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Miwa Matreyek, is an animator, designer, and performer currently based in Vancouver BC. She is an Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University in their School for the Contemporary Arts in the Theatre Production and Design area.
She has been an internationally touring independent artist since 2010.
Miwa Matreyek is an animator, designer, and performer based in Los Angeles.
Coming from a background in animation by way of collage, Matreyek creates live, staged performances where she interacts with her animations as a shadow silhouette, at the intersection of cinematic and theatrical, fantastical and tangible, illusionistic and physical.
Her work attempts to make invisible worlds visible while weaving surreal and poetic narratives of creation and destruction, micro and macro worlds, and the tension and conflict between modern humanity and nature.
Her work exists both at the realm of the hand-made and digital.
She travels as a one-woman show, often incorporating artist talks and workshops.
Her work has been presented at the Sundance Film Fest