Chris Creighton-Kelly
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Chris Creighton-Kelly is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and cultural critic born in the UK with South Asian/British roots. His performative, usually ephemeral, artworks have been presented across Canada, in India, Europe, and the USA. He has received grants and awards in five countries. Chris has been persistently interested in questions of absence in art-making—Whose epistemology is unquestioned? Who has power? Who does not? Why not? For over 30 years, he has worked as an arts consultant for artists; arts organizations and institutions; and government agencies in Canada and internationally. In 1989-91, Chris was a consultant to the Canada Council on issues of cultural/racial equity. His work launched the formation of two critical offices—the Aboriginal Arts Office and the Equity Office that have subsequently led the way in transforming the Council from a mostly European arts agency to one in which multiple art traditions and practices are funded. In 1991-92, he worked at the Banff Centre designing and directing a 20 artists’ residency, Race and the Body Politic which indirectly influenced the establishment of the Aboriginal Arts program. In 2011, he co-authored, along with France Trépanier, Understanding Aboriginal Art in Canada Today. In 2012, they were co-recipients of the inaugural Audain Aboriginal Curatorial Fellowship awarded by Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. He is currently the Co-Director of Primary Colours/Couleurs primaires. Chris appreciates his audiences a lot.Primary Colours, 2024
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