GAGE MICHAEL WHEATLEY

MONTREAL, QC, CANADA

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Gage Michael Wheatley is a queer artist living in Tiohtià:ke / Montréal. His work moves primarily between ceramics and poetry, where he explores identity, memory, and attachment through everyday objects and images. Drawing from cartoons, toys, and a lifelong connection to the natural world, his practice treats nostalgia as a way of thinking and relating rather than a fixed past. By recreating and reworking familiar forms, he considers how queer identity takes shape through play, repetition, and care, and how meaning can accumulate over time.

Publications & Exhibitions
Visual Art

➔Éphémère - Ceramic group exhibition (Parquette)
Montreal
2025
➔In These Quiet Hours - Photography series (carte blanche)
Montreal
2025
➔Reading Nature - Featured poet and solo ceramic exhibiton (Pulp)
Montreal
2025
➔Metamorphosis - Photography series (LBRNTH)
Montreal
2024
➔Inheritance: Acknowledging our place in a more-than-human world - Photography series (Montreal Serai)

Poetry
/Writing

2026
➔Anatomy of a Lotus Eater - DUSIE
2024
➔Corona Borealis - Headlight Anthology
➔I Give Myself to Him Daily - Headlight Anthology
2023
➔THORNY/thorns chapbook
➔Accent Open Mic - featured poet
➔In a Room Full of Taxidermy - Contemporary Verse 2
➔Daisy Chain - Contemporary Verse 2
2022
➔Les aveugles - Shortlisted: Vallum 2022 Poetry Prize
➔Folklore Dendrology - Yolk Literary Magazine
➔Bottgersteinzeug - Tabula Rasa Review
➔The Night Bus - Literature Undressed

Awards & Grants

➔Shortlisted, Vallum 2022 Poetry Prize

Education

➔BA Classics: Archaeology and Ancient History, Minor Art History
Concordia University
2020

Available works / For purchase inquiries, please email gage.michael.wheatley@gmail.com

WORKSHOPS

Link to current workshops I’m teaching.