GAGE MICHAEL WHEATLEYMONTREAL, QC, CANADA
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Gage Michael Wheatley is a queer artist based in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal. Working primarily in ceramics recreating and reworking familiar forms, he examines how queer identity is shaped through play and how meaning accumulates over time.

I use ceramics as a form of parallel inquiry into identity, attachment, and care. I am interested in how childhood objects and concepts serve as primary materials through which we understand ourselves.

For queer children, these objects often offer a sense of recognition or comfort even before a formal language of identity exists. By recreating these familiar forms in clay, I reclaim them as sites of devotion. My work also establishes a link between the contemporary nostalgia for play and the age-old tradition of the vessel and artifact. Treating ceramics as containers for memories, I elevate everyday symbols to the status of objects of reverence.
Publications & Exhibitions
Visual Art

➔Radical Joy - Group show (Galerie Angelina)
Montreal
2026
➔Pride in Craft 2026: The Price of Clay, Metal, Glass, Thread - Group show (Craft Ontario)
Toronto
2026
➔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)
2024
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