​Vanessa Yanow is a visual artist from Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. She works with digital embroidery, textile collage, artifacts, hot glass, drawing, and assemblage. Yanow enriches her intuitive and tactile artmaking practice with research whose diversity includes issues of queer sexualities and gender expressions, community care, female representation in the history of art and craft, climate change and parasitology. 

 

She was the co-founder and coordinator of the non profit organisation, The Long Haul – a 10 000 sq.ft  art studios and gallery project located in Parc Extension from 2001-2026. For 25 years, she mentored emerging artists, advocated for their group, co-curated exhibitions, and collaborated on several cultural projects with local organisations and the city of Montreal, all while producing several large bodies of her own work that have been exhibited Nationally and Internationally.

 

Yanow’s sculptures are part of the city of Montreal’s permanent collection, Le Musée des Métiers d’art du Québec, and Le Musée National des Beaux Arts in Québec City. Her wearable art pieces have been showcased in museum shops across North America, Including MOMA NY, Museum of Art and Design, The Folk Art museum and more.

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photo: YagubAllahverdiyev