Education
Native Cultural Arts Instructor Certificate, Portage College, Lac La Biche, CAN, 2012.
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, CAN, 2010.
Solo Exhibitions
2014 kayas-ago, Art Gallery of Alberta: RBC New Works Gallery, Edmonton, CAN.
2011 Beyond..., Stride Gallery Project Room, Calgary, CAN.
Select Group Exhibitions
2015 Wayfinders, TREX, Art Gallery of Alberta, Travelling exhibition: various locations across Alberta 2015-2017.
2014 Deadly Lady Art Triumvirate, Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, CAN.
2013 Sidewalk Screenings, Whippersnapper Gallery, Toronto, CAN.
2013 Ramble in the Bramble, Edmonton Arts Council: Transitory Public Art Project, Edmonton, CAN.
2013 Gashka’oode: Tangled, Forest City Gallery, London, CAN.
2012 Indigeneity, Feature Exhibit: The Works Festival, Edmonton, CAN.
2012 Emnowaangosjig || Coming Out: The Shifting and Multiple Self, Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto, CAN.
2011 Ancestral Teachings: Contemporary Perspectives, Gladstone Hotel/Thunderbird Aboriginal Arts, Culture and Entrepreneur Centre, Toronto, CAN.
2010 8 x 8, Gallery 371, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, CAN.
2009 Regalia in Print, One Blue Wall, Art Central, Calgary, CAN.
2009 3>2, Gallery 371, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, CAN.
2009 Factory Party #4, The Uptown Theatre and Marquee Room, Calgary, CAN.
2007 Earth, Gallery 371, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, CAN.
Performances
2014 Ravel, Exhibiting the Archive/Performing the Archive, FOFA Gallery at Concordia University, Montreal, CAN
2014 Confederation, The Portal Series, Art in the Open Festival, Charlottetown, CAN.
2013 The Portal Series, Gashka’oode: Tangled, Forest City Gallery, London, CAN.
2013 A Woman Having Her Moontime and This Bannock That She Made For You, The Resolute Parka, Banff, CAN.
2012 My Moral Compass (niso), M:ST Performance Art Festival, Calgary, CAN.
2012 My Moral Compass, Emnowaangosjig || Coming Out: The Shifting and Multiple Self, Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto, CAN.
2011 Modicum Divine, Visualeyez Performance Art Festival 2011: Worship + Ritual, Edmonton, CAN.
2011 Modicum Divine, Art City: Festival, Calgary, CAN.
2011 Free Indigenous Mohawks, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA.
2009 Regalia, ArtWEAR 2009, Art Gallery of Calgary, CAN.
2009 Requiem, ArtaWEARness IIX, Alberta College of Art + Design’s Main Mall, Calgary, CAN.
2008 More Human Than Human, ArtaWEARness IX, Alberta College of Art + Design’s Main Mall, Calgary, CAN.
Collaborations
2014 As If, Kings ARI, Melbourne, AUS. (as Neon Kohkom, collaboration with Jordan Bennett, group exhibition)
2014 Horseback or Foot: Flattened and Confused, Project Space Gallery, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, AUS. (Neon Kohkom)
2013 A Glimpse into the World of Neon Kohkom, SNAP Community Gallery, Edmonton, CAN. (Neon Kohkom)
2011 Contrary Projects in Venice: An Aboriginal Art Intervention at the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. (collaboration with Newo, group exhibition)
2010 Pioneer Whiskey, Marion Nicoll Gallery LRT space, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, CAN. (collaboration with Sarah Van Sloten)
Residencies
International Artist in Residence, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Indigenous Artist exchange with University of Lethbridge, Melbourne, AUS, March - May 2014 (6 weeks).
Artist in Residence: Deadly Lady Art Triumvirate, Contemporary Calgary, CAN, January 2014 (2 weeks).
North West River Artist in Residence, Grenfell Campus Fine Arts/Memorial University at the Labrador Research Institute, CAN, November- December 2013 (2 weeks).
The Woodland School - What Colour is the present?, The Banff Centre, Banff, CAN, January - February 2013 (7 weeks).
Emerging Indigenous Voices, Kua'aina Associates, San Francisco State University, USA, July 2011 (2 weeks).
Revolution 2012, The Banff Centre, Banff, CAN, January - February 2011 (7 weeks).
Bibliography
Agnieszka Matejko, “A Glimpse into the World of Neon Kohkom”, Vue Weekly, June 19, 2013. (review)
Sarah Sense, Weaving the Americas: A Search For Native Art in the Western Hemisphere. Rocklin: Pascoe Publishing, Inc, 2012. p. 22-23.
Shauna Thompson, “Beyond...”, Stride Gallery Catalogue 2011-2012, p. 56 - 59. (catalogue)
R.M. Vaughan, “From Dusty Death to Snowy Rebirth,” The Globe and Mail, November 25, 2011. (review)
Awards & Grants
2014 Visual Arts + New Media Project Grant, Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
2013 Aboriginal Traditional Visual Art Forms, Production Grant, Canada Council for the Arts.
2012 Portage College Métis Student Award, Métis Nation of Alberta.
2011 Norval Morrisseau Fine Arts Award, National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation.
2011 Alberta Creative Development Initiative, Production Grant, Canada Council for the Arts.
2008 Fine Arts Award, National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation.
2008 Belcourt Brosseau Métis Award, Edmonton Community Foundation.
2007 Belcourt Brosseau Métis Award, Edmonton Community Foundation.
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