I am an interdisciplinary artist and cultivator.
Through my art practice, I reflect on queer feminist histories both known and unknown, while speaking to larger societal structures of power and oppression. Bridging methods of alternative processes, experimental film and queer histories (both personal and political), I trouble traditional approaches to analog film in order to address contemporary concerns in image making.
I have exhibited my works across Turtle Island and internationally in Toronto (Gallery 44, Arsenal Contemporary), Calgary (Contemporary Calgary), Vancouver (Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery), Ottawa (SPAO Photographic Center) and internationally (Japan, United Kingdom, Spain and Slovenia).
In support of my art practice and research, I received the graduate scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in 2023, and have received grants from the Ontario Arts Council, BC Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts.
In 2025, I co-founded The Bucket Collective, cultivating film related programs, events and workshops in so-called Vancouver. I’m in the bucket with Chris Chong Chan Fui, NoĆ© Rodriguez, Marianne Thodas and Terra Long. You can check us out here.
I was also a founding member of The Rude Collective, a queer arts collective amplifying voices of marginalized queer folks in Toronto (2016-2020).
This website was designed by Mohammad Rezaei and with the generous support of the Ontario Arts Council.
Photo by Roya Del Sol
Contact
msearswilliams [at] gmail [dot] com
insta: @morgan__elena
Tiktok: @morgan__elena
Film distributor CFMDC, bookings [at] cfmdc [dot] org
