Artist Talk with Barry Ace

Barry Ace exhibition, Centre for Indigenous and Canadian ArtBarry Ace exhibition, Centre for Indigenous and Canadian Art
Monday, November 12, 2018 - 12:00

Barry Ace is a practicing visual artist and currently lives in Ottawa, Canada. He is a band member of M’Chigeeng First Nation, Manitoulin Island, Ontario,

Artist Talk with Barry Ace

Monday, November 12 @ noon
Performance Hall, Room 132
School of Creative Arts - University of Windsor
37 University Ave. E.
This event is free to attend. The public is welcome.

The Art + Law Indigenous Artist in Residence Program was developed in partnership with Arts Council Windsor & Region (ACWR), UWindsor’s Faculty of Law, and the School of Creative Arts.

 

Barry Ace is a practicing visual artist and currently lives in Ottawa, Canada. He is a band member of M’Chigeeng First Nation, Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada. His mixed media paintings and assemblage textile works explore various aspects of cultural continuity and the confluence of the historical and contemporary.

As a practicing visual artist, his work has been included in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including: Emergence from the Shadows – First Peoples Photographic Perspectives, Canadian Museum of Civilization (1999: Ottawa); Urban Myths: Aboriginal Artists in the City. Karsh-Masson Gallery (2000: Ottawa); The Dress Show, Leonard and Ellen Bina Art Gallery (2003: Montréal); Super Phat Nish, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba (2006: Brandon); 50 Years of Pow wow, Castle Gallery (2006: New York); Playing Tricks, American Indian Community House Gallery (2006: New York); Home/land and Security, Render Art Gallery (2009: Waterloo); Meditations on Memory – A Metaphysical Dance. Alcove Gallery (2010: Ottawa International Airport);“m∂ntu’c – little spirits, little powers” Nordamerika Native Museum(2010: Zurich); Changing Hands 3 – Art Without Reservations (2012 -2014: Museum of Art and Design: New York); and Native Fashion Now: North American Native Style (2016 – 2017: Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts); Anishinaabeg Art and Power, Royal Ontario Museum (2017: Toronto); Every. Now. Then. Reframing Nationhood, Art Gallery of Ontario (2017: Toronto); 2017 Canadian Biennial, National Gallery of Canada (2017: Ottawa); We’ll All Become Stories, Ottawa Art Gallery (2018: Ottawa);URL : IRL, Dunlop Art Gallery (2018: Regina); Public Disturbance: Politics and Protest in Contemporary Indigenous Art from Canada, Supermarket 2018 (2018: Stockholm, Sweden).

His work can be found in numerous public and private collections in Canada and abroad, including the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Ontario); Canadian Museum of History (Gatineau, Québec); Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Ontario); Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto, Ontario); Government of Ontario Art Collection (Toronto, Ontario); City of Ottawa; Ottawa Art Gallery; Woodland Cultural Centre (Brantford, Ontario); Canada Council Art Bank (Ottawa); North American Native Museum (Zurich, Switzerland); Ojibwe Cultural Foundation (M’Chigeeng, Ontario); Global Affairs Canada (Ottawa, Ontario) and Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada(Gatineau, Québec).

Barry is the recipient of the KM Hunter Visual Artist Award for 2015. This award is administered by the Ontario Arts Foundation. Barry’s contribution to contemporary art in Canada is noted in the Art Institute of Canada’s Glossary of Canadian Art History.
www.barryacearts.com/

 

 

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