Monday, July 1, 2024

Artist of the Day, July 1, 2024: Rebecca Belmore, a Canadian Indigenous multidisciplinary artist (#2064)

 Happy Anniversary, Canada! Bonne fête, Canada!

A member of the Lac Seul First Nation (Anishinaabe), Rebecca Belmore is an internationally recognized multidisciplinary artist.

Rooted in the political and social realities of Indigenous communities, Belmore’s works make evocative connections between bodies, land and language. Solo exhibitions include: Facing the Monumental, Art Gallery of Ontario (2018); Rebecca Belmore: Kwe, Justina M.Barnicke Gallery (2014); The Named and The Unnamed, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, (2002). In 1991, Ayumee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother was created at the Banff Centre for the Arts with a national tour in 1992 and subsequent gatherings took place across the Canada in 1996, 2008, and 2014.

In 2017, Belmore participated in documenta 14 with Biinjiya’iing Onji (From Inside) in Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany. In 2005, at the Venice Biennale, she exhibited Fountain in the Canadian Pavilion. Other group exhibitions include: Landmarks2017 / Reperes2017, Partners in Art (2017); Land Spirit Power, National Gallery of Canada (1992); and the IV Bienal de la Habana (1991).

Belmore received the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation’s VIVA Award (2004), the Hnatyshyn Visual Arts Award (2009), the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (2013), and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize (2016). She received honourary doctorates from OCAD University (2005), Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2018), and NSCAD University (2019).

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Rebecca Belmore at work
Rising to the Occasion , 1987 Sculpture
Ayum ee aawach Oomama mowan- Speaking to Their Mother, 1991 Sculpture
Ayum ee aawach Oomama mowan- Speaking to Their Mother, 1991 Sculpture
 New Wilderness, 1995 Installation
New Wilderness, 1995 Installation
 Temple, 1996 Sculpture
 Mister Luna, 2001 Sculpture
 blood on the snow, 2002 Sculpture
State of Grace, 2002 Photo
Shanawdithit, The Last of the Beothuk, 2003 Sculpture
 White Thread, Untitled, 2003 Photo
 White Thread, Untitled, 2004 Photo
 White Thread, Untitled, 2004  Photo
Come in cielo così in terra, 2006  Installation
Freeze, 2006  Sculpture
 Fringe, 2007  Photo
Facing the Monumental, 2012   Exhibit
Mixed Blessing, 2011  Performance
Perimeter, 2012  Video
Trace, 2014
Biinjiya’iing Onji (From Inside) 2017  Installation
Nindinawemaganidog (all of my relations) 2017  Photo
Nindinawemaganidog (all of my relations) 2017  Photo
Nindinawemaganidog (all of my relations) 2017  Photo
 Wave Sound, 2017  Sculpture
 Wave Sound, 2017  Sculpture
 1181, 2018   Sculpture
Tower, tarpaulin, 2018  Sculpture detail
 Tower, tarpaulin, 2018  Sculpture

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