Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art  
Rebecca Belmore

Born March 22, 1960, Upsala, Ontario, Canada

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2003          The Named and The Unnamed, Art Gallery of Ontario
                 Pari Nadimi Gallery
                 33 pieces, Small Town Girl and a Dream about Peace, performance
                 Definitely Superior, Thunder Bay
                 33 pieces, WKP Gallery, Capital Centre, North Bay
                 33 pieces, Parry Sound Station Gallery, Parry Sound2002
                 Rebecca Belmore, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, installations
                 33 pieces Dunlop Gallery, Regina, Saskatchwan
                 Crimes of Passion in Paradise and Beyond, Centre for Caribbean Contemporary Art
                 Port of Spain, Trinidad, performance
2001          33 pieces, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Ontario, installation
                 Private Collection, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
                 Reservoir, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, BC, performance
2000          The Indian Factory (performance/installation) Tribe/AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatoon
                 on this ground (installation), Rhode Island Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island
1999          Many/One,(installation) Galerie Optica, Montreal, Quebec
                 Dreamers (installation) Keyano College Art Gallery, Fort McMurray, Alberta
                 Don_t take your guns to town (performance), University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick
1998          Untitled, Sacred Circle Gallery, Seattle, Washington1996
                 Ayumee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother ((gathering/ performance),
                 Assembly of First Nations, Ottawa, Ontario
1995          Tourist Act # 1(performance) Institute of American Indian Art Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1993          Wana-na-wang-ong (installation), Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
                 Nah-doe-tah-moe-win: Means an Object that You Listen To (performance/installation)
                 Saw Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
                 Nah-doe-tah-moe-win: Means an Object that You Listen To. (performance/installation),
                 Niagara Artists’ Center, Saint Catherines , Ontario
1992          Ayumee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother(gathering/performance), national tour
1988          Artifact 671B, Thunder Bay, Ontario, performance in support of Lubicon Cree boycott
                 of Olympic Flame

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2003          Mississauga Art Gallery, Mississauga, Ontario, photographs
2002          Far Horizon, Vancouver Art Gallery, BC,site-specific installation: to a faraway place
                 Permeable Borders, Wave Hill, Glyndor Gallery, Bronx, NY., installation: superpower
                 Talking Stick Aboriginal Arts Festival, Full Circle, Vancouver, BC, performance: Vigil2000
                 I, Witness, Edmonton Art Gallery Edmonton, Alberta, installations, Many/One, in memory
                 High Tech Storytellers, Interdisciplinary Arts Festival, TRIBE/AKA, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,The Indian Factory
                 Material Culture, Paris Gibson Square Museum, Great Falls, Montana, installation: Many/One, performance:
                 Bury My Heart
1999          Time Time Time, FADO, Toronto, Ontario, performance, manifesto
1998          Sydney Biennal, Sydney, Australia, installation, Paradise
                 Canadian Performance Art Tour, Germany, performances (various)
1997          The Red River Crossing, The Swiss Art Institute, New York, New York, installation, Us. With a Landscape.
                 7a-11d Performance Festival, Toronto, Ontario, performance, for Dudley
                 InSite 97, San Diego, California, installation, Awasinake: On the Other Side
1996          Liaisons, The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario, installation, Temple
                 Metissages, Galerie Optica, Montreal, Quebec, installation (with Florene Belmore), Imposition
1995          Longing and Belonging: From the Faraway Nearby, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
                 installation, New Wilderness, performance, From the Same Earth
1994          Affiliation/affliction, Recontre internationale d_art performance de Quebec, Le Lieu, Quebec,
                  performance (with Reona Brass),
                 6th Native American Fine Arts Invitational The Heard Museum, Pheonix, Arizona, installation, a blanket for "sarah"
                 Faret Tachikawa Art Project, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, permanent public installation: I wait for the sun
                 History 101: The Re-Search for Family, Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri installation: X mark
1993          Marginsofmemory, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, sculpture, Rising to the Occasion
                 Stand, Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania, Shifting the North Line: 16 Pictures
1992          Land Spirit Power, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, installation,
                 Mawu-che-hitoowin: A Gathering of People for Any Purpose
                 Indian Princesses and Cowgirls: Stereotypes from the Frontier, Oboro, Montreal, Quebec performance:
                 Road Trip West
                 Bienal de la Habana, Habana, Cuba, performance: Untitled
1991          Between Views, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, gathering/performance,
                 Ayumee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother
                 Interrogating Identity, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York sculptures, Rising to the Occasion
                 Okanata, A Space, Tornto, Ontario, August 29, 1990
                 A likeness, Agnes Etherington Art Center, Kingstone, Ontario, An Introspective
1990          Biennale d_art de actuel, Quebec, Quebec, performance, August 29, 1990
                 Multi-Media Workes: A Native Perspective, AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,Nah-tah moe-win:
                 Means an Object That You Listen To
                 Telling Things, Art Metropole, Tornto, Ontario, Nah-doe-tah-moe-win: Means an Object That You Listen To
                 Young Contemporaries 90, London Regional Art Gallery, Ontario, Nah-doe-tah-moe-win:
                 Means an Object That You Listen To, Ihkwewak Kayamihwat: Means Women Who Are Speaking )

SELECTED TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2003          Shelley Niro, Rebecca Belmore, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
                 various installations
                 Bentley Spang, Rebecca Belmore,, Fado, Toronto Ontario, performance, untitled

SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

2002          Sarah Milroy, Trauma and triumph, The Globe and Mail (Saturday, October 8, 2002)
                 Robin Laurence, The Art of Rebecca Belmore, BorderCrossings, (Voume 21 number 3, Issue No.83, spring 2002
                 Laurence, Robin, Racing Against History: the Art of Rebecca Belmore,"BorderCrossings,
                 Issue no. 83, 2002, p.42-48.
2001          Fischer, Barbara, and Dot Tuer "33 pieces", Mississauga: Blackwood Gallery, UTM, exhibition catalogue , 2001
                 Sarah Milroy, At home on the Grange, The Globe and Mail (Saturday, September 15, 2001)
2000          Newlands, Anne, Canadian Art from Its Beginnings to 2000, Willowdale, Ont: Firefly Books, 2000,p.36.
                 Material Culture: Innovation in Native Art, exhibition catalogue, Great Falls, MT,2000,PP.7-13
                 "On this Ground" Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island,
                 June 30-October 8, 2000.
                 P.1-4 Newlands, Anne, "Canadian Art From its Beginnings to 2000, "(Willowdale , ON: Firefly Books, 2000) P. 36
1999          Burgess Marilyn, "The Imagined Geographies of Rebecca Belmore’"Parachute 93 (Jan, Feb,Mar 1999)
                 Ryan Allan J.,The Trickster Shift: Humour Irony in Contemporary Native Art, Vancouver:
                 UBC Press, 1999,PP. 43-45,64
1998          Tuer, Dot, " At the Gates," Canadian Art ( Spring 1998)P. 72-78
1996          Fleming, Kathleen, "Longing and Belonging: From the Faraway Nearby", Parachute 82 (April, May, June 1996)
                 Temple, Power Plant Exhibition Catalogue, 1996
                 "Temple"-The Power Plant exhibition catalogue Ca (1996) from exhibiton "Liaisons"
                 Red River Crossings Contemporary Native American Artists respond to Peter Rindisbachter (1806+834)
                 P. 36-39 (1996)
1995          Mitchell, Charles Dee, "Introducing SITE Santa Fe", Art in America, (October, 1995)
                 "Longing Belonging: from the Faraway Nearby", Site Santa Fe exhibition catalogue 1995 P. 8,9, 138
                 Valaskakis, Gail Guterie and Marilyn Burgess, Indian Princess and Cowgirls: Stereotypes from the Rronter
                 (Montreal, QC:OBORO, 1995 Fivesisters Bookwork
1994          Laurence, Robin, Rebecca Belmore:Wana-na-wang-ong_, Canadian Art (Spring 1994 Townsend-Gault, Charlotte,
                 "Rebecca Belmore," Parachute 74 (April, May, June 1994)
                 Baret, Renee, "Margines of Memory, Rebecca Belmore, Marlene Creates, Sarinaar Dhaliwal, Wyn Geleynse,
                 Jan Peacock, Jin –Me Yoon, Sharyn Yuen ( Windsor, , ON: Art Gallery of Windsor, 1994
1993          Rushing, W. Jackson, "Contingent Histories, Aesthetic Politics", New Art Examiner (March 1993)
                 Sharman, L, "Making Art in the State of Texas", Fuse, Volume 51
                 Tourbin, Dennis, "Visual Cadence", Artscraft, Volume 1 No 4
                 Townsend-Gualt, Charlotte, "Having Voices and Using Them", Arts Magazine (February 1991)
                 Townsend-Gualt, Charlotte, "Rebecca Belmore" Parachute 74 (April, May, June 1994)
                 Watson, Scott, "Whose Nation?", Canadian Art (Spring 1993)
                 Weiss, Rachel, "Interrogating Identity", High Performance No. 56 (1991)
                 Wana-na wang-ong: Rebecca Belmore; Poetry by Florene Belmore, essay by Lee-An Martin
                 (Vancouver, BC: Contemporary Art Gallery), 1993.
1992          Phillips, Ruth, "Woodlands Indian Souvenir Art as Visual Text", Reinventing Iconology in the Post-Colonial Age",
                 Texts 8 (summer 1992)
                 Nemiroff, Dina Robert Houle and Charlotte Townsend-Gault, "Land Spirit, Power" First Nations at
                 The National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Ontario; National Gallery of Canada, 1992) P. 114-119.
                 Riddle, Mason, "Rebecca Belmore", High Performance is (Winter 1992) P. 24-25
1991          Podedworny, Carol, "Okanata", C Magazine, No. 32 (Fall 1991)
                 Belmore, Rebecca, _Autonomous Aboriginal High-tech Teepee Trauma Mama", Canadian Theatre Review,
                 No. 58 (Fall 1991) Weiss, Rachel, "Interrogating Identity", High Performance No. 56 (1991)
                 Young Man, Alfred, "The Savage Civilian and the Work of Rebecca Belmore", In Daina Augaitis and Sylvie Gilbert,
                 eds., Between Views (Banff, Alberta: Walter Phillips Gallery, 1991)PP.37-39. Townsend-GaulT, Charlotte,
                 "Having voices and using them", Arts Magazines (Feb. 1991) P. 65-70.
1990          Lacey, Liam, "Native artist puts new spin on the western", The Globe and Mail, (September 22, 1990)
                 ‘A New Century’ for city and public art: Faret Tachikawa Art Project, "I wait for the sun", P. 82, 205

RESIDENCIES

2002          Belkin Satellite, Vancouver, BC
                 The Caribbean Contemporary Arts Centre, Trinidad, performance: Crimes of Passion in Paradise and Beyond
1997          Apocalypso, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB, Faculty