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Jeffrey is an urban-Iroquois, born in the city of Buffalo, New York in 1956. His parents and grandparents were born at the Six Nations reserve, near Brantford, Ontario and left the reserve to find work in the city.
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Mana Rouholamini is a visual artist. She has produced drawing installations, artist books and digital prints that focus on language and meaning. She received her MFA from York University and her BFA from Azad University in Tehran, Iran....
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Ben Powless is Mohawk from Six Nations in Ontario. He is currently working for the Defenders of the Land network, a national network of Indigenous communities, leaders, and allies dedicated to standing up for the sovereignty and sacredness...
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Born and raised in Montreal (CA), French-Canadian of Vietnamese origin, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen is a research-based artist currently based in Brooklyn (NY) and Stockholm (SE). Nguyen recently completed the Whitney Museum of American Art’s...
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HELENE LACELLE is a self taught Canadian artist living in Chipman, NB.
After fifteen years living, painting and showing on Queen West in Toronto, LACELLE was selected by the NFB as one of five persons to represent Ontario artists in a...
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Kaylene's work is about power, politics, people, play and perceptions of reality. It is informed by debates and events of the time in which it was created. Through the recontextualisation of media images and everyday material a new...
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Priti Gulati Cox is an artist who lived in India until she moved to Salina, Kansas in 2000. In 2008, she began work on a project entitled Vanishing India that reveals the effects of corporate globalization on the social, political and...
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Pansee Atta is an activist, artist, and academic currently working towards an MA in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University. Her work examines themes of migration, anti-racism, and decolonization.
www.panseeatta.com
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Adornato was born in Montreal, Quebec, to Italian/French immigrants. He spent much of his childhood in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia before his family settled in Ottawa, Canada. In 2001, he received his Fine Arts degree from NSCAD University in...
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Howard holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Indigenous Studies from Trent University, and a Master Of Arts Degree in Canadian Studies from Carleton University. He is an award winning writer, and an artist that has worked in diverse mediums,...
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Mohammed Mohsen is a Toronto-based visual artist. His work adopts the formal elements of video games as a historic and aesthetic foundation to explore concepts of strength, the protagonist, memory, violence, and exile. His most recent work...
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Iraqi born artist Wafaa Bilal, an Assistant Arts Professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, is known internationally for his on-line performative and interactive works provoking dialogue about international politics and...
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Harun Farocki was born in Novi Jicín in 1944 in what is today the Czech Republic. Farocki is considered to be one of the most important artists of contemporary film and documentary. He has made close to 90 films, including three feature...
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DYLAN AT MINER (MÉTIS) is a border-crossing artist, activist, historian, curator, and professor working throughout Turtle Island (the Americas). In 2010, he was awarded a prestigious Artist Leadership Fellowship from the National Museum of...
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Hélène Lefebvre (Ottawa) questions identity and otherness and how they are linked to art, culture
and society. Since 2001, her work expresses itself through textile sculpting, printing, performance
and video. She has presented a number...
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Julie Fiala (Québec City) recently returned to Canada after more than seven years living in
Britain, then the north of Ireland. A performance artist and cultural activist, she has presented her
artistic and academic work in Ontario, the...
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Julie Lequin (born in 1979) is a Quebec artist who currently lives and works in Montréal. She received a BFA at Concordia University (Montréal, Québec) in 2001 and a MFA from the Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, California, United-...
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Penny Lane is a documentary filmmaker, video artist, writer, curator and professor of film, video and new media art who lives in Lexington, Kentucky. Her work has shown at Rotterdam, Impakt, Antimatter, San Francisco International Film...
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Tannis Nielsen is Cree, Danish, and Métis. In 2006, she obtained her Masters of Visual studies degree from the University of Toronto. Today, Tannis continues to practice as a professional visual artist / educator, her most recently held...
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Scott Benesiinaabandan is an Anishinabe artist who works in photography, printmaking, and video, among other media. Scott has recently completed an international residency at Context Gallery in Derry, North of Ireland (2010) and in...