Margaret Dragu

Margaret Dragu (born 1953) is a celebrated Canadian artist recognized for innovation in many disciplines including performance art, contemporary dance, social practice art, video art, installation art, independent publishing, radio, and interactive platforms like social media. Her work has been performed, screened, exhibited, and published in many countries. In 1998 her European tour was supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (now Global Affairs Canada) with the German Hessiche Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst and the Cultural Department of the Netherlands. She has been awarded numerous funding awards from the Canada Council for the Arts as well as other arts funding agencies in Canada and Europe. In 2002 she was the first artist to be honoured in the Canadian Performance Art Legends book series with La Dragu: The Living Art of Margaret Dragu (Paul Couillard, editor), by Fado Performance Inc. In 2012 Margaret Dragu was the recipient of the Governor General's Award for Visual and Media Arts. In the same year Dragu was designated Éminence Grise by 7A*11D International Festival of Performance Art. In 2024 she delivered the International Women’s Day Address at Contemporary Art Conversations, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University.

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