Curriculum Vitae
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 I REFUSE TO BE INVISIBLE, Kenderdine Art Gallery | College Art Galleries, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2024 The Stories My Father Never Told Me, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario; Musee art de Joliette, Joliette, Québec
2022 Where Are You From?, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2021 The Indigenous Map Maker’s Room, Latcham Art Centre, Stouffville, Ontario
2018 Bird Man Rising, Edwardsville Art Center, Edwardsville, Illinois
2018 Indians on Tour: Exploring Indigenous Experiences Through Jeff Thomas’ Lens, Sheridan Campus Galleries, Mississauga, Ontario
2017 A Necessary Fiction: My Conversation with Edward S. Curtis & George Hunter, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario
2016 Metamorphosis, Paved Arts Billboard Space, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2016 The Dancing Grounds, Wanuskewin Heritage Park, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2014 A Necessary Fiction: My Conversation with Nichola de Grandmaison, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
2012 Mapping Iroquoia: Cold City Frieze, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
2012 Resistance Is NOT Futile, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2012 Father’s Day, Urban Shaman, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2012 The First Spike, The Aboriginal Centre of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2012 The Bear Portraits, Studio 393, Portage Place Mall, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2011 Resistance Is [Not] Futile, Paved Arts, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2010 My Conversation with Edward S. Curtis, Festival America, Vincennes, Paris, France
2009 Departure Points, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
2009 VERSO, Robert Langen Art Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
2008 Com-mem-o-ra-tion, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario
2008 Who’s your Daddy? Four Hundred Years Later, Karsh-Masson Gallery, Ottawa
2008 Don’t Mess with the Pediment, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2008 Drive By: A Road Trip with Jeff Thomas, University of Toronto Art Center, Toronto, Ontario (offsite location, the Wellesley Subway Station)
2007 Jeff Thomas: Traces of Iroquois Medicine, Ontario Museum of Archaeology, London, Ontario
2005 Portraits from the Dancing Grounds, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
2004-06 Jeff Thomas: A Study of Indian-ness, Gallery 44, Toronto, Ontario; Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan; Urban Shaman, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, Manitoba; Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia.; Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
2004 Scouting for Indians, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
2002 inter/SECTION, Indian Art Centre, Hull, Québec; Art Gallery of Sudbury, Ontario; Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, Ontario; Museum of Ethnography, Budapest, Hungary; Canadian Embassy, Vienna, Austria
2001 Scouting for Indians, Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario; American Indian Community House Gallery, New York City, New York
2001 Lurking in the Shadows, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
2001 Geronimo Was in Here, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, New York
2000 Ghost Dancing on the Urban Frontier, Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2000 SCOUTING for Indians, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
1996 Portraits from the Dancing Grounds, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
1985 Powwow Images: An Exhibition of Photography by Jeffrey Thomas, Thunder Bay National Exhibition Centre, Thunder Bay, Ontario; The Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, Ontario; Museum of Archaeology, London, Ontario
1982 Triptych Peripheral Vision, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto, Ontario
1980 In Search of Visions – CEPA Metro Bus Show, sponsored by CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York
TWO-ARTIST EXHIBITIONS
2016 Urban Spaces, Billboard Display (with Tanya Harnett), Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective, Edmonton, Alberta
2010 Mapping Iroquoia: Shelley Niro & Jeff Thomas, McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
2007 Shelley Niro and Jeff Thomas: Contemporary Voices, Canada House, London, England
1999 Kenh tsi Yohwentsyate On This Land (Jeff Thomas & David Maracle), York Quay Gallery, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario
1992 Greg Staats & Jeffrey Thomas: Perspectives from Iroquoia, Gallery 44, Toronto, Ontario
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Views From the Blue House: The Remai Modern Collection, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2023 Embassy Cultural House’s Celebration 40 Years Cultural History, London, Ontario
2023 RBC Community Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2023 Cities in Flux, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
2023 In Our Hands, Native Photography 1890 – Now, Minnesota Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2022 Faces of Fatherhood: Ten Canadian Works, Art Canada Institute (Online)
2022 Praise, Burchfield Penny Art Center, Buffalo, New York, United States
2022 Depth of Field, Wanuskewin Heritage Park, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2022 35th Anniversary Permanent Collection, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Ontario
2022 Self/Same/Other, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
2022 Making Voices Heard, The Colonial Building, St. John’s, Newfoundland
2022 NIIPA 20/20, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
2021 Looking the World in the Face, Âjagemô Art Space, Canada Council, Ottawa, Ontario
2021 Holding Pattern: 2021 Additions to the City of Ottawa Art Collection, Ottawa, Ontario
2021 Me <–> You, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland
2021 Family Matters, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2021 GardenShip and State, Museum London, London, Ontario (contributing artist & co-curator)
2020 Portraits from MacLaren’s Permanent Collection, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario
2020 Signal, 2019 Additions to the City of Ottawa Art Collection, Ottawa, Ontario
2020 On Location: Artists Explore a Sense of Place, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
2019 Close to Home, Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, Oakville, Ontario
2019 Governor General’s Awards in the Visual and Digital Arts, National Gallery of Canada
2018 The 80s Image, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba
