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The Indigenous Studies and Community Engagement Initiative (ISCEI) appointed Tiffany Shaw as the 2023 Mellon Artist-in-Residence.

Tiffany Shaw is a M茅tis architect, artist and curator based in Alberta. She holds a BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) University, a Masters in Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and is currently working at Reimagine Architects. Shaw has exhibited at the Architecture Venice Biennale, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Pier 21, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, among others. She has been the recipient of multiple public art commissions such as Edmonton's Indigenous Art Park and Winnipeg鈥檚 Markham Bus Station. Among her public art projects Tiffany has produced several notable transitory art works and is a core member of .

Oscillating between digital and analogue methodologies Shaw鈥檚 work gathers notions of craft, memory and atmosphere. Her practice is often guided by communal interventions as a way to engage a lifted understanding of place. While born in Calgary and raised in Edmonton, Shaw鈥檚 M茅tis lineage derives from Fort McMurray via Fort McKay and the Red River.

Examples of Tiffany Shaw's work can be found on her and include the public artwork "" in Edmonton's kinistin芒w Park and the "Use and Occupancy" and "Scrip" artworks at station in Winnipeg.

Previous Residencies

Winter 2022: Dayna Danger

Dayna Danger (they/them) is the Winter 2022 Mellon ISCEI Artist in Residence at 看片视频 Co-organized by ISCEI and the Department of Art History and Communication Studies, the program is an important means of bringing practicing artists to campus to continue their work, share their expertise, interact with students and faculty members, and enhance knowledge of and exposure to Indigenous art among the campus community and the public at large.

Dayna Danger is a 2Spirit/Queer, M茅tis/Saulteaux/Polish visual artist raised in Miiskwaagamiwiziibiing, Treaty 1 territory, or so-called Winnipeg, Manitoba. They are currently based in Tiohti谩:ke/M艒niy膩ng, or so-called Montreal, Quebec.

Danger uses photography, sculpture, performance, beading and video to create works and environments that claim space and question the line between empowerment and objectification. Their recent work with beaded leather fetish masks, BDSM and kink, explores themes of intimacy, erotic sovereignty, and Indigenous sexuality. Collaboration and consent are at the heart of Danger鈥檚 art practice which challenges the colonial gaze and negotiates the complicated dynamics of sexuality, gender, and power.

Danger holds a BFA from The University of Manitoba鈥檚 School of Art and an MFA in Photography from Concordia University. Their work has been exhibited in Santa Fe, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Montreal, Peterborough, North Bay, Vancouver, Edmonton and Banff. Their ongoing photographic portrait series Big鈥橴ns was featured on the cover of the in summer 2017. Most recently, Danger鈥檚 art was exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada and long-listed for the . Danger has participated in residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts and at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art. In 2021, they began a doctorate at Concordia University that focuses on hide-tanning stories and bush skills, passed on from their Saulteaux great-grandmother Madeline McLeod (Campbell).

You can see more of Dayna Danger's work on their .

Winter 2021: Caroline Monnet

Caroline Monnet is the first Mellon ISCEI Artist in Residence at 看片视频. Co-organized by ISCEI and the Department of Art History and Communication Studies, the program is an important means of bringing practicing artists to campus to continue their work, share their expertise, interact with students and faculty members, and enhance knowledge of and exposure to Indigenous art among the campus community and the public at large.