FRANK SHEBAGEGET, RCA
fshebageget@gmail.com • www.frankshebageget.com
EDUCATION
1998-2000 Masters of Fine Arts, Visual Arts, University of Victoria, Victoria BC
1992-1996 A.O.C.A, Interdisciplinary Studies, Ontario College of Art, Toronto ON
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 “Creature Comforts”, Central Art Garage, Ottawa ON
2016 “HOME/Works”, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay ON
2013 “Frank Shebageget”, Gallery 1C03, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg MB
2010 “Light Industry”, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa ON
“Model Life”, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey BC
2003 “Quantification”, Tribe-Artist Run Center, Saskatoon SK
2002 “Home Made”, Gallery 101, Ottawa ON
2000 “Echoes”, M.F.A. Exhibition, University of Victoria BC
“Knowledge”, Visual Arts Gallery, University of Victoria BC
1998 “...And they accepted it enthusiastically anyway”, Visual Arts Gallery, University of Victoria
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 “Beaver Tales”, Station Gallery, Whitby ON
“Inaugural Exhibition”, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa ON
2017-18 “Anishinaabeg: Art and Power”, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto ON
“It’s Complicated”, Central Art Garage, Ottawa ON
“Insurgence/Resurgence”, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg MB
2015 “Ontario Pick 3”, Ontario Scene, Central Art Garage, Ottawa ON
“Big Bang”, SAW Gallery, Ottawa ON
“Monuments to the Victims of Liberty”, Axeneo7, Gatineau QC
2012-15 “Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation, Part 3”, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester NY; The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, ON; The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe NM; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor MI; Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis IN.
2014 “Native Art Now - New Indigenous Art at NONAM”, Zurich, Switzerland
“Habitat Here”, Central Art Garage, Ottawa ON
“Storytelling: The Contemporary Native Art Beinnial – 2nd Edition”, Art-Mur, Montreal QC; Ottawa School of Art, Orleans Campus, Ottawa ON
2013-14 “Before and After the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes”, The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, New York NY; The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto ON
2013 “Twenty-Five Years”, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa ON
“IN/digitized”, OO7 Collective, Saw Gallery, Ottawa ON
“Scout”, OO7 Collective, Blink Gallery, Ottawa ON
2012 “Ottawa Ontario 7 (OO7)”, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto ON
2010 “Deeds/Nations”, Urban Shaman Gallery, Winnipeg MB
2009 “CODE Screen 2010 – The Art of Knowledge”. Online exhibition, www.vancouver2010.com.
“Planet Indigenous”, York Quay Centre, Toronto ON; Toronto Pearson International Airport, Toronto ON
2009-08 “Flight Dreams”, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax NS; Satellite Gallery, Yarmouth NS
2009-08 “Scouts Honour”, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe NM; Museum London, London ON; Urban Shaman Gallery, Winnipeg MB; University of Lethbridge, Saskatoon SK
2008 “Site Visits”, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge ON
“Imagination”, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa ON; Doris McCarthy Gallery, Scarborough ON
2007-06 “RED EYE – First Nations Short Films and Video”, Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary AB; Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa ON
2007-05 “In My Lifetime”, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau QC; Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec City QC
2006 “Making Sense of Things”, Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis CA; McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton ON
“Ice Follies 06”, Kennedy Gallery, North Bay ON
“Kosmos”, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa ON
“Flight”, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville NB
2004 “Dezhan Ejan: Aboriginal Works from the Collection of the Canada Council Art Bank”, Canadian Embassy, Washington DC
“Remote Access”, A-Space, Toronto ON
“Flock”, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson NY
“Opposition Party”, SAW Gallery, Ottawa ON
“Remix 2004 (Hockey Night in Northwestern Ontario)”, Ottawa ON
2003 “3”, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa ON
2002 “Gridlock”, Case Studies, York Quay Gallery, Toronto ON
AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS
2017 The Hnatyshyn Foundation, REVEAL Indigenous Arts Award
2011 Council of the Arts in Ottawa, Mid-Career Artist Award
2007 Semi-Finalist – Sobey Art Award, Sobey Arts Foundation
2006 Candidate - KM Hunter Award, Ontario Arts Council
2001 Candidate - Future Generations Millennium Prize, Canada Council for the Arts
1998 Arts Education & Professional Development Awards, National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation, Jessie Allan Forsyth Scholarship
1996 Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal, Ontario College of Art Medal, Dr. Eugene A. Poggetto Scholarship, Diana Myers Book Award, Printmaking Book Arts Award, Nora E. Vaughan Scholarship
1995 Arts Education & Professional Development Awards, National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation
1994 Peacock’s Hardware Award
GRANTS
2012 Aboriginal Project Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2007 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts; Visual Arts Grant, Canada Council for the Arts; Aboriginal Project Grant, O.A.C.
