David Garneau (Métis Nation of Saskatchewan) is a Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Regina. He is a painter, curator, and writer who engages creative and critical expressions of Indigenous contemporary ways of knowing, being, and doing. He received the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Art: Outstanding Achievement (2023), was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada (2023), and received The Order of Gabriel Dumont Silver Medal (2025).

Garneau has curated more than two dozen exhibitions. Most recently, The Contemporary Native Art Biennial (Montreal 2020), with assistance from rudi aker and Faye Mullen; and co-curated, with Kathleen Ash Milby, Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound at The National Museum of the American Indian, New York (2017); With Secrecy and Despatch, Campbelltown Art Centre, Sydney, Australia (2016), with Tess Allas; and, with Michelle Lavallee, Moving Forward, Never Forgetting, at the Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina (2015). Garneau has given keynotes in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada on re/conciliation, museums, and Indigenous contemporary and public art. Concordia University Press is publishing his collected writings in 2026.

Garneau presented, Dear John, a performance featuring the spirit of Louis Riel confronting John A. Macdonald statues in Regina, Kingston, and Ottawa. He recently installed 544 paintings on the Tawatinâ Bridge in Edmonton. His still life paintings, Dark Chapters, curated by Arin Fay, tours Canada starting in 2025. It is accompanied by Dark Chapters: Reading the Still Lives of David Garneau, a collection of poems and essays by seventeen authors (University of Regina Press).