Zoë LeBrun (she/they) is an emerging artist from and practicing on Treaty
One Territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is of French, German, and Russian
settler descent. They earned their BFA (Honours) from the School of Art at the University of Manitoba in 2023.
Zoë has participated in group exhibitions at aceartinc., Mentoring Artists for Women’s
Art (MAWA), Graffiti Art Programming, The School of Art Student Gallery, and more. They have been
awarded numerous scholarships through the University of Manitoba for their
artistic and academic achievements, including the outstanding student award for their graduating class.
Her artwork is held in private collections in Winnipeg, MB and Vienna, Austria and has been published in Reverie Review. Their video work has also been screened at the Dave Barber Cinematheque and the Muriel Richardson Auditorium at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.
My practice explores the complex perception of life and collective search
for meaning through an interdisciplinary lens, primarily through the mediums of paint, video, and sound. Using various artistic
processes as metaphors for lived experience, my art is personal and
introspective yet yearns for outward connection and seeks to better
understand what it means to be alive.
I am interested in the relationships between sound, the moving image, and the medium of painting as methods of taking in and expanding oneself into the outside world. I find solace and excitement in broadening my understanding of the universe as something that is in constant touch and flux with the individual, creating unique worlds within each person's experience that indicate no true 'reality' or a single way of being.