Michaëlle Sergile
Michaëlle Sergile (born in 1995 in Chicago; lives and works in Montreal) spent her early childhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, before moving to Canada. Her practice explores Black histories through postcolonial archives, centering the experiences of Afro-descendant women. Through weaving–a medium traditionally tied to craft and feminine practices–Sergile examines power dynamics related to gender and ethnicity. Her textile practice, which she combines with installations and videos, addresses “archival violence,” confronting the systemic erasure and marginalization of Black voices by (re)imagining and (re)constructing their narratives.
Sergile has recently exhibited at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Musée d’art de Joliette and the Off Biennale of Dakar. She was longlisted for the prestigious Sobey Art Award in 2022 and was named Visual Artist of the Year at the Gala Dynastie in 2023. That same year, she began a residency at the Darling Foundry. In 2024, she presented a solo exhibition at the McCord Stewart Museum and, in 2025, she exhibited at the Centre culturel canadien de Paris and pursued textile residencies at Lottozero (Italy) and the Icelandic Textile Centre. [Source: VOX, 2025]