2018 Photography in Canada 1960-2000, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland
2018 Native / Inuit / Photographic Association, 1985-2002, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
2018 150 Acts: Arts, Activism, Impact, Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
2018 Àdisòkàmagan / We’ll all Become Stories, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2018 Sovereign Acts II, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
2018 Messages / Visual Platform, Burchfield Penney Art Center, West End Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2018 Morph, Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, British Columbia
2018 150 Years| 150 Works: Canadian Art as Historical Act, Galerie de l’UQAM , Montréal, Québec (virtual)
2018 Through the Memory Atlas: 40 Years of Collection, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, British Columbia
2018 J.S. Mclean Centre of Indigenous Canadian Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
2017 The Imposition of Order, LUMINATO Festival, Toronto, Ontario
2017 Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
2017 The Family Camera, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario
2017 Visitor Information, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario
2017 Photography in Canada 1960-2000, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
2017 Unapologetic: Acts of Survivance, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
2016 Love letters to Arts Court, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2016 Toronto: Tributes + Tributaries, 1971-1989, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
2016 Portraits, self and others (it’s complicated), McIntosh Gallery, Western University London, London, Ontario
2016 Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
2016 “PRÉSENCES,” DAÏMÔN, Gatineau, Québec
2016 Road Trip, MacLaren Gallery, Barrie, Ontario
2016 First Person: Contemporary Indigenous Portraiture, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
2016 Contemporary Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Cantor Arts Centre, Stanford, University California, California
2016 Canada? Over 150 years, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Canada
2015 We Are On Treaty Land, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2015 Gazing Back, Looking Forward, Aboriginal Pavilion Pan Am Games, Fort York, Toronto, Ontario
2015 Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, Ontario
2015 Home Away from Home, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2014 Modern Visions: The Mendel Art Gallery 50th Anniversary, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2013 Land/Slide: Possible Futures, Markham, Ontario
2013 Indigenous and Urban, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Québec
2013 inVisibility: Indigenous in the City, Aird Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2013 Sakahan, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
2013 Create this Revolution, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Ontario
2013 Heart of the Moment: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2012 Collection on View: Photography Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2012 Place Markers – Mapping Locations and Probing Boundaries, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2012 Sovereign Acts, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2011 Place and Circumstance: Recent Additions to the City of Ottawa’s Fine Art Collection, Ottawa, Ontario
2011 Acting Up! Performing the Indian, Platform Centre For Photographic + Digital Arts, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2010 Crossing Paths: The ‘Four Indian Kings’ and the work of Shelley Niro and Jeff Thomas, Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, Ontario
2010 Construction Sites: Identity and Place, Kamloops Art Gallery, British Columbia
2010 Do You See What I Mean? Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
2010 Many Guises: Contemporary Self-Portraits, Bytown Museum, Ottawa, Ontario
2009 Crossing Lines, Building Bridges, Glenyhurst Art Gallery of Brant, Brantford, Ontario
2009 UNMASKING: Arthur Renwick, Adrian Stimson, Jeff Thomas, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, France
2009 Photo Quai, The Musée du Quai Branly. Paris, France
2009 Art + People = X, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Alberta
2008 Steeling the Gaze: Portraits by Aboriginal Artists, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
2008 Evidence: The Ottawa City Project, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2008 Zacharie Vincent and His Friends, Espace 400, Québec City, Québec
2008 Face the Nation, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton
2007 Orientalism & Ephemera, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2007 Oh So Iroquois, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2007 Intersections: Photographs of the City, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2007 Cultural Contrasts: Contemporary Iroquois Commentaries, Iroquois Indian Museum, Howes Cave, New York
2006 Borrowing, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
2006 Heterotopia: Works from the Contemporary Collection, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2006 Addressing Oakville, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
2005 American West, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England
2005 About Face: Native American Self-Portraits. Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2004 Dezhan ejan: Aboriginal Works from the Collection of the Canada Council Art Bank, Canadian Embassy, Washington, D.C.
2004 Encounters, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon
2004 Possible Futures: Utopia / Dystopia, Case Studies, Harbourfront, Toronto, Ontario
2004 Active Ground//Parallel Tracks, City of Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2003 The Master Prints of Edward S. Curtis, Mashantucket Pequot Museum, Mashantucket, Connecticut
2003 The Bigger Picture: Portraits from Ottawa, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2003 Life Worlds – Artscape Contemporary Iroquois Art, Museum der Weltkulturen, Frankfurt, Germany
2003 Buffalo Creek Revisited, Karpeles Museum, Buffalo, New York
2003 The Political is Personal: A First Nations Perspective, Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario
2003 Everyday Lights: Family Photographs Selected by Contemporary First Nations Artists, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
2003 First Peoples Hall, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Québec
2003 Artists from Ontario: The Canada Council Art Bank Collection, Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario
2002 Americas Remixed, Milan, Italy
