Biography  

Lisa Hirmer (Mexican European)

Lisa Hirmer is a Mexican-Erupean interdisciplinary artist based in Guelph. She holds a master’s degree from The School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo, Guelph, Canada. She is also a co-founder and principal of DodoLab, an experimental arts-based practice that has been producing innovative public research and socially engaged projects since 2009. Lisa has participated in various artists' residencies in Canada and Internationally, in the most recent 2019-2022 she was a thread residency artist with Towards Braiding, a program led by Elwood Jimmy and Vanessa Andreotti working towards decolonial processes and sensibilities.

Lisa Hirmer's studio work as a photographer, visual media, and writer to explore contemporary landscapes and built environments through community collaboration and practice-based forms of research. Her work has been showcased both within the gallery and in non-traditional settings, she has created projects across Canada and internationally. Lisa has showcased in the solo exhibition Everything We Have Done is Weather Now (2023), at the Hess Gallery, University of Lethbridge in Alberta, And Yet We Still Remain (2016), curated by Andrew Hunter, at the Dalhousie Art Gallery in Halifax. Her work has been included in the collective exhibitions BioCurious (2023), curated by Jennifer Matotek and Julie Rae Tucker at the Art Windsor Essex in Ontario, collective exhibition project Of Containers and Firestarts (2018), at Queen Square Gallery in Toronto and Every Now Then Refraiming: Nationhood (2017), curated by Andrew Hunter, Quill Christie-Peters, Anique Jordan and Laura Robb, at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.