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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 expo with my daughter Lea. Live in Neyashiinigmiing ON, a year of studio prep for my Solo Show opened October 16-Jan 2021, Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, Manitoulin Island.

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

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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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"Man with Head of a Sun" Chief Shingwaukonse spirit name, and "Jiimaan", Canoes are Ojibwe traditional vessels. An award that allowed me time to work.. REVEAL Indigenous Art Award May 2017, The Hnatyshyn Foundation, awarded 150 Indigenous artists across Canada. We attended the ceremony at the Governor general's house in Winnipeg, our ancestors were with us.
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Weaving Bullrush, experimenting with an old technique 2020
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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. 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. 
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  • 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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  • 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 

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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

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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".

Past exhibitions

PictureESSE Magazine 2017
​Ogema : I Am Woman  March 9th - 29, 2016 
Ogema Kwe Shingwauk from Garden River. Honouring our great grandmother from late 1800's. 
                                http://esse.ca/fr/feminismes spring 2017
     Curated by Lea Toulouse at the Winsor Gallery, Vancouver: Maria Hupfield, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Wendy Red Star, Tsēma Tamara Skubovius,
​     Janice Toulouse, Olivia Whetung, writer's talk Lee Maracle​  
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Ogema: I am Woman centers matriarchal modes of seeing and being: representations of First Nations  as seen and created by female artists Indigenous to North America. The exhibition is at once a celebration and testimony that makes visible  Indigenous accomplishments with a focus on positive and constructive counteractions against the colonial violence Indigenous people, and specifically Indigenous women, have endured. This exhibition will establish the role of Indigenous women in decolonization as first and foremost self-determined, as well as raise questions surrounding decolonial theories in the contexts of both art and politics, using the act of creation as a political performance.

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My daughter Lea Toulouse's curated this amazing exhibition, Winsor gallery, Vancouver 2015. She works and teaches in Paris.
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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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