EDUCATION
2002 DOLL MAKING APPRENTICE
collaborative exchange program with Arapaho artist Dallin Maybe
1996-99 HIDE TANNING APPRENTICE
to various Okanagan artists
1996-99 BEADWORK APPRENTICE
to various First Nations artists across Turtle Island
1996-98 ONTARIO COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN Toronto
integrated media
1992/93 MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY London, UK
sculpture major
1991/92 KENSINGTON & CHELSEA COLLEGE London, UK
painting and experimental sculpture
1988/89 THE WESTERN FRONT Vancouver
video production workshops/youth residency
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS
2019
AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSE Governors Island, NYC
‘Paintings from the interTribal & Nikihk Series’
2010
HAMILTON ARTISTS INC Hamilton, ON
‘Mooswa, Muskwa, PuskwaMoostoos – Digital Creations with Immemorial Relations’
MCLAREN ART CENTRE Barrie ON
‘A Horse Called Memory’
2009
ALTERNATOR GALLERY Kelowna, BC
‘Diary of a Nomad’
HQ GALLERY Brooklyn, NYC
‘Gratitude Code Root Mural’
2008
PENTICTON ART GALLERY Penticton, BC
‘Between the Lines: Digitized Dialects & Encoded Traditions’ (large-scale retrospective)
HARCOURT HOUSE Edmonton, AB
‘Between the Lines: Digitized Dialects & Encoded Traditions’
2007
GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE Brooklyn, NYC
‘Indigenous Metropolis/Immigrant Wilderness’
GRUNT GALLERY Vancouver, BC
‘Digitized Dialects & Encoded Traditions’
CAMPBELL RIVER PUBLIC ART GALLERY Campbell River, BC
‘Roots, Scars, Nests & Tines; New Positons, Timeless Paradigms’
GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE Brooklyn, New York
‘original’ (site specific video installation in window)
2006
TRINITY SQ VIDEO / imagineNATIVE MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL Toronto, ON
‘Between the Lines’
QUEEN WEST ART CRAWL / HUSH Toronto, ON
‘braided in hushed tones’
TRANE STUDIO Toronto, ON
‘Scars of Gold & Other Colors’
2005
THE EVOLUTION OF A STORY – VTAPE CURATORIAL INCUBATOR Toronto, ON
URBAN SHAMAN Winnipeg, MB
‘Affirm/Nation’
2003
VMAC GALLERY (imagineNATIVE Media Arts Festival) Toronto, ON
‘The Most Beautiful Things’
2002
THEATRE ARTS COMMUNITY OUTREACH SOCIETY Edmonton, AB
– exhibition of paintings
1999
ABORIGINAL VOICES FESTIVAL Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON
‘Buffalo Basket’
1998
IMBOLC WOMEN’S FIRE-BASED ART FESTIVAL Ward’s Island, Toronto, ON
‘Words for the Hearth of a Paper Lodge’ (interactive sculpture)
1996
IMBOLC FESTIVAL Whittier Park, Winnipeg, MA
‘Burning Bride’ (pyrotechnic sculpture)
1993
TREATY STREET SHOW Treaty St. Council Estate, London, UK
– artist-initiated retrospective
1990
BRIGHTON BEACH Brighton, UK
‘Three Graces’ (site-specific installation)
1989
THE ZAP CLUB Brighton, UK
‘Blue View’ (commissioned site specific installation)
1989
VARIOUS OUTDOOR SITES Brighton, UK
‘In Motion’ (site-specific wheat-pasted image installation series)
1989
MAZE GALLERY Brighton, UK
‘Room with a Blue View’ (installation)
1987
PITT GALLERY Vancouver, BC
‘Industrial Garden’ (mobile assemblage sculptures)
THREE PERSON SHOWS
