Niibowa Gegoon Ozhii’on
August 5 akoo September 24, 2022
Sonya Kelliher-Combs (Anchorage, Alaska)
Maureen Gruben (Tuktoyaktuk, NT)
Sissel M. Bergh (Trondheim, Norway)
Gaa-niigaaniid: Taqralik Partridge (Ottawa)
Gaa-bekinaageg:
Friday, August 5, 2022. Apii 5pm-10pm
Omazinichige Giigidod: TBA
Apii azheshkaag nibi, gegoon gii-waabanjigaadesinog waabanjigaade. Giishin dash ginwezh azheshkaasinog, giishpin gaye bezhigwanong ginwezh niibwiyang ji-naagadawaabandamangwaa asiniig, gaa-nibiikaagin, gaa-nitaawigigin, bemaadakin, maagizhaa bebakaanadoon, naasaababoon gaye.
Ge-waabanda’iwen Alakkaajut (Many Things Appear) odoozhichiganiwaan omazinichigeg Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Sissel M. Bergh zhigwa Maureen Gruben, gagaana ningowaki gii-ozhichigaadewan.Ono ozhichiganan oko -waaband’iwem, gaagiitwaam gii-ozhichigaadewan – gaawiin naanaasaabasinoon, neningodwewaan naasaabasigin. Alakkaajut wiin, gidaa-gagwedwemin aaniin enendaagwak ikidowin, inendamowin, mamaajiiwin gaagiitwaami-doojigaadeg.
Omazinichige Aawiwinan
Iñupiaq zhigwa Athabaska onji omazinichige Sonya Kelliher-Combs Bethel gii-dazhi-nitaawigi, Alaska, 1969 gaa-akiiwang zhigwa gii-dazhi-nitaawgi’aa Nome.Odayaan BFA onji University of Alaska Fairbanks and an MFA onji Arizona State University, Tempe. Mii imaa enwaadang aandi ningoji, odaanaang onji, izhitwaawin zhigwa enawenged.Kelliher Combs gii-maamiinaa bebakaan nanaakongewinan dago gaye Eiteljorg Museum Fellowship, the Anchorage, Alaska, Mayor’s Individual Artist Award, the Arctic Education Foundation Academic Excellence Award zhigwa Best of Show honour imaa Visual Arts Center of Alaska’s Vision of New Eyes exhibition. Gidaa-waabandamawaa odoozhichiganan bebakaan gaa-waabanda’iweng daabishkoo National Museum of the American Indian, the Anchorage Museum, the Eiteljorg Museum, the British Royal Museum, the Institute of American Indian Art, the Museum of Contemporary Native Art zhigwa Alaska State Museum.
Inuvialuk omazinichige Maureen Gruben oganawaabandaan gegoo naniskonang giitwaami-ozhichigaadang nanaandok gegoon bebikish. Waabishki-makowayaan, gichi-giigoo onagizhiin, askiig bimiden, bebakaan gashkiwepizonan, mii o’o aanikeseg bemaadak giiwedinong, miziwekamig waawiijiiweseg zhigwa naagajichigaaedeg meshkwajiseg izhitwaawinan.Odayaan Gruben BFA onji University of Victoria, gii-nitaa-waabanda’iwem miziwe Canada zhigwa miziwekamig.Gii-onasaa ji-nanaakomindiban 2019 Aesthetica Art Prize zhigwa 2021 Sobey Art Award, zhigwa odoozhichiganan daa-waabanjigaadeniwan miziwe i’i dinookaan gegoo gaa-waabanda’iweng.Tuktoyaktuk gii-dazhi-nitaawigid, gii-dazh-ombigid, onagazaabandaan Arctic aki, zhigwa nanaandok gegoon ge-aabajichigaadegin ji-ondaadizing, ji-onji-ozhichigaadeg gegoo gaye.
1974 gii-nitaawigi, Sissel M. Bergh gii-gikenjige onji National Academy of Fine Arts imaa Oslo zhigwa University of Technology imaa Durban, South Africa dazhi. Gii-ayaa, gii-anokii gaye Lusaka, Zambia megwaa ayaamagak Trondheim, Norway.Bergh odoozhichigan noonde-waabanda’iwe odaanaang South Sámi gaa-gaasiiseg ji-waabanjigaadenig miinawaa.Bergh odaabajitoonan mazinaatebijigan, gegoowan, zhazhoobiigan, mazinibii’igan gaye ji-andooshkigaadeg aki, mamikawiwin, gashki’ewiziwin zhigwa memaandaawisegin. Gii-waabanda’iwe Bergh odozhichiganan miziwekamig, abooshke Kunsthall Trondheim, Sámi Dáiddáguovdas, the Biennale of Sidney and the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art.
Urban Shaman: Contemporary Aboriginal Art Gallery onanaakomaawaa’ gaa-wiiji’igowaad daabida, gaa-wiijichigemaawaad, gechiwaag onji awiya’ zhigwa gakina gaa-inawemangidwaa. NCI FM, Wawanesa Insurance, Winnipeg Foundation, Manitoba Heritage, the Winnipeg Arts Council, the Manitoba Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Ottawa, the Government of Canada, the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Nordic Council of Ministers, the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ottawa, the Ottawa Community Foundation and the Ottawa Art Society, SAW Gallery/the Nordic Lab. ~Miigwetch/ Hai Hai/ Ekosi / Merci/ Miigwech