REBECCA BELMORE | C.V.
Born March 22, 1960, Upsala, Ontario, Canada
EDUCATION
1984-1987 Ontario College of Art and Design
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
Venice Biennale
The Capture of Mary March (installation/photographs), Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2004
Temperance (installation), Tribe, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
The Named and the Unnamed (sculpture/installation), Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, British Columbia
2003
A Simple Truth (performance), Western Front, Vancouver, British Columbia
Quote, Misquote, Fact, Kingston University, Kingston, Ontario
Rebecca Belmore, Shelley Niro (installation), MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
Extreme (photographs), Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
The Named and the Unnamed, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
A Way of Making (collaboration with Bently Spang), FADO, Toronto, Ontario
33 pieces (installations), Definitely Superior Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
33 pieces, W.P. Kennedy Art Gallery, North Bay, Ontario
2002
Vigil (performance), Talking Stick Aboriginal Arts Festival, Vancouver, British Columbia
The Named and the Unnamed, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
33 pieces, Dunlop Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
Crimes of Passion in Paradise and Beyond (performance), Caribbean Contemporary Arts Centre, Port of Spain, Trinidad
2001
33 pieces, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Ontario
Private Collection, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2000
The Indian Factory (performance/installation), Tribe/AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
on this ground (installation), Rhode Island Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island
1999
Many/One (installation), Galerie Optica, Montréal, Québec
Dreamers (installation), Keyano College Art Gallery, Fort McMurray, Alberta
Don't take your gun to town (performance), University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick
1998
Untitled (installation), Sacred Circle Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1996
Ayumee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother (performance/protest), Assembly of First Nations, Ottawa, Ontario
1995
Tourist Act #1 (performance), Institute of American Indian Art Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1993
Wana-na-wang-ong (installation), Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
Nah-doe-tah-moe-win: Means an Object that You Listen To (performance/installation), Saw Gallery,Ottawa, Ontario
Nah-doe-tah-moe-win: Means an Object that You Listen To (performance/installation), Niagara Artists Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario
1992
Ayumee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother (gathering/performance), National Canadian Tour
1988
Artifact 671B (performance in support of Lubicon Cree boycott of Olympic Flame), Thunder Bay, Ontario
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004
Thinking Textile, (installation: tarpaulin), Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, British Columbia
2003
Hearts on the Ground, (performance: Walk of the Righteous), Sakewewak Artists' Collective, Regina Saskatchewan
Dress Signal, (video: Vigil), Mississauga Art Gallery, Mississauga, Ontario
The Political is Personal, (photograph: to rest and to dream), Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario
Chiasma (web transmission: Tent City), Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
2002
Far Horizon, (performance/installation: seam), Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
Permeable Borders, (installation: superpower), WaveHill, The Bronx, New York
Talking Stick Aboriginal Art Festival, (performance: Vigil), Full Circle, Vancouver, British Columbia
2001
Live: Biennial of Performance Art, (performance: Reservoir) Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
2000
I, Witness, (installations: Many/One; in memory), Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
High Tech Storytellers, (The Indian Factory), Interdisciplinary Arts Festival, TRIBE/AKA, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Material Culture, (installation: Many/One; performance: Bury My Heart), Paris Gibson Square Museum, Great Falls, Montana
1999
Time Time Time, (performance: manifesto), FADO, Toronto, Ontario
1998
Sydney Biennial, (installation: Paradise), Sydney, Australia
Canadian Performance Art Tour, (performances: various), Germany
1997
The Red River Crossing, (installation: Us. With a Landscape), The Swiss Art Institute, New York, New York
7a-11d Performance Festival, (performance: for Dudley), Toronto, Ontario
InSite 97, (installation: Awasinake: On the Other Side), San Diego, California
1996
Liaisons, (installation: Temple), The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario
Métissages, (installation with Florene Belmore: Imposition), Galerie Optica, Montréal, Québec
1995
Site Santa Fe, Longing and Belonging: From the Faraway Nearby, (installation: New Wilderness, performance:
From the Same Earth), Santa Fe, New Mexico
1994
Rencontre internationale d'art performance de Québec, Le Lieu, (performance with Reona Brass;
affiliation/affliction), Québec City, Québec
6th Native American Fine Arts Invitational, (installation: a blanket for "sarah"), The Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Faret Tachikawa Art Project, (permanent public installation: I wait for the sun), Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
History 101: The Re-Search for Family, (installation:X mark), Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri
1993
Margins of Memory, (sculpture: Rising to the Occasion), Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
Stand, (Shifting the North Line: 16 Pictures), Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania
1992
Land Spirit Power, (installation: Mawu-che-hitoowin: A Gathering of People for Any Purpose), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
1992
Indian Princesses and Cowgirls: Stereotypes from the Frontier, (performance: Road Trip West), Oboro, Montréal, Québec
Havana Biennial, (performance: Creation or Death, We will Win), Havana, Cuba
1991
Between Views, (gathering/performance: Ayumee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother), Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta
Okanata, (August 29, 1990), A Space, Toronto, Ontario
Interrogating Identity, (sculpture: Rising to the Occasion), Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York
1990
Biennale d'art actuel de Québec, (performance: August 29, 1990), Québec City, Québec
Multi-Media Works: A Native Perspective (Nah-doe-tah-moe-win: Means an Object That You Listen To), AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Telling Things, (Nah-doe-tah-moe-win: Means an Object That You Listen To), Art Metropole, Toronto, Ontario
Young Contemporaries 90, (Nah-doe-tah-moe-win: Means an Object That You Listen To, Ihkwewak
Kayamihwat: Means Women Who Are Speaking), London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario
SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
Sarah Millroy, "Trauma and triumph", The Globe and Mail, Saturday, October 8, 2002
Laurence, Robin, "Racing Against History: The Art of Rebecca Belmore," BorderCrossings, Issue 83, 2002
Fischer, Barbara, ed., 33 pieces, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, 2001, Mississauga, Ontario
Newlands, Anne, Canadian Art from Its Beginnings to 2000, Firefly Books, Willowdale, Ontario
Material Culture: Innovation in Native Art, 2000, Great Falls, Montana
Burgess, Marilyn, "The Imagined Geographies of Rebecca Belmore," Parachute 93, Jan/ Feb/ Mar 1999
Ryan, Allan J., The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art, UBC Press, 1999, Vancouver, British Columbia,
Fleming, Kathleen, "Longing and Belonging: From the Faraway Nearby," Parachute 82, April/May/June 1996
Temple, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, 1996, Toronto, Ontario
Mitchell, Charles Dee, "Introducing SITE Santa Fe," Art in America, October 1995
Laurence, Robin, "Rebecca Belmore: Wana-na-wang-ong," Canadian Art, Spring1994
Townsend-Gault, Charlotte, "Rebecca Belmore," Parachute 74, April/May/June 1994
Rushing, W. Jackson, "Contingent Histories, Aesthetic Politics," New Art Examiner, March 1993
Watson, Scott, "Whose Nation?," Canadian Art, Spring 1993
Houle, Robert, Diana Nemiroff, and Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Land, Spirit, Power: First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 1992
Barkhouse, Mary Anne, "Land, Spirit, Power," Matriart: A Canadian Feminist Art Journal, 3:2, 1992
Phillips, Ruth, "Woodlands Indian Souvenir Art as Visual Text," Reinventing Iconology in the Post-Colonial Age, Texts 8, Summer 1992
Podedworny, Carol, "Okanata," C magazine, No 32, Fall 1991
Townsend-Gault, Charlotte, "Having Voices and Using Them," Arts Magazine, February 1991
Weiss, Rachel, "Interrogating Identity," High Performance, No 56, 1991
Lacey, Liam, "Native artist puts new spin on the western," The Globe and Mail, September 22, 1991
AWARDS
VIVA Award 2004
Steam Whistle Art Award 2004: Best Museum Show
COLLECTIONS
The National Gallery of Canada
Art Gallery of Ontario
The Mendel Art Gallery
The Norman MacKezie Art Gallery
Agnes Etherington Art Gallery
Art Bank of Canada
Private collections (USA and Canada)