2002 Collections in Context, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2002 Mediating Violence, Tribe, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2002 Indian Art/Facts, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
2001 The Pan-American Exposition Centennial: Images of the American Indian, Burchfield-Penny Art Center, Buffalo, New York
2001 Spirit Capture, National Museum of the American Indian, New York City, New York
2000 The Powwow: An Art History, The Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
2000 Ottawa on Display, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
1999 A Category in Question: Native Art from the Permanent Collection, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
1999 Crossing Borders: Beadwork in Iroquois Life, McCord Museum, Montréal, Québec; Canadian Museum of Civilization, Québec City, Québec; Museum of the American Indian, New York City, New York; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario
1998 IroquoisART, America Haus, Frankfurt, Germany
1997 Sprawl, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario
1997 Six Artists Six Nations, American Indian Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California
1996 Red River Crossings: Contemporary Native American Artists Respond to Peter Rindisbacher (1806-1834) The Swiss Institute, New York City, New York
1996 Strong Hearts: Native Visions and Voices, The Smithsonian Institution International Gallery, Ripley Center, Washington, D.C. (Aperture Publication, travelling exhibition)
1996 Discernment – The Building of a Public Contemporary Art Collection, The Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
1995 Alter/Native, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario; Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario (catalogue)
1995 Positive Negative, Street Level Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland (travelling exhibition)
1994 From Icebergs to Iced Tea, Thunder Bay National Exhibition Center, Thunder Bay, Ontario (travelling exhibition)
1994 In the Shadow of the Eagle, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, Lewiston, New York
1994 Keepers of the Western Door, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1993 The Art of Memory and Transformation, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Québec
1992 We, the Human Beings, 27 Contemporary Native American Artists, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio (travelling exhibition)
1991 Our Land/Ourselves: American Indian Contemporary Artists, The University Art Gallery, University at Albany, State University of New York (travelling exhibition)
1991 The Photographs of Jeff Thomas, En Foco Gallery, Bronx, New York
1986 Beyond Blue Mountains, Works of Traditional and Contemporary Native Artists, Olympia, Washington
1985 Photography and the American Indian, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
1984 The American Indian Photographers Show, Southern Plains Indian Museum, Anadarko, Oklahoma
1983 In Western New York Exhibition, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1983 Indian Art ’83, Woodland Cultural Museum, Brantford, Ontario
1983 Six Nations Seven, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse, New York
1982 Contemporary Iroquois Art, The Queens Museum, Flushing, New York
1982 38th Western New York Exhibition, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1981 Indian Art in the ’80s, Native American Centre for the Living Arts, Niagara Falls, New York
1980 Hallwall’s Summer Space Show, Buffalo, New York
1980 CEPA Gallery Members Show, Buffalo, New York
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2023 National Endowment for the Arts “Toolkit for Careers in the Arts for People with Disabilities”
2020 GardenShip and State, Museum London, London, Ontario (co-curator & contributing artist)
2009 Home/land & Security, Render, University Of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
2008 We Were So Far Away: The Inuit Experience of Residential Schools (advisor)
2003 Exploring the Aboriginal Past: Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
2002 Where Are the Children? Healing the Legacy of the Residential Schools National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (touring 2002 – ongoing)
2002 The Architecture of Indian-ness, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
2001 On the Field of Battle: Aboriginal Veterans throughout History Department of National Defense, Ottawa, Ontario
2000 Urban Myths: Aboriginal Artists in the City, Karsh-Masson Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
1999 Emergence from the Shadow: First People’s Photographic Perspectives, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Québec
1998 Pride & Dignity, Archives in the Market, Ottawa, Ontario
1996 Aboriginal Portraits from the National Archives of Canada, National Archives, Ottawa, Ontario
CURATORIAL / ARTIST & INTERVENTION PROJECTS
2011 Contrary Projects in Venice: an Aboriginal Art Intervention at the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. Curated by David Garneau
2010 Mapping Iroquoia: Shelley Niro & Jeff Thomas, McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
2009 Departure Points, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
2002 Indian Arti/Facts, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
2002 No Escapin’ This: Confronting Images of Aboriginal Leadership, Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto, Ontario
WEBSITE & VIDEO PROJECTS
2020 www.wheretheriversmeet.art (in process)
2015 www.anecessaryfiction.com for A Necessary Fiction: My Conversation with Nicholas de Grandmaison, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
2014 www.jeff-thomas.ca
2011 Opening Borders/Opening Objects, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
2009 Where are the Children, Legacy of Hope Foundation, Ottawa, Phase Three
2006 www.scoutingforindians.com
2005 Art Star 2 Video Biennial, Remix 2005 North of 60, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2005 Aboriginal Healing Foundation
2004 www.jeffthomas-oakvillegalleries.com A Documentation of the Journey of Iroquois/Onondaga Photographer Jeff Thomas, Artist in residence, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
2003 www.ccca.ca artist Jeff Thomas Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art, The Canadian Art Database
2001 www.artengine.ca Scouting for Indians, Artengine Gallery page artist project, Ghost Dancing, Member’s page
1998 www3.sympatico.ca/onondagall inter/SECTION, Indian Art Centre, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs
1996 www.archives.ca Pride and Dignity: Aboriginal Portraits, National Archives of Canada web site under the heading Aboriginal Peoples
VIDEO WORK
2020 Carleton University, Collaborative Indigenous Learning Bundles, Knowledge Keeper Interview
