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 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 Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun. He is one of the most outspoken and important – both in terms of his artwork and activism – contemporary Indigenous artists in Canada. Yuxweluptun is of Cowichan / Syilx First Nations heritage....
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Daphne Odjig (1919 – 2016). She was a First Nations artist of Odawa-Potawatomi-English heritage. Her painting is often characterized as Woodlands Style or as the pictographic style. Odjig was the major instigator and founder of the...
Our latest Artist You Need to Know is Shelley Niro. She’s a member of the Six Nations Reserve, Bay of Quinte Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) Nation, Turtle Clan. Employing such diverse media as photography, painting, sculpture and film, Niro’s art often uses humour...
