This Augmented Reality exhibition celebrates wisdom and cultural significance found within Cree traditions and invites viewers to explore the intersections of spirituality and the cosmos.
As a Two Spirited Cree man residing in the unceded Coast Salish Territories in British Columbia, my interdisciplinary practice is centered around exploring and creating personal Indigenous inconography and symbolism through the use of photography, alternative photo processes and digital illustration. I am currently on hiatus from pursuing my BFA at ECUAD as I prepare for upcoming projects.
My work is informed by pressing issues faced by Indigenous communities, including mental health, loss of culture and language resulting from displacement, the residential school system and assimilation. by reconnecting with traditional Indigenous material practice my work seeks to re establish lost connections and explore the intersection of hyphenated identities.
In my artistic journey, my objective is to produce visual expressions that confront and redefine pre-existing notions of Indigenous art, emphasizing its significance in present-day society, and elucidating how my work contributes to this discourse.
EXHIBITIONS
Artist Talk, North Island College
Jelena and the Internet Celebrity Cat - CSA Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Artist Talk Living a Creative Life: career artists day to day, Opus Art SuppliesVancouver, Canada
Digitizing Indigeneity, Centre Never Apart
It's not easy being green, Sum Gallery- Queer arts festival Vancouver, Canada
Artist Talk on Alternative Indigenous Experiences - Faculty of Education UBC Vancouver, Canada
Talking Stick Festival, Roundhouse Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
RELATIONAL rEvolutions, Roundhouse Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Surthriving - Two-Spirit Group Show, Center Never Apart, Montreal, Canada
Zoom in Zoom Out,, ECUAD, Vancouver, Canada
Beyond Now, ECUAD Vancouver, Canada
AWARDS
Shortlist for the Lind Prize 2019
Irving K Barber Award for Indigenous Students
CIBC award for Indigenous Arts students
National Indian Brotherhood Award for children of Residential School survivors
RBC Scholarship
COMMISSIONS
CBC Arts, Logo Design for Indigenous History Month/Pride
Ontario Lottery Corporation, Logo Design for Indigenous History Month
Archival Photos, UBC department of Family Medicine
Circle of Eagles Lodge Society, Culturally Sensitive Harm Reduction Materials.
EDUCATION
2018-(ongoing) BFA Emily Carr University of Art and Design