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Bladder Head Boy and Parallel Non-Sequiturs
Joseph Tisiga (b.1984) is a multidisciplinary artist and community worker currently living in Whitehorse, Yukon. He is Kaska Dena First Nation and of mixed European heritage. Tisiga utilizes multiple means to stimulate narrative thematics, including performance, photography, sculpture, installation, however painting and drawing are the foundation of his practice. His work examines notions of identity, cultural and social inheritance/dislocation, the mundane, “metaphysical” and mythological.
Recent exhibitions include; IBC: Dystopic Autonomy (Parisian Laundry, Montreal); They Say He Hit Them With His Gloves (KWAG, Kitchener-Waterloo) A Sacred Game: Escape is Perpetual (Diaz Contemporary, Toronto); Oh Canada (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA, USA); Northern Exposures (SAW Gallery, Ottawa, ON); The Painting Project (l'UQAM Gallery, Montreal, QC); IBC Summoning the White Shaman, Conjuring the Red Chief (ODD Gallery, Dawson City, YT); Monster (West Vancouver Museum, Vancouver, BC); Indian Brand Corporation (Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, YT). In 2009 Tisiga was a finalist in the RBC painting competition, as well the recipient of the Joseph S. Stuaffer award. In 2011 he was long-listed for the Sobey Art Award.
Image courtesy of the artist
Contact:
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