EDUCATION
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
AWARDS
COLLECTIONS
RELEVANT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
Landmarks2017 was a Canada 150 Fund Signature Projects. Funded by the Government of Canada. Major Partners included; Partners in Art, Parks Canada, and TDBank. Landmarks2017 involved 100 art projects, 12 leading art projects, 16 universities 20 national parks, and historic sites. As one of the lead artists, Michael worked with three national parks, and several settler and First Nations communities. A large component of this project comprised of outreach to students at both the university and elementary levels.
The Nigig Visiting Artist Residency, hosted by the Indigenous Visual Culture Program at OCAD University, was a program that in 2015 provided Michael an opportunity to visit OCAD University for 3 weeks to focus on a short-term project and explore, in a collaborative environment, issues impacting his work. This offered an opportunity to engage and interact with students and faculty in the capacity of mentorship, critique, lecture, and a public workshop/demonstration. The Nigig Visiting Artist Residency supports the dynamism located in Indigenous contemporary art practice and is a tremendous educational opportunity for the artist and students.
MISHI, The History of Indigenous Peoples (HIP) Network, is based at York University and housed in the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, and the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation (OCF), located on Manitoulin Island, hosted a Manitoulin Island Summer Historical Institute (MISHI), in 2017. MISHI is an annual event in Anishinaabe history that brings together students, teachers, knowledge-holders, and other researchers for a week-long summer institute on Manitoulin Island. Michael was invited to share his knowledge and insights and give the gatherings closing remarks.
EDUCATION
2017-2019 MFA, University of Ottawa
1990-1994 AOCA, Ontario College of Art, Sculpture/Installation.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 TBA, Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada
2023 Ninaaseg, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Saugatuck, Michigan, United States
2020 (Bel)more, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2020 Cascade, Toronto Sculpture Garden – Nuit Blanche 2020, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2018 Somewhere Between Two States of Matter, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
2018 thunder sky turbulent water, Central Art Garage, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2017 Aashagan, Ojibway Cultural Foundation, M’Chigeeng, Ontario, Canada
2017 mskwi = blood, Karsh-Masson Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2016 fenda, Nogueira da Silva Museum, Braga, Portugal
2015 Michael Belmore, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technologies Project Space Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2013 Toil, Woodstock Art Gallery, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada
2010 Overland, Karsh-Masson Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2009 Embankment, Station Gallery, Whitby, Ontario, Canada
2006 Downstream, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada
2005 Stream, Rails End Gallery, Haliburton, Ontario, Canada
2002 Vantage Point, Sacred Circle Gallery of American Indian Art, Seattle, Washington, United States
2001 fly by wire, AKA Artist Run Centre/Tribe, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
1996 Reformation, Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Triennale Banlieue, Maison des Arts de Laval, Laval, Québec
2022 Wayekwaajiwan – Watershed, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
2022 wāwīndamaw – promise: Indigenous Art and Colonial Treaties in Canada, North American Native Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
2020 offering, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
2019 Echoing the Land, Indigenous Art Centre Gallery, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, Gatineau, Québec, Canada
2019 Ways of Being: Yhonnie Scarce & Michael Belmore, Museum of London, London, Ontario, Canada
2019 Michael Belmore – Édfice, Axenéo7, Gatineau, Québec, Canada
2019 Sense of Site, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2019 RE:Defined, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, United States
2018 Nkweshkdaadiimgak Minwaa Bakeziibiisan | Confluences and Tributaries: Michael Belmore and A.J. Casson, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2017 Landmarks2017/Repères2017, Canada’s National Parks – Wapusk, The Forks, Riding Mountain, Grasslands, Manitoba, Canada
2017 Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2017 Landfall and Departure: Prologue, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
2017 It’s Complicated, Central Art Garage, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2016 Boundless, Definitely Superior Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
2015 Into the Woods: Two Icons Revisited, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2015 Rocks, Stones and Dust, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2015 N2N: Widening the Narrrows, Orillia Museum of Art & History, Orillia, Ontario, Canada
2015 Eco-Indian, Wanuskewin, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
