Joi T Arcand hand picks the best of Ottawa for the Globe and Mail’s City Confidential feature

Robert Houle’s career spanning touring exhibition, Red is Beautiful, opens at Contemporary Calgary.

Maura Doyle’s exhibition ‘Dear Universe’ spans two decades of artworks made outside the context of the gallery space.

Robert Houle and Wanda Nanibush in conversation on key works of Houle’s exhibition, Red is Beautiful at Contemporary Calgary.

Kosisochukwu Nnebe included in Descendance at SPAO Gallery, co-curated by Myriam Farah Cobb and Darren Pottie.

Kosisochukwu Nnebe’s artist project ‘an inheritance’ with text by Nya Lewis featured in C Magazine.

Camille Turner wins the Artist Prize at the Toronto Biennial of Art, recognizing an artist’s outstanding contribution to the Biennial.

Big Deals - A small Ottawa gallery is helping move contemporary Indigenous art into major national Institutions.

Camille Turner’s video Nave, an original commissioned project for the Toronto Biennial of Art.

In Uncommon Sense, Craig Leonard argues for the contemporary relevance of the aesthetic theory of Herbert Marcuse.

Michael Belmore & Frank Shebageget in wāwīndamaw – promise: Indigenous Art and Colonial Treaties in Canada, at Nordamerika Native Museum (NONAM), Zurich.

Michael Belmore will participate in Exploring Black and Indigenous Futurisms 2022 Edition: Rock as Witness alongside Quentin VerCetty, Dr. Karyn Recollet and Dr. Audrey Hudson.

Video describing Team Rapoport’s shortlisted design for the Global Affairs Canada Commemorative Artwork.

Team Rapoport’s artwork The Eddy is short listed for a commemorative artwork that honours fallen Canadian foreign service workers. Inspired by the Global Affairs Canada site alongside the Rideau River.

Robert Houle: Red is Beautiful is a career spanning retrospective consisting of over 90 large installations, paintings and drawings created between 1970 & 2021. This exhibition shows iconic works, such as Kanata, a reworking of Benjamin West's The Death of General Wolfe, and Parfleches for the Last Supper, addressing his respect for Indigenous spiritual traditions

Robert Houle and Faye Heavyshield with Barry Ace in conversation about Red is Beautiful, presented as part of aabaakwad 2021.

Central Art Garage to participate in Art Toronto 2021 with artists Barry Ace, Joi, T Arcand, Michael Belmore, D’Andrea Bowie, Camal and Camille, Maura Doyle, Adrian Göllner, Craig Leonard, Bozica Radjenovic, and Frank Shebageget.

Michael Belmore’s installation will incorporate natural objects and elements. Much like his previous works, in this installation he will reflect upon his own identity as an Anishinaabe.

Mackenzie Studio Sunday: Michael’ Belmore’s artwork often looks at the “in-between” places. Copper can represent the space between the land and sky, the connection between water and fire, and the connection between spirits and the Earth.

Artist Michael Belmore has been selected to create the public art piece for The Nogojiwanong Project. Nogojiwanong is an Anishinaabe word meaning “place at the foot of the rapids,” is the name given to the gathering place at the bottom of a turbulent stretch of the Otonabee River, which would later become Peterborough.