Cheryl Pagurek’s early training in sculpture and printmaking is key to her constructive and layered approach to artmaking. Her path to photography originated in the documentation of ephemeral installations; these explorations continued in video, eventually leading to the embodied experience of interactive media, where movement guides navigation through the artwork. Based in Ottawa, Canada, Pagurek’s artistic practice now highlights the constructed nature of lens-based media, while embracing the creative expression offered by computing and technology.

Her work has been shown widely in Canada and internationally, including exhibits at Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery (Halifax), Patrick Mikhail Montréal, Vu (Québec), Gallery 44 (Toronto), the Ottawa Art Gallery, Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa), and numerous film screenings in Canada, USA, Brazil, France, Colombia, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, the Netherlands, Norway, Ethiopia, and Greece. Her 2024 exhibit States of Being at Art-image (Gatineau, QC) featured her second interactive video and audio installation. Her 2024-2025 presentation Winter Garden at Surrey Art Gallery (BC) situated an interactive digital collage in the lobby of the Surrey Arts Centre. She received the 2020 Corel Endowment for the Arts Award celebrating the integration of technology and the arts.

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Cheryl Pagurek is a Canadian video and digital media artist. Her artistic practice highlights the constructed nature of lens-based media, while embracing the creative expression offered by computing and technology. Her work in video, photography, digital and interactive media has been shown widely in Canada and internationally, including exhibits at Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery (Halifax), Patrick Mikhail Montréal, Vu (Québec), Gallery 44 (Toronto), the Ottawa Art Gallery, Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa), Surrey Art Gallery (BC), and numerous video screenings in Canada, USA, Brazil, France, Colombia, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, the Netherlands, Norway, Ethiopia and Greece. Her 2024 exhibit States of Being at Art-image (Gatineau, QC) featured her second interactive video and audio installation. She received the 2020 Corel Endowment for the Arts Award celebrating the integration of technology and the arts.

Artist Code: 939