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Born in 1981 in London, England. Lives and works in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
EDUCATION
accepted PhD Program in Educational Studies, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia (start date July 2026)
2025 MFA in Visual Arts, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador
2003 BA, Communication Studies (Film Production stream), minor in Creative Writing, Concordia University, Montréal
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Wish you a long, happy & productive life (solo MFA final exhibition), St. Francis Xavier University Art Gallery, Antigonish, Nova Scotia
2021 Toil Here: Works from Rural Mi’kma’ki (group), Curated by The Khyber Centre for the Arts & Mayworks Kjipuktuk, The Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, NS
ART FESTIVALS
2022 CB Nuit: Art After Dark Festival (Newfoundland and Labrador)
Lumière Art Festival (Nova Scotia)
Art in the Open (Prince Edward Island)
Project: Exploring the Treaty Relationship, Collaboration with Michelle Sylliboy, Jessica Mensch, and Leigh Gillam
2021 Nocturne: Art at Night, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Exploring the Treaty Relationship, Collaboration with M. Sylliboy, J. Mensch, L. Gillam 2020 Antigonight Art After Dark Festival, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. A New Season at the Loom
Antigonight Art After Dark Festival, Antigonish, NS. For the Love of the Land. Collaboration with MB Carty, L. Carty, S. Doiron
FILM FESTIVALS & SCREENING EVENTS
Exploring the Treaty Relationship
2022 ImagiNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival (Toronto)
Atlantic International Film Festival (Nova Scotia)
Atlantic Arts Symposium (New Brunswick)
Antimatter [Media Art] (Vancouver)
The Broken Hearted
2015 Retrospective Cours écrire ton court – Fantasia Film Festival
2007 Festival international des films pour enfants de Montréal
2006 Toronto International Film Festival (Official Competition)
Vancouver Intl Film Festival (Official Competition)
Malibu International Film Festival (Official Competition)
Bucheon Intl Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) (Official Competition)
Leeds Intl Film Festival (Official Competition)
Closing night film- Les rendez-vous du cinéma québécois
Trouville Off-Courts (Official Competition)
Cine-World Film Festival (Best of TIFF shorts)
San Diego Women Film Festival (Official Competition)
Brno 16 Film Festival (Official Competition)
Women in Film and Television Ireland: French Women Film Festival
DC Shorts Film Festival (Official Competition)
Festival des 3-Amériques (Official Competition)
Sherbrooke Film Festival (Official Competition)
Festival du cinéma en cours
Regard sur le court métrage au Saguenay
Silence, on court (NFB)
Market: International Short Film Festival of Clermont-Ferrand
THEATRICAL RELEASE, DISTRIBUTION & TELEVISION
A Film Set in Five Chapters
2015 Pandora Film
The Broken Hearted
2007 FOX Italy
2006 Télé-Québec
Movieola: the short film channel
Locomotion Films
Cinéma Le Parisien
Cinéma Beaubien
AWARDS
2006 Best Original Screenplay at the Malibu International Film Festival for The Broken Hearted
2006 Jury Award at the San Diego Women Film Festival for The Broken Hearted.
2004 1st Prize: Best Short Script: SODEC & Festival du nouveau cinéma Cours écrire ton court for The Broken Hearted.
ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIPS
2022 Academic Excellence Award, Memorial University (1 year)
2022 Canada Graduate Scholarships – Master’s program, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) (1 year)
GRANTS
2023 Arts Nova Scotia (professional development grant) for MFA studies
2022 Canada Council for the Arts (professional development grant)
2021 Arts Nova Scotia (creation grant)
2021 Change Lab Action Research Initiative (CLARI) (project grant)
2007 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) (scriptwriting grant)
2006 Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC) (scriptwriting grant)
2006 Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant (travel grant)
2006 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) (travel grant)
2004 Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC) (production grant)
2004 National Film Board of Canada (NFB) (production grant)
2004 Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC) (scriptwriting grant) Arts Nova Scotia (professional development grant) for MFA studies
ARTIST RESIDENCY
2020 ASAP Artist-Run Centre, Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
ARTIST TALKS
2025 Hive for Feminist Research, St. Francis Xavier University (NS)
2024 Critical Mixed-Race Studies Conference, Ohio State University, Ohio, US.
2021 The Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, Nova Scotia for TOIL HERE: Works from Rural Mi’kma’ki.
PRESS
2021 At Home on the North Shore, Meet Antigonish Visual Artist Antoinette Karuna, artist profile, article by Shelley Cameron-McCarron.
2021 Chatelaine Magazine, Rug Hooking in Nova Scotia, article by Morgan Mullin.
2021 Visual Arts News. Exhibition review: TOIL HERE: Works from Rural Mi'kma'ki, Khyber Centre for the Arts & Mayworks Kjipuktuk, article by M. Hanna. 2006 SEQUENCES, issue 235, January–February, pp. 18–19; review of The Broken Hearted
ART WRITING
2023 Interview with artist Padma Rajendran, BODY Literature Journal (Winter issue)
PEER ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE
Arts Nova Scotia
CURRENT ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2020–present Part-Time Academic Instructor, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia.
Departments: Art Department & Centre for Online Learning & Professional Studies.
Courses: Introductory Filmmaking (ART 259) & Intermediate Filmmaking (ART 386)