2005 Aboriginal Project Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2003-2005 Assistance to Aboriginal Curators for Residencies in Visual Arts, Canada Council for the Arts
2003 Mid-Career Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2000 Quest Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
1998 Emerging Artist, Ontario Arts Council
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2008 Thematic residency - “Fiction”, Banff Centre, Banff AB, January-February 2008
COLLECTIONS
North America Native Museum (NONAM), Zurich
Indian and Inuit Art Collection, Department of Indian Affairs
Ottawa Art Gallery
Canada Council Art Bank
Dorothy Hoover Library, Ontario College of Art
National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation
Private Collections, Toronto and Ottawa
AFFILIATIONS
2016-Present Member, Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts
2012-Present Ottawa Ontario 7 (OO7) Artist Collective
2007-2009 Gallery 101 Board Member
2007-2008 Vice President, Enriched Bread Artists
2006-Present Aboriginal Curatorial Collective (ACC)
2002-2016 Enriched Bread Artists
LECTURES
2009 Interview – Scout’s Honour. http://www.urbanshaman.org/Media/ShebagegetInterview/shebageget.html
2007 Art Now Lecture Series, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge AB
2005 “Emerging Discourses: Community Identity and Place in Recent First Nations Art and Curatorial Initiatives”, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge AB
2004 “The Representation of Identity in New Art Forms”, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington DC
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2018
Schellenberg, Beth. “INSURGENCE/RESURGENCE at the Winnipeg Art Gallery”. Briarpatch Magazine, February 26.
2017
Isaac, Jamie and Dr. Julie Nagam. “Reverberations, Vibrations, Echoes that Invigorate the Stone Fortress”. Essay from the catalogue INSURGENCE/RESURGENCE, Winnipeg Art Gallery, p.19.
Gessell, Paul. “Special agents join OO7 for 150 exhibit It’s Complicated”. Ottawa Magazine, July 6.
Taylor, Kate. “Tracing the path of Anishinaabeg art”. Globe and Mail, June 16.
Taylor, Kate. “Globe Arts: Our favourite moments of 2017 - Castor Castoreum by Frank Shebageget”. Globe and Mail, December 15.
2016
Kurd, Nadia. “Recording Home and Place: The Art of Frank Shebageget”. Essay from the catalogue HOME/Works, Thunder Bay Art Gallery.
2014
Whyte, Murray. “Art Gallery of Ontario: Before and After the Horizon”. Toronto Star, July 25.
2013
McMaster, Gerald. “The Anishinaabe Artistic Consciousness”. Essay from the catalogue “Before and After the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes”, National Museum of the American Indian, p.103-104.
Penney, David W. “Earth, Water, Sky”. Essay from the catalogue “Before and After the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes”, National Museum of the American Indian, p. 32-33.
Western, Jenny. “Frank Shebageget”. Essay from the catalogue “Frank Shebageget”, Gallery 1C03-University of Winnipeg, p. 7-12.
Cochrane, Steven Leyden. “Subject to display: Ojibway artist Frank Shebageget explores formative memories and the representation of indigenous people”. Winnipeg Free Press, February 7.
2010
Dyck, Sandra. “Light Industry”. Essay from the catalogue “Light Industry”, Carleton University Art Gallery.
