2024–2026
Canada
Deirdre Logue (Canada) is a video artist and arts administrator born in 1964. She has a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA from Kent State University. She has been creating film and video work since the 1990s, taking the form of single- or multiple-channel video installations, usually featuring the artist as performer. Her work has been exhibited at numerous Canadian and international venues including Plug In ICA (Winnipeg), Open Space (Victoria), Neutral Ground (Regina), Oakville Galleries, the Berlin International Film Festival, and ExiS Film Festival (Seoul). In 2017 she was the Canadian Artist Spotlight at the Images Festival in Toronto. Logue has worked for many years with artist-run organizations in Canada. She was a founding member of the Media City Film Festival in Windsor, the Media Arts Network of Ontario, and (with Alysson Mitchell) the Feminist Art Gallery in Toronto. She has served as Executive Director of the Images Festival and Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre and was Development Director at Vtape. She has also served on the boards of Canadian Artists’ Representation/Le Front des artistes canadiens (CARFAC) and the Independent Media Arts Alliance. She lives and works in Trenton, Ontario.
“My arm is a branch, the camera in my hand a leaf, photosynthesizing. There is my body—me, and then a warm something inside the camera that I allow myself to believe in and relate to when I record things. It is another somebody, but it’s small, only part human, and it can be turned on and off which I like to do often. I am prone to talking to it in simple terms. I often ask it for things, negotiating the probability of success or failure, looking into the lens for feedback, critiquing my image and sharing with it my insecurities. We often commiserate, expressing a shared sorrow and trying our shared best to put on a good face.” – Deirdre Logue