About me

Taïna Mueth

Taïna is a Montreal-born mixed-media artist and community organizer of Haitian and Cameroonian heritage. She is the co-founder of Je suis Montréal and a member of the Intercultural Council of Montreal.

 

Taïna’s work explores relationships between future and present through a Black cultural lens and attempts to foster new truths beyond dominant cultural discourse to connect the African diaspora with its histories and embodied knowledge. Her work is research-driven, instigated by history, fantasy, and science-fiction to explore Blackness with the intent of analyzing its infinite interconnectedness.

Taïna debuted her career as a collage artist in 2020. She has always been enamored with archives and sought to respond to symbolic annihilation in the collective memory. Since then, she has been part of a group exhibition and had a solo exhibition. She also facilitates workshops addressing themes such as art, identity, social justice, and education.

As mentioned by Zimbabwean painter Kudzanai-Violet Hwami: “the beauty of being a child of the diaspora is being able to reinvent ourselves and what it means to be African”. Using this premise as a reference point, Taïna wants to emancipate herself by connecting with a narrative that she has yet to see.

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Education

2022

Master's degree in Business Administration - Entrepreneurship and Management (M.B.A.), Laval University, Quebec, Canada [In progress]

2021

Research Assistant under the direction of Gada Mahrouse, Associate Professor at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

2020

Creative Leadership Certification, Factry School of the Creative Science, Montreal, Canada

2019

Bachelor in Nursing, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada

Selected Workshops & Exhibitions

2023

Le partage d'autorité dans les musées: Curation et médiation : le partage d’autorité avec les communautés et les publics des musées, Panelist, McCord Museum, Montreal

2023

École de la diversité, Panelist, College Maisonneuve, Montreal

2022

Tamarack Institute Annual gathering on community-led impact, Key speaker and panelist, Centre Mont-Royal, Canada

2022

The Importance of Individual Stories and Narratives in the Fight Against Discrimination, Round Table, at Montréal, Arts Iinterculturels (MAI), Canada

2022

Between Past and Present, Curator, Work by Bliss Mutanda, WIP Gallery, Montreal, Canada

2022

Art and Social Justice, Online Workshop, YWCA, Canada

2021

Les Voix de Bordeaux-Cartierville , Solo outdoor exhibition, Montreal, Canada

2021

Youth Lead Innovation Festival , Youth-led Solutions for Education, Online Workshop, United Nations

2020

History of Race and Ethnicity in Montreal, Online Workshop, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

2020

"Je Propagerai mes mots jusqu'à temps d'exister", Art residency and Group exhibition, Celine Bureau X Boiling, Montreal, Canada

2019

Elitism in Activism, Workshop, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

2018

Les Visages de la Diversité, Curator, Work by Yannis Davy Guibinga, Eastern Bloc Gallery, Je suis Montréal, Montreal, Canada

Selected Projects

2021

(In)Visible MinorityCreative Director, presenting the work of Élisée Lang and Jean Tran, Je suis Montréal

2020

J'suis pas raciste, j'ai un ami noirInstitut National de l'Image et du Son, Artist for documentary opening credits

2020

Between Past and PresentCreative Director, Presenting the work of Bliss Mutanda, Je suis Montréal

2019

The Pandemic of RacismCreative Director, presenting the work of Mallory Lowe Mpoka, Je suis Montréal