Michael Belmore & Frank Shebageget: “WĀWĪNDAMAW – PROMISE” AT NONAM, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND
Michael Belmore & Frank Shebageget in wāwīndamaw – promise: Indigenous Art and Colonial Treaties in Canada, at Nordamerika Native Museum (NONAM), Zurich.
Michael Belmore Joins Hart House Discussion - Exploring Black and Indigeous Futurisms
Michael Belmore will participate in Exploring Black and Indigenous Futurisms 2022 Edition: Rock as Witness alongside Quentin VerCetty, Dr. Karyn Recollet and Dr. Audrey Hudson.
Global Affairs Canada Commemorative Artwork Team Rapoport Video
Video describing Team Rapoport’s shortlisted design for the Global Affairs Canada Commemorative Artwork.
Michael Belmore and Adrian Göllner, members of Team Rapoport design team shortlisted for The Global Affairs Commemorative Artwork
Team Rapoport’s artwork The Eddy is short listed for a commemorative artwork that honours fallen Canadian foreign service workers. Inspired by the Global Affairs Canada site alongside the Rideau River.
Central Art Garage is Invited to Present a Project Space at Art Toronto
Central Art Garage to participate in Art Toronto 2021 with artists Barry Ace, Joi, T Arcand, Michael Belmore, D’Andrea Bowie, Camal and Camille, Maura Doyle, Adrian Göllner, Craig Leonard, Bozica Radjenovic, and Frank Shebageget.
Michael Belmore commissioned by Peterborough to create a public art installation called “The Gathering.”
Michael Belmore’s installation will incorporate natural objects and elements. Much like his previous works, in this installation he will reflect upon his own identity as an Anishinaabe.
Mackenzie Art Gallery to host Studio Sunday inspired by Michael Belmore’s “Smoulder”
Mackenzie Studio Sunday: Michael’ Belmore’s artwork often looks at the “in-between” places. Copper can represent the space between the land and sky, the connection between water and fire, and the connection between spirits and the Earth.
Michael Belmore commissioned for The Nogojiwanong Project
Artist Michael Belmore has been selected to create the public art piece for The Nogojiwanong Project. Nogojiwanong is an Anishinaabe word meaning “place at the foot of the rapids,” is the name given to the gathering place at the bottom of a turbulent stretch of the Otonabee River, which would later become Peterborough.
Micheal Belmore Featured in Vie des Arts
Michael Belmore is featured in Vie des Arts magazine. The review by Marie Perrault details the importance of copper in artist Michael Belmore's practice. 'Anchored in matter, it testifies to the close links of dependence that humans maintain with the Earth, as much as it denounces the impact of colonialism on matter, copper, stone, in the long course of history.'
Michael Belmore, Ursula Johnson and Camille Turner - LandMarks works in Border Crossings Magazine
Border Crossings report on AGNS exhibition “Sense of Site”. Artists took different approaches to presenting versions of their “Landmarks 2017/Repères 2017” site-specific projects. The original project was set in national parks and historical sites across Canada, featuring work by Michael Belmore, Ursula Johnson, Camille Turner and other artists.
Ways of Being: Yhonnie Scarce & Michael Belmore at Museum London
This two-person exhibition brings into dialogue the work of the Australian Aboriginal artist Yhonnie Scarce (Kokatha and Nukunu peoples) and the Canadian First Nations artist Michael Belmore (Ojibway).
MICHAEL BELMORE AND A.J. CASSON: NKWESHKDAADIIMGAK MIINWAA BAKEZIIBIISAN - PUBLICATION
This publication accompanied Michael Belmore And A.J. Casson: Nkweshkdaadiimgak Miinwaa Bakeziibiisan / Confluences And Tributaries.
Michael Belmore Carved Erratics, Public Art Installation at Woodsy Park
Concord Park Place's Woodsy Park to Feature Public Art, Ebb and Flow by Sculptor Michael Belmore. Large erratic boulders, unearthed during construction were carved on site. In embellishing these stones Belmore speaks to the stone's original state of liquid fire, and the ebb and flow effect of ancient glacial forces of ice and water.
Michael Belmore at the Ottawa Art Gallery: ArtsFile
MICHAEL BELMORE is paired with the legendary painter A.J. Casson in Confluences and Tributaries / Nkweshkdaadiimgak Miinwaa Bakeziibiisan
Michael Belmore, thunder sky turbulent water in Canadian Art Agenda
Canadian Art's Agenda report on Michael Belmore’s solo exhibition, 'thunder sky turbulent water' at Central Art Garage. Work resembling the hood of a classic Firebird Trans-Am is cut and shaped out of huge sheets of copper and suspended from the ceiling with mechanic’s hoist, representing the upper and lower worlds in the Anishinaabe universe.
Michael Belmore’s Bridge: Signature Image of MISHI 2017
Reading this piece requires active engagement, and like traditional wampum, insists on a responsibility in that interaction.
MICHAEL BELMORE FEATURED IN CANADIAN ART, LANDMARKS 2017
Four distant sites. One glacial history. That’s the context for Ontario-based artist Michael Belmore’s Coalescence, a multi-part sculptural project. Carving and inlaying copper on 16 granite and bedrock boulders sourced from around Churchill, Manitoba, Belmore will create hearth-like arrays that appear to radiate heat. Central Art Garage Gallery news.
Michael Belmore Exhibition: Museum London
This two-person exhibition at the Museum London brings into dialogue the work of the Australian Aboriginal artist Yhonnie Scarce (Kokatha and Nukunu peoples) and the Canadian First Nations artist Michael Belmore (Ojibway).
Michael Belmore and Camille Turner: Art disputing the arc of Canadian History
Hamilton Spectator review of the AGO’s Every: Now: Then: Reframing Nationhood.
Michael Belmore, an Anishinaabe artist, offers Rumble, a blackened copper sandwich of Trans-Am hoods, with effigies of spiritually significant creatures - a Thunderbird on one side, water panthers on the other - glowing from within.
Nearby looms Bell part of a slickly stylized photo-portrait project by Camal Pirbhai and Camille Turner, which was drawn from a shocking source: 19th-century Canadian classified ads placed by owners in search of their runaway slaves.
007 SHOW AT CENTRAL ART GARAGE FEATURED IN OTTAWA MAGAZINE
It’s Complicated, an exhibition by 10 local Aboriginal artists responding to celebrations marking Canada’s 150th birthday. The exhibition is part of the National Arts Centre’s Canada Scene.