Artists

Adrienne Huard

Adrienne Huard is a Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer Anishinaabekwe registered at Couchiching First Nation, Ontario, and born and raised in Winnipeg. After graduating […]

Alan Michelson

Alan Michelson is an internationally recognized New York-based artist, curator, writer, lecturer and Mohawk member of the Six Nations of […]

Ana Iti

Ana Iti (Te Rarawa) is an artist based in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara. Often employing sculpture, video and text, the artist’s recent work […]

Ande Somby

Ánde Somby, born in Buolbmat, Norway, is a traditional Sami joik artist and an associate professor at the Faculty of […]

Anders Sunna

Anders Sunna (b. 1985) is a Northern Sami artist from a reindeer herding family inKieksiaisvaara, in the Swedish part of […]

Andrea Fatona

Andrea Fatona is an independent curator and an associate professor at the OCAD University. She is concerned with issues of […]

Aqui Thami

aqui Thami is a janajati/ indigenous artist from the Himalayas, she lives and works in bombay. she uses social exchanges and […]

ARAN 360 Project

Six Sámi film-makers (Elle Marja Eira, Marja Helander, Ann Holmgren, Hans Pieski,Silja Somby and Lisselotte Wajstedt) with Six Canadian filmmakers […]

Asinnajaq

Asinnajaq is from Inukjuak, Nunavik and lives in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). Her work includes filmmaking, writing and curating. She co-created Tilliraniit, […]

Asta Balto

Asta Mitkijá Balto is a freelancing Sámi professor emerita, awarded as Honorary Doctorate by WINU (the International Indigenous University in […]

Ayesha Green

Ayesha Green (Kāi Tahu, Ngāti Kahungunu) is an artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland New Zealand. Her practice explores mātauraka […]

Aziz Hazara

Aziz Hazara (born in Wardak, Afghanistan, in 1992) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Kabul and Ghent. He works across […]

Barry Ace

Barry Ace is a practicing visual artist and currently lives in Ottawa. He is a debendaagzijig (citizen) of M’Chigeeng First Nation, […]

Beaska Niillas

Beaska Niillas from Deatnu in the Norwegian part of Sápmi, is among other things a father of two, Sámi duojár […]

Bill Nasogaluak

Bill Nasogaluak is a self-taught Inuk sculptor and painter originally from Tuktoyaktuk, NWT. His artwork represents interpretations of what he […]

Billy-Ray Belcourt

Billy-Ray Belcourt is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is an Assistant Professor in the Creative Writing […]

Biung Ismahasan

Dr Biung Ismahasan (b.1984) is a curator, artist and researcher from the Bunun, Atayal and Kanakanavu Nations, three of Taiwan’s […]

Brett Graham

Brett Graham (Ngāti Koroki Kahukura, Tainui, b. 1967) is a sculptor who creates large scale artworks and installations that explore […]

Brian Martin

Professor Brian Martin is the Director of Wominjeka Djeembana Research Lab and was Monash University Art, Design and. Architecture Faculty’s […]

Brook Andrew

Brook Andrew’s matrilineal kinship is from the kalar midday (land of the three rivers) of Wiradjuri, and Ngunnawal on his […]

Camille Georgeson-Usher

Camille Georgeson-Usher is a Coast Salish / Sahtu Dene / Scottish scholar, artist, and writer currently based in Toronto, but […]

Candice Hopkins

Candice Hopkins is a citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation and lives in Red Hook, NY and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her writing and […]

Caroline Monnet

Caroline Monnet (Anishinaabe/French) is a multidisciplinary currently based in Montréal, Quebec. She studied Sociology and Communication at the University of Ottawa (Canada) […]

Christian Chapman

Christian Chapman is of Anishinabe heritage from Fort William First Nation. Christian uses storytelling as a main theme in his […]

Clothilde Bullen

Clothilde Bullen is Head of Indigenous Programs | Curator, at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Clothilde was previously the the Senior Curator […]