2010 University of Ottawa video work “A Study of Indianness”
2009 L’université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), video work “A Study of Indianness”
GRANTS
City of Ottawa Heritage Funding Program 2021
Ontario Arts Council: Indigenous Curator Residency 2020
Ontario Arts Council: Project Grants: 1984, 1986, 1995, 1997, “A” Grants: 2001, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2013, 2015
Ontario Arts Council: Chalmers Fellowship 2005, 2009
Ontario Arts Council: Exhibition Assistance 1985, 1996, 2004
Ontario Arts Council: Aboriginal Arts Projects 2008, 2016
Canada Council for the Arts: Project Grants: “B” Grant: 1989, 1992, 1998 “A” Grant: 2002, 2007, 2015
Canada Council for the Arts: Critics & Curators grant: 2004, 2007
Canada Council for the Arts: Long-Term Grant, 2011-2012
Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton Project Grants: “B” 1997, “A” Grant: 2001, 2005, 2007
Manitoba Arts Council Project Grants: 1990, 1991
AWARDS
2023 The Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Awards, OAC, short list
2021 The Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Awards, OAC, short list
2020 Governor General’s Award In Visual And Media Arts
2017 REVEAL Indigenous Art Award
2008 Karsh Award, Ottawa
2003 Royal Canadian Academy of Art
1998 The Duke & Duchess of York Prize in Photography, Canada Council for the Arts
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, Manitoba
Bank of Montréal, Toronto, Ontario
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, Nova Scotia
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario
Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, Québec
Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
Federation of Newfoundland Indians, Corner Brook, Newfoundland
Global Affairs, Ottawa, Ontario
Indigenous Art Centre, Ottawa, Ontario
Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, British Columbia
Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
McIntosh Gallery, London, Ontario
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario
Art Gallery of Saskatchewan (formerly the Mendel Art Gallery), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario
M & T Bank Collection, Buffalo, New York
Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Museum London, London, Ontario
Museum der Weltkulturen, Frankfurt, Germany
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
Odawa Native Friendship Centre, Ottawa, Ontario
Ottawa-Carleton Regional Art Collection, Ottawa, Ontario
Ottawa City Art Collection (2021)
Portrait Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
RBC Bank Collection, Toronto, Ontario
School of Image Arts Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario
Sheridan Campus Galleries, Mississauga, Ontario
Southern Plains Indian Museum, Anadarko, Oklahoma
The British Museum, London, England
The Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
The Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario
Toronto Dominion Bank
Union of Ontario Indians, Toronto, Ontario
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
University of Toronto Art Centre Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Wanuskewin Heritage Park, Saskatchewan
Washington State Arts Council, Washington State
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, Ontario
Museum der Weltkutt Uren, Frankfurt, Germany
Private collections
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2006 Visiting Scholar, Queens University, Ontario
2004 Site Scope Residency #2, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
2003 George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
2003 DAÏMÔN, Hull, Québec
COMMISSIONED PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECTS
2013 Ground Zero, Carleton University History Department, Ottawa, Ontario
2013 Seize the Space: Champlain’s 400th, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
2006 Ontario Association of Art Gallery Awards “The Delegate,” Ottawa, Ontario
2004 The Mi’kmaq People of Newfoundland: A Celebration, Corner Brook Museum And Archives, Newfoundland
1991 Aboriginal Justice Inquiry, Winnipeg, Manitoba
DOCUMENTARIES ABOUT THE ARTIST
2006 Not Just Beads and Moccasins. The Sharing Circle
2004 Scouting for Indians, five minute video, Jeff Thomas and Bear Thomas, Collaboration
2003 CBC ARTSPOTS
1997 Shooting Indians: A Journey with Jeffrey Thomas, colour, 54 minutes, directed by
Ali Kazimi
ESSAYS BY THE ARTIST
Hotels, Posadas, Pensioni, “The Executive Motor Hotel, Toronto, Ontario” (2022) Embassy Cultural House websute
Mapping Iroquoia, On Site Review Issue 42 “Atlas :: being in place” (2023)
Strangers Guide, The US National Parks Issue (2019)
Wisdom, Wit and Other Tidbits, V.44, No. 6 PhotoLife (October/November 2019)
Cybercartography in a Reconciliation Community, Engaging Intersecting Perspectives, Stephanie Pyne, D.R. Fraser Taylor, Elsevier Inc. (2019)
Hamilton Arts & Letters Magazine, issue 12.1 & issue 12.2 (2019)
Peripheral Vision(s) Perspectives on the “Indian” Image by 19th Century Northern Plains Warrior-artists and 20th Century American Artists Leonard Baskin & Fritz Scholder, McMaster Museum of Art (2019)
We Are Still Here, BlackFlash, 35.3/ (Fall Winter 2018)
Ground Zero: The Bear Portraits. Photography and Culture, Volume 10-Issue 2. Published online – Taylor & Francis Group (July 2017)
A Conversation with Tanya Harnett and Jeff Thomas. Auto/Biographical Studies Publication. Taylor & Francis. (July 4, 2016)
Father’s Day: The Missing Conversation, West Coast Liner 74, vol. 46 (Summer 2012)
Mapping Iroquoia, Lake A Journal Of Arts and Environment, Issue 7 (2012)
Seize the Space: Buffalo Boy, BlackFlash, Fall (2011)
“Resistance is Futile” for Orientalism & Ephemera, guest editor Jamelie Hassan, West Coast Line 64, Volume 43, no 4. Spring/Summer 2010, page 18
What’s The Point? Public Art In Canada: Critical Perspectives, Edited by Annie Gérin and James S. McLean (2009)
Indian Corn to Indian Corn, Trans/mission: Ble d’Inde, Ron Benner. AXENE07 (2008)
Making the Scene: Edward Curtis in Context. BlackFlash, SCENE 25.3 (2008)
decentre Concerning artists-run culture YYZ Books (2008)
My Indian Companion, “Drive By: A Road Trip with Jeff Thomas”, University of Toronto Art Centre Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
“Our” Artist, Boreal Baroque, Mary Anne Barkhouse, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery ABC Art Books Canada (2007)
Aboriginal Art in the Canada Council Art Bank Collection, “Art at Work”, edited by Victoria Henry, Goose Lane Editions (2007)
Scouting for Indians, Public Number 29 Localities (2004)
Jeff Thomas: A Study of Indian-ness. Gallery 44 (2004)
Where Are the Children: Healing the Legacy of Residential Schools. (cat.) Aboriginal
Healing Foundation, Ottawa (2003)
Articulating the Vanishing Indian. FUSE Magazine 25, no. 4 (2002).
