Shelagh Howard

Shelagh Howard is an award-winning photo-based visual artist. Born in Toronto and now living in Halifax, her practice probes the layered terrain of memory, identity, and embodied experience. Through long exposures and the human figure, she explores themes of gender, intimacy, and rebirth.
 
Her images thread motion and stillness, capturing ephemeral shadows offering a fleeting glimpse of what lingers behind our carefully constructed facades. Each image asks the viewer to see its subject captured outside of time, and to consider what it means to belong to and in a body.
 
Shelagh studied psychology at The University of Toronto and photography at Ryerson University, and has exhibited works in Canada, the US and Europe. Her work has been published in photoED magazine, Lenscratch, Songlines Magazine UK, Opera Canada, VICE magazine, and on billboards in Times Square, NYC and Dundas Square, Toronto. She has received recognition from various international awards, including The Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, The Artist Award from the Cornell Henry Art Gallery in San Diego and Photolucida’s Critical Mass.