Tania Willard was born on 1977 and is an Indigenous Canadian multidisciplinary artist, graphic designer, and curator, known for mixing traditional Indigenous arts practices with contemporary ideas.
10 Facts About Tania Willard
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Tania Willard was the co-curator for the art exhibition, Beat Nation: Art Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture, which toured in major galleries across Canada.
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Tania Willard was born in 1977 and grew up in Armstrong, British Columbia, as well as back and forth to her father's Indian reserve.
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Tania Willard is an artist, graphic designer, and curator who focuses on mixing traditional Indigenous arts practices with contemporary ideas, often working with bodies of knowledge and skills that are conceptually linked to her interest in intersections between Aboriginal and other cultures.
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Tania Willard makes public art, including a collaborative community mural with the artist Guillermo Aranda and the Secwepemc Native Youth Network entitled Neskonlith Mural, in 2013.
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Tania Willard is a member of the artist collective New BC Indian Art and Welfare Society.
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From 2013 to 2015, Tania Willard was the Aboriginal Curator in Residence at the Kamloops Art Gallery.
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Tania Willard is the recipient of the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Awards for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art.
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In 2017 Tania Willard had a solo exhibition at the Burnaby Art Gallery entitled dissimulation.
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Tania Willard curated the exhibition project Beat Nation, which started as an online project for grunt gallery.