Rebecca Belmore / Scott Benesiinaabandan
In residence August 6 - 17, 2022

A member of the Lac Seul First Nation (Anishinaabe), Rebecca Belmore is an internationally recognized multidisciplinary artist. Rooted in the political and social realities of Indigenous communities, Belmore’s works make evocative connections between bodies, land and language. Belmore received the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation’s VIVA Award (2004), the Hnatyshyn Visual Arts Award (2009), the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (2013), and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize (2016). She received honourary doctorates from OCAD University (2005), Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2018), and NSCAD University (2019).

Scott Benesiinaabandan (Anishinaabe, born in Winnipeg, Canada; lives in Winnipeg and in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal, Canada) is interested in technologies and in the exchanges that they make possible between tradition and contemporaneity. Employing photography, sound art, video, and virtual reality, he creates works that are poetic and committed to bringing forth Indigenous cultures and knowledge while debunking the legacies of colonialism. His most recent projects explore the intersections between artificial intelligence and Anishinaabemowin, one of the oldest Indigenous languages in North America.