Performance Workshop with Alex Beriault
Event • March 9–14, 2026
A week long performance workshop taught by Alex Beriault.
Artist Bio
Alex Beriault is a filmmaker and visual artist (born in Toronto, Canada) whose works encompass film, performance, installation, & dance. She received her BFA from OCAD University in 2014 as the recipient of the OCAD Sculpture/Installation Medal, and has since developed performance-oriented works in which she uses herself as the primary subject. In 2021, Beriault completed her Meisterschüler at the University of the Arts Bremen under the mentorship of media artist Rosa Barba.
Beriault’s work has been recognized throughout North America and Europe with recent participation as an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center in the United States (2024), as well as her solo exhibition “Talk and Taste your Tongue” at the Kunstverein Ruhr in Essen, Germany (2023). During the 22nd edition of the Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival (LUFF) in Switzerland, Beriault’s film “Birth Proof” won Best Experimental Short Film. Her films and installations have screened and exhibited internationally, participating in festivals, institutions and residencies including CROSSROADS 2022, San Francisco, Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Berlin (2022), the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor (2021), Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal (2021), the Weserburg Museum for Modern Art, Bremen (2021), GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen (2020), LUFF Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (2023/2020), Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge (2018), Denniston Hill, Upstate New York (2017). Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Projects, Toronto (2017) and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2014).