Tricia Middleton holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design and a Master of Fine Arts from Concordia University. Favouring the format of sculptural installation, her work is deeply concerned with the materiality of the world, how materials are located in time, and how both their substance and their meaning changes within time. These installations, sculptures and videos will often use (and reuse) all of the materials of her studio, including its dust and debris. In this way, her experiments seek to hybridize historical and contemporary material culture, detailing the migrations of form and meaning over time.
Her recent solo exhibitions include Dark Souls, at the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal (2009) and Midnight Gallery Rambles, at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery (2009). Recent group exhibitions include Nothing to Declare: Recent Sculpture from Canada at the Power Plant in Toronto (2010), the inaugural Quebec Triennial at the Musee d'artcontemporain de Montreal (2008) and De-con-structions, at the National Gallery of Canada (2007). Originally from Vancouver, Tricia Middleton lives and works in Montreal.
Tricia Middleton is the 2010 winner of the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award in the visual arts category.