Representative work by Rebecca Belmore
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Rebecca Belmore

b. 1960, Upsala, Ontario, Canada · Anishinaabe / Canadian

  • OCAD University

Rebecca Belmore is an Anishinaabe artist whose performances and installations address land, colonial violence, gender, memory and Indigenous sovereignty. Her work often uses the body and elemental materials to transform public space into a site of testimony.

Performance; sculpture; installation; video

Major Works

  • 1991Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother
  • 2002Vigil
  • 2005Fountain
  • 2002The Named and the Unnamed
  • 2008Fringe
  • 2006Freeze
  • 2008March 5, 1819
  • 2017Biinjiya’iing Onji (From Inside)
  • 2017Wave Sound
  • 2018Facing the Monumental

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