Biography
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Born in Upsala, Ontario, Rebecca Belmore is an artist currently living in Vancouver, British Columbia. She attended the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto and is internationally recognized for her performance and installation art. Since 1987, her multi-disciplinary work has addressed history, place and identity through the media of sculpture, installation, video and performance. Belmore was Canada's official representative at the 2005 Venice Biennale. Her work has appeared in numerous exhibitions both nationally and internationally including two solo touring exhibitions, The Named and the Unnamed, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (2002); and 33 Pieces, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississauga (2001). Her group exhibitions include Houseguests, Art Gallery of Ontario (2001); Longing and Belonging: From the Faraway Nearby, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico (1995); Land, Spirit, Power, National Gallery of Canada (1992); and Creation or Death: We Will Win, at the Havana Biennial, Havana Cuba (1991).
Selected Bibliography
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Group Shows
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2007 |
The Named and the Unnamed |
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, Toronto, Ontario |
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2007 |
Global Feminisms |
Brooklyn Art Museum, Brooklyn, New York |
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2007 |
Blink |
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba |
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2006 |
Nuit Blanche 2006 |
(collaboration with Osvaldo Yero) Toronto, Ontario |
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2006 |
Ephemeral Monuments: The Interventions of Rebecca Belmore and César Saez |
Galerie SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario |
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2006 |
Sydney Biennial |
Sydney, Australia |
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2006 |
About Face: Self-Portraits by Native American, First Nations, and Inuit Artists |
The Wheelwright Museum of The American Indian, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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2005-06 |
Intertidal: Vancouver Art & Artists |
Museum for Contemporary Art Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium |
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2005 |
In My Lifetime |
Quebec City, Quebec |
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2005 |
Tirana Biennale |
Tirana, Albania |
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2004 |
Doublures: Vetements de L'art Contemporain |
Musée National des Beaux-Arts de Québec, Montréal, Québec |
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2004 |
Thinking Textile |
Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, British Columbia |
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2003 |
Hearts on the Ground |
group performances, Sakewewak 1st Nations Artists' Collective, Regina, Saskatchewan |
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2003 |
Light Conditions |
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario |
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2003 |
Rebecca Belmore and Shelley Niro |
MacKenzie Art Gallery, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan |
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2003 |
Chiasma |
online performances, grunt gallery, LIVE Biennial of Performance Art Festival – Art and the Academy, Vancouver, British Columbia |
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2001 |
House Guests |
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario |
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1998 |
Sydney Biennial |
Sydney, Australia |
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1998 |
Canadian Performance Tour |
Germany, Richard Martel |
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1997 |
InSite 97 |
San Diego, California |
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1997 |
The Red River Crossing |
Swiss Art Institute, New York, NY |
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1996 |
Liaisons |
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario |
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1996 |
Metissages |
Galerie Optica, Montreal, Quebec |
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1995 |
Longing and Belonging: From the Faraway Nearby |
Insite, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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1994 |
History 101: The ReSearch for Family |
The Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri |
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1994 |
6th Native American Fine Arts Invitational |
The Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona |
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1993 |
Margins of Memory |
Art Gallery of Windsor. Windsor, Ontario |
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1992 |
Land, Spirit, Power |
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario |
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1992 |
Indian Princesses and Cowgirls: Stereotypes from the Frontier, |
Oboro, Montreal, Quebec |
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1991 |
Between Views |
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta |
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1991 |
Okanata |
A Space, Toronto, Ontario |
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1991 |
Interrogating Identity |
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York |
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1991 |
A Likeness |
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario |
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1990 |
Telling Things |
Art Metropole, Toronto, Ontario London Regional Art & Historical Museums, London, Ontario |
Solo Exhibitions
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2006 |
Parallel |
Urban Shaman / aceartinc., Winnipeg, Manitoba |
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2006 |
como in cielo cosi in terra |
Franco Soffiantino Gallery, Torino, Italy |
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2006 |
The Named and the Unnamed |
The McMaster Museum of Art McMaster University |
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2005 |
East/West |
grunt gallery, Vancouver, BC |
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2005 |
Fountain |
2005 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy |
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2005 |
The Capture of Mary March |
Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Ontario |
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2004 |
Temperance |
Tribe, Saskatoon, SK |
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2004 |
The Named and the Unnamed |
Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, British Columbia |
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2003 |
Extreme |
Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Ontario |
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2003 |
The Named and the Unnamed |
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario |
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2003 |
33 pieces |
Definitely Superior Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario |
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2003 |
33 pieces |
WP Kennedy Art Gallery, Capital Centre, North Bay, Ontario |
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2003 |
Private Collection |
Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Ontario |
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2002 |
The Named and the Unnamed |
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia |
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2002 |
33 pieces |
Dunlop Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan |
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2001 |
The Indian Factory |
High Tech Storytellers: An Interdisciplinary Aboriginal Art Project, Tribe/AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
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1999 |
Many/One |
Galerie Optica, Montreal Quebec |
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1999 |
Dreamers |
Keyano College Art Gallery, Fort McMurray, Alberta |
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1993 |
Wana-na-wang-wong |
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia |
Solo Performances
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2006 |
Back to the Garden (performance) |
Urban Shaman / aceartinc., Winnipeg, Manitoba |
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2003 |
A Simple Truth |
Western Front, Vancouver, British Columbia |
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2003 |
A Way of Making |
Collaboration with Bently Spang), FADO, Toronto, Ontario |
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2002 |
Vigil |
Talking Stick Aboriginal Arts Festival, Vancouver, British Columbia |
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2002 |
Crimes of Passion in Paradise and Beyond |
Caribbean Contemporary Arts Centre, Port of Spain, Trinidad |
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2001 |
Reservoir |
LIVE Biennial of Performance Art, grunt gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia |
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1999 |
Manifesto |
Time Time Time, Performance Art Festival, FADO, Zsa Zsa Gallery, Toronto, Ontario |
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1999 |
Don't take your guns to town |
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick |
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1999 |
For Nunavut |
White Mountain Academy of Art, Elliot Lake, Ontario |
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1997 |
Interview with the Ghost of Luna |
Apocolypso, Banff residency, Banff, Alberta |
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1997 |
Lecture: In the Wild Garden |
Apocolypso, Banff Residency, Banff Alberta |
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1997 |
For Dudley |
7a*11d Performance Art Festival, Toronto, Ontario |
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1996 |
Ayumee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother |
Borrowed by the Assembly of First Nations on First Nation's Day in protest of First Ministers conference, Ottawa, Ontario |
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1995 |
Tourist Act #1 |
Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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1995 |
From the Same Earth, |
Longing and Belonging: From the Faraway Nearby, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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1994 |
Affiliation/Affliction (with Reona Brass) |
Recontre internationale d'art performance de Quebec, Le Lieu, Quebec |
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1993 |
I am not a Fucking Squaw! |
Student Graduation Banquet, Sioux Lookout, Ontario |
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1993 |
Are We Violent? |
Sioux Lookout Anti-Racism Committee, Sioux Lookout, Ontario |
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1993 |
Nah-doe-tah-moe-win: Means an Object that You Listen To |
Niagara Artists' Centre, Saint Catherines, Ontario |
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1992 |
Ayumee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother |
Solo Canadian Tour |
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1991 |
August 29, 1990 |
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta |
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1991 |
Creation or Death: We Will Win |
IV Bienal de la Habana, Havana, Cuba |
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1990 |
A Painting, A talk, A Ritual |
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario |
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1990 |
August 29, 1990 |
1990 Premiere biennale d'art actuel de Quebec, Quebec City, Quebec |