D Harding

D Harding works in a wide variety of media to explore the visual and social languages of their communities as […]

Daidadaillu Artist Collective

Dáiddadállu is a result of the desire to form a stronger art environment in the Kautokeino and in Sápmi. The […]

Daniel Browning

Daniel Browning is an Aboriginal journalist, radio broadcaster, sound artist and writer. Currently, he presents The Art Show on Radio National and […]

Darlene Naponse

Darlene is an Anishinaabe Kwe from Atikameksheng Anishnawbek – Northern Ontario.  She was born and raised in her community and […]

Dayna Danger

Dayna Danger (they/them) is a Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer, Métis-Saulteaux-Polish visual artist. Danger was raised in Miiskwaagamiwiziibiing, Treaty 1 territory, or so-called […]

Dempsey Bob

Dempsey Bob is a master carver from Telegraph Creek, British Columbia. He began carving in 1969 and was directed to […]

Denilson Baniwa

Denilson Baniwa, 35, was born in Mariuá, in Rio Negro, Amazonas, Brazil. The cultural references of his people are the […]

Dr. Carolyn Briggs

Carolyn is a Boon Wurrung senior elder and is the chairperson and founder of the Boon Wurrung Foundation. A descendant […]

Dr. Duke Redbird

Dr. Duke Redbird is an established Indigenous intellectual, poet, painter, broadcaster, filmmaker and keynote speaker, he brings his breadth of […]

Dr. Heather Igloliorte

Dr. Heather Igloliorte (Inuk-Newfoundlander, Nunatsiavut) is the Tier 1 University Research Chair in Indigenous Circumpolar Arts at Concordia University in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal, where she […]

Dr. Rea Saunders

r e a’s (they/them) is an Indigenous, experimental interdisciplinary artist / curator / activist / cultural educator and creative thinker […]

Edgar Heap of Birds

Edgar Heap of Birds has studied at the University of Kansas, Lawrence (BFA, 1976), undertaken graduate studies at the Royal […]

Edna Manitowabi

Edna Manitowabi, Anishnaabekwe, is Bear Clan, a Grandmother, and Great-Grandmother, of Ojibway/Odawa ancestry originally from Wikwemikong, Manitoulin Island. A fifth […]

Edward Poitras

Edward Poitras (born in 1953 Regina, Saskatchewan) is a Métis artist based in Saskatchewan, he is a member of the Gordon First Nation His work, […]

Elias Yamani Ismail

Elias Yamani Ismail is an artist and researcher based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He graduated from UiTM with a Fine […]

Elwood Jimmy

Elwood Jimmy is a learner, collaborator, writer, artist, cultural translator & facilitator, and gardener. He is originally from the Thunderchild […]

Emil Kárlsen

Emil Kárlsen, from Omasvuotna in the far north of Norway, writes music and sings in the indigenous Sámi language, but […]

Faye HeavyShield

Faye HeavyShield, a member of the Kainai First Nation and fluent Blackfoot speaker, lives and works on the Blood Reserve […]

Fernanda Olivares Molina

Hema’ny Molina (Santiago, Chile) is a Selk’nam writer, poet, craftswoman and grandmother. Molina is president of the Selk’nam Corporation Chile, […]

G. Peter Jemison

G. Peter Jemison, of the Heron Clan from the Cattaraugus Territory, Seneca Nation, is a Seneca artist and site manager […]

Gerald Vizenor

Gerald Vizenor is of Anishinabe heritage and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation. The author […]

Greg Hill

Greg Hill is the inaugural Audain Chair and Senior Curator of Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada. He […]

Greg Staats

Greg Staats is Skarù:reˀ[Tuscarora] / Kanien’kehá:ka [Mohawk], Hodinöhsö:ni’. b. 1963, Ohsweken, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. A Toronto-based […]