2013
‘BODY TRACKS’ Gallery 101 Ottawa, ON
2010
‘AAYADAGON’ Art Gallery of Peterborough Peterborough, ON
GROUP SHOWS
2022
FRAGILE RAINBOW: TRAVERSING HABITATS Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
RE/CONNECTIONS: IN KINSHIP WITH NATURE virtual exhibition. United Nations
2017
SINCE THEN Kamloops Art Gallery Kamloops, BC
2016
SINCE THEN Urban Shaman Gallery Winnipeg, MB
2014
STORYTELLING: THE CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ART BIENNIAL, 2ND EDITION Art Mur Montreal, PQ
2013
FICTION/NON-FICTION Esker Foundation Calgary, AB
RED, GREEN, BLUE (does not =) WHITE Blackwood Gallery University of Toronto Mississauga, ON
THE OLD BECOMES THE NEW: NEW YORK CONTEMPORARY NATIVE AMERICAN ART MOVEMENT
& THE NEW YORK SCHOOL Wilmer Jennings Gallery NY, NY
HISTORY OF THE FUTURE Online Exhibition hosted be Alternator Gallery Kelowna, BC
2012
SELECTED CANADIAN ABORIGINAL VIDEO University of Lethbridge Gallery Lethbrdige, AB
2011
DIS MICRO-GALLERY Brooklyn NYC
2009
NATHAN CUMMING FOUNDATION (Amerinda) New York, NY
‘Relevant’
UNITED NATIONS INDIGENOUS SYMPOSIUM United Nations New York, NY
2007
WOODLAND CULTURAL CENTRE Six Nations, ON
‘Through Women’s Eyes: Perspectives on the Land’
A SPACE GALLERY Toronto,ON
‘Re/Translation’
SIDESHOW GALLERY Brooklyn, NY
‘The War is Over’
2006
CANADIAN ABORIGINAL FESTIVAL Roger’s Centre Toronto, ON
TORONTO CITY HALL Toronto, ON
‘Neekwanisidok’
2003
CULTURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL SYMPOSIUM Toronto, ON
‘Rondezvous’
2001
NATIVE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE Edmonton, AB
‘Gathering of Worlds’
THE GRANT MACEWAN ROOM Edmonton, AB
‘Seven Deadly Skins’
2000
SUN & MOON VISIONAIRIES GALLERY Edmonton, AB
1998
‘REZERVED’ @ THE COLOURED STONE Toronto, ON
1996
BELTANE FESTIVAL St.Paul, Minnesota
‘Flaming Maypole’ (pyrotechnic sculpture)
1996
‘EDGEWISE’ Downtown St.Paul, Minnesota
– 4 month collaborative installation project with 12 artists
1993
‘EYE TO HAND’ @ SPITALFIELDS SYNAGOGUE HERITAGE BUILDING London, UK
paintings/sculpture
LIVE ARTWORKS (non-theatrical artworks enacted by the artist in real-time)
1999
A LITTLE PIECE OF UNITY Performance at the End of the 20th Century Festival Vancouver, BC
A WALK WITH THE BUFFALO BASKET Aboriginal Voices Festival Fashion Show Toronto, ON
1998
HOLY DOG Pousse Café Performance Art Festival, Deleon White Gallery Toronto, ON
1997
MY BRAIDS IN A KNOT University Cinema Façade Toronto, ON
RATTLE DANCE OCAD Sumo Robot Challenge Toronto, ON
RITUAL FOR IMBOLC Imbolc Festival Ward’s Island, Toronto, ON
1996
MIXED BLOOD BUFFALO BALLGOWN various street locations Toronto, ON
A(U)NTI SANTA Hungarian Castle B & E Solstice Live Art Event Toronto, ON
GRAFFITI FACE WOMAN Edgewise Collaborative Artists’ Project St.Paul, Minnesota
1994
SOLSTICE SKYWALK OF THE SKELETAL & BLOOMING St.Paul Skyway St.Paul, MN
1993
PORTABLE TERRAVISION Birnham Performance Art Festival London, UK
DRINK MORE TRICKY NOTHING The Exploding Cinema Does Dublin Dublin, Ireland
TENDER TRADING TIPI Exploding Cinema ‘Dive-In’ London, UK
RED BREATH Middlesex University London, UK
1992
