Jeneen Frei Njootli

Biography

Born 1988, Whitehorse, Canada

Lives On the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, Sto:lo and Tsleil-Waututh people

Exhibitions/projections
Solo
: my auntie bought all her skidoos with bead money, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2018); NDN BURN, Fierman Gallery, New York (2018); I can’t make you those mitts because there is a hole in my heart and my hands hurt, Artspace, Peterborough (2018); red rose ad lidii, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge (2017); AKWA, Definitely Superior Art Gallery, Thunder Bay (2017); LUX | MAM, Macaulay & Co. Fine Art, Vancouver (2017); Time Immemorial, GAM Gallery, Vancouver (2015); Thunderstruck, Whippersnapper Gallery, Toronto (2013).

Group: The Metamorphosis, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (2018); Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (2018); Luminocity, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops (2018); Sobey Art Award Exhibition, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2018); Coney Island Baby, Gallery TPW, Toronto (2018); Wnoondwaamin | we hear them, Stride Gallery, Calgary (2018); Beginning in the Seventies: Collective Acts, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (2018); BELIEVE, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2018); Da Ze T’san Fashion Show, Adäka Cultural Festival, Whitehorse (2018); Resilience, The National Billboard Exhibition Project, Canada (2018); La Biennale d’art contemporain autochtone, Montréal (2018); Common Cause: before and beyond the global, Mercer Union, Toronto (2018); Crafted Strangers, The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, Asheville (2017); LandMarks2017/ Repères2017—Partners in Art, Canada (2017).

Represented by Macaulay & Co. Fine Art (Vancouver)

Website mfineart.ca/macaulay-co-fine-art/artists/jeneen-frei-njootli

Exhibition

MOMENTA x VOX. The Life of Things
2019.09.05 – 10.13

Curated by María Wills Londoño in collaboration with Audrey Genois and Maude Johnson, MOMENTA 2019 proposes a piercing look at the life of things, bringing into dialogue their consumerist and symbolic dimensions. Presented simultaneously at two locations—VOX and the Galerie de l’UQAM—the thematic exhibition generates a conversation fueled by the works of twenty-two artists and meshes four components…

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