2014 Land, Art, Horizons, North American Native Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
2014 Reading the Talk, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
2014 The Bonnie Blink Project, Centennial Museum, Sheguiandah, Ontario, Canada
2013-14 Before and After the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes, National Museum of the American Indian – George Gustav Heye Center, Smithsonian Institution, New York, New York, United States; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2012 Shapeshifting: Tranformations in Native American Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, United States
2012 Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3, Museum of Arts & Design, New York, New York, United States
2012 Material Wealth: Revealing Landscape, South Vitrines at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2011 Oh Canada!… beyond trees and water, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
2011 Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years, International Exhibition of Contemporary Indigenous Art, 109 Pacific Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2010 HIDE: Skin as Material and Metaphor, National Museum of the American Indian – George Gustav Heye Centre, Smithsonian Institution, New York, New York, United States
2010 Ice Follies, WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, Ontario, Canada
2010 Warm Ice, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
2008 Scout’s Honour, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada; Urban Shaman Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Museum London, London, Ontario; Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Institute of the American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
2007 Terra Incognita, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
2007 What is Place, Tree Museum, Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada
2005 Cornerstone, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2004 The Three Rivers…wild waters, sacred places, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada; Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada; Maltwood Art Museum & Gallery, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada; Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada; Whyte Museum & Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada
2004 Dreaming Earth & Sky, Odd Gallery, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada
2001 Hilando Fino, Aspace, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2001 Pool, York Quay Gallery, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2000 Beaver Tales, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
1997 staking Land claims, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada
1994 Naked State – a selected view of Toronto art, The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
2022 Gathering, Nogojiwanong – the Place at the Foot of the Rapids, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
2020 A Gathering, Concord Adex Investments Limited, North York, Ontario, Canada
2018 Terroir, Canadian Chancery, Paris, France
2018 Ebb & Flow, Concord Adex Investments Limited, North York, Ontario, Canada
2017 Landmarks2017/Repères2017, Canada’s National Parks – Wapusk, Riding Mountain, Grasslands, Manitoba, Canada
2015 Replenishment, Kagawong River, Kagawong, Ontario, Canada
2014 Inhalation, Sentier Art3, Sainte-Therese, Québec, Canada
2014 Echo, Joel Weeks Park, City of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2007 Colony, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
2004 Digital Stream, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
2001 Esker, Kawartha Rotary Sculpture Project, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
2000 Fireline, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
AWARDS
2015 Ontario Arts Council – Chalmers Fellowship
2014 Canada Council – Project Grant
2013 Ontario Arts Council – Aboriginal Arts Research Grant
2010 Ontario Arts Council – Visual Arts Grant
2009 Canada Council – Project Grant – Travel Grant
2007 Ontario Arts Council – Visual Arts Grant
2005 Canada Council – B Grant
2004 Canada Council – Travel Grant
2003 Ontario Arts Council – Visual Arts Grant
2002 Canada Council – Travel Grant
2001 Canada Council – B Grant
2001 Ontario Arts Council – Visual Arts Grant
1999 Canada Council – Travel Grant
1999 Ontario Arts Council – Visual Arts Grant
1998 Canada Council – B Grant
1998 Ontario Arts Council – Exhibition Assistance through The Power Plant
1997 Ontario Arts Council – Visual Arts Grant
1997 Toronto Arts Council – Project Grant
1996 Canada Council – Emerging Artist Grant
1996 Ontario Arts Council – Visual Arts Grant
1995 Toronto Arts Council – Project Grant
COLLECTIONS
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Art Gallery of Peterborough
Art Gallery of Ontario
Canada House
Indigenous Art Collection, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC)
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
MacKenzie Art Gallery
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
National Gallery of Canada
National Museum of the American Indian – Smithsonian Institution
North American Native Museum
Ontario College of Art & Design University
Thunder Bay Art Gallery
Woodstock Art Gallery
Yukon Arts Centre
& numerous private collections