Assistant Professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Indigenous Art History and Community Engagement and independent curator of Indigenous art, Ottawa, ON
Dr. Heather Igloliorte is an Inuk from Nunatsiavut. She is an Assistant Professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Indigenous Art History and Community Engagement, and an independent curator of Indigenous art. Heather's teaching and research interests center on Indigenous visual and material culture, circumpolar art studies, performance and new media art, and the global exhibition of Indigenous arts and culture. Some of her recent publications related to this work include the catalogue Inuit Art. The Brousseau Collection (2016) and essays in Negotiations in a Vacant Lot: Studying the Visual in Canada (2014); Manifestations: New Native Art Criticism (2012); Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 (2012); Curating Difficult Knowledge (2011); and Inuit Modern (2010).
Her recent curatorial projects include the nationally touring exhibition SakKijâjuk: Art and Craft from Nunatsiavut; the permanent exhibition Ilippunga: The Brousseau Inuit Art Collection at the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec (2016); the international arts festival iNuit blanche (co-curated with Britt Gallpen and Mark Turner, www.inuitblanche.com), the world’s first all-circumpolar one-night-only festival of Inuit performance, installation, food, music, interactive art, Inuit games, sculpture, drawing, live painting and more; and Disrupt Archive: Dayna Danger and Cecilia Kavara Verran which brought a Metis artist from Winnipeg into conversation with an Australian artist from Melbourne (who is also known as Wahe), and Decolonize Me (Ottawa Art Gallery, 2011 - 2015). Igloliorte served as an Executive Member of the Board of Directors for the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective (2005 - 2011); she currently serves on the Board of Directors for North America's largest Indigenous art historical association, the Native North American Art Studies Association, and was recently appointed to the Faculty Council of the Otsego Institute for Native American Art History at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York.