BIOGRAPHY

Tegan Forbes completed her Master of Fine Art in March, 2007, at Concordia University in Montreal, in conjunction with designing and teaching a print media class that focused on interventional practices and works in public space. During the winter of 2008, Forbes taught at the Alberta College of Art and Design in the Print Media Department.

Complimenting her academic art practices, Forbes has held the professional position of Digital Print Consultant within Concordia University’s Print Media Lab, co-curated the 2007 MFA Exhibition in Montreal for 56 artists and was invited two years in a row to speak in Toronto at Copy Camp, a national conference which addressed concerns of intellectual property rights and artistic license. During 2002 Forbes worked in the Print Media Department at the Banff Centre for Visual and Performing Arts.

Forbes has participated collaboratively in Vancouver at the Contemporary Art Gallery, in Montreal at Atelier Circulaire, in Germany at the Bauhaus University and at Youth Write 2007 and 2008, both hosted by the Writers Guild of Alberta. Forbes was invited by Studio XX to present her research at Montreal’s HTMLles 8 Cyber-Arts Biennial in the fall of 2007 and was a participant in Winnipeg’s Art City Professional Artist Series 2008.

Tegan is currently working in Brooklyn, New York.