ADRIAN STIMSON Buffalo Boy’s Destiny Manifest
Exhibition Run: May 13 - July 15, 2023
Opening Reception: May 13, 2023
Artist Performance: May 13, 2023 2:30pm
Ociciwan Contemporary Art Centre 10124 96 St Edmonton, AB
Adrian Stimson’s Buffalo Boy’s Destiny Manifest explores the importance of the bison to the plains ecosystems. The artist incorporates various mediums, such as performance, painting, video, and installation to examine the effect of climate change and industry on our environment while also speaking to the resilience of the bison.
As a figure that is connected to both humans and other-than-humans, Buffalo Boy, Stimson’s alter ego, is present in the videos and installation works, reminding the viewer of our role in the changing climate and environment.
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Exhibition run: May 13 - July 15, 2023
Gallery Hours: 12pm-5pm, Wednesday to Saturday
Opening Reception: May 13, 2023 2pm-5pm
Artist Performance: May 13, 2023 2:30pm
Accessibility notes: Ociciwan Contemporary Art Centre is barrier-free and is equipped with a lift to reach upper floors and lower floor gallery. Single stall and wide stall washrooms available on every floor. Children are welcome! Change tables available in select washrooms.
ETS stops at 96 Street and Jasper (routes 2, 5, 88, 120, 308, 309), 97 Street and Jasper Avenue (3, 14, 100, 109, 161, 162). Paid city street parking and paid Impark lots available.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Edmonton Arts Council.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adrian Stimson
Adrian Stimson is a member of the Siksika (Blackfoot) Nation in southern Alberta.
Adrian has a BFA with distinction from the Alberta College of Art and Design and MFA from the University of Saskatchewan. He is an interdisciplinary artist and exhibits nationally and internationally.
His performance art looks at identity construction, specifically the hybridization of the Indian, the cowboy, the shaman and Two Spirit being. Buffalo Boy, The Shaman Exterminator are two reoccurring personas.
His paintings are varied yet his use of black and white monochromatic paintings that depict bison in imagined landscapes are melancholic, memorializing, whimsical, they evoke