Making the Invisible Visible. MIX 28, no. 1 (Summer 2002)
Luminance – Aboriginal Photographic Portraits. Archivist, no. 112 (1996)
BOARD MEMBERSHIP
2012 Gallery 101, Ottawa, Ontario
2003 Art Gallery of Ontario: Canadian Curatorial Committee, Toronto, Ontario
2002 Gallery 101, Ottawa, Ontario
2002-08 Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
1994 Visual Arts Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
ARTS JURY PARTICIPATION
School of the Photographic Arts Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario: 2020
Canada Council for the Arts: 1992, 2002, 2005, 2009
Canada Council Art Bank: 2004
Ontario Arts Council: 2002, 2004, 2006; Access and Career Development, 2006
Visual Artists: Established 2010
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Jury: 1985, 1996
City of Ottawa Arts Program: 1993, 1999, 2000, 2003
City of Ottawa Direct Purchase Program: 2008
Ottawa School of Art: 2003
Manitoba Arts Council Visual Arts peer assessment: 2002, 2004
Karsh Award: 2010
AFFILIATIONS, CONSULTANTION PROJECTS & PARTICIPATION
2023 Gardiner Museum First Floor Transformation
2023 National Endowment for the Arts “Toolkit for Careers in the Arts for People with Disabilities”
2022 The North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative (NACDI)
2020 Carleton University, Collaborative Indigenous Learning Bundles, Knowledge Keeper Interview
2020 Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, Indiana (contemporary gallery redesign consultant)
2018 Algoma University, Reclaiming Shingwauk Hall exhibition, Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
2013 McCord Museum, Montréal, Quebec. Wearing our Identity – The First Peoples Collection
2009 Legacy of Hope Foundation, (website), Ottawa, Ontario
2004 Portrait Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
2004 Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, text panels for the Sigmund Samuel Gallery of Canada
2002 Art Gallery of Ontario, Torotno, Ontario, Aboriginal Consultancy Group “Meeting Ground”
1999 Canada Council Aboriginal Curatorial Program Advisory Panel
1998 National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
ARTICLES & REVIEWS
Art Canada Institute. 10 Photography Pioneers From Our New Publication Photography in Canada, 1839–1989, September 2022
Art Canada Institute. Ottawa Art & Artists: A Capital for Creativity newsletter, July 22, 2022
Baele, Nancy. Strong images of a far-from-vanishing people. The Ottawa Citizen, June 28, 1996
Bell, Lynn. Ghost Dancing on the Urban Frontier, Black Flash, Vol. 18 (March 2001)
Beyer, David and Tobias-Keeshig, Lenore. Powwow Dancer. Sweetgrass (July/August 1984)
CBC Radio One ‘q’ Show, Urban Iroquois photographer Jeff Thomas, March 18, 2019
Cembalest, Robin. Native American Art: Pride and Prejudice. Art News (February 1992)
Close, Susan. Aboriginal Portraits from The National Archives of Canada. Archivaria 42 (Fall 1996)
Dales, Jennifer. Artists steal photography scene. Rabble.ca, February 6, 2009
Dault, Gary Michael. Jeff Thomas at the Stephen Bulger Gallery. The Globe and Mail, May 24, 2008
Durand, Guy Sioui. Point de vue: Erres. CV Photo 50 (Spring 2000). 5-6.
Durand, Guy Sioui. Steeling the Gaze: Portraits by Aboriginal Artists. CV 82, June-Sept 2009
Eason, Mandy. “inter/SECTION: A look at urban Aboriginals and stereotypical images of
Everett-Green, Robert. Works embody Markham’s past and future, The Globe and Mail, Friday, October 11, 2013
Garneau, David. Boy Boyer and Jeff Thomas. Border Crossing vol. 24 number 2, May 2005
Natives.” Tekawennake Six Nations & New Credit News, February 17, 1999
Francis, Margot. Reading the Autoethnographic Perspective of Indians Shooting Indians, TOPIA, no. 7 (Spring 2002). 5-26.
Francis, Margot. Jeff Thomas: A Study of Indian-ness. FUSE Magazine, vol. 27, no. 3, 2004
Fraser, Graham. Portraits of a People. The Globe and Mail, November 30, 1999
Gaudet, Elaine. Les deux passions de Jeffrey Thomas. Ledroit, Ottawa-Hull, August 8, 1996
Gessell, Paul. The Aboriginal Eye. Ottawa Citizen, Nov. 13, 2008
Gessell, Paul. Kings of the road. Ottawa Citizen, February 15, 2007
Gessell, Paul. The art that escaped the city’s knife. Ottawa Citizen, March 18, 2004
Gessell, Paul. Native school photographs not pretty. Ottawa Citizen, June 15, 2002
Gessell, Paul. Scouting for Indian stereotypes: lusty braves, fierce warriors.
The Ottawa Citizen May 10, 2000
Gilmore, Alison. A Meditation on Missing Role Models, Winnipeg Free Press, May 30, 2012
Griffin, Andrew. The Artist as Social Critic: Challenging Mainstream Conceptions. Ottawa X Press, 1997
Hickey, Carolyn. Jeff Thomas Indians on Tour, Ciel Variable, No. 120, Jun-Sept. 2022
Hill, Richard William. 10 Indigenous Artworks that Changed How We Imagine Ourselves. Canadian Art, April 28, 2016 (online)
Hudson, Anna. The Art of Inventing Canada. The Beaver, June/July 2005
Johnston, Susan. The Critical Vantage Point. CITYART, Volume 1, Number 2 Winter/Spring 2005
King, Alan. A new native perspective. Archival photos in museum exhibit offer openness and respect between artist and subject. The Ottawa Citizen, October 25, 1999
Lauzon, Claudette. Monumental Interventions: Jeff Thomas Seizes Commemorative Space. Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture And Activism in Canada, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011
Lamarche, Bernard. Jaillir de l’ombre: perspectives photographiques des premiers peuples.
