Mireille Eagan

Mireille Eagan (born 1982) is a Canadian arts writer and curator. She is the niece of composer and songwriter Edmund Eagan. She is also granddaughter of cold weather physiologist Charles Eagan.

Mireille Eagan was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1982 and grew up in Whitehorse, Yukon and Fredericton, New Brunswick. She is a graduate of Mount Allison University (Bachelor of Arts in Art History) and Concordia University (Masters of Arts in Art History). She was Curator at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Prince Edward Island from November 2008 to July 2010. She is currently Curator of Contemporary Art at The Rooms in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. She was Curator of Canadian Art from 2011 to 2013.

Eagan has written for several catalogues, magazines, and newspapers such as Border Crossings, canadianart.ca,C Magazine, [here] magazine, Inuit Art Quarterly, The Overcast, and Visual Arts News. She was arts columnist for the Daily Gleaner.

In 2013, she was the Atlantic juror for the Sobey Art Award.

Mireille Eagan has curated exhibitions with institutions across Canada, as well as internationally.

In 2013, she co-curated an official collateral project with the 55th Venice Biennale alongside Bruce Johnson. Titled About Turn: Newfoundland in Venice the exhibition was organised by the Terra Nova Art Foundation, and featured the work of Peter Wilkins and Will Gill. It was on display at Galleria Ca'Rezzonico until November 24, 2013.

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