Morgan Wood (born in southern Saskatchewan) is a curator and artist who is Stony Mountain
Cree
The Cree ( cr, néhinaw, script=Latn, , etc.; french: link=no, Cri) are a Indigenous peoples of the Americas, North American Indigenous people. They live primarily in Canada, where they form one of the country's largest First Nations in Canada ...
. Her family is from the Michel Callihou Band in
Alberta and her great-grandmother was
Victoria Callihou. Wood received a Bachelor of Indian Art from the
First Nations University of Canada, at the
University of Regina in Regina, Saskatchewan.
In 2003, Wood participated in the Aboriginal Curatorial Residency at the
Mendel Art Gallery
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in
Saskatoon. During that time, she wrote ''Wildfire on the Plains: Contemporary Saskatchewan Art''.
She was a member of the Saskatchewan Aboriginal Museum Advisory Board for the
Saskatchewan Museum Association.
Work
"Here and Now" was an exhibition at the
Dunlop Art Gallery
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, in Regina in 1999 that brought together contemporary Aboriginal art work from the southern half of Saskatchewan. Wood created "Exxxposed: Aesthetics of Aboriginal Erotic Art" with the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina in1999.
Her art piece, "Hands Off My Genes" (1997), was on display at the MacKenzie Art Gallery. It is a sculpture made of a pair of found blue jeans in the
surrealist and
dadaist style. The jeans have been left open to resemble a woman's legs and abdomen, equipped with protruding porcupine quills in white and blue. Wood referred to porcupine quills in another work titled "Love & Sex" (1995).
Her work was included in an exhibit curated by Leah Taylor titled "Towards Action" at the
Kenderdine Art Gallery
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in 2017 alongside the works of
Allyson Clay
Allyson Clay (born 1953) is a Canadian visual artist, curator, and educator based in Vancouver, B.C.
Life
Clay was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. in 1953, and spent much of her childhood and adolescence in Italy. She obtained a B.F.A. ...
,
Marcel Dzama
Marcel Dzama (born May 4, 1974) is a contemporary artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada who currently lives and works in New York City. His work has been exhibited internationally, in particular his ink and watercolor drawings.
Education
Dzama r ...
,
Angela Grossmann
Angela Grossmann (born 1955) is a Canadian artist, known for her oil paintings and mixed media collages. Her works range from simplistic drawings to rendering of the human body by layering torn and manipulated photos of body parts.
Early life a ...
,
Istvan Kantor, Alastair Mackie,
Jane Ash Poitras
Jane Ash Poitras LL. D. D.Litt (born 1951) is a Cree painter and printmaker from Canada. Her work uses the idioms of mainstream art to express the experience of Aboriginal people in Canada.
Life
Jane Ash Poitras was born in Fort Chipewyan Alber ...
and John Scott.
Writing
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*Wild fire on the plains : contemporary Saskatchewan art : Anthony Deiter, David Garneau, Cheryl L'hirondelle-Waynohtêw, Neal McLeod.
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References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Artists from Saskatchewan
Canadian women artists
University of Regina alumni
First Nations women artists
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