Falvey, Emily. “Reviews - Frank Shebageget” Canadian Art, Winter 2010-11, p.154.
Kirk, Deborah. “Modern Metaphors: Frank Shebageget’s Light Industry, Vol. 33 No. 4, p. 42.
2009
Abramson, Stacey. “Art makes fascinating statements about culture.” Winnipeg Free Press, February 2.
Garneau, David. “Frank Shebageget and Michael Belmore: Scout’s Honour.” Vie des Arts, Vol. 52, No. 214 (English Edition), Spring 2009, p 10.
2008
Jurakic, Ivan. “Site Visits.” Curatorial essay from the exhibition ‘Site Visits’. Cambridge Galleries.
Falvey, Emily. “Organizing Chaos.” Essay from the catalogue ‘Ottawa Art Gallery – Contemporary Art Collection’, Ottawa Art Gallery, p. 28-30.
Kenins, Laura. “Cool Air.” The Coast, November 27.
Missen, James. “Asserting the Right to Sovereignty, Audio-Visually – RED EYE First Nations Short Film and Video.” Fuse Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, p. 46-49.
Rice, Ryan. “Scout’s Honour.” Curatorial essay from the exhibition ‘Scout’s Honour’.
Taunton, Carla. “Claiming Space and Making Noise: In My Lifetime: Contemporary Aboriginal Art.” Fuse Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 4, p.47-49
2007
“Ottawa artist nominated for Sobey Art Award.” Ottawa Citizen, May 18, p.E2
Gessel, Paul. “First Nations stars.” Ottawa Citizen, December 27.
Gessel, Paul, “Contemporary aboriginal art finally gets an Ottawa showing.” Ottawa Citizen, June 14, p.G1, G8.
Jurakic, Ivan. “On the Ice”. Curatorial essay from the exhibition ‘Ice Follies 2006’. W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery, p. 27-29, 64-65.
Tait, Ruth, “Ice Follies II – Where Art, Nature, and the North Collide.” Mix Magazine, Issue 31.4, p.31-35.
Thomas, Jeffrey. “Aboriginal Art in the Art Bank Collection”. Essay in ‘Art at Work’, Victoria Henry, ed. Goose Lane Editions/Canada Council for the Arts Art Bank, p.115-116.
“Exhibit Brings Controversial Themes to Light.” College Currents – The UC Davis College of Letters & Science Magazine, Vol.1 No.2, Spring 2007, p.25.
2006
Falvey, Emily. “Flight Patterns”. Curatorial essay from the exhibition ‘Flight’, Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University
Falvey, Emily. “Basking in a Black Sun”. Curatorial essay from the exhibition ‘Kosmos’, Ottawa Art Gallery.
Haggo, Regina, “Installations with attitude – Aboriginal artwork sends powerful messages.” Hamilton Spectator, June 27, p.Go11.
Higgonson-Murray, Connie, “A disparate, intriguing mix of artists.” Ottawa Citizen, March 7, p.F3.
Hollick, Laura, “Healing Wounds.” View, July 6-12.
Rice, Ryan. “Forming A/Mass”. Catalogue essay from the exhibition ‘Making Sense of Things’, McMaster Museum of Art/Gorman Museum.
Rice, Ryan. “Staking Claim.” Spirit Magazine – The Art Issue, Vol.3 Issue 2, Summer 2006, p.14.
2005
Bois, Michel, “Par-dela le folklorique.” Le Soleil, February 9, p.C16.
Cantin, David, “Identites autochtones.” Le Devoir, March 5, p.TH1,TH3.
Cote, Nathalie, “Le printemps des Indiens.” Voir Quebec, February 10, p.28.
Grande, John K., “In My Lifetime.” Vie des arts, Spring 2005, p.90-91.
Martin, Lee-Ann, In My Lifetime. Curatorial essay from the exhibition ‘Au fil de mes jours’, Musee du Quebec, p.33-39, 63-65.
“Au fil de mes jours.” Le Journal de Quebec, February 13, p.55.