Our next Artist You Need To Know is Abraham Anghik Ruben. Abraham Anghik Ruben is a sculptor of partly Alaskan Native ancestry: he was born south of the hamlet of Paulatuk in the Inuvik Region east of the Mackenzie River Delta in the Northwest Territories in 1951. The...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Yves Gaucher (1934 – 2000). Gaucher worked in both paint and printmaking (the latter being the space where he first established himself as an artist), and his work is marked by an ongoing exploration of abstraction. In the...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Molly Lamb Bobak (1920 – 2014). Lamb Bobak was a Canadian writer, printmaker, teacher and painter. During World War II, she was the first Canadian woman artist to be sent overseas to document Canada’s war effort, and in...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Jeff Thomas. Governor General Award winner Jeff Thomas is a photographer, curator, and cultural theorist. Self identifying as Urban-Iroquois, Thomas’ photographic practice re-contextualizes historical images of Indigenous...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Susanna Heller (1956 – 2021). Susanna Heller was born in New York, NY but lived in Montreal from the age of 7. She earned her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1977. This was during the heady days of the...
