Dana Claxton's Headdress-Dana (2019) is one of several images of Indigenous women and their cultural belongings to be featured in the Toronto Biennial. Photo: Courtesy the artist.
Today the Toronto Biennial of Art announced the participation of 33 more Canadian, Indigenous and international artists and collectives presenting work at its inaugural event from September 21 to December 1, 2019.
Co-curated by Candice Hopkins and Tairone Bastien, the free 72-day event will include 20 new commissions and more than 100 works installed across 10 sites on or near Toronto’s waterfront.
Among the notable projects announced in today’s release is a collaborative installation and performance by AA Bronson and Adrian Stimson. In that collaboration, each artist will address their respective ancestors’ involvement with and enrolment in the Old Sun residential school on Siksika Nation, Alberta. Bronson’s great-grandfather was the first missionary in Siksika Nation, while some of Stimson’s kin attended the school.
Dana Claxton’s work will also be featured, with LED fireboxes displaying portraits of Indigenous women wearing their cultural belongings.
Here is a complete list of confirmed Toronto Biennial participants so far.
Abbas Akhavan (born in Tehran, Iran; lives in Montreal, QC, Canada)
Maria Thereza Alves (born in São Paulo, Brazil; lives in Naples, Italy, and Berlin, Germany)
Adrian Blackwell (born and lives in Toronto, ON, Canada)
AA Bronson (born in Vancouver, BC, Canada; lives in Berlin, Germany) & Adrian Stimson (born in Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada; lives in Siksika, AB, Canada)
Hera Büyüktaşçıyan (born and lives in Istanbul, Turkey)
Judy Chicago (born in Chicago, IL, USA; lives in Belen, NM, USA)
Dana Claxton (Hunkpapa Lakota (Sioux), born in Yorkton, SK, Canada; lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Moyra Davey (born in Toronto, ON, Canada; lives in New York, NY, USA)
Shezad Dawood (born and lives in London, UK)
Embassy of Imagination + PA System: Alexa Hatanaka (born and lives in Toronto, ON, Canada) and Patrick Thompson (born in Chelsea, QC, Canada; lives in Toronto, ON, Canada), plus Kinngait youth artists: Christine Adamie, Iqaluk Ainalik, Parr Josephee, Moe Kelly, Acacia Lawrence, Annie Oshutsiaq, David Pudlat, Cie Taqiasuk, and Oasis Skateboard Factory 2019 Fall Cohort
Naufus Ramírez Figueroa (born and lives in Guatemala City, Guatemala, and Berlin, Germany)
Laurent Grasso (born in Mulhouse, France; lives in Paris, France)
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh (both born in Tehran, Iran; both live in Dubai, UAE) and Hesam Rahmanian (born in Knoxville, TN, USA; lives in Dubai, UAE)
Luis Jacob (born in Lima, Peru; lives in Toronto, ON, Canada)
Jae Jarrell (born and lives in Cleveland, OH, USA)
Jumblies Theatre & Arts with Ange Loft (Kahnawake Mohawk, born in Kahnawake, QC, Canada; lives in Toronto, ON, Canada)
Kapwani Kiwanga (born in Hamilton, ON, Canada: lives in Paris, France)
Jumana Manna (born in Princeton, NJ, USA; lives in Berlin, Germany)
Qavavau Manumie (Inuit, born in Brandon, MB, Canada; lives in Kinngait (Cape Dorset), NU, Canada)
Caroline Monnet (Algonquin-French, born in Outaouais, QC, Canada; lives in Montreal, QC, Canada)
New Mineral Collective: Emilija Škarnulytė (born in Vilnius, Lithuania; lives in Tromsø, Norway) and Tanya Busse (born in Moncton, NB, Canada; lives in Tromsø, Norway)
The New Red Order: Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil (both Ojibway and born in Sault Ste. Marie, MI, USA; both live in New York, NY, USA) and Jackson Polys (Tlingit, born Ketchikan, Alaska, USA; lives in New York, NY, USA)
Fernando Palma Rodríguez (born in Atocpan-San Pedro, Mexico; lives in Mexico City, Mexico)
Napachie Pootoogook (Inuit, born in 1938, Sako Island Camp, NT, Canada; died in 2002 Kinngait (Cape Dorset), NU, Canada)
Elder Duke Redbird (Ojibway, born in Saugeen First Nation, ON, Canada; lives in Toronto, ON, Canada)
Lisa Reihana (Maori – Nga Puhi, born and lives in Auckland, Aotearoa | New Zealand)
ReMatriate Collective (based in unceded and ancestral territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh Nations, BC, Canada)
Abel Rodríguez (Nonuya, born in Cahuinarí region, Colombia; lives in Bogotá, Colombia)
Wilson Rodríguez (Nonuya, born in Cahuinarí region, Colombia; lives in Bogotá, Colombia)
Arin Rungjang (born and lives in Bangkok, Thailand)
Susan Schuppli (Canadian/Swiss, lives in London, UK)
Lou Sheppard (born in unceded Mi’Kmaq territory, NS, Canada) and based in K’jipuktuk | Halifax, NS, Canada)
Nick Sikkuark (Inuit, born in 1943, Garry Lake, NU, Canada; died in 2013 in Kugaaruk, NU, Canada)
Lisa Steele (born in Kansas City, MO, USA; lives in Toronto, ON, Canada) and Kim Tomczak (born in Victoria, BC, Canada; lives in Toronto, ON, Canada)
Curtis Talwst Santiago (born in Edmonton, AB, Canada; lives in Lisbon, Portugal)
Althea Thauberger (born in Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada; lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada) and Suzanne Kite (Lakota Sioux, born in Sylmar, CA, USA; lives in Montreal, QC, Canada)
Caecilia Tripp (based in New York, NY, USA, and Paris, France)
Bárbara Wagner (born in Brasilia, Brazil; lives in Recife, Brazil) and Benjamin de Burca (born in Munich, Germany; lives in Recife, Brazil)
Hajra Waheed (born in Calgary, AB, Canada; lives in Montreal, QC, Canada)
Syrus Marcus Ware (born in Montreal, QC, Canada; lives in Toronto, ON, Canada)
