Newfoundland in Venice'', the exhibition was organized by the Terra Nova Art Foundation, and featured the work of Peter Wilkins and Will Gill. It was on display at Galleria Ca'Rezzonico until November 24, 2013.
Of particular note was the solo exhibition titled Mary Pratt, which toured throughout Canada from 2013 to 2015. It was a collaboration between The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, and was co-curated with Sarah Fillmore and Caroline Stone. Venues included the
Art Gallery of Windsor
Art Windsor-Essex (AWE) (formerly known as the Art Gallery of Windsor) is a not-for-profit art institute in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Established in 1943, the gallery has a mandate as a public art space to show significant works of art by local ...
in Windsor, Ontario; the
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
The McMichael Canadian Art Collection (MCAC) is an art museum in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. The museum is located on a property in Kleinburg, an unincorporated village in Vaughan. The property includes the museum's main building, a sculpture garde ...
in Kleinburg, Ontario; the
MacKenzie Art Gallery
The MacKenzie Art Gallery (MAG; french: Musee d’art MacKenzie) is an art museum located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The museum occupies the multipurpose T. C. Douglas Building, situated at the edge of the Wascana Centre. The building holds e ...
Halifax, Nova Scotia
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.
The solo exhibition ''Mary Pratt: This Little Painting'' was shown at the
National Gallery of Canada
The National Gallery of Canada (french: Musée des beaux-arts du Canada), located in the capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, is Canada's national art museum. The museum's building takes up , with of space used for exhibiting art. It is one of the ...
from April 4, 2015, to January 4, 2016. A version of it toured to the
Owens Art Gallery
Mount Allison University (also Mount A or MtA) is a Canadian primarily undergraduate liberal arts university located in Sackville, New Brunswick, founded in 1839.
Like other liberal arts colleges in North America, Mount Allison does not parti ...
at Mount Allison University, on display from March 11 to May 22, 2016. The exhibition was co-organized by the National Gallery of Canada and The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, and was curated with Jonathan Shaughnessy.
An additional solo exhibition of note was ''
Christopher Pratt
John Christopher Pratt (December 9, 1935 – June 5, 2022) was a Canadian painter and printmaker.Newfoundland painter, focusing on his travels through his home province.
In 2018 and 2019, Eagan curated ''Future Possible'', a two-part exhibition series that explored the comprehensive art history of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Eagan is lead editor and author on the multi-author art historical publication ''Future Possible: An History of Newfoundland and Labrador'', published by The Rooms and Goose Lane Editions in 2021.
Other notable group exhibitions include ''Migrant Art and Its Legacy in Newfoundland'' at The Rooms in 2015, ''The Free World'' at The Rooms in 2016, and ''Folklore and other Panics''. In 2016, Eagan co-curated an exhibition at The Rooms with Josée Drouin-Brisebois titled "enter the fog," which included Maya Beaudry,
Julia Feyrer
Julia Feyrer (born 1982) is a Canadian visual artist, performer, and writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Life and education
Feyrer was born in Victoria, British Columbia. They obtained a Bachelor of Media Art at the Emily Carr Institute ...
At the age of 11, Mireille Eagan recorded the theme song for ''
Katie and Orbie
''Katie and Orbie'' is a Canadian animated television series aimed at preschoolers, originally broadcast in Canada from 1994 to 2002 by Family Channel and later aired in the USA on PBS from 1995 to 1997 and cable television network Disney Chann ...
'', an animated television series aimed at preschoolers, originally broadcast in Canada in 1994 by the Family Channel. The show later aired in the United States on
PBS
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from 1996 to 1997 and on Disney Channel from 1997 to 2000. In Canada, the series aired on
Family
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and
Playhouse Disney
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until 2012. The theme song as well as the music was written and composed by her uncle Edmund Eagan who had also worked as a composer on several television series and films such as ''
Cyberchase
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The Rick Mercer Report
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'', ''
Monster Force
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'' and various '' For Better or For Worse'' specials as well as a synthesizer on early episodes of ''
The Raccoons
''The Raccoons'' is a Canadian animated television series that ran on CBC from November 11, 1985 to March 19, 1991 in Canada and on Disney Channel from July 4, 1985 to August 28, 1992 in the U.S., with three preceding television specials from ...