Tsēmā Igharas Explained

Tsēma Igharas
Nationality:Tahltan
Education:Emily Carr University of Art and Design, OCAD University

Tsēma Igharas, formerly known as Tamara Skubovius, is an interdisciplinary artist and member of the Tāłtān First Nation based in Vancouver, British Columbia.[1] [2] Igharas uses Potlatch methodology in making art, to assert the relationships between bodies and the world, and to challenge colonial systems of value and measurement of land and resources.[3]

Early life and education

Igharas was raised in Smithers, British Columbia and on Tāłtān territory.[4] Igharas earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2011, and went on to receive an Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media, and Design from OCAD University in 2016, receiving the OCADU President’s Scholarship.[5] For her graduate thesis, Igharas presented LAND | MINE, a materials library which linked bodies and mining sites to the land. In 2005 to 2006, Igharas also attended the Kitinmaax School for Northwest Coast Indian Art at ‘Ksan in Hazelton, BC, which influenced her current Potlatch methodology.[6]

Art

Igharas’ practice can be understood through the methodology of Potlatch, a ceremony rooted in reciprocity and nation building. For Igharas, artmaking becomes a “ceremony that affirms and solidifies relationships to every thing and body”. Her conceptual artwork primarily tackles colonial systems of valuing land and resources, and Western measurements of wealth, and examines the way these systems historically and continue to impact Indigenous lands and cultural practices.[7] Igharas' practice is influenced by Indigenous resistance strategies, familial and embodied knowledge, and acts of decolonization, in order to understand the Canadian imaginary and the impacts of its industrialization; Igharas also aligns with Indigenous Futurisms as a way of understanding our relationship with time and the land.

In the exhibition future generations at Artspace, Toronto, Igharas examined Indigenous futurity as a means of survival and survivance. Through working with her understandings of Tāłtān traditions, and objects and materials rooted in Western settler culture, Igharas presented strategies and gestures of resistance against neo-colonization, and imagined futures of Indigenous peoples.

The series and workshop Riot Rock Rattles at the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, continues Igharas’ examination of the material relationships between the body and the land.[8] In the workshop, participants build and engage with Igharas’ “riot rocks” – rocks imbued with materials of cultural, industrial, and resistive significance – in order to communally practice Indigenous methodologies and gain an awareness of the connections between body and land.

Selected exhibitions

Igharas has exhibited across Canada and internationally, in places such as Chiapas, Mexico; Asheville, USA; and Santiago, Chile.[9] Notable exhibitions include Interweavings, which featured emerging First Nations artists who had won the YVR Art Foundation scholarship; the Contemporary Native Art Biennial: Culture Shift in Montreal; and the Luminato Festival in Toronto. Igharas is also a member and representative of ReMatriate Collective.[10]

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Awards

2006, '08. YVR Art Foundation Scholarship / YVR Art Foundation Scholarship Emily Carr University Collaboration Scholarship[32]

2010. Alberta Centennial Award

2013. First Peoples Cultural Counsel Individual Artist Award

2014. President’s Scholarship, Entrance scholarship to OCAD University

2015. OCAD President’s Scholarship

2016. Banff Centre For the Arts Financial Assistance

2016. OCAD University Ontario Graduate Scholarship

2016. OAC Exhibition Assistance. Ore Body, Gallery 44, Toronto ON, Canada

2017. YVR Art Foundation Masterpiece Study Grant

2018. Emily Award[33]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: FUTURE GENERATIONS: Tsēmā Igharas. 2018. Artspace. March 26, 2019.
  2. Web site: Tsema Igharas: Emily Award Recipient. April 9, 2018. Aboriginal Gathering Place: Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
  3. Summer 2017. Tsēma Igharas. Canadian Art. 86. PressReader.
  4. Web site: On Being Bound by the Land and Time Traveling With Artist/Activist Tsema Igharas. Stopa. Thalia. May 22, 2018. Scout Magazine. March 26, 2019.
  5. Web site: Curriculum Vitae. Igharas. Tsēma. tsēma.ca. March 26, 2019.
  6. Web site: 'Ksan Historic Village and Museum Gallery. Simon Fraser University Bill Reid Centre. March 26, 2019.
  7. Web site: Artist Statement. Igharas. Tsēma. tsēma.ca. March 26, 2019.
  8. Web site: Riot Rock Rattle Workshop by Tsēma Igharas. 2017. Gardiner Museum. March 26, 2019.
  9. Web site: Tsema Igharas. mappingchange.ca. March 26, 2019.
  10. Web site: UBCO Visiting Artist Lecture Series – Tsema Igharas. 2019. The Daily Courier. March 26, 2019.
  11. Web site: ECUAD's 2011 Degree Exhibition features an overwhelming variety of expression. 2011-05-10. Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly. 2019-03-27.
  12. Web site: January 2011 Satellite Gallery Blog. 2019-03-27.
  13. Web site: Hearings: A Sound-Based Research Project at Todmorden Hills.
  14. Web site: Tsema Tamara Skubovius: LANDMINE. 2016-03-31. OCAD UNIVERSITY. 2019-03-27.
  15. Web site: Exhibition Programming Season. Gallery 44.
  16. Web site: Tree temporality: multi-species research on time, territory and public art practice. 2017-11-01. OCAD UNIVERSITY. 2019-03-27.
  17. Web site: FAM at the Gardiner Museum. Su-Ying Lee. 2019-03-27.
  18. Web site: future generations Artspace. artspace-arc.org. 2019-03-27.
  19. Web site: 2018 Theme. La Biennale d’art contemporain autochtone. 12 April 2018 . 2019-03-27.
  20. Web site: Britannia Centre Archive.
  21. Web site: Talking Stick Festival Visual Arts Exhibition Coming to the Fire Emily Carr University. www.connect.ecuad.ca. 2019-03-27.
  22. Web site: Make ReMake UnMake. North Shore News. 2019-03-27.
  23. Web site: ENVELOPMENT(S): Paths Taken and Not Taken, IAMD First Year Exhibition. 2015-03-24. OCAD UNIVERSITY. 2019-03-27.
  24. Web site: Art This Week: Omega: I Am Woman, Ryan Peter, Print Ready5 and more. www.vancouversun.com. 2019-03-27.
  25. Web site: News. YTB Gallery. en-US. 2019-03-27.
  26. Web site: There is Bread and Salt Between Us – Valentyna Onisko MFA Thesis Exhibition. 2017-03-07. OCAD UNIVERSITY. 2019-03-27.
  27. Ehrhart. I. C.. Parker. P. E.. Weidner. W. J.. Dabney. J. M.. Scott. J. B.. Haddy. F. J.. September 1975. Coronary vascular and myocardial responses to carotid body stimulation in the dog. The American Journal of Physiology. 229. 3. 754–760. 10.1152/ajplegacy.1975.229.3.754. 0002-9513. 2017. free.
  28. Web site: SBC galerie d'art contemporain. SBC galerie d'art contemporain SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art. 2019-03-27.
  29. Web site: Upcoming Winnipeg Art Gallery. www.wag.ca. 2019-03-27.
  30. Web site: Crafted Strangers – The Center for Craft. 2019-03-27.
  31. Web site: Women and Water Illuminate the World. Nixon. Lindsay. Canadian Art. en-US. 2019-07-26.
  32. Web site: Tsēma Tamara Skubovius YVR Art Foundation. yvraf.com. 2019-03-27.
  33. Web site: Tsema Igharas. Your Site Title. en-US. 2019-03-27.

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