Claire Drummond is a painter and educator from Tio’tia:ke Montreal who recently completed her MFA in Painting and Drawing at NSCAD University. She previously completed an MA in Cultural Studies at McGill University specializing in representations of gender and performance in postwar film. Her formal academic training influences her understanding of feminized experience as a microcosm of broader subjective and ecological concerns, and the ways in which her work grapples with what it means to be a woman and what it means to be human today.

She is the recipient of multiple grants and awards, including a Research and Creation grant from Canada Council for the Arts (2025), the Scotia Scholar’s Award from Research Nova Scotia (2022-2023), the Judith Jane Leidl Graduate Fellowship (2023), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Graduate Scholarship (2018), and she was a finalist for the NSCAD University Student Art Award (2023). She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions in Paris FR, London UK, Halifax NS, Montreal QC and Kingston ON, with a forthcoming exhibition in Chicago IL. Her work is held in national and international private collections.