Le Devoir, December 5, 1999
MacBride, Craig. Great storyteller is Scouting for Indians. The Oakville Beaver, February 27, 2004
Maple, Carla. Portraits of our native land: Aboriginal snaps show more than meets the eye.
McMaster, Gerald. What Is Contemporary Indian Art? Indian Market Magazine (1998)
Methot, Suzanne. Join the discussion. Windspeaker. vol. 22, no. 2. May 2004
Mierins, Krystina. Cold Conversations: Jeff Thomas Reframes First Nations Culture. Section: Features, Issue: Spring 2013, Volume 3, No. 4
Nanibush, Wanda. ‘Notions of Land,’ Aperture Magazine, Spring 2019
O’Flanagan, Rob. Portraying the reality of Canada’s natives. The Sudbury Star, Dec. 26, 1998
The Ottawa Xpress, January 8, 1998
Ottawa Citizen. Like Art in the Bank. October 2, 2003
Ott, Gunter. “Shadowcatcher Jeff Thomas.” Portfolio Camera Canada, no. 61 (Autumn 1984)
Paakspuu, Kalli. “Re-Reading the Portrait and the Archive’s Social Memory.” Canadian Review of American Studies, Volume 46, Number 3, (Winter 2016)
Pahuja, Nisha. Thomas Takes A Shot at Curtis. Aboriginal Voices 4 (1997)
Payne, Carol and Jeffrey Thomas. Aboriginal Interventions into the Photographic Archives: A Dialogue between Carol Payne and Jeffrey Thomas. Visual Resources, Vol. XV111 (2002) pp. 109-125
Payne, Carol. Counterpoint Emergence from the Shadow: First Peoples’ Photographic Perspectives. Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Vol. 27, no. 6 (2000).
Podedworny, Carol. New World Landscape: Urban First Nations Photography: Interview with Jeffrey Thomas. FUSE Magazine 19, no. 2 (Winter 1996)
Policy Options. February 2013, Vol. 34, No.2 “Through Our Eyes”
Roalf, Peggy, ed. Strong Hearts: Native Visions and Voices. Aperture, (August 1995)
Roalf, Peggy. Jeff Thomas at Stephen Bulger Gallery, Design Arts Daily, Nov. 29, 2012
Robb, Peter. Ottawa’s Urban Iroquois Jeff Thomas. artsfile, March 25, 2019 (https://bit.ly/2Cxkier)
Sandals, Leah. Jeff Thomas NOW Highlights Exceptional Shows At The Contact Photography Festival, NOW Magazine, 38, 2008
Sandals, Leah. Back To The Land, National Post, January 21, 2010
Saxberg, Lynn. Newly named laureate wants art lovers to ‘think differently’ about First Nations, Ottawa Citizen, March 28, 2019
Shinhat, Molly Amoli K. Bridging the Continental Divide. The Ottawa X Press, October 28, 1999
Sinhat, Molly Amoli K. The point photographer Jeff Thomas establishes an urban Indian ritual.
The Ottawa X Press. August 10, 2000
Tam, Pauline. Iroquois Keeps Eagle Eye on Aboriginal Exhibit. The Ottawa Citizen, June 20, 1996
Thorne, Stephen. First Nations photo exhibit defies early stereotypes. National Post, December 13, 1999
Wawzonek, Donna. Aboriginal images put culture in context. The Ottawa Citizen, February 16, 1998
Wong, Alice. Disabled Artists, Disability Visibility Project (Podcast interview), Episode 51, May 19, 2019
Whyte, Murray. At the AGO, a river that flows, in multiple directions. Toronto Star, October 6, 2016
Whyte, Murray. Toronto and the dilemma that is public art. Toronto Star, June 17, 2017
CATALOGUES & PUBLICATIONS
Art Canada Institute. Photography in Canada, 1839-1989: An Illustrated History newsletter, 2023
Art Canada Institute. Northern Exposure Canadian Photography at Contact newsletter, May 20, 2022
Azoulay, Ariella Aïsha, Ewald, Wendy, Meiselas, Susan, Raiford, Leigh and Wexler, Laura. Collaboration A Potential History of Photography. London: Thames & Hudson, 2023
Bassnett, Sarah and Parsons, Sarah. Photography in Canada: 1939-1989. Toronto: Art Canada Institute, 2023 (online publication)
Bush, Alfred L. and Mitchell, Clark Lee. The Photograph and the American Indian. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994
Dessureault, Pierre (Editor). Nordicite, Éditions J’ai VU 2010
Dion, Francois. Bearings: Four Photographic Essays. Ottawa: Gallery 101, 2001
Francis, Margot. Creative Subversions Whiteness, Indigeneity, and the National Imaginary, UBC Press, 2011
Gérin, Annie and Mclean, James S., editors, McLean, Public Art in Canada: Critical Perspectives, University of Toronto Press, 2008
Hamilton, A.C. and Murray Sinclair. Report of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba, The Justice System and Aboriginal People. Vol. 1, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1991
Hill, Richard. Working Histories. Jeff Thomas: A Study of Indian-ness. Toronto: Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, 2004
Hill, Tom and Hill, Rick. Powwow Images. Brantford: Woodland Cultural Centre, 1985
Indigenous Art Centre. The Indigenous Art Collection Selected Works 1967-2017, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC), 2017
Jessup, Lynda and Bagg, Shannon (Ed.). On Aboriginal Representation in the Gallery. Image contribution, 2002
King, Laurie, ed. Hear My Voice: A Multicultural Anthology of Literature from the United States. 1993
McMaster Museum of Art, 2012, Jeff Thomas: Mapping Iroquoia: Cold City Frieze, 2012
Payne, Carol and Kunard, Andrea. The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada
McGill-Queen’s/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History #4, 2011
Phillips, Ruth B. Settler Monuments, Indigenous memory: Dis-membering and Re-membering Canadian Art History. Monuments And Memory, made And Unmade. Edited by Robert S. Nelson and Olin, Margaret. The University of Chicago Press, 2003
Martin, Lee-Anne and Boyer, Bob. The Powwow: An Art History. Regina: MackenzieArtGallery, 2000
McMaster, Gerald. Portraits from the Dancing Grounds. Ottawa: The OttawaArtGallery, 1997.
