VÉRO LEDUC
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Multidisciplinary artist, Véro Leduc is originally from Tiohtià:ke | Mooniyang | Montreal and has been living in Morin-Heights since 2021, where she creates in her studio while also leading various projects in Quebec and internationally. Her main practices include video, painting, performance, and Deaf music.
Trained as a self-taught artist, several approaches shape her artistic process, including deconstruction, which can be briefly defined as a practice stemming from a critical standpoint aimed at understanding – or even demonstrating – the social construction of oa way of doing things or a particular perspective. By challenging the foundations of dominant constructions, deconstruction allows her to explore alternative ways of understanding the world and to innovate in her artistic practice. Many themes traverse her work, such as Deafhood (living as a deaf person) and becoming (the possibilities that emerge on the horizon of our dreams of individual and collective transformation).
Véro is also a professor at the Faculty of Communication at the Université du Québec à Montreal, where she teaches in the Disability and Deafhood program, which she co-founded, as well as in the cultural action program. Holding the Canada Research Chair on Cultural Citizenship of Deaf People and Cultural Equity Practices, and co-director of the Disability, Deafhood, and Innovations Laboratory, her work focuses on the artistic practices of dis/abled people (Deaf, disabled, neurodivergent, and psychodivergent individuals), Deaf music, and cultural equity practices. Her projects and practices are articulated through research-creation approaches and critical perspectives, including feminist, queer, intersectional, crip, and Deaf viewpoints.
In 2020, she was awarded the Governor General’s Medal of Canada for her meritorious work aimed at breaking down the barriers of social exclusion and enhancing accessibility to university and culture for Deaf and hard-of-hearing people. In 2023, she received the first Akimoto Yuji Award at the Diversity in the Arts exhibition in Japan, following an international selection among 2,250 works.