Rebecca Belmore is a member of Lac Seul First Nation (Anishinaabe). Her works are rooted in the political and social realities of Indigenous communities and make evocative connections between bodies, land and language.

A major retrospective of Rebecca Belmore’s work, prepared by the Art Gallery of Ontario, toured Canada in 2018-19. Her group exhibitions include: Whitney Biennial (2022); dOCUMENTA 14 (2017), Athens, Greece; Echigo-Tsumari Triennial, Niigata Prefecture, Japan (2015); Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Art Museum, New York (2007); Land, Spirit, Power, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON (1992); and Creation or Death: We Will Win, Havana Biennial, Cuba (1991).

Belmore was a recipient of the Gershon Iskowitz Prize in 2016 for her outstanding contribution to the visual arts in Canada, Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2013, the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award in 2009, and Honorary Doctorates from the Ontario College of Art and Design University in 2005, Emily Carr University in 2018, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2019 and the Université Laval in 2021.
 

Wanda Nanibush is an Anishinaabe independent curator, image and word warrior, and community organizer from Beausoleil First Nation, Canada. Based in Toronto, Nanibush is the founding director of aabaakwad, an international yearly gathering of Indigenous curators, writers and artists that last took place at Venice Biennale. She recently won the Toronto Book Award for her co-authored book, Moving the Museum which chronicles some of her groundbreaking work at the Art Gallery of Ontario as the inaugural Curator of Indigenous Art. She has curated survey, group, and retrospective exhibitions including: Robert Houle: Red is Beautiful (National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian, Washington); Rebecca Belmore: Facing the Monumental (touring Canada and the U.S.) and Toronto: Tributes + Tributaries, 1971 - 1989 (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto). She received her M.A. in Visual Studies from the University of Toronto where she has also taught graduate courses. She will be the Helen Frankenthaler Visiting Professor in Curating in the Ph.D. Program in Art History at CUNY in the Graduate Department of Art History in 2025. Nanibush has published widely on Indigenous art, politics, history, feminism and sexuality.