Mitra, Srimoyee. Learning Through Crossing Lines: An Intercultural Dialogue, Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation thought the Lens of Cultural Diversity, 2011
National Gallery of Canada. (Image) Chief Red Robe at Champlain Lookout, Gatineau Park, Annual Report for 2022-2023
Tompkins, Edward. Ktaqmkukewaq Mi’kmaq: Wlqatmuti The Mi’Kmaw People of Newfoundland: A Celebration. Federation of Newfoundland Indians, 2004.
University of Toronto Art Centre, Drive By: A Road Trip with Jeff Thomas, 2008
Wheelwright Museum Of The American Indian, About Face: Self-Portraits by Native American, First Nations, and Inuit Artists, 1997
TALKS
2022 This is me. This is also me: The Artist’s Archive as Self Portrait, Association for Art History conference, London, United Kingdom
2021 River of Life: Curating and Community Engagement in a Time of Crisis, DeMontfort University’s Artist Talk Series, Art and Photography, Leicester School of Art School of Art, Design & Architecture, Leicester, United Kingdom
2021 Practicing the Social: Entanglements of Art and Social Justice, Guelph University, Guelph, Ontario
2021 Where the Rivers Meet, York University, Department of Visual Arts and Historyt
2021 Conversations: Past/Present/and Future with Bear Witness, SASAH Speakers Series, Western University,
2021 In conversation with Jeff Thomas and Bear Witness, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2021 Jeff Thomas, Criptimes a podcast series, Bodies in Translation project (link)
2021 Art Now – Visiting Artist Series, University of Calgary
2021 Always Already Players: Considering the Cultural Diplomacy of Artists Virtual Research Summit, University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
CONFERENCES & PANELS
2021 Beyond the Spectacle: Indigenous Mobilities, “Travellers at the Heart of Empire,” University of Kent, United Kingdom
2021 Introducing “Family Matters” / plus a conversation with Jeff Thomas and Bear Witness, Carleton University
2021 Where the Rivers Meet, York University, Toronto, Ontario
2021 Stop Extinction! Restore the Earth Artists Address Climate Crisis, Presented by Embassy Cultural House and the GardenShip and State Project, London, Ontario
2019 The future of commemorative art practices Culture Montréal through its public art commission, Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec, Montréal
2019 Longing and Belonging, DOXA Film Festival, Vancouver, British Columbia
2017 Project Naming, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
2016 What does Heritage Change? Panel for the Critical Heritage Studies Conference, Montréal, Québec
2015 University Art Association of Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia (Keynote address)
2014 Stronger Than Stone: (Re)Inventing the Indigenous Monument, Calgary, Alberta and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2013 Champlain on the Anishinabe Aki: Histories and Memories on an Encounter, Carleton University Colloquium, Ottawa, Ontario
2013 inVisibility: Indigenous in the City, Aird Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2013 Pictures Of By Indians: Decolonization and the Lens, Ryerson University, Toronto
2012 Immortal Body Symposium, Ryerson, Toronto, Ontario
2011 Native American Art Studies Association Eighteenth Biennial Conference, Ottawa, Ontario
2011 Revisiting 40 Years of Multiculturalism Policy in Canada, The Association for Canadian Studies and the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association 2nd Annual Joint Conference
2011 National Victims of Crime Awareness Week Symposium, Department of Justice, Ottawa, Ontario
2009 Healing Through Exhibitions, Aboriginal Curatorial Collective Conference, Ottawa, Ontario
2009 Home/land & Security exhibition circle gathering, University of Waterloo, RENDER, Waterloo, Ontario
2008 Whose History? Re-visioning the Colonial Monument Four Hundred Years After Samuel de Champlain’s Habitation at Québec, University of Toronto Art Centre Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2007 Transporters, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
2006 Ontario Museum Association Conference, Owen Sound, Ontario
2006 ReVisions: Canadian Voices, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
2006 The Indigenous City, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
2005 Define Indian, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2005 Curators In Context: Thinking Through Curating, Banff Centre, Alberta
2005 Aboriginal Curatorial Collective, Ottawa, Ontario
2005 Post…A Gathering and Community Discussion, (Moderator), Gallery 101, Ottawa, Ontario
2004 Canadian Embassy, Washington D.C
2004 Shooting Indians: Perspectives on Urban Indian-ness, (Moderator) Gallery 44, Toronto, Ontario
2003 Powwow Performance and Nationhood in Native North America, Ethnography Conference, The British Museum, London, England
2003 Power to the People, Contemporary Art Forum, Kitchener, Ontario
2002 Convergence Strategies & Influences, ARRCO Conference, Ottawa, Ontario
2002 Empowerment in the Museum: The Artist as Curator, Contemporary Art Forum, Kitchener, Ontario
2002 Healing Through the Arts in the Aboriginal Community, First Annual New Sun
Symposium, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
2000 Urban Myths. (Moderator) Karsh-Masson Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2000 Writing Canada’s Art Histories, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
2000 Canadian Society of Landscape Architects’ Congress 2000, Ottawa, Ontario
1999 CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York (panel)
1999 Aboriginal Representation in the Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
1998 Forum On First Peoples Visual Arts, The Canada Council, Ottawa, Ontario
1998 Preservation or Appropriation? A Discussion Of The Relations Between Aboriginal Culture(s) and Canadian Museums, McGill University, Canadian Ethnic Studies, Montréal, Québec
1998 Emergence from the Shadow: First Peoples’ Photographic Perspectives, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Québec
1997 Hybrids, Half-Breeds and the Myth of Whiteness, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Ontario
1996 Enlarging Curatorial Perception: Racial Identity and Visual Prototypes, Ontario Association of Art Galleries, Toronto, Ontario
1996 Artists as Social Critics, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
1995 Native American Art Studies Association, Tenth Biennial, Tulsa, Oklahoma
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS: Artistic Practice
2021 University of Toronto, Zoom Studio Visit and talk (class, art acquisitions focus), for the University of Toronto Scarborough collection, with Anique Jordan