Gunvor Guttorm

M:Gunvor Guttorm is born in Kárášjohka, on the Norwegian side of Sápmi, and live in Jåhkåmåhkke on Swedish side of […]

Gustavo Caboco

Born in Curitiba, Roraima, Brazil (1989). Visual artist Wapichana, works within the network of the Brazilian states of Paraná-Roraima and […]

Hannah Presley

Hannah Presley is an Aboriginal curator based in Melbourne. She is Senior Curator, Museums and Collections at University of Melbourne […]

Harald Gaski

Harald Gaski is born and grew up on the river Deatnu in Sápmi, on the 70 th latitude in thenorthernmost […]

Hege Henriksen

Hege Henriksen has been appointed Director of Norwegian Crafts in 2016. As director Hege has the overall responsibility for the […]

Hildá Länsman

Hildá Länsman is joik-singer and songwriter from Utsjoki, the northernmost municipality of Finland. Having grown up with the ancient traditions […]

Ioana Gordon-Smith

Ioana Gordon-Smith is a Sāmoan/Pākehā arts writer and curator living in Aotearoa. Across her work is a commitment to Moana […]

Isuma Collective

ISUMA, meaning ‘to think,’ is a collective of Inuit-owned related companies based since 1990 in Igloolik, Nunavut with a southern […]

Janeen Antoine

Janeen Antoine (Sicangu Lakota) is a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. She came to the Bay Area to attend […]

Janet Marie Rogers

Victoria British Columbia Poet Laureate 2012-2015University of Northern British Columbia Writer in Residence 2015/2016
OCAD Indigenous Visual Culture NIGIG Visiting Artist […]

Jeremy Dutcher

Performer, composer, activist, musicologist – these roles are all infused into Jeremy Dutcher’s art. His music, too, transcends boundaries: unapologetically […]

John G. Hampton

John G. Hampton is a curator, artist, and administrator who joined the MacKenzie team in October 2018. They hold a […]

John Sabourin

John Sabourin was born in Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories. He became interested in painting in 1989 and carving in 1995, […]

Joi T. Arcand

Joi T. Arcand is an artist from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, Saskatchewan, Treaty 6 Territory, currently residing in Ottawa, Ontario. […]

Jolene Rickard

Jolene Rickard, Ph.D. is a visual historian, artist and curator interested in the issues of Indigeneity within a global context. […]

Judy Watson

Judy Watson was born in Mundubbera, Queensland. Judy Watson’s Aboriginal matrilineal family is from Waanyi country in north-west Queensland. The […]

Julie Nagam

Dr. Julie Nagam is a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts, Collaboration and Digital Media and the Director of Aabijijiwan […]

Karen Utsi

Karen Utsi is an actress, known for Sámi Bojá (2015) and Duoddara árbi (1994). Elder for Sara in Sami Pavillion.

Kathleen Ash-Milby

Kathleen Ash-Milby is curator of Native American art at the Portland Art Museum. Her forthcoming retrospective exhibition, Dakota Modern: The […]

Ken Are Bongo

In 1993, Ken Are Bongo sneaked into the cinema in his home village Guovdageaidnu, twice to see “Jurassic Park”. This […]

Kimberley Moulton

Kimberley Moulton is a Yorta Yorta woman, writer and curator and PhD candidate at Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research Lab, Monash […]

Kite aka Suzanne Kite

Kite aka Suzanne Kite is an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist, visual artist, and composer raised in Southern California, with a […]

Krista Belle Stewart

Krista Belle Stewart is a citizen of the Syilx Nation currently based in Berlin and Vienna. Stewart works primarily with […]

Kulleh Comrades

KuKulleh Comrades is a music ensemble project of the natives, lead by Kulleh Grasi. The exclusively formed Comrades for Aabakwaad […]

Kulleh Grasi

Kulleh Grasi is a singer songwriter, poet/writer and visual artiste, iban descent from Sarawak,Malaysia.  Kulleh writes poetry primarily in Malay, […]

Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory

Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory is an established multi-disciplinary artist based in Iqaluit, NU whose practice centres on uaajeerneq (Greenlandic mask dance) and also […]

Latifa Echakhch

Born in 1974 in El Khnansa (Morocco), Latifa Echakhch lives and works between Vevey and Martigny (Switzerland). Kamel Mennour and […]

Laura Ortman

Laura Ortman is a White Mountain Apache musician from Whiteriver, Arizona who lives in Brooklyn, New York City. She bridges the gap between music […]

Lávre

Lávre Johan Eira is a young indigenous artist and musician from the Sámi village of Guovdageaidnu in the Norwegian side […]

Léuli Eshrāghi

Léuli Eshrāghi is a Sāmoan/Persian/Cantonese interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator and researcher working between Australia and Canada. They intervene in display […]

Liisa-Ravna Finbog

Dr. Liisa-Rávná Finbog (b. 1982) is a Sámi scholar and duojár (Sámi storyteller and knowledge-holder) from Oslo, Vaapste, and Skánit […]

Liryc Dela Cruz

Liryc Dela Cruz (*1992) is an artist and filmmaker from the Philippines, currently based in Rome, Italy. A representative of […]

Lisa Reihana

Lisa Reihana is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice spans film, sculpture, costume and body adornment, text and photography. Since the […]

Logan MacDonald

Logan MacDonald is an artist, curator, writer, educator and activist who focuses on queer, disability and Indigenous perspectives. He is of […]

Lori Beavis

Lori Beavis is a curator, art educator and art historian living and working in Tiohtià:ke/ Montreal. Identifying as being of […]

Lori Blondeau

Lori Blondeau is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in performance and photography. She is Cree/Saulteaux/Métis from Saskatchewan. Her mother is […]

Maia Nuku

Maia Nuku is Evelyn A. J. Hall and John A. Friede Associate Curator for Oceanic Art at the Metropolitan Museum […]

Marcia Langton

Professor Marcia Langton AM is an anthropologist and geographer, and since 2000 has held the Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous […]

Marcia Nickerson

Marcia Nickerson is a leader in the field of Indigenous governance, providing high-level advisory services to Indigenous, federal and provincial […]

Máret Ánne Sara

Maret Anne Sara (b. 1983) is a Northern Sami artist and author from Guovdageaidnu in the Norwegian part of Sapmi. […]

Maria Hupfield

Maria Hupfield (she/her) is an artist and transdisciplinary maker working with Industrial felt at the intersection of performance art, design and […]

Marianne Nicolson

Marianne Nicolson is an artist activist of the Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw First Nations. The Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw Nations are part of the Kwakwaka’wakw […]

Mark Igloliorte

Mark Igloliorte is an interdisciplinary artist who works primarily in painting. He received his BFA from the Nova Scotia College […]

Matti Aikio

Matti Aikio is a Sámi visual artist from the Finnish side of the Sápmi. He has a background in Sámi […]

Megan Cope

Megan Cope is a Quandamooka woman (North Stradbroke Island) in South East Queensland. Her site-specic sculptural installations, video work, paintings […]

Megan Tamati-Quennell

Megan Tamati-Quennell is a leading curator and writer of modern and contemporary Māori & Indigenous art, with a specialist interest […]

Michelle McGeough

Dr. Michelle McGeough is Assistant Professor, Art History at Concordia University. Dr. McGeough’s research focuses on reconstructing knowledge around gender […]

Mikinaak (Crystal) Migwans

Mikinaak (Crystal) Migwans is a member of Wiikwemikoong Unceded Territory and Assistant Professor of Indigenous Contemporary Art in Canada at […]

Mosab Alnomire

Mosab Alnomire: Awarded Syrian Poet and Journalist. Published his first collection “The Star is Clearer in the CountrySide” in 2017. […]

