Nuit Blanche 2024 Artists

ZHE the FREE is a multi-disciplinary artist, community builder and explosive performer. Growing up on Treaty 7 Land, she extends her fire from mountains to prairies. Fun, uplifting and powerful. ZHE delivers poetic hip hop and ignites the crowd from the moment she touches the microphone. She creates a celebratory vibe through storytelling, intentional lyricism, freestyle skills and energizing beats. As a hip hop artist, and National Music Centre 1st place winner in the 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop track competition, ZHE brings the strength of the feminine alive and loves inspiring others about the power of their voice. Hip hop saved her life, and she aims to inspire others to use creativity as a positive outlet.

Logan McCormick is a filmmaker and writer from Saskatoon.

‘There Is A Place On This Earth Where Your Body Will Be Buried’ is a collection of three short films that explore the marks that we leave on the landscape of one another’s hearts. The footage (shot across Saskatchewan and Alberta) is accompanied by narration that considers what effect our brief lives could possibly have on a world that will persist long after we have left it behind.

Jessica Wu is a visual artist with a background in journalism and documentary studies. She is interested in retracing stories of immigration through cultural, political and historical lenses in an attempt to answer ever-entangled questions of identity and diaspora.

Angela Rose Cabarios/Angie Cabz is an artist who primarily works within time based media, installation, performance and text. Her artistic practice blends her professional experience with theatre and film-production, with her research interests in capitalist realism, identity formation on the internet, and post-cinematic affect. Angie holds a BFA (Honours) from Ontario College of Art and Design, with a minor in Indigenous Visual Culture. Angie’s practice works to gesture towards a contemporary understanding of physical space and virtual time that is both playful, empathetic and critical.

Dominique Ferraton is an artist from Montreal, QC whose practice encompasses sound art, video, photography and drawing. Her work explores our relationship with our environment: the ways in which we occupy and transform the places we inhabit and how we are affected by them. She currently lives in Gravelbourg, SK.

Jérémy Griffaud is an artist who explores the question of the spectator in hybrid realities, through devices that blend the virtual and the real. Using digitized watercolors, video game engines, virtual reality headsets and monumental projections, he creates immersive, interactive environments. In his installations Enlarge Yourself and The Garden, for example, visitors become performers, and the work's activation depends on their involvement. In The Origin of Things, visitors find themselves immersed in a psychedelic science-fiction universe that questions Man's relationship with Nature.

Julianna Phillips is an artist entering the final year of her BFA program at the U of S. She works in multimedia art and animation, focusing on fantasy, the subconscious, narrative, and characters.

Ivana Beer is Saskatchewan's elite clown diva. Don't be fooled by her good looks though because she is a jack of ALL trades. You never really know what you're going to get with her but she'll guarantee it will be funny and shocking in the best way possible. She has a love for bringing creativity to people in ways you've never seen before and she'll never leave you unsatisfied but you'll definitely be wanting more!

Eli Hartman is a multidisciplinary performing artist that has been producing theatre and interactive performance art in the prairies for 13 years. Having been leadership for the FLoYD Festival, Chaos Encouraged Productions, the Green Beans Drag show, and performing as drag king Queer'd Al, they love pushing the audience's envelope. Their style is based in experimental exploration of connection and interactive displays that aim to change the audience's perspective on what counts as "art".

Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye, Saskatchewan 11th Poet Laureate, is an African-Canadian Interdisciplinary Poet, Workshop Facilitator, Chorus-Poem Playwright residing in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Organically from Yorubaland Nigeria, Peace explores the intersectionality of the artist community from an explorer's perspective, dipping her honey-stained fingers into poetry, playwriting, intimacy direction, textile creation, and performance art. Her work knits together folklore, abstract riddles, and Òwé Yorùbá elements of poetry to create a collective one-self. Author of Earth Skin, Equanimity in Sonder, Equanimity in Conversation and The Taste of Sonder. Her newest manuscript, “The Goat’s Tongue,” won the Metatron International Poetry Prize and will be released September 2026.

The LUPE Collective (Theron & Sierra) are excited to bring the first iteration of their audiovisual instrument to Nuit Blanche.

The Saskatoon Glassworkers’ Guild is a member-funded, registered non-profit organization dedicated to glass art. From across Saskatchewan, our members’ expertise spans all levels - from novice to internationally recognized. The guild supports a wide variety of glass art forms including stained glass, mosaic, painting, fusing, glassblowing, lampworking and many more.

