Steven Loft
Individual
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Steve LoftRoles
Artist, Curator, WriterBiography
Steven Loft is Kanien'kehá: ka (also known as Mohawk), of the Six Nations of the Grand River, also with Jewish heritage. He most recently held the position of Director of Strategic Initiatives for Indigenous Arts and Culture and formerly Director of the Creating, Knowing and Sharing: The Arts and Cultures of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples program with the Canada Council for the Arts. A curator, scholar, writer, and media artist, in 2010 he was named Trudeau National Visiting Fellow at Ryerson University in Toronto. Loft has also held positions as Curator-in-Residence, Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada; Director/Curator of the Urban Shaman Gallery (Winnipeg); Aboriginal Curator at the Art Gallery of Hamilton and Producer and Artistic Director of the Native Indian/Inuit Photographers’ Association (Hamilton). He has curated group and solo exhibitions across Canada and internationally; written extensively for magazines, catalogues and arts publications and lectured widely in Canada and internationally. Loft co-edited the books Transference, Technology, Tradition: Aboriginal Media and New Media Art (Banff Centre Press, 2005) and Coded Territories: Indigenous Pathways in New Media (University of Calgary Press, 2014).National Gallery of Canada, 2022
Collection
grunt gallery Programming Archive (Artist)Related program
INDIANacts: aboriginal performance art (Artist)Related Archive, Library & Publication Objects
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