OF LIQUID & GRAVITY Nosepaint (Live-Art Venue) London, UK
THE EARTH & MYSELF Woodwork Performance Festival, London, UK
LIVE ARTWORKS FOR VIDEO/FILM
1998 TOXIC SOIL Toronto, ON
1998 RED CARPET Toronto
1996 UNTYING THE KNOTS Winnipeg, MB
1992 URBAN GODS London, UK
16mm music video for Shriekback’s ‘Sacred City’ album
VIDEO & FILM PRODUCTION SCREENINGS
2013
VIDEO ART FESTIVAL of CAMAGUEY Camagüey, Cuba
self-portrait in alterNation between ascension & decent
2011
‘CARRIED AWAY’ – VTAPE STAFF FAVORITES vtape Toronto, ON
Red Buffalo Skydive, a horse called Memory
EX-IS EXPERIMENTAL FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL Seoul, Korea
self-portrait in alternNation between ascension & decent
WINNIPEG CINEMATEQUE Winnipeg, MB
self-portrait in alterNation between ascension & decent
2007
ifPOD IMAGES FESTIVAL ONLINE PROJECT Red Buffalo Skydive
FREE SPEECH TV USA Red Buffalo Skydive
DREAMSPEAKERS FESTIVAL Edmonton, AB
Makekway Masinakatew (‘untitled’)
NATIVE SPIRIT FESTIVAL London, UK
Red Buffalo Skydive, Intertribal Time
2006
SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN NATIVE AMERICAN FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL NY, NY
a horse called Memory
RED EYE – 1ST NATIONS SHORT FILM & VIDEO Carleton University Art Gallery Carleton, ON Makekway Masinakatew (‘untitled’)
MESSAGE STICKS Sydney Opera House Sydney, Australia Red Buffalo Skydive
WANTING & WAITING Berlin & Canada Red Buffalo Skydive
‘THE SHARPEST POINT’ Gene Siskel Film Centre Chicago, IL
Red Buffalo Skydive
‘THE SHARPEST POINT’ University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Red Buffalo Skydive
SCHOOL OF ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO Chicago, IL Red Buffalo Skydive
2005
imagineNATIVE MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL Toronto, ON
Red Buffalo Skydive, a horse called Memory
CURRENTS IN ANIMATION: MUSIC, METAMORPHOSIS, INFERNAL VISIONS Toronto Red Buffalo Skydive
MUKWA GEEZIS FESTIVAL Toronto, ON Intertribal Time
PLEASURE DOME – NEW TORONTO WORKS Toronto, ON Intertribal Time
HERLAND FEMINIST FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL Calgary, AB Intertribal Time
PLANET IN FOCUS Toronto Intertribal Time
2004
imagineNATIVE MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL Toronto Intertribal Time
MAORI TELEVISION New Zealand Red Buffalo Skydive
WINNIPEG FILM GROUP Winnipeg, AB Red Buffalo Skydive
WANTING & WAITING TOUR Agnes Etherington Art Centre Kingston, ON
Red Buffalo Skydive
EM MEDIA Calgary, AB Makekway Masinakatew (‘untitled’), Lullabye
LAND IN SIGHT Montreal, PQ Lullabye
HERLAND FEMINIST FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL Calgary, AB
Makekway Masinakatew (‘untitled’), Lullabye
2003
CANADIAN ABORIGINAL FESTIVAL MUSIC AWARDS Toronto, ON Red Buffalo Skydive
imagineNATIVE MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL Toronto, ON
Makekway Masinakatew (‘untitled’), Lullabye
24 HOURS Barcelona, Spain Red Buffalo Skydive
IMAGES FESTIVAL Toronto, ON Makekway Masinakatew (‘untitled’)
ABORIGINAL PEOPLES TELEVISION NETWORK
Red Buffalo Skydive, Holy Dog, 10,000 yrs.
2002
ABORIGINAL PEOPLES TELEVISION NETWORK Red Buffalo Skydive, Holy Dog
TERRES EN VUES – FIRST PEOPLES FESTIVAL Montreal, PQ Red Buffalo Skydive
TEEN ACT Lillooet, BC Holy Dog
IMAGES FESTIVAL Toronto, ON Red Buffalo Skydive
GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE Rochester, NY Red Buffalo Skydive
SIGNAL & NOISE FESTIVAL Vancouver, BC Red Buffalo Skydive
PETERBOROUGH ARTS UMBRELLA Peterborough, ON Red Buffalo Skydive
METRO CINEMA Edmonton, AB Red Buffalo Skydive
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL Park City, Utah Red Buffalo Skydive
A-Z GALLERY St.Paul, MN Red Buffalo Skydive
2001
WALKER ART CENTER Minneapolis, MN – Hoy Dog
IMAGINATIVE FILM FESTIVAL Toronto, ON – Red Buffalo Skydive
NATIVE AMERICAN FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL Woodstock Museum, NY Holy Dog
2000
VIDEO RAMPAGE Video In Vancouver, BC Holy Dog
FILM/VIDEO 2000 Montecatini, Italy Holy Dog
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN NATIVE
AMERICAN FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL NY, NY Holy Dog
MILL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL Mill Valley, California Holy Dog
1999
ABORIGINAL VOICES FESTIVAL Harbourfront Centre Toronto, ON
Red Carpet (lobby installation)
IMAGNATION Indigenous Media Arts Festival Vancouver, BC
Red Buffalo Skydive
SCHOLARSHIPS/GRANTS/AWARDS
2010
CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS
video project grant
2009
ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL ABORIGINAL ARTS PROJECTS
sculpture series project grant
2006
ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL ABORIGINAL ARTS PROJECTS
sculpture series project grant
TORONTO ARTS COUNCIL MEDIA ARTS
video project grant
2005
CHALMER’S ARTS FELLOWSHIP (OAC)
multi-media installation series ‘Between the Lines’
imagineNATIVE FESTIVAL
Honorable Mention – Best Experimental Short for ‘a horse called Memory’
2004
ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL ABORIGINAL ARTS PROJECTS
sculpture series project grant
2003
ALBERTA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS
multi-media sculpture/installation series project grant
2002
CANADA COUNCIL ABORIGINAL PEOPLES CULTURAL EXCHANGE GRANT
for traditional doll-making project with Dallin Maybe (Arapaho/Seneca)
1999
VIDEO IN PRODUCERS GRANT
post-production of ‘Holy Dog’ single channel video
1998
NORMAN & MARGARET JEWISON CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS AWARD
for First Nations students @ OCAD (shared with Ron Desmoulins)
SUMO AWARD
for OCAD students working in robotic arts
RESIDENCIES
2022 LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL ARTS CENTER RESIDENCY Governors Island, NYC
2020 AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSE INDIGENOUS FUTURISMS RESIDENCY Governors Island, NYC
2007 THE WESTERN FRONT Vancouver , BC
2005 GIBRALTAR POINT CENTRE FOR THE ARTS INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCY Toronto Island, Toronto, ON
COLLECTIONS/LIBRARIES
ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM Edmonton, AB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY Vancouver, BC
ALBERTA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS Edmonton, AB
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN NewYork, NY
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO LIBRARY Scarborough, ON
COMMISSIONS
2003
THE IMAGES FESTIVAL – Minute Movie Program Toronto, ON
‘Makekway Masinakatew’
2002
NICHI INSTITUTE Edmonton, AB
poster/growth chart for tobacco use campaign
1989
THE ZAP CLUB Brighton, UK
‘Blue View’ (awarded commission for site-specific installation)
JURIES/PANELS/FIRST NATIONS CULTURAL ADVISORY WORK
2022 FRAGILE RAINBOW: TRAVERSING HABITATS Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
– First Nations cultural advisor for group exhibition of works by NYC based environmentally focussed artists
RE/CONNECTIONS: IN KINSHIP WITH NATURE virtual exhibition, United Nations
– First Nations cultural advisor for group exhibition of works by environmentally focussed artists
ECOARTSPACE
– First Nations cultural advisor for environmentally focussed arts organization
2021 AT WHAT POINT MANAGED RETREAT? Columbia University Climate School
– panelist contributing First Nations contemporary artist perspective & knowledge on global warming issues
2010 ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL – visual arts jury (provincial level arts funding body)
2009 CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS – visual arts jury (federal level arts funding body)
2007 ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL – Chalmer’s awards jury (provincial level arts funding body)
2006 CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS – media arts jury (federal level arts funding body)
04/05 PROVINCIAL MUSEUM OF ALBERTA
– First Nations cultural advisor on planning committee for new Aboriginal gallery
2002 CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS – First Nations media arts jury (federal level arts funding body)
ONLINE PROFILES @ NATIVE INSTITUTIONS & ARTS ORGANIZATIONS
AMERINDA NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISTS ROSTER
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN ARTIST PROFILE
HEARD MUSEUM NATIVE ARTISTS RESOURCE COLLECTION ONLINE
ONLINE INTERVIEWS & ARTIST TALKS
2008
Alternator Gallery Diary of a Nomad artist talk
Harcourt House Between the Lines: Digitized Dialects & Encoded Traditions excerpts of artist talk
(video by Asparagus Green. Also includes artist talk excerpts by Tony Baker)
2005
Urban Shaman Gallery exhibition – interview with KC Adams
(No longer posted. Please contact gallery)
PUBLICATIONS/REVIEWS/ESSAYS
2014
TUSAAJI JOURNAL (YORK UNIVERSITY) Translating Indigenous Civic Ecologies
essay by Jessica Rachel Jacobson-Konefall about my own & Nadia Myre’s exhibitions
@ Urban Shaman Gallery (Winnipeg)
ARTICHAUT MAGAZINE – review of Storytelling, The Contemporary Native Art Bienalle @ Art Mur
FIRST AMERICAN ART MAGAZINE – downloadable review of
Storytelling, The Contemporary Native Art Bienalle @ Art Mur.
See page 4 for mention of ‘green braids sextet’ (& comparison with Donald Judd & Eva Hesse)
2013
CANADIAN ART – review of Fiction/Non-Fiction group show @ Esker Foundation
HYPERALLERGIC – review of The Old becomes the New group show
2011
AYAADAGON CATALOGUE (3 artist show) essays by William Kingfisher
BODY TRACKS CATALOGUE (3 artist show) essays by Christine Redfern & Cathy Mattes
2010
RANDOM TEXTUAL RANTS essay/review by Tannis Nielson of
Mooswa, Muskwa, PuskwaMoostoos – Digital Creations with Immemorial Relations
solo show at Hamilton Artist Inc
2009
CHECKOUT ART – Athena Paradissis review of Hamilton Artists Inc solo exhibition
THINGS OF DESIRE ARTBLOG – Lauren Raham review of Diary of a Nomad
2008
EDMONTON JOURNAL Jan 4 Gilbert Bouchard review of Harcourt House exhibition
THE TYEE – Paths to Fame for Young Native Artists
– Colleen Kimmett article that includes an interview with Karen Duffek,
curator at the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology
2007
NOW MAGAZINE Nov 15 – 22 Fran Schechter review of A Space ‘Re/Translation’ exhibition
MIX MAGAZINE Toronto, ON – grunt gallery exhibition listing
BRUNT MAGAZINE Vancouver, BC – cover & article by Tania Willard
PREVIEW – THE GALLERY GUIDE
– review of Campbell River Public Art Gallery exhibition
2006
‘READING BETWEEN THE LINES’ Trinity Sq Video Exhibition catalogue
with essay by Aubrey Reeves
2005
C MAGAZINE issue #88 – Sandee Moore review of Affirm/Nation exhibition at Urban Shaman Gallery
DOSE June 10 ‘Art at 30 Frames Per Second’ interview with Ronit Novak
FIRST NATIONS CURATORIAL INCUBATOR CATALOGUE
– VTape screening of Red Buffalo Skydive & curators essay/publication
THE SHARPEST POINT: ANIMATION AT THE END OF CINEMA.
Published by YYZ Books, the Ottawa International Animation Festival & the Images Festival.
Contains writing about ‘Red Buffalo Skydive’
2004
The Most Beautiful Things: Textuality and New Media in the Work of Jude Norris
review by Miriam Jordan & Julian Haladyn
2002
ARTISTS FORUM (St.Paul, MN) interview with Stephen Rife