Myranda Spence

Myranda Spence is Oji-Cree; her maternal ancestral Cree roots are from northern Ontario James Bay and her paternal Ojibwe roots […]

Nadia Myre

Nadia Myre is a visual artist from Montreal and a member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation. Her interdisciplinary […]

Nading Rapsody

The band Nading Rhapsody is based in Kuching, Sarawak (Borneo). Their music presentation is a unique adaptation of ritual chanting, […]

Naine Terena

Master in Arts, Doctor in Education, Communications Scientist. Woman from the Terena people, she is a teacher, curator, and art […]

Nancy Marie-Mithlo

Nancy Marie Mithlo is a Chiricahua Apache curator, writer and professor. Her exhibitions have been shown at the Venice Biennale. Mithlo has worked as […]

Nanobah Becker

Nanobah Becker (Diné) is an award-winning writer/director whose short films FLAT, CONVERSION, and THE 6th WORLD and video collaborations I LOST MY […]

New Red Order

New Red Order is a public secret society facilitated by core contributors Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, both Ojibway, and Jackson […]

Nyla Innuksuk

Nyla Innuksuk is the founder of Mixtape. A writer for Marvel Comics, Innuksuk co-created the character of Snowguard, a teenage […]

Pascal Dantos Berry

Paschal Daantos Berry is performance maker, writer and dramaturg whose practice is focused on interdisciplinary, cross cultural and collaborative processes. […]

Pauliina Feodoroff

Pauliina Feodoroff (born 1977 in Inari, Finland) is a Finnish Skolt Sámi film director, theater director, screenwriter, and Sápmi advocate. Brought up in a reindeer family, Mrs. […]

Pauline Shirt

Grandmother Pauline Shirt was born and raised in Saddle Lake Reserve, Alberta. Grandmother Pauline is greatly recognized for her commitment […]

Rachael Rakena

Rakena coined the term ‘Toi Rerehiko’ to centre, claim and name digital space within a Māori paradigm. She describes and […]

Rana Bishara

Rana Bishara is an installation artist, painter, graphic artist, photographer and performing artist, born in Tarsheha village -Galilee, northern Palestine, […]

Raven Chacon

Raven Chacon is a composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, Chacon has […]

Rebecca Belmore

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

Reuben Friend

Reuben Friend (b.1981) is of Pakeha and Ngati Maniapoto heritage. Raised in Auckland and studying Te Reo Maori at the […]

Rhéanne Chartrand

Rhéanne Chartrand (MMSt, Hons. BA) is a Métis curator and creative producer based in Toronto, Ontario. She has spent the past six […]

Richard Bell

Richard Bell (b. 1953) lives and works in Brisbane, Australia. He works across painting, installation, performance and video. Bell is […]

Rick Hill Sr.

Rick Hill Sr. is a citizen of the Beaver Clan of the Tuscarora Nation of the Haudenosaunee at Grand River. […]

Robert Houle

From growing up in Sandy Bay First Nation (Kaa-wii-kwe-tawang-kak) and attending residential school to pursuing extensive academic studies and becoming an […]

Rod Nanibush

I am Anishnawbe originally from Wasauksing First Nation But Call Tkornto My home away from Home. I work for a […]

Sage Paul

Sage Paul is an urbanDenesuliné tskwe based in Toronto and a member of English River First Nation. Sage is an award-winning […]

Sandra Brewster

Sandra Brewster is a Toronto-based artist who engages with themes centred on identity, belonging, memory, and Black being within the […]

Sandra Márjá West

Sandra Márjá West, Sápmi (31) is the festival leader of the international Indigenous festival Riddu Riđđu, which takes place every […]

Scott Benesiinaabandan

Scott Benesiinaabandan is Anishinaabe, a member of Obishkkokaang/Lac Seul First Nations. Scott is an intermedia artist that currently works in […]

Shelley Niro

Shelley Niro is a member of the Six Nations Reserve, Bay of Quinte Mohawk, Turtle Clan.  She is a multi-media […]

Shirley Williams

Shirley is a member of the Bird Clan of the Ojibway and Odawa First Nations of Canada. Her Anishinaabe name […]

Shuvinai Ashoona

Celebrated for her large-scale drawings, enigmatic subject matter, and collaborative work with contemporary artists, Shuvinai Ashoona (b. 1961) is a third-generation Inuit […]

Sonia Boyce

SONIA BOYCE OBE RA (b. 1962, London, UK) lives and works in London. In 2019, the artist received an OBE […]

Stan Douglas

STAN DOUGLAS (b. 1960, Vancouver, CA) Since the late 1980s, Stan Douglas has created films and photographs—and more recently theatre […]

Susie Anderson

Susie Anderson writes from the nexus of compassion and resistance. Her poetry and nonfiction is widely published online and in […]

Synnøve Persen

As a painter and a poet, she often uses the northern landscape as a metaphor, bothbecause this occurs natural to […]

Taarati Taiaroa

Taarati Taiaroa (Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Kotimana) is an independent curator, researcher and artist based in Ōtepoti, Dunedin. She […]

Taqralik Partridge

Taqralik Partridge is a writer, spoken word poet and curator originally from Kuujjuaq, NU now living in Kautokeino, Norway. Partridge’s […]

Tarah Hogue

Tarah Hogue is a curator, cultural worker and writer. Originally from Red Deer, she was raised along the border of […]

Tarralik Duffy

Tarralik Duffy is a talented artist, jeweller and writer from Salliq (Coral Harbour), NU currently based in Saskatoon, SK. Working […]

Teresa Vander Meer-Chassé

Teresa Vander Meer-Chassé (b. 1992) is a proud Niisüü member of the White River First Nation of Beaver Creek, Yukon […]

The Unbound Collective

The Unbound Collective (Faye Rosas Blanch, Natalie Harkin, Simone Ulalka Tur, Ali Gumillya Baker) seeks to engage Aboriginal community members […]

Timimie Märak

Timimie Märak is a poet, feminist & Sápmi queeraktivist living in Stockholm. Timimie puts just as much in between the lines […]

Tony Albert

Tony Albert is a politically-minded artist provoked by stereotypical representations of Aboriginal people and the colonial history that attempts to […]

Tracy Moffat

Tracey Moffatt is a contemporary Australian artist known for her photographs and films. With a variety of narrative techniques, including […]

Tsherin Sherpa

Sherpa was born in Kathmandu in 1968. He practices thangka painting, a traditional Tibetan art form which incorporates Buddhist iconography. […]

Ursula Johnson

Ursula Johnson has exhibited work nationally and internationally since graduating from NSCAD in 2006. Johnson describes her work as “changing […]

Vernon Ah Kee

Vernon Ah Kee’s conceptual text pieces, videos, photographs and drawings form a critique of Australian popular culture from the perspective […]

Wanda Nanibush

Wanda nanibush is an Anishinabe-kwe curator, writer and image warrior. Currently she is the inaugural curator of Indigenous art at […]

Wesley Shaw

Wesley Shaw, Assistant Programs Producer, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at Art Gallery of New South Wales, has matrilineal connections […]

Yhonnie Scarce

Yhonnie Scarce is a Kokatha and Nukunu artist who employs the medium of glass to dazzling effect, weighing in on […]

Yuki Kihara

YUKI KIHARA (b. 1975, Sāmoa) is an interdisciplinary artist of Japanese and Sāmoan descent whose work seeks to challenge dominant […]

Zack Khalil

Zack Khalil is a filmmaker and artist from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. His work centers […]

Zineb Sedira

ZINEB SEDIRA(b. 1963, Paris, France) lives in London and works between Algiers (Algeria), Paris and London. Over the fifteen years […]