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niya-nikāwiy-nōhkom-nicāpān-nitāniskotāpān
- Date
- 2022
- Publisher
- Art Metropole
- Format
- Editions
- Genre
- Art Metropole Edition, Text-Based
Wall text, holographic or silver vinyl, dimensions variable
Work includes digital file and certificate of authenticity with instructions
Edition of 3 + 1AP
Translation: me-my mother-my grandmother-my great grandmother-my great- great grandmother
“The word for great grandmother conveys a connection or a lifeline. With the younger generations being steered and pulled with teachings and lifelong values.”
Joi T. Arcand is an artist from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, Saskatchewan, Treaty 6 Territory, currently residing in Ottawa, Ontario. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with Great Distinction from the University of Saskatchewan in 2005. In 2018, Arcand was shortlisted for the prestigious Sobey Art Award. Her practice includes photography, digital collage, and graphic design and is characterized by a visionary and subversive reclamation and indigenization of public spaces through the use of Cree language and syllabics.
Recent solo exhibitions include College Art Galleries (Saskatoon, SK); ODD Gallery (Dawson City, Yukon); Mendel Art Gallery (Saskatoon); Wanuskewin Heritage Park (Saskatoon); Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina).
Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Àbadakone at the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, ON); INSURGENCE/ RESURGENCE at the Winnipeg Art Gallery; McMaster Museum of Art (Hamilton, ON); The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design (Asheville, North Carolina); Woodland School at SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art (Montreal); Ottawa Art Gallery; PAVED Arts (Saskatoon); and grunt gallery (Vancouver).
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