HALL, Pam

Launches December 10, 2025

Pam Hall is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar whose work has been exhibited and performed site-specifically across Canada and internationally, and is represented in many corporate, private and public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada. Her artistic practice is often research-driven and collaborative and engages communities distant from the pristine spaces of the gallery, the studio, and the museum. She has worked with doctors and medical students, settler and indigenous fishers on both coasts of Canada, workers in the food service and fish processing industries, knowledge-holders in Fogo and Change Islands, Western Newfoundland and Miawpukek/Conne River. Hall’s solo exhibition HouseWork(s) presented a decade of her social and collaborative practice at The Rooms Art Gallery in St. John’s (2014) and in Kamloops, B.C. (2015). She continues to work inside and outside of the museum context and in 2017 was commissioned by the inaugural Bonavista Biennale to create Reseeding the Dream East, an outdoor installation marking the anniversary of the NL cod moratorium, in a Port Rexton meadow. She completed that project during a 2021 residency on Fogo Island. She was the artist-in-residence in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University, was their Inaugural Public Engagement Postdoctoral Fellow, and authored a chapter in Performance Studies in Canada (2017), edited by Laura Levin and Marlis Schweitzer. She taught in the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Goddard College in Vermont for 16 years and is the creator of the multi-year, multi-chapter art-and-knowledge project Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge (ELK).