Janice Toulouse Shingwaak
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Artist, ContributorBiography
Janice Toulouse is an Ojibwe artist with a long history of international exhibitions. A member of Garden River First Nation, she lives between Canada and France. With a dedicated painting practice, she has exhibited internationally for over 40 years. She holds an MFA from Concordia University in Montreal and taught as a university art professor for over 20 years. Her awards include a NMAI Residency in New York in 2002, a Canada Council Grant in 2006, a Canada 150 REVEAL in 2017, and an OAC Indigenous Arts Award in 2019. She states, “My art is storytelling in paintings on my life experience as an Anishinaabe Kwe. An artist and teacher, during my lifetime I have worked to bring Indigenous art to the world." She is a descendant of Chief Shingwauk by her mother Florence Pine. Her solo exhibitions include at Galerie Fulgence, the first Indigenous gallery in Paris in the 1990s, American Indian Community Gallery in New York in 2006, Ojibwe Cultural Foundation in Manitoulin Island in 2020-21, La Central in Montreal in 2022, and Toronto Union Station in 2023.Janice Toulouse, 2024
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grunt gallery Programming Archive (Artist)Related program
The Traveling Alter Native Medicine Show (Artist)Related Archive, Library & Publication Objects
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