Ryan A. Richard is a Métis intermedia sculptor and incoming MFA candidate at the University of Saskatchewan. Grounded in the relational ethics of wâhkôhtowin, his practice explores the intersections of identity, ancestral memory, and contemporary Indigenous experience. By bridging traditional land-based craft with advanced digital technologies, Richard channels a restless creative energy to investigate the tensions between physical reality, historical resilience, and modern algorithmic spaces.

Allyson Glenn is a visual artist based in Saskatoon, Canada working in painting, drawing, photo-collage, and animation. Fascinated by the topics of myth, allegory, and the environment, her artwork investigates complexities between fictional and experienced realities including aspects of the mind, speculative realism, and collective transformation. Allyson Glenn teaches as a Professor for the School for the Arts, University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

This project is supported by USask fine art students (Nik Chermensky, Jewel Charles, Ozen Turkenkul, Iman Kruger, David Sanscartier)

The Nostradameus Factor Collective invites you on a journey to the future. Before entering, you'll write a postcard to your future self, pledging one action that will help create a better future for the world. Then step through the Portal of the Present into an immersive celebration of possibility, where dazzling lights, projections, ritual, music, a live DJ, dancers, actors, and interactive art surround you. The Future is YOU! experience blends performance, technology, and imagination to remind us that the future isn't something we wait for—it's something we create, one choice at a time.

Brody Burns is a Cree artist from Treaty 6 Territory in Saskatoon. Beginning with graffiti and illustration, his practice deepened during his psychology studies and MFA at the University of Saskatchewan, where he began combining Indigenous ways of knowing with concepts from psychology and science. Spirit, energy, and vibration sit at the core of his work, representing a combined perspective of Spirit and Science through abstract form and colour.

Jessica Morgun and JingLu Zhao have collaborated since 2021, developing their practice through projects and residencies in Saskatoon, including Biofeedback’s Community Project, Art Placement, AKA Artist-Run, and a Saskatchewan Arts Board grant. Their work articulates loss and isolation among artist-parents. Drawing on Eastern concepts of Qi and Western apophatic traditions, they create an East/West visual vocabulary. Through imagery of mist, domestic scenes, and landscape motifs, their collaborative practice explores caregiving, material relationships, and shared artistic inquiry.

Melanie Lazelle is an experience designer working primarily with interactive popup installations that share stories of our world. Her practice sits at the intersection of art, storytelling, experience creation and placemaking, creating environments that invite curiosity, play, and emotional connection—particularly in public and outdoor spaces.

Her creative studio is The Wilder, based in Canada, and they produce light experiences, art festivals, and immersive environmental installations and experiences. Their work explores themes of wonder, environmental connection, and engaging immersive experiences to create moments of discovery.

Ag-West Bio Inc. is Saskatchewan's premier bioscience industry association and bioeconomy catalyst. Operating as a member-based, not-for-profit company since 1989, its primary mandate is to move scientific research into the marketplace and scale up biobusinesses in the province.

Chikako Ogawa is a Saskatoon-based visual artist from Japan. Inspired by Japanese culture, memory, and everyday moments, she creates ink-based works that explore simplicity and emotional depth. Her practice bridges Japanese and Canadian experiences through exhibitions, public art, and community engagement.

Mattzation is a Saskatchewan-based musical and visual artist who creates instrumental sonic adventures using electronic beats and video art. His accompanying poetry hints at profound knowledge. Mysterious and introspective, Mattzation explores what it means to be human through his musical and visual expression.

Heike Fink is a self-taught, award-winning German felting artist based in Prud’Homme, Saskatchewan. Inspired by nature, she uses wet, needle, and nuno felting to transform loose wool into expressive animal sculptures and unique wearable silk scarves. Her versatile fibre art is exhibited internationally across Canada, the USA, and Germany.

A group exhibition of interdisciplinary perspectives from local artists Javiera Ebner, Nancy Wood, José Luis Fuenzalida, Maryanna Hardy, and Constantine Katsiris, ours is a call to resist the urge for immediacy in an increasingly fast-moving society. Whether captured on city streets or in rural landscapes, we offer a reminder that quietude and patience in the present moment can reveal harmony in the everyday, if only we walk slowly enough to engage.