BRIDGET MOSER

Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award

Bridget Moser is the recipient of the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award – a prestigious prize of $25,000 awarded annualy to a Canadian mid-career artist who has demonstrated excellence and innovation in their body of work and who shows promise of outstanding artistic achievement in the years ahead.

Moser is a performance and video artist who combines strategies associated with prop comedy, experimental theatre, performance art, absurd literature, existential anxiety, and intuitive dance. She performs fragmented scenes that take multiple forms, including monologues, abstract body movement, and bizarre interactions with everyday inanimate objects. Her work deals with the trouble of constructing self-identity and the conditions of life under late capitalism.