Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

 

2016-2018 Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Prepatorial Practicum                                                                                                         

2016 Alberta College of Art and Design, BFA with distinction, majoring in Painting

                                                                                                    

 

EXHIBITIONS

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2021

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Mask Project at Calgary Public Library, Central location. Calgary, AB

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2020

 

Planetary at Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, AB

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2019-present

 

(traveling) Taskoch Pipon Pesim Kah Nipa Muskoseya, Nepimpesim Eti Pimachihew-Like the Winter Snow Kills the Grass, The Summer Sun Revives it at TRUCK Gallery, Calgary, AB, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON

 

2018/2019

 

Aisinna'kiiks, St.Mary's University, Calgary, AB

 

2018

 

Current Terrain, A Space Gallery as a part of Imaginative, Toronto, ON

 

2017

 

Aboriginal Awareness Show, Vendome, Calgary, AB  

 

Look Around You, Banff Centre Project Space, Banff, AB           

 

2016                                                                                                       

 

Introspection of Identity, McDougal Centre                                                                      

 

Indigen~ish, ACAD, Calgary, AB

 

 

2015

 

Aboriginal Students Fall Show, ACAD, Calgary, AB

 

8th Fire Gathering, U of C, Calgary, AB

 

Indspire Awards Artist Showcase, Jubilee Auditorium, Calgary, AB                                                                                       

Hope 2 Opportunity, PURE art Gala, Juried, UofC, Calgary, AB                                                                             

Recipient of First Place, Judges Choice

                        Judges: Richard Smolinski

                                        William Laing

                                         Seema Jindal   

 

2014

 

 

Community Show 2, ACAD, Calgary, AB

 

Autochthonous Whispers, ACAD, Calgary, AB

 

Community, Show 1, ACAD, Calgary, AB

 

Admissions Show, Juried, ACAD, Calgary, AB                                               

 

Second Year Painting Show, ACAD, Calgary, AB

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SOLO

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2021 

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Mask Project, Calgary Public Library, Central Location. Calgary, AB 

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2019

 

A Door That Was Always Unlocked, Marion Nicoll Gallery LRT window, AU Arts, Calgary, AB 

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PROGRAMS AND WORKSHOPS

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2021

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Bookbinding Workshop (virtual) , Calgary Public Library 

Drawing workshop for kids (Virtual), Calgary Public Library 

Drawing workshop for kids (Virtual), Calgary Public Library 

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2020

 

Drawn to Nature, Facilitator, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

 

2019 

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Loom Beading Workshop, Facilitator, Contemporary Calgary 

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Next Up, Facilitation Workshop participant 

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2018 

 

 Just Bead It, Organizer/Co-facilitator 

 

2016 

 

 Southern Solidarity, Organizer/Facilitator                                                                                       

 

2015/16  

 

Next Up, Participant-Juried                                                                                                                  

 

RESIDENCIES

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2021 

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Indigenous Artist in Residence, Calgary Public Library, Calgary, AB 

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2019                                                                                                                                                      

 

Memory Keepers ll, Halifax, NS 

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Collider, Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, AB 

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Ghost Days: Making Art for Spirit, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, AB

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AWARDS AND BURSARIES

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2021 TD Indigenous Artist Award 

 

2016  Indspire Award                                                                                                                                                    

 

2015 Third Year Painting Award     

                                                                                                                     

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

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2022 Communitywise Resource Centre Fundraiser 

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2019 TRUCK Gallery fundraiser

 

2016  ACAD Show and Sale                                                                                                                                        

 

2015  Fight for $15, Communications Liaison                                                                                                               

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2015  Parkland Institute Conference, University of Alberta                                                                                        

 

2015 Public Interest Alberta                                                                                                                                        

 

2015  8th Fire Gathering, University of Calgary                                                   

 

2015  Community Connection                                                                                                                                    

 

2014 Parkland Institute Conference, University of Alberta

 

ARTIST TALKS/OTHER 

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2021 

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Indigenous Artist in Residence artist talk, Calgary Public Library, Calgary, AB

 

Virtual artist talk for the University of Calgary

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2019

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Mother Tongues Artist panel discussion at the Central Library for TRUCK. 

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After the TRC, Moderator at the University of Calgary panel discussion with artists Adrian Stimson, Glenna Cardinal, Judy Anderson, and Seth Cardinal Dodginghorse

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Artist Talk for Collider at Contemporary Calgary 

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2018

 

Artist Talk for Current Terrain in Toronto, ON as part of the art crawl for Imaginative

 

Singer/Co-writer, music for a video project by Jacqueline Huskisson, Calgary, AB   

 

Group Artist talk/panel for Aisinna'kiiks at St.Mary's University, Calgary, AB   

 

2017

 

Actor, ITHA by Ursula Johnson, Banff, AB

 

2016

 

Artist talk at as Alumni at the Alberta High School of Fine Arts, Okotoks, AB

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PUBLICATIONS

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Short Story, Carrying In Groceries (responding to Kablusiak's work of the same name) Inuit Art Quarterly, Spring issue, 2021 

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An unnamed article, Tusaayaksat Magazine, Spring issue, 2020 

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Review, 'Blood' by Erin Sutherland, Inuit Art Quarterly, Spring issue, 2019 

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Review of the film 'The Fifth Region' by Alberta Rose W., Canadian Art online review, 2019 

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CURATORIAL

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Big Rock River: Contemporary Indigenous Art in an Ancient Land

Okotoks Art Gallery 

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Anninik (Anirniq) Glenn Gear for Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective

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Generous Acts, Co-curated with Erin Sutherland for Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective

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PREPATORIAL

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Big Rock River: Contemporary Indigenous Art in an Ancient Land 2022

Okotoks Art Gallery 

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RELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting 2021

Esker Foundation 

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Les Ramsay, Special Thymes 2021

The Bows 

 

Guillame Adjutor Provost, Tourbe Chunky 2021

TRUCK Contemporary Art 

 

Jin-me Yoon, Untunnelling Vision 2020 

TRUCK Contemporary Art 

 

Jeffrey Gibson: To Name An Other 2019 

Esker Foundation 

 

Alberta Rose W/Ingniq: A Door That Was Always Unlocked 2019

Marion Nicol Gallery 

 

Caroline Monnet: Like Ships in the Night 2018

Walter Phillips Gallery 

 

Anna Gustafson, Remote & Obsolete, 2017 

Esker Foundation 

 

Richelle Bear Hat, Deanna Bowen, and Althea Thauberger: In Shadows of the Individual 2017

Walter Phillips Gallery 

 

Tiziana La Melia and Maryse Larivier: Garden Gossip 2017

Walter Phillips Gallery 

 

For the time being, 2017 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art

Walter Phillips Gallery 

 

Impulses, Permanent Collection Exhibition 2017

Walter Phillips Gallery 

 

Kite: Everything I say is True 2017 

Walter Phillips Gallery 

 

Indigenous Students ACAD: Indigen~ish 2016

Alberta College of Art and Design 

 

Aboriginal Students Fall Show 2015

Alberta College of Art and Design