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Jackson 2bears is a Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) multimedia artist and cultural theorist who currently resides in Lethbridge, AB. He has exhibited his work extensively across Canada, most recently at the Musée d;art Contemporain de Montréal; the Vancouver Art Gallery; PAVED Arts (Saskatoon, SK); the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; the ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival (Toronto, ON); EMedia (Calgary, AB); Latitude 53 (Edmonton, AB); and Urban Shaman (Winnipeg, MB). He has also exhibited his artwork internationally, most recently at the Futur En Seine Festival (Paris, France), Bbeyond (Belfast, Ireland), Southend Film Festival (Southend on Sea, UK) and Digital Art Weeks (Zurich, Switzerland).

From 1995-99 2bears studied video and media arts as part of his undergraduate training in the Art and Art History Program—a joint program between the University of Toronto at Mississauga and Sheridan College, Oakville. During his MFA he engaged in advanced studies of Digital Media Art and Performance, in 2004 receiving his degree from the University of Victoria. 2bears completed his PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Victoria in 2012 where his major fields of scholarly interest included: Indigenous Philosophy, Computer Music, Digital Media Arts, and Cultural Studies.  2bears is currently a member of Beat Nation Live!—a First Nations artist collective that combines hip hop, live music and digital technology as a way to celebrate the spirit of contemporary Indigenous culture. He is also a co-founding member of Noxious Sector—a communal forum dedicated to the exploration of interdisciplinary artistic practice and creative expression.  2bears’ academic writings have appeared in Ctheory, The Leonardo Electronic Almanac and most recently in the co-authored text Coded Territories: Tracing Indigenous Pathways in New Media Art (U of Calgary Press; Steve Loft and Kerry Swanson eds.) 2bears is currently Assistant Professor of Art Studio at the University of Lethbridge.