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CHRISTI BELCOURT

 

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SELECTED EXHIBITS

  • 2011 Contrary Projects in Venice: an Aboriginal Art Intervention at the Venice Biennale, group exhibit, Venice, Italy
  • 2011 Resilience / Resistance:  Metis Art, 1880-2011, group exhibit, Batoche National Historical Site, Batoche, Saskatchewan
  • 2011 Good Medicine, Craft Council of Saskatchewan and the Gabriel Dumont Institute, group exhibit, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan  
  • 2010 Identity, Land & Spirit, solo exhibit, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
  • 2010 M∂ntuc - little spirits. The language of the glass beads, group exhibit, North America Native Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2009 Identity, Land & Spirit, solo exhibit, Red Shift Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatoon
  • 2009 Creation, Land, Treaty: From Sacred to Profane, group exhibit, Ojibway Cultural Foundation, Mchigeeng, Ontario
  • 2009 Willisville Mountain Project, group exhibit, Whitefish Falls touring to Sudbury, Temiskaming, Shequindah, Ontario
  • 2008 Off the Map, solo exhibit, ArtSpace Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario
  • 2008 Vanishing Seams, group exhibit, Indian and Inuit Art Centre, Hull/Gatineau, Quebec
  • 2008 Reflets, Reflectsions sur L'Eau, group exhibit, Maison de la Nature et l'Environment, Aix en Provence, France
  • 2008 A Tribute to Norval Morrisseau and the Woodland Artists, group exhibit, Red Lake Heritage Centre, Red Lake, Ontario
  • 2008 Off the Map, solo exhibit, Urban Shaman Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
  • 2007 Great Metis of My Time, solo exhibit, Batoche National Historic Site, Batoche, Saskatchewan
  • 2007 West Side Stories: The Métis of Northwestern Saskatchewan, group exhibit combined with historic artifacts, Diefenbaker Canada Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
  • 2007 Lines That Connect Us, group exhibit, Victoria Island, Ottawa, Ontario
  • 2007 QUONTA Theatre Festival, group exhibit, Espanola, Ontario
  • 2005 Native American Fine Arts Show, Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, juried group exhibit, Machantucket, USA
  • 2005 New Works By Christi Belcourt, Metis Nation of Ontario Annual General Assembly, solo exhibit, Sudbury, Ontario
  • 2004 Manitoulin Artists, 4elements Gallery, group exhibit, Little Current, Ontario
  • 2004 LaCloche Art Show, juried group exhibit, Whitefish Falls, Ontario
  • 2003 Lessons from the Earth, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, solo exhibit, Thunder Bay, Ontario
  • 2003 Métis in the 21st Century, Forest Farm Hall, group exhibit, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
  • 2001 Making the Spirit Visible, New York State University, group exhibit, Brockport, USA
  • 2001 Neekawansidok – All Our Relations, Toronto City Hall, group exhibit, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2001 Christi Belcourt, Paper Works, Inc., solo exhibit, Espanola, Ontario
  • 2000 Urban Myths: Aboriginal Artists in the City, Karsh-Masson Gallery, group exhibit, Ottawa, Ontario
  • 2000 Christi Belcourt and Kirk Brant, Ottawa City Hall, group exhibit, Ottawa, Ontario (touring to Ottawa International Airport, Ottawa)
  • 2000  Reawakening a Nation: Metis Artists in Ontario, Law Society of Upper Canada, group exhibit, Toronto, Ontario (touring to Toronto City Hall and the Canadian Aboriginal Festival, Toronto)

 AWARDS AND GRANTS

  • 2010 Aboriginal Arts Projects Grant Recipient, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2010 Chalmers Family Fund, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2009 Aboriginal Traditional Arts Program, Canada Council For The Arts, Ottawa, Ontario
  • 2009 Aboriginal Arts Projects Grant Recipient, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2007 Northern Arts Grant Recipient, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2007 Aboriginal People's Collaborative Exchange Program, Canada Council For The Arts, Ottawa, Ontario
  • 2006 Judges Choice Award, Works on Paper Exhibit, Espanola, Ontario
  • 2004 Mid-Career Artist Grant Recipient, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2004 Aboriginal Arts Projects Grant Recipient, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2004 Awarded 1st place - Mixed Media, LaCloche Art Show, Whitefish Falls, Ontario
  • 2004 Artist-in-residence, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Klienburg, Ontario
  • 2002 Awarded 1st place - Acrylics, LaCloche Art Show, Whitefish Falls, Ontario
  • 2000 Emerging Artist Grant Recipient, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, Ontario
  • 1999 Emerging Artist Grant Recipient, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, Ontario
  • 1998 Metis Cultural Economic Development Grant Recipient, Metis Nation of Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario

   COLLECTIONS

  • Indian and Inuit Art Collection (permanent collection), Gatineau, Quebec
  • Gabriel Dumont Institute (permanent collection), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
  • Canadian Museum of Civilization, First Peoples Hall (permanent collection), Ottawa, Ontario
  • Thunder Bay Art Gallery (permanent collection), Thunder Bay, Ontario
  • Guelph University (permanent exhibit) Guelph, Ontario
  • York University (permanent exhibit), Toronto, Ontario
  • Centre for Traditional Knowledge & Museum of Nature, (permanent exhibit), Ottawa, Ontario
  • Canadian Museum of Civilization, First Peoples Hall (permanent collection), Ottawa, Ontario
  • Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health, (permanent collection), Ottawa, Ontario

 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • 2010 Rachel A. Mishenene and Dr. Pamela Rose Toulouse, Strength and Struggle: Perspectives from First Nations, Inuit, and Metis Peoples in Canada, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Toronto (featured artist)
  • 2010 Christi Belcourt, Beadwork (author), Ningwakwe Learning Press, Owen Sound, Ontario
  • 2008 Mariella Lorusso, Contro Il Terrorismo Dal 1492 (cover artwork) Achipeago Edizioni, Milano, Italy
  • 2008 Christi Belcourt, Medicines To Help Us (author/artist), Gabriel Dumont Publishing, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
  • 2008 Making Waves Magazine(cover artist), Volume 7:3, 2008. Toronto, Ontario
  • 2008 SPIRIT Magazine (featured artist), The Literature Issue, 2008. Parry Sound, Ontario
  • 2007 Joyce Green, Making Space for Indigenous Feminism (cover artwork) , Fernwood Publishing, Winnipeg, Manitoba
  • 2007 New Breed Magazine (featured artist), Winter 2007 Issue. Gabriel Dumont Institue, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
  • 2006 SPIRIT Magazine (featured artist), The Art Issue, 2006.  Parry Sound, Ontario
  • 2005 Sky Woman, (featured artist) Native Women in the Arts, Theytus Books, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2004 Joyce Green, “The Heart of One-ness: The Art of Christi Belcourt,” Canadian Dimension Magazine, Nov/Dec 2004 Issue
  • 2004 Heather Devine, The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis in a Canadian Family, 1660-1900, (cover artwork)University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Alberta
  • 2003Tracy Henriksson, Lessons From the Earth (catalogue), Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
  • 2002 Biodiversity: Journal of Life on Earth, (cover and inside artwork)Tropical Conservancy of Canada, August 2002 Issue.  Distributed at UN Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • 2001 New Breed Magazine (cover artwork and inside feature), Jan/Feb 2001 Issue.  Metis Nation of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK.
  • 2000 WOMEX 2000, (CD cover artwork), Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, Ontario. Distributed at the WOMEX Festival 2000 in Berlin, Germany
  • 2000 Sandra Dyck, Urban Myths: Aboriginal Artists in the City (catalogue), Karsh-Masson Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario

 OTHER ART RELATED ACTIVITIES

  • 2011 Jury Member, Ontario Arts Council, Visual Arts/Established Artist Program, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2011 Jury Member, Canadian Aboriginal Writing and Arts Challenge, Dominion Historical Institute, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2010 Guest Lecturer, Snelgrove Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Arts Department, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
  • 2010 Guest Exhibit/Presenter, New Sun Symposium, Ottawa, Ontario
  • 2010 Jury Member, Ontario Arts Council, Northern Arts Program, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2008 Jury Member & Artistic Co-Director, Willisville Mountain Project, Willisville, Ontario
  • 2008 Jury Member, Ontario Arts Council, Visual Arts Program, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2008 Jury Member, Canada Council for the Arts, Aboriginal Peoples Collaborative Exchange Program, Ottawa, Ontario
  • 2008 Beading Workshop, Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health, Ottawa, Ontario
  • 2007 Painting Workshop, Metis Nation of Ontario Annual Assembly, Thunder Bay, Ontario
  • 2007 Painting Workshop, Victoria Island, Ottawa, Ontario
  • 2006 Jury Member, Ontario Arts Council, Chalmers Awards, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2006 Beading Workshop & Demonstration, Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health, Ottawa, Ontario
  • 2006 Feeling Colours, Workshop Facilitator, A.B. Ellis Public School, Espanola, Ontario
  • 2006 Who We Are, Workshop Facilitator, Victoria Island, Ottawa, Ontario
  • 2005 Nature Connects Us, Workshop Facilitator, Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
  • 2005 Acrylic Painting, Workshop Facilitator, Metis Nation of Ontario Annual Assembly, Sudbury, Ontario
  • 2003 Metis Art History & Acylic Painting Workshop, Workshop Facilitator, Agnew H. Johnston Public School, Thunder Bay, Ontario

 

 

  
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