Collection: Carrie Allison

Carrie Allison (nêhiýaw/Métis/mixed European descent) is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in K’jipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki (Halifax, Nova Scotia). Her maternal roots and relations are based in and around maskotewisipiy (High Prairie, Alberta), Treaty 8; her Métis and nêhiýaw family names are Beaudry, Surprenant, Noskeye, and Payiw and she is a Manitoba Metis Federation citizen. She grew up on the unceded and unsurrendered lands of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) and Tsawwassen Nations.

Allison holds a Master of Fine Arts, a Bachelor of Art History, and a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She was the 2020 recipient of the Melissa Levin Award from the Textile Museum of Canada, received an Emerging Artist Recognition Award from the Creative Nova Scotia Awards in 2021, and was longlisted for the 2021, 2024 and 2026 Sobey Art Award.