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JANICE TOULOUSE paintings
Biography
Janice Toulouse is an Ojibwe artist, born in Genaabaaging. Lives in Meaford, Ontario and Paris part of the year. 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 Ojibwe Woman. 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 Chief Shingwaukonse family from my mother Florence Pine, International exhibitions include Fulgence Gallery, first and only Native American gallery in Paris 1990-94, the American Indian Community Gallery, New York, 2006, Sacred Circle Gallery, Seattle. 2001, and the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, Manitoulin Island, Ontario. 2021.
Janice Toulouse is an Ojibwe artist, born in Genaabaaging. Lives in Meaford, Ontario and Paris part of the year. 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 Ojibwe Woman. 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 Chief Shingwaukonse family from my mother Florence Pine, International exhibitions include Fulgence Gallery, first and only Native American gallery in Paris 1990-94, the American Indian Community Gallery, New York, 2006, Sacred Circle Gallery, Seattle. 2001, and the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, Manitoulin Island, Ontario. 2021.
Solo Show: Ancestral Braids Oct 16, to April 1, 2021 Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, M'Chigeeng Ontario

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. 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/

- Exhibitions News 2021
- ""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 First Nations, Inuit & Métis. Anti-Human trafficking of Indigenous communities.
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
Reading Art” exhibition, Burnaby Art Gallery, BC. Text-based conceptual works of political protest Jan 17/2121

“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