1. Rebecca Belmore is Ojibwe and a member of Obishikokaang.
19 Facts About Rebecca Belmore
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Rebecca Belmore's work focuses on issues of place and identity, and confronts challenges for First Nations People.
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Rebecca Belmore's work, be it sculpture, video, or photographic in nature, is performance-based.
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Rebecca Belmore's art reveals a long-standing commitment to politics and how they relate to the construction of identity and ideas of representation.
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Rebecca Belmore has exhibited across Canada, the US, Mexico, Cuba and Australia.
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Rebecca Belmore was born on March 22,1960, in Upsala, Ontario, Canada.
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Until the age of 16, Rebecca Belmore spent her summers in Northwestern Ontario with her grandparents.
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Rebecca Belmore's mother was born on a small island in Northern Ontario and her journey to visit her mother's birthplace has had a significant impact on her work.
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Rebecca Belmore has presented work in biennial exhibitions throughout her career.
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Rebecca Belmore has twice represented Canada at the Sydney Biennale; in 1998 in the exhibition Every Day, and in 2006 in the exhibition Zones of Contact.
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Rebecca Belmore has had two major solo touring exhibitions, The Named and the Unnamed, a multi-part installation that commemorates women missing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver ; and 33 Pieces, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississauga.
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In 2014, Rebecca Belmore was commissioned to create an original work for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights The work consists of a blanket of hand pressed clay beads, engaging the community in Winnipeg to help produce them.
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In 2017, Rebecca Belmore's work was exhibited at documenta 14 in Athens, Greece and in Kassel, Germany.
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In 2018, the Art Gallery of Ontario staged a touring retrospective of Rebecca Belmore's work, Facing the Monumental.
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Rebecca Belmore participated in the 2022 Whitney Biennial in New York.
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Rebecca Belmore has been awarded membership in the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
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In 2004, Rebecca Belmore completed a residency with MAWA in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Rebecca Belmore is a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, as well as the recipient of the 2016 Gershon Iskowitz Prize and an honorary doctorate from Emily Carr University in 2018.
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In 2024 Rebecca Belmore was the recipient of the Audain Prize for the Visual Arts.