Jeneen Frei Njootli Explained

Jeneen Frei Njootli
Birth Date:1988
Birth Place:Whitehorse, Yukon[1]
Alma Mater:University of British Columbia
Movement:Interdisciplinary

Jeneen Frei Njootli (born 1988)[2] is an interdisciplinary Vuntut Gwitchin artist known primarily for their work with sound and textiles, performance, fashion, workshops, and barbeques.

Work

Njootli is a co-creator of the ReMatriate Collective, a group working toward better representation of Indigenous women in the media.[3] [4]

As one of the five finalist of the 2018 Sobey Art Award, Njoottli's work, wind sucked in through bared teeth (2017) is included in an eponymous exhibition featuring the finalists at the National Gallery of Canada.[5]

In 2016, Njootli completed the Media Arts Residency at the Western Front, an artist-run centre in Vancouver.[6]

Njootli has worked on several projects and presentations with artist Olivia Whetung. Whetung wrote Fugitive Dust to accompany Njootli’s solo exhibition I Can’t Make You Those Mitts Because There Is a Hole in My Heart and My Hands Hurt (2018).[7]

Education

In 2017, Njootli earned an M.F.A from the University of British Columbia.[8] In 2016, Njootli completed the Earth Line Indigenous Tattoo training residency.[9]

Performance

2018

2016

2015

2014

Awards and honours

In 2018, Njootli was the Sobey Art Award Finalist for the West Coast and Yukon categories.[19] In 2017, Njootli was also longlisted for the Sobey Art Award for the West Coast and Yukon categories,[20] and in the same year, awarded the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver's Artist Prize.[21] In 2016, Njootli was awarded the Hnatyshyn Foundation, William & Meredith Saunderson Prize for Emerging Canadian Artist Lectures, Workshops & Curating.[22]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ever-present and Continuous: Jeneen Frei Njootli in Sobey Art Award 2018 . 3 October 2018 . National Gallery of Canada . Chris . Hampton . 3 April 2024.
  2. Web site: Jeneen Frei Njootli . Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia . 18 May 2020 . 3 April 2024.
  3. Dick. Linnea. 2017. Red rose and lidii by Jeneen Frei Njootli. C: International Contemporary Art. 135. 49. EBSCOhost.
  4. News: WE ARE: the ReMatriate Collective. 2016-10-12. 2018-03-11. en.
  5. Web site: Ever-present and Continuous: Jeneen Frei Njootli in Sobey Art Award 2018. www.gallery.ca. en. 2019-03-14.
  6. News: Jeneen Frei Njootli Vuntut Gwich'in Artist Macaulay Fine Art. Macaulay & Co. Fine Art. 2018-03-11. en-US.
  7. Web site: 2018-04-05. Vuntut Gwitchin artist Jeneen Frei Njootli works in 'sound and dust and residue'. 2021-03-10. Yukon News. en-US.
  8. News: Jeneen Frei Njootli Vuntut Gwich'in Artist Macaulay Fine Art. Macaulay & Co. Fine Art. 2017-09-30. en-US.
  9. News: Cultural lineage: Reclaiming the Indigenous art of skin stitching. CBC News. 2017-09-30. en.
  10. Book: Ryner, Denise. Common Cause: before and beyond the global. Mercer Union. 2018. 978-1-926627-45-8. Toronto, ON.
  11. Web site: ISHI: The Archive Performance (by James Luna) at UCSD The UC Collaboratory for Ethnographic Design. quote.ucsd.edu. en-US. 2018-03-24.
  12. Web site: the language your tongue might find could be haunting: Sled Island. www.sledisland.com. en. 2018-03-24.
  13. Web site: aceart inc. Search Results jeneen. www.aceart.org. en. 2018-03-24.
  14. News: Bodies and food get through art world defences at Live! Performance Art Biennale. 2015-10-23. Vancouver Sun. 2018-03-24. en-US.
  15. Web site: James Luna and Jeneen Frei Njootli . livebiennale.ca. en-US. 2018-03-24.
  16. News: Beau Dick / Nicholas Galanin / Jeneen Frei Njootli - Macaulay & Co. Fine Art. Macaulay & Co. Fine Art. 2018-03-24. en-US.
  17. Web site: Geometry of Knowing - SFU Galleries - Simon Fraser University. www.sfu.ca. 2018-03-24.
  18. News: Claiming Space - Museum of Anthropology at UBC. Museum of Anthropology at UBC. 2018-03-24. en-US.
  19. Web site: 2018 Sobey Art Award : West Coast & Yukon - Jeneen Frei Njootli CBC Radio. CBC. en. 2019-03-14.
  20. News: 25 Artists Longlisted for $50K Sobey Art Award. Canadian Art. 2018-03-11. en-US.
  21. Web site: Alumna Jeneen Frei Njootli Takes Home the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver's 2017 Artist Prize Emily Carr University of Art + Design. www.ecuad.ca. 23 October 2017. en-ca. 2018-03-10.
  22. Web site: 2015 Recipients - William and Meredith Saunderson Prizes for Emerging Artists The Hnatyshyn Foundation. www.rjhf.com. 2018-03-11.

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