Rebecca BELMORE

ARTISTIC APPROACH.

REBECCA BELMORE’S SCULPTURES AND INSTALLATIONS ARE REGARDED FOR THEIR SPARE AND EXACTING USE OF FORM. ADDRESSING THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION AND A WAY OF KNOWING WHICH COMES FROM BEING “ON THE PERIPHERY OF ANISHNABE KNOWLEDGE,” HER WORKS OFTEN OPERATE THROUGH A SERIES OF TACTICAL INVERSIONS. SUBJECTS FREQUENTLY RETURNED TO IN HER PRACTICE INCLUDE THE HISTORICAL CONTINGENCY BETWEEN NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE PEOPLE AND MOMENTS OF CULTURAL AND COLLECTIVE TRAUMA. (CANDICE HOPKINS) REBECCA BELMORE IS A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ARTIST CURRENTLY LIVING AND WORKING IN VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA. HER PRACTICE INCLUDES PERFORMANCE ART, SCULPTURE, INSTALLATION, VIDEO AND PHOTOGRAPHS. RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE REBECCA BELMORE, RISING TO THE OCCASION, VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA AND MARCH 5, 1819, THE ROOMS PROVINCIAL ART GALLERY, ST. JOHN’S, NEWFOUNDLAND. BELMORE WAS CANADA'S OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVE AT THE 2005 VENICE BIENNALE.

BORN IN UPSALA, ONTARIO, CANADA LIVES AND WORKS IN VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA EDUCATION: ONTARIO COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, 1984-1986 HONORARY DOCTORATE, ONTARIO COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, 2005

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

FIRST NATIONS/SECOND NATURE, AUDAIN GALLERY, SFU WOODWARD’S, VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (2010)

NEOHOODOO: ART FOR A FORGOTTEN FAITH, COLLABORATIVELY ORGANIZED AND TOURED BY THE MENIL COLLECTION, HOUSTON, TEXAS AND PS.1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER, LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK (2008)

GLOBAL FEMINISMS, BROOKLYN ART MUSEUM, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK (2007)

51ST VENICE BIENNALE, CANADIAN PAVILION, VENICE, ITALY (2005)

AWARDS:

HNATYSHYN FOUNDATION VISUAL ARTS AWARD (2009)

VICTOR MARTYN LYNCH-STAUNTON AWARD – MEDIA ARTS (2005)

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

REBECCA BELMORE, RISING TO THE OCCASION, VANCOUVER ART GALLERY,

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (2008)

MARCH 5, 1819, THE ROOMS PROVINCIAL ART GALLERY, ST JOHN’S, NEWFOUNDLAND (2008)

MAKING ALWAYS WAR (PERFORMANCE) MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, EXTERIOR CONCOURSE (2008)

PAINTED ROAD, WITNESS: SYMPOSIUM ON THE WOODLAND SCHOOL, LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY, SUDBURY, ONTARIO (2007)

THE NAMED AND THE UNNAMED, ORGANIZED BY MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY, VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, TOURED TO ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO, TORONTO, ONTARIO (2003);

KAMLOOPS ART GALLERY, KAMLOOPS, BRITISH COLUMBIA (2004); CONFEDERATION ART CENTRE,

CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND (2004); MCMASTER MUSEUM OF ART, MCMASTER UNIVERSITY, HAMILTON, ONTARIO (2006)