Performance Artist – Rebecca Belmore

Rebecca Belmore

Lac Seul First Nation (Anishinaabe) / Canadian Artist- Performance Art, Multidisciplinary

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).

Rebecca Belmore moozhag aabajitoon ikwewiiyaw wii-waabanda’ang ezhi Anishinaabekwewag mashkawiziwaad miinawaa zhiibinewaad. Ikwe bimishin dibishkoo ikweyan mewinzhaa mazinibii’igaazonid Waabishkiiwewakiing idash mizhwaaginiwid dinmaaganing ako nooganing. Ojiishigikaazo ge manidoominensikaadang dibishkoo ziigiskwed ezhi naagwag. Belmore waabanda’aan Anishinaabewid mii gaye ezhi Anishinaabewan zhiibinenid. Misawa dash getenaam mizhwaaginiwid, Niisiiwezhigan gaye izhi-noojimong. Ojishigiwin apane wii-naagwad aanawi dash manidoominensikaadeg daa-waabanjigaadeg Anishinaabe zhiibinewin.

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