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JANICE TOULOUSE paintings
Solo Show: Ancestral Braids Oct 16, to Jan 22, 2021 Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, M'Chigeeng ON

Man with head of a Sun, acrylic on canvas 65 x 73 inches 2020
This was inspired by my ancestral grandfather Ogema - Chief Shingwaukonse, Little Pine of gGarden River. He is my guide and spiritual helper, who has saved my life. I was raised to follow his teachings, passed on by my mother. Shingwaukonse’s spirit name means “Man with head of a Sun”, I painted this image of his traditional name in pictograph style floating in space. He was Chief and also a powerful spiritual leader, he travelled to the stars before making important decisions to guide the Anishinaabek.
Review on my Solo Show at OCF Oct 2020 (copy/paste to read)
https://www.manitoulin.com/ancestral-braids-exhibition-opens-at-ojibwe-cultural-foundation/
BIO
Janice Toulouse is an Ojibwe artist, born in Serpent River First Nation. Lives in Neyaashiinigmiing, Ontario, Spend half her lifetime in France. A dedicated painting practice, exhibiting internationally 38 years. MFA from Concordia University, Montreal. Toulouse is a recipient of awards such as the National Museum of the American Indian award and residency in New York and won a REVEAL Canada 150 Indigenous Art Award in 2017.
“My art is my statement on my life as an Anishinabe kwe. My research is revising history from an Indigenous perspective, to respect and connect all life. As an artist and teacher, during my lifetime I have worked to bring Indigenous art to the world." I am from Grand Chief Shingwaukonse family from my mother Florence Pine, Exhibitions: American Indian Community Gallery, 2006 New York. Aboriginal Art Centre, 1999, Ottawa, Sacred Circle Gallery, 2001,Seattle. Ojibwe Cultural Foundation. Was represented by Fulgence Gallery, first and only Native American gallery in Paris 1990-94.
Janice Toulouse is an Ojibwe artist, born in Serpent River First Nation. Lives in Neyaashiinigmiing, Ontario, Spend half her lifetime in France. A dedicated painting practice, exhibiting internationally 38 years. MFA from Concordia University, Montreal. Toulouse is a recipient of awards such as the National Museum of the American Indian award and residency in New York and won a REVEAL Canada 150 Indigenous Art Award in 2017.
“My art is my statement on my life as an Anishinabe kwe. My research is revising history from an Indigenous perspective, to respect and connect all life. As an artist and teacher, during my lifetime I have worked to bring Indigenous art to the world." I am from Grand Chief Shingwaukonse family from my mother Florence Pine, Exhibitions: American Indian Community Gallery, 2006 New York. Aboriginal Art Centre, 1999, Ottawa, Sacred Circle Gallery, 2001,Seattle. Ojibwe Cultural Foundation. Was represented by Fulgence Gallery, first and only Native American gallery in Paris 1990-94.

- Exhibitions News 2020
- ""Gete Kaadenganan"Ancestral Braids", Solo Show, Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, Oct 16 - Jan 22 2021
- “Reading Art” exhibition at the Burnaby Art Gallery, BC. Text-based conceptual works of political protest Jan 17/21
- “The North Now”“Ogema Kwe Shingwauk”, selected , Thunder Bay Art Gallery has been extended to March 1, 2020.
- "We Are Not Invisible" Pocahontas portrait with work by 14 First Nations, Inuit & Métis. Anti-Human trafficking of Indigenous communities, and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.
Gallery 101 on March 7 until April 4 2020. Gallery 101, 280 Catherine Street, Ottawa ON - My art is for sale at the Art Gallery of Hamilton,
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T 905.527.6610 ext 273 | www.aghartsales.com - PAST EVENTS
- Artist Talk, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Oct 19
- Artist Talks, OCADU’s - Ontario College of Art University, Toronto. October 24, Toronto,
- "Great and North" 759 artists,Imago Mundi-Benetton, Oct, 2018 Onsite Gallery, Toronto
- Artist Talk, Universite de Toulouse Jean Jaurez, Dec 2018. Toulouse, France
- Artist Retreat, Europe Feb 2019
- Indigenous Art Exhibition of 40 artists at Woodland Cultural Centre May 25 to Aug 13 2019.
- Artist Talk, Canada Women's Conference, University de Bordeaux, June 12, 13, 2019

“That We Might Be The Living Voice” 1999 lithograph by Janice Toulouse in “Reading Art” exhibition at the Burnaby Art Gallery, BC. Text-based conceptual works of political protest, classic literary works Dante’s Divine Comedy, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Marcel Proust’s Swann in Love. From the permanent collection works on paper over the past 100 years John Baldessari, Salvador Dali, Enn Erisalu, General Idea, Guerrilla Girls, Angela Grossmann, Jenny Holzer, Clare Leighton, Micah Lexier, Jane Ash Poitras, Jack Shadbolt, Janice Toulouse, Joyce Wieland.
Till Jan 17, 2021