Daphne Odjig

E890950

Daphne Odjig was a pioneering Canadian Indigenous artist of Odawa-Potawatomi-English heritage, renowned for her influential role in the development of contemporary Indigenous art and as a founding member of the Professional Native Indian Artists Inc.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Daphne Odjig canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Canadian Indigenous artist
artist
human
painter
printmaker
awardReceived Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts
National Aboriginal Achievement Award
Order of British Columbia
Order of Canada
coFounded Professional Native Indian Artists Inc.
countryOfCitizenship Canada
dateOfBirth 1919-09-11
dateOfDeath 2016-10-01
ethnicGroup English
Odawa
Potawatomi
familyName Odjig
fieldOfWork drawing
murals
painting
printmaking
genre figurative art
narrative painting
symbolic art
givenName Daphne
hasOccupation artist
gallery owner
influenced contemporary First Nations artists in Canada
influencedBy Anishinaabe visual traditions
European modernism
linked to: Modernism
knownFor founding member of Professional Native Indian Artists Inc.
pioneering contemporary Indigenous art in Canada
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Professional Native Indian Artists Inc.
movement Woodland School of Art
contemporary Indigenous art
nativeLanguage Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe-Odawa-Potawatomi)
linked to: Anishinaabemowin
notableFor advocacy for Indigenous artists’ rights and visibility in Canada
notableWork Mother Earth Struggling
Spirits of the Past
The Indian in Transition
opened New Warehouse Gallery
Odjig Indian Prints of Canada
placeOfBirth Wikwemikong, Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada
placeOfDeath Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
linked to: Kelowna
residence Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
linked to: Kelowna

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
sexOrGender female
subjectOf retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.