Tegan Moore

Tegan Moore’s sculpture and installation questions the built environment and its relationship with the body through granular, intuitive, and research-based investigations. Her practice embraces provisional and metabolic processes through a perpetual use of discarded material, disrupting their time and value flows and the dominant systems they circulate within. She uses found and salvaged materials as a way to rely less on consumption economies, while exposing the materials that are disposable in these systems. Moore’s work is grounded in practice of sustained attention and fidelity to materials, their compositions, behaviours, lifespans, and breakdowns. She also works collaboratively as part of The Synthetic Collective, a group of artists, philosophers, writers and scientists, working together on issues of plastics production, pollution and degradation. They study plastics as cultural, industrial, and geological matter, recognizing its relationship to deep time, and as a synthetic substance fully entangled with the human body. Together they produce exhibitions, publications, and scientific studies. Moore’s recent exhibitions include Condensations at Centre Clark, Montrèal, Le synthétique au cœur de l’humain, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through at The Art Museum at the University of Toronto, and Foam Fatigue at YYZ Artists’ Outlet. She has participated in residency programs at Est Nord Est, Evergreen Brickworks, Tokyo Arts and Space, Mustarinda, and Aldea, with upcoming residencies at Annandale and The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation (2026). Her work has been published in Canadian Art Magazine, CBC’s The National, ESSE Revue, Momus, and The Science of the Total Environment. Moore is of settler descent and currently based in Tio’tià:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal