Nina Vroemen makes interdisciplinary work about ecology that is speculative and embodied.
They live in Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal), on the traditional territory of the Kanien’kehà:ka and are a recent MFA graduate from Sculpture and Ceramics at Concordia University.
Vroemen is a collaborator in three interdisciplinary performance projects (Horizon Factory + water%holding + HEaD) centered on awe and ecological justice. They are also an educator facilitating workshops and teaching in studio arts at Concordia University.
Their recent shows include Sentient Disobedience at the PHI (MTL), PIQUE at Saw Gallery (ON), IGNITION 19 at the Ellen Gallery (MTL), Marées Queer Tides at Gallery Sans Nom (NB), Artch (QC), Watershed Art and Ecology (CHI), Summerworks (TO), Points de Bascule, Centre Clark (MTL), RIPA (MTL), Centre de Création O Vertigo (MTL), and Darling Foundry (MTL). They have participated in numerous artist residencies including Studio Kura (Japan 2024), Eastern Bloc (2023), Performing Arts Forum (Paris 2023), ARTSCAPE Gibraltar (2022), RURART (2020), Studio 303 (2019), KIAC (2019).
Their work has been published in Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear (Silver Press, 2024), Being a Body of Water: A Reflection on Cultural Perceptions of Bodies and Politicized Accessibility to Water (PHI 2024) Engaging the Margins: Experimental Practices in Interdisciplinary Art (UC Irvine, 2024), esse: art + opinions (September 2023), Low Carbon Methods Research (2022), Viral Ecologies (2022), and SLSA’s Experimental Engagements in Interdisciplinary Art (2023).
Vroemen has generously been supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, The John Howard Foundation, SSHRC and FRQSC.