Ursula Johnson will be exploring some ideas on why she believes finding comfort in discomfort is important. She will be reflecting on her processes and methodologies employed within her practice and how discomfort has been a tool to provide growth.

How has Johnson—who blends installation, sculpture, performance and traditional Mi'kmaq basket-weaving—not been given carte blanche to build something challenging and beautiful in a public space in Halifax? Since she’s one of the biggest names in art at a national level, we should be sick of seeing Ursula Johnson’s work around Halifax.

Ursula Johnson, Audain Visual Artist in Residence at Simon Fraser University speaks about her installation at Central Art Garage: The Indian Truckhouse of High Art retail store edition.

Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu continuel at the National Gallery of Canada. Works by more than 70 Indigenous artists including Joi T Arcand and Ursula Johnson.

Ursula Johnson along with translator Diane Mitchell and curator Robin Metcalfe, tell the story of her work in an ambitious, trilingual catalogue (Mi’kmaw, French and English). The 160-page publication tells the story of the exhibit, Mi’kwite’tmn (Do You Remember), weaving together Johnson’s voice with other contributors through essays and photos.

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.

Artist Ursula Johnson describes her practice and her multi media installation and performance, the exhibition the 'Indian Truckhouse of High Art' at Central Art Garage gallery. Ursula Johnson is a multidisciplinary Mi'kmaq artist based in Nova Scotia, Canada. Her work combines the Mi'kmaq tradition of basket weaving with sculpture, installation, and performance art.

CBC Arts: In Truckhouse, artist Ursula Johnson is selling the kind of "Indian" knick-knackery that should, by now, make us angry: conveniently-sized dreamcatchers, baskets, beaded necklaces. For Johnson, it is as much about getting rid of these items of cultural commodification as it was about buying them for her participants.

The Thunder Bay Art Gallery is getting closer to reaching the fundraising goal for its new building. Among the artists reportedly doing new commissions are 2017 Sobey Award winner Ursula Johnson, as well as Sonny Assu and Frank Shebageget.

Nova Scotian artist Ursula Johnson's remarkable practice is built on memory and community. At this time when Canadians are celebrating and challenging the memory of nationhood, Johnson's work embodies a considered, critical, yet generous lens through which multiple histories and communities may be considered.

I came upon one of Joi T. Arcand’s now-viral syllabic interventions installed into the staircase leading up to the second floor of the WAG: Don’t Speak English (2017). Arcand, a renowned syllabics nerd, restructures spatialities with her mediations that immediately alienate settlers with their presence.

Johnson’s installation at the Sobey Art Award exhibition at U of T’s Art Museum is Moose Fence, based on fencing used to prevent animals from straying into traffic. NOW spoke with Johnson about the piece and her wider practice.

Ursula Johnson, winner of the 2017 Sobey Art Award is interviewed by Helen Mann of CBC’s As it Happens. Johnson is a performance artists who uses traditional practices like weaving. Much of her work focuses on colonialism and her Indigenous heritage. Johnson discusses how her great-grandmother, a queen of Mi'kmaq basketry, influenced her art practice.

Ursula Johnson is a performance and installation artist of Mi’kmaw First Nation ancestry and winner of the 2017 Sobey Art Award. Johnson explores various mediums including performance art, sculpture, music and printmaking, while utilizing delegated performers as well as collaborative processes in the making of new works. Central Art Garage Gallery News.

Ursula Johnson, a performance and installation artist of Mi’kmaw First Nation ancestry, has been shortlisted for the 2017 Sobey Art Award. Johnson is interested in topics of identity, not only Indigenous identity but also queer identity, and the idea of stereotypes or stereotype perpetuation. The award ceremony will take place at the National Gallery of Canada. Central Art Garage News.

Ursula Johnson receives the REVEAL Indigenous Art Awards launched by the Hnatyshyn Foundation to honour Indigenous Canadian artists working in all artistic disciplines.

Michael Belmore, Ursula Johnson and Frank Shebageget are among the 150 artists selected to receive an award. Laureates were selected by a national jury of peers led by Victoria Henry, chair of the Hnatyshyn Foundation.