Inuk Artist Shuvinai Ashoona Receives the Prestigious Governor General’s Award
Hailing from Kinngait (also known as Cape Dorset), Nunavut, Ashoona’s colourful, otherworldly creations speak to Inuit culture through a contemporary lens.
Indigenous Artists
On Beauty and Violence With Dana Claxton
The Hunkpapa Lakota multidisciplinary artist draws from Indigenous histories to consider the contemporary.
In her 30-year career, Claxton has amassed a multidisciplinary body of work as expansive as the sky.
For Shawn Hunt, Tradition Is the Edge That Carves the Future
Coastal expression.
Hunt’s process involves moving between mediums, and speaking with him, one can tell he lives in motion, with thoughts and words carefully chosen with a fluid precision.
Transits and Returns Explores Indigeneity at the Vancouver Art Gallery
On view.
The middle of a journey, where one is suspended in the midst of motion, is the starting point of the Vancouver Art Gallery’s exhibition Transits and Returns.