2016 Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD U), Toronto, Ontario
2016 Wanuskewin Heritage Park, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2016 College Art Galleries, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2015 Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois
2015 University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta
2013 Carleton University Art History Department, Ottawa, Ontario
2013 Carleton University Art Gallery, Jamelie Hassan in Conversation with Jeff Thomas, Ottawa, Ontario
2012 McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
2012 McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
2012 McCord Museum, Montréal, Québec
2011 The Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2011 York University, Rebel’s With A Cause Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario
2011 York University, Art History Department, Toronto, Ontario
2010 Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
2010 Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2010 Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, Manitoba
2009 Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario
2009 The Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France
2009 Com·mem·o·ra·tion, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario
2009 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
2008 Karsh-Masson Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2008 University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
2006 University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2006 Dept. of Creative Studies Univ. of B.C. Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia
2006 McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
2006 Camera Frontera, North Bay, Ontario
2006 Visiting Scholar, Department of Art, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario
2006 Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario
2006 York University, Jeff Thomas & Reesa Greenberg, Toronto, Ontario
2006 Modern Fuel Gallery, Kingston, Ontario
2005 University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
2005 York University, Toronto, Ontario
2005 Urban Shaman & Platform Galleries, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2004 Carleton University, Art History Department, Ottawa, Ontario
2004 Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
2004 Gallery 44, Toronto, Ontario (panel)
2004 University of New Brunswick, St. John, New Brunswick
2003 Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2003 Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Québec
2003 George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
2003 Pequot Museum, Mashantucket, Connecticut
2003 The British Museum, London, England (conference)
2002 Museum of the American Indian, New York City, Newy York
2002 American Indian Community House Gallery, New York City, New York
2002 Artspace Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario
2002 Carleton University, Art History Department, Ottawa, Ontario
2002 Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2002 Mackenzie Art Gallery of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
2002 University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta
2002 University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2002 University of Toronto at Scarborough Division of Social Sciences, Scarborough, Ontario
2002 Scott Collegiate High School, Regina, Saskatchewan
2001 McCord Museum, Montréal, Québec
2001 York University, Toronto, Ontario
2001 University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
2001 Carleton University, Art History Department, Ottawa, Ontario
2000 The Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
1999 Gallery 101, Ottawa, Ontario
1999 Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, Ontario
1999 Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Québec
1998 Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Québec
1998 Carleton University, Art History Department, Ottawa, Ontario
1996 Carleton University, Art History Department, Ottawa, Ontario
1996 Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
1991 Aboriginal Journalism Program, Red River Community College, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1985 Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, Ontario
1985 Confederated IndianCollege, Regina, Saskatchewan Ontario Association of Art Galleries
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS: Curatorial Practice
2021 Gardenship & State, Museum London, London, Ontario
2017 Family Camera Roundtable, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario
2019 Where are the Children, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
2011 Dalhousie Law School, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2010 McIntosh Gallery, London, Ontario
2009 Home/land & Security, REDNER, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario (round table)
2007 Lethbridge Public Library, Lethbridge, Alberta
2006 Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, Ontario
2006 RedLake Cultural Heritage Centre, Red Lake, Ontario
2005 ManitobaMuseum, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2004 National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
2004 St. John Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick
2003 U.B.C. Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, British Columbia
2003 Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Québec
2003 George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
2002 Lecture, Louis-Philippe Herbert, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
2002 Lecture, Carl Beam, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario
2001 Lecture, Edward S. Curtis, Musée de L’ Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
1999 Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Québec
1998 Lecture, Andres Serrano: The Native American Portfolio. ArtCore Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1998 Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Québec
1997 National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
WORKSHOPS (Instructor)
2019 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
2017 The Radical Imagery Institute, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Ontario
2011 Paved Arts, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2006 Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
2004 Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
1985 Ojibwa and Cree Cultural Centre, Northern Ontario
AUCTIONS
2022 C Magazine Art Auction
