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JANICE TOULOUSE paintings

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Back in Paris! My second home. Family are allowed during Covid Paris lockdown. Photo Jan 2019 last visit, Caravagio exposition. Live in Meaford ON. After a year of studio prep for my Solo Show opened October 16-Arpril 2021, Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, Manitoulin Island, ON.
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. 

Solo Show: Ancestral Braids Oct 16, to April 1, 2021 Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, M'Chigeeng Ontario

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Ancestral Braids, acrylic on canvas 36x54 2020
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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)
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Weaving Bullrush, experimenting with an old technique 2020
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"Man with Head of a Sun" Chief Shingwaukonse spirit name, painted in 2020 during a studio award from Ontario Arts Council. "Jiimaan" Canoe is an Ojibwe traditional boat, painted in May 2017 during a REVEAL Indigenous Art Award May 2017, Hnatyshyn Foundation, awarded 150 Indigenous artists across Canada at the Governor general's house in Winnipeg, our ancestors were with us.
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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/
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  • 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

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“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

Auction at Tom Thomson Art Gallery

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White Pine, acrylic on canvas 20 x 24 2020
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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".

Impressions de la Terre 2014, and Jeu d'enfant, Installations Lauzerte, France 2015

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Impressions de la Terre, Mediatheque Pierre Sourbie, Lauzerte France 2014
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Jeu d'enfant, France 2015. Deconstructing stereotypes, Cowboy and Indians game.

 SLIDESHOW  click photo.  International collections Canada, France, Italy, Netherlands, USA, Prints globally. 
​The medicine in my art are healing energy gifts from Manitou

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Contemplated by former Prime Minister, Honourable Paul Martin, THE MASSACRE PAINTING Acrylic on canvas 58 x 72 2012, A metaphor of all massacres afflicted on Indigenous people in colonial history. In Paris in 2010 I saw the exhibition Crime et Châtiment (Crime and Punishment) at Musée d'Orsay. I began to reflect on what I knew to be a crime, Genocide. What was the punishment for this crime to my nation, to other nations, to Indigenous people in colonial history in our homelands. From the exhibition INDIGENESSE, Aurora Culturual Centre. Collection of Woodland Museum, Brantford Ontario.
All rights reserved 2014
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