Visiting Artist Lecture: Michael Belmore

Michael Belmore, a member of Lac Saul First Nation in northern Ontario employs a variety of materials that speak clearly and powerfully about the environment, land, water, and what it is to be Anishinaabe. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art & Design, he completed his Master of Fine Art at the University of Ottawa in 2019. Practicing for over 30 years, Belmore is an internationally recognized artist and is represented in the permanent collections of various institutions including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Museum of the American Indian – Smithsonian Institute and the Canadian Chancery in Paris. His exhibitions include: Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art at the Peabody Essex in Salem, MA and Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3, Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY. 

This talk is free and open to the public, all are welcome. Registration required. If you have accommodation needs, please let us know through the registration form or contact dmg.utsc@utoronto.ca.

U of T Scarborough students attending for course credit should register here. 

This talk is part of the Visiting Artist Lecture Series, co-presented by the Doris McCarthy Gallery & Studio Art program, Department of Arts, Culture & Media, University of Toronto Scarborough. The theme of this year's series, Futures Otherwise: Memory, Myth and the Politics of Tomorrow, invites artists to share insights into their respective practices exploring themes including Afrofuturism, Indigenous futurisms, diasporic mythology, techno-utopian, queer temporalities, and beyond. These artists engage with the future not just as speculative, but as a site of resistance, healing, memory and radical re-imagining. 

This is a seated event. The classroom is wheelchair accessible.