Paintings by Janice Toulouse (6 pages / click to enlarge)
Excited to announce my art is represented on Artsper.com in Paris, France! I live in Meaford Ontario, Paris is my second home. My Solo Show opened October 16 2020 to April 2021 at the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, Manitoulin Island, Ontario, 6months!
Biography
Janice Toulouse Ojibwe artist, born in Serpent River, lives in Meaford, Ontario and Paris part of the year. A dedicated painting practice, exhibiting internationally 38 years. MFA from Concordia University, Montreal. Awarded the NMAI Award and residency in New York in 2002, won a REVEAL Canada 150 Indigenous Art Award in 2017, and OAC Indigenous Arts Award 2019.
“My art is storytelling in paintings on my life as an Ojibwe Woman. As an artist and teacher, during my lifetime I have worked to bring Indigenous art to the world." I am from Chief Shingwaukonse family by my mother Florence Pine, International exhibitions include Galerie Fulgence only Native American gallery in Paris 1990-94, Sacred Circle Gallery, Seattle 2001, American Indian Community Gallery, NYC 2006, Concordia University Montreal 2008, and the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, Manitoulin Island, Ontario. 2020-21.
Janice Toulouse Ojibwe artist, born in Serpent River, lives in Meaford, Ontario and Paris part of the year. A dedicated painting practice, exhibiting internationally 38 years. MFA from Concordia University, Montreal. Awarded the NMAI Award and residency in New York in 2002, won a REVEAL Canada 150 Indigenous Art Award in 2017, and OAC Indigenous Arts Award 2019.
“My art is storytelling in paintings on my life as an Ojibwe Woman. As an artist and teacher, during my lifetime I have worked to bring Indigenous art to the world." I am from Chief Shingwaukonse family by my mother Florence Pine, International exhibitions include Galerie Fulgence only Native American gallery in Paris 1990-94, Sacred Circle Gallery, Seattle 2001, American Indian Community Gallery, NYC 2006, Concordia University Montreal 2008, and the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, Manitoulin Island, Ontario. 2020-21.
Solo Show: Ancestral Braids Oct 16, to April 1, 2021 Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, M'Chigeeng Ontario
Ancestral Braids, acrylic on canvas 36x54 2020
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Artist at opening of Gete Kaadenganan 2020, Sun Man and Jiimaan
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Chiibi Red Road, 2017-18 180x200cm linen, art project made in France. Indigenous people must be included in climate talks. The earth is our mother, we have always been her protectors. (Paris Climate Talks 2015 protest)
OCF display 2021
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Crane 16x20
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Canoe 16x20
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Lodge 16x20
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Gete Kaadenganan Ancestral Braids at OCF, a 6 months Solo Show! Three works on left will go to permanent acquisitions.
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Sun Man and Canoe at OCF 2020
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Review Solo Show OCF Oct 2020: https://www.manitoulin.com/ancestral-braids-exhibition-opens-at-ojibwe-cultural-foundation/ Catalogue: https://ojibweculture.ca/ VIDEO> https://fb.watch/v/OuK-2mVh/
- Exhibitions News 2021
- Artist Talk, Wed June 16 at 7pm 2021. Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa & Chippewa Indians Speaker Series. Artist Talk on the process of creating my solo show at the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation. Link to register: https://bit.ly/3umW4we
- ""Gete Kaadenganan"Ancestral Braids", Solo Show, Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, Oct 16, 2020-April 30, 2021
- “Reading Art” exhibition Burnaby Art Gallery, BC. Text-based conceptual works of political protest Jan 17/21
- “The North Now”“Ogema Kwe Shingwauk”, Thunder Bay Art Gallery has been extended to March 1, 2020.
- "We Are Not Invisible" Pocahontas portrait. works by First Nations, Anti-Human trafficking of Indigenous,
Gallery 101 on March 7 until April 4 2020. Gallery 101, Ottawa ON - My art is for sale at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Art Sales + Services | Art Gallery of Hamilton 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, Venice Italy 2015, and in Oct, 2018 Onsite Gallery, Toronto
- Artist Talk, Universite de Toulouse Jean Jaurez, Dec 2018. Toulouse, France
- 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 (cancelled due to injury)
Reading Art” exhibition, Burnaby Art Gallery, BC. Text-based conceptual works of political protest Jan 2021
“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 over the past 100 years including.. John Baldessari, Salvador Dali, Enn Erisalu, General Idea, Guerrilla Girls, Jenny Holzer, Jane Ash Poitras, Jack Shadbolt, Janice Toulouse, Joyce Wieland.
Till Jan 17, 2021
Auction at Tom Thomson Art Gallery 2020, Two paintings sold
White Pine, acrylic on canvas 20 x 24 2020 SOLD
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Exciting to be selected as one of the 7 artists, sold 2 paintings in Tom Thomson Art Gallery fundraising auction, "A Grouping of Seven".
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