Winter 2020 DMG/Studio Art Visiting Artist Lecture Series

DATE

ROOM

SPEAKER

 Tue Jan 21st

1-2 pm

DMG

Nyle Miigizi Johnston

“My spirit name Wiishkoonseh Miigizi'enh means Whistling White Headed Eagle. I grew up in Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation and I have apprenticed with Storytellers since I was young. I have a responsibility to continue this legacy for the healing of my own people while connecting to the broader world. Sources of my artistic inspiration include woodland painters, Story Tellers and the traditions of my culture. In a time of reconciliation, it is important for all people to know that we exist and have such a strong, beautiful legacy of stories and teachings from the Anishinaabe Nation that are grounded in my experience and identity.
As an Oshkaabewis (Traditional Helper) who previously worked with Anishnawbe Health Toronto, I have been able to incorporate teachings based on traditional knowledge into each project.   Our stories resonate with people across different cultures and they carry universal messages of love, kindness, fairness and care for Mother Earth. “ NMJ

Tue Jan 28th

1-2 pm

AA304

Maria Hupfield

Maria Hupfield is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Digital Arts and Performance and a Canadian Research Chair in Transdisciplinary Indigenous Arts. An alumni of UTM, Hupfield has been at the cutting edge of art and public engagement for many years, from her early work as founder of 7th Generation Image Makers, Native Child + Family Services of Toronto, forging partnerships with the Art Gallery of Ontario, Charles Street Video, and ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival, and the Toronto Indigenous community to recent collaborative performances with musicians and artists including her commission of five multimedia projects for Toronto’s Nuit Blanche (2017).

Hupfield was awarded the Hnatyshyn Foundation prize for outstanding achievement by a Canadian mid-career artist (2018). Her first major institutional solo exhibition The One Who Keeps on Giving was a production of The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, in partnership with Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge; Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal; Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax; and the Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris (2017-18).

Her work has shown in New York at the Museum of Arts and Design, BRIC, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian; represented Canada at SITE Santa Fe (2016), and travelled nationally across Canada with Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture (2012-14). Recent performances include Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Brooklyn Museum, Para\\el Performance Gallery in Brooklyn, and Gibney Dance.

Hupfield is a Guest Curator, Artist of Color Council Movement Research at Judson Church Fall 2019/Winter 2020 Season. Her upcoming solo Nine Years Towards The Sun opens at the Heard Museum, Phoenix December (2019). Together with her husband artist Jason Lujan she co-owns Native Art Department International.

Tue Feb 4th

1-2 pm

AA304

Lisa Myers

Lisa Myers, a member of Beausoleil First Nation, is an independent curator and artist working in printmaking, stop-motion animation, and performance. Myers holds a Master of Fine Arts in Criticism and Curatorial practice from OCAD University. Since 2010 she has worked with anthocyanin pigment from blueberries in printmaking, and stop-motion animation. Her participatory performances involve sharing berries and other food items in social gatherings reflecting on the value found in place and displacement; straining and absorbing. She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions in venues including Urban Shaman (Winnipeg), Art Gallery of Peterborough and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Her writing has been published in a number of publications in addition to the journal Senses and Society, C Magazine and FUSE Magazine. She is currently an Assistant Lecturer in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University.

Tue, Feb 11th 1-2 pm

AA304

Sameer Farooq

Sameer Farooq is a Canadian artist of Pakistani and Ugandan Indian descent. His interdisciplinary practice investigates tactics of representation and enlists the tools

of sculpture, installation, photography, documentary filmmaking, writing and the methods of anthropology to explore various forms of collecting, interpreting, and

display. The result is often a collaborative work which counterbalances how dominant institutions speak about our lives: a counter-archive, new additions to a museum

collection, or a buried history made visible. Farooq has held exhibitions at institutions around the world including the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto (2017); Art Gallery of Ontario (2011); The British Library, London (2015); Institute of Islamic Culture, Paris (2017); Lilley Museum, Nevada (2019); Vicki Myhren Gallery, Denver (2018); Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2016); Maquis Projects, Turkey (2015); Trankat, Morocco (2014); Sol Koffler Gallery, Rhode Island (2015); Artellewa, Cairo (2014); and Sanat Limani, Turkey (2010). He is a recipient of awards from the Canada Council for the

Arts; Ontario Arts Council; Toronto Arts Council; the Europe Media Fund; as well the President’s Scholarship at the Rhode Island School of Design. Reviews and essays dedicated to his work have been published by Canadian Art; The Washington Post; BBC Culture; Hyperallergic; Artnet; The Huffington Post; and C Magazine among others. Farooq was longlisted for the Sobey Art Award in 2018, Canada’s preeminent art award.

Tue, Mar 10th  1-2 pm

AA304

Paulette Phillips

Paulette Phillips works primarily in film, video, performance and sculpture and is well-known internationally for her emotionally affective artwork. Often drawn to abject abandoned places Phillips documents these spaces through a materialist lens. Feminism, psychology and forensics provide strategies for sifting through these haunted sites. She recently completed a new film, The Quoddy Fold, with 2019/20 exhibitions in The Bonavista Biennale, Nfld., DOKFest, Kassel, Germany, and MSVU Gallery, Halifax.  Her work is represented through Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London UK and she has exhibited her work at venues including the Tate Modern, the Pompidou Centre, Musee d’art contemporain and the National Gallery of Canada. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, most recently as a 2019 Finalist, Ontario Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. Her work is in a number of public collections including the National Gallery Canada, Oakville Galleries, the Museum of Modern of Modern Art and Frac, Haute-Normandie France, and in corporate and private collections including Gluskin Sheff + Associates and BMO Bank of Montreal. She teaches time-based and contemporary art practices at OCAD University.