Canadian First Nations (Anishinaabe), 20th century, female.
Born 22 March 1960, in Upsala (Ontario).
Performance artist, installation artist, sculptor, video artist.
Rebecca Belmore was sent from her home to attend high school in Thunder Bay (Ontario), where she was billeted with a non-Aboriginal family. She graduated from the experimental art programme at Toronto’s Ontario College of Art and Design in ...
Canadian First Nations (Ojibwa), 20th–21st century, female.
Born 1952, in Toronto.
Sculptor, performance artist, multimedia artist, installation artist.
A member of the Serpent River First Nation, Bonnie Devine is a Canadian Ojibwa artist, writer and curator. She studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design in ...
(b Washington, AR, July 10, 1940).
Native American Cherokee sculptor, performance artist, and video artist. In 1968 he moved to Geneva, where he attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1972. After his return to the USA he lived on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and played an active part in the American Indian Movement; he also served from 1975 to 1979 as the executive director of the International Indian Treaty Council in New York. He left both organizations in 1980. Durham’s sculptures and installations can be seen against a background of activism, in which he records the plight of Native Americans in the face of Western colonial culture. His sculptures, bricolages of found objects, often take the form of vivid anthropomorphic constructions, appearing as ironic fetishes in an ethnographic display. Durham often includes words that provide witty if inconclusive suggestions of the type of protest that he is staging, as in the wall-mounted work ...
Native American (Cheyenne and Arapaho), 20th–21st century, male.
Born 22 November, 1954, in Wichita (Kansas).
Painter, draughtsman, sculptor, printmaker, installation artist, conceptual artist, educator.
Edgar Heap of Birds is one of the most distinguished North American indigenous artists of his generation. His works reveal a distinctly critical and historical awareness of the ways that American Indian peoples, their histories and their viewpoints have been ignored and written over under colonialism. He has received numerous honours, presenting his work in competition for the United States Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale (...
Native American (Bay of Quinte Mohawk), 21st century, female.
Born 1954, in Niagara Falls (New York).
Photographer, filmmaker, painter, sculptor, printmaker, screenwriter, beadworker.
The Mohawk artist Shelley Niro, born in the United States and raised at the Six Nations Grand River Reserve in Ontario, Canada, is a member of the Turtle Clan. She received a BA from Ontario College of Art and Design (...
Native American (Gordon First Nation), 20th–21st century, male.
Born 1953, in Regina (Saskatchewan).
Sculptor, painter, draughtsman, installation artist, performance artist.
A highly regarded figure in the field of First Nations/Native American contemporary art in Canada, Edward Poitras was the first indigenous artist to gain the distinction of representing his country at the Venice Biennale in ...
