Rebecca Belmore

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Rebecca Belmore is an Anishinaabe interdisciplinary artist renowned for her powerful performance, installation, and sculptural works that confront issues of Indigenous rights, colonial violence, and social justice in Canada.

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instanceOf Anishinaabe person
artist
installation artist
interdisciplinary artist
performance artist
person
sculptor
awardReceived Gershon Iskowitz Prize
Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts
Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award
Honorary Doctorate from Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Honorary Doctorate from OCAD University
Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation VIVA Award
basedIn Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
countryOfCitizenship Canada
dateOfBirth 1960-03-22
educatedAt Ontario College of Art and Design University
ethnicGroup Anishinaabe
linked to: Anishinabek
familyName Belmore
fieldOfWork installation art
performance art
politically engaged art
sculpture
video art
genre Indigenous contemporary art
political art
social justice art
givenName Rebecca
influencedBy Anishinaabe traditions
Indigenous political movements in Canada
feminist art
performance art of the 1970s and 1980s
languageOfWorkOrName Anishinaabemowin
English
movement contemporary art
name Rebecca Belmore
nationality Canadian
notableExhibition Documenta 14
linked to: Documenta (Kassel)

Facing the Monumental at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Rebecca Belmore: March 5, 1819 at Plug In ICA
Rebecca Belmore: Rising to the Occasion at the Vancouver Art Gallery
linked to: Rebecca Belmore

Rebecca Belmore: Trace at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada
Venice Biennale 2005
linked to: Venice Biennale
notableRole first Indigenous woman to represent Canada at the Venice Biennale
notableWork Apparition
At Pelican Falls
Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother
Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother (large wooden megaphone)
Biinjiya'iing Onji (From Inside)
Biinjiya'iing Onji (From Inside) (tent sculpture)
Blood on the Snow
Body of Water
Fountain
Fountain (video installation)
Freeze
Fringe
Fringe (photographic work with beaded wound)
Making Always War
March 5, 1819
Mawa-che-hitoowin: A Gathering of People for Any Purpose
Rising to the Occasion
Rising to the Occasion (performance and garment)
Somewhere Else
State of Grace
The Blanket
The Great Water
The Indian Factory
The Longing
The Named and the Unnamed
The Named and the Unnamed (installation)
Tower
Trace
Trace (clay blanket sculpture)
Untitled (water) performance for the Venice Biennale
Vigil
Vigil (performance for missing and murdered Indigenous women)
Wave Sound
Wave Sound (outdoor sound sculpture series)
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occupation artist
installation artist
performance artist
sculptor
visual artist
placeOfBirth Upsala, Ontario, Canada
represented Canada at the 2005 Venice Biennale
representedBy Catriona Jeffries Gallery
Galerie Nicolas Robert
residence Toronto, Ontario, Canada
linked to: Toronto

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
theme decolonization
healing
memory
mourning
relationship to land
resistance
trauma
voice and silence
workFocus Indigenous rights
colonial violence
environmental issues
land and territory
language and voice
missing and murdered Indigenous women
social justice

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Rebecca Belmore notableExhibition Rebecca Belmore: Rising to the Occasion at the Vancouver Art Gallery
linked to: Rebecca Belmore