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Provenance:

Courtesy of the artist and Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto

Note:

Shelley Niro is a member of the Turtle Clan, Bay of Quinte Mohawk Six Nations Grand River Reserve and is a practising artist, concentrating on painting, photography, and film. Her work has been included in exhibitions throughout Canada and internationally, including The Banff Centre for the Arts; The Art Gallery of Hamilton; the AGO (Toronto); The Minneapolis Institute of Art; The Taserliak Cultural Centre (Greenland); The Martin-Gropius Bau (Germany); and the University of Foscari (Italy).

Niro was the inaugural recipient of the Aboriginal Arts Award presented through the Ontario Arts Council in 2012. In 2017, Niro received the Governor General’s Award for The Arts, the Scotiabank Photography Award, and the Hnatyshyn Foundation Reveal Award. In 2022, Niro was presented with the Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award. Niro is an honorary elder in the Indigenous Curatorial Collective. Niro’s work has been acquired by various public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Portrait Gallery of Canada, and the Art Bank of Canada (Ottawa); The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography and the AGO (Toronto); The Minneapolis Institute of Art; The Rockwell Museum of Western Art and the Iroquois Museum (New York); and the Washington State Library.

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