Magali Côté

Magali Côté moves between industrial and elemental.

She is a Canadian adventurer, artist and designer whose life has orbited around depth and heights, craft and self.

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Known internationally for her under-ice freediving, she explores the edge between control and surrender in some of the planet’s harshest environments. Her work and courage have been featured in television and magazines worldwide, inspiring others through her quiet intensity and fearless curiosity.

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Before turning to the creative world, Magali forged her path through heavy industry. She became the 16th woman in North America to qualify as a rope-access supervisor, worked as an unrestricted surface supplied commercial diver, structural welder, commercial fisherwoman and millwright.

These experiences shaped her creative language: Built from tension, balance, precision, and the quiet poetry of resilience.

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Her story is not only about diving deep, but also about surfacing. She is living proof that women can occupy vast, dangerous  and beautiful spaces, both physically and emotionally.

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These years of physical labor left their mark: repetitive workplace injuries forced her to step away from the work that once defined her.
But from that rupture came a transformation, a new way to create, move and exist.

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Today, she channels the same strength that once lifted steel into the precision of design and the poetry of movement.

Her journey stands as a reminder that rebuilding oneself can be its own art form. Resilience is not the absence of fragility, but the mastery of it.

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