16 Facts About Lauren Crazybull

Lauren Crazybull is an Edmonton-based Blackfoot Dene visual artist and Alberta's first provincial Artist in Residence.

Lauren Crazybull is increasingly known for her colourful and attention grabbing portraits that can be seen in galleries and murals around Western Canada.

Lauren Crazybull's art has become a process and expression that demands for justice and brings to light colonial oppression.

Lauren Crazybull uses her platform to tell her story and highlights the destructive actions of Canada and how this has affected her family and other Indigenous peoples.

Four years before committing to her full time career in visual art, Lauren Crazybull worked at a broadcasting radio discussing Indigenous oppression and the radicalized struggles Indigenous peoples must face.

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Lauren Crazybull focuses on portraits of contemporary young Indigenous people.

In 2019, Lauren Crazybull prepared a solo exhibition at The Aviary in Edmonton as well as an exhibition called The Future All At Once, in Edmonton's McMullen Gallery.

Lauren Crazybull uses her art as an outlet for expression, activism, and advocacy, for Indigenous peoples of Canada.

Lauren Crazybull tries to imagine a world without colonialism in her art and life.

Lauren Crazybull sees art as a chance to control her own narrative and future.

Lauren Crazybull's work is often inspired by her family, Indigenous background, and experiences she witnesses around the oppression of her people.

In C Magazine, Lauren Crazybull talks about her inspiration in a piece she made with Faye HeavyShield called “Gather”, she describes how she “took these unpeopled, solitary photos of the land in Blackfoot Territory, then I looked at images of past gatherings that were important to me, like of my family's annual justice walk for my late aunt Jackie Lauren Crazybull, and of the time me and my siblings went to Nose Hill Park to learn why it was an important Blackfoot landmark”.

Lauren Crazybull uses inspiration from all things around her to create meaning in her work.

In 2019, Lauren Crazybull was appointed Alberta's first provincial Artist in Residence.

Lauren Crazybull compiled personal stories and experiences from Indigenous artists and other residents of the Blackfoot Confederacy to use in her Indigenous art map of Alberta.

Lauren Crazybull expresses how she decided to accept the grant money from the Alberta government to reclaim what she had lost as an Indigenous child who spent most of her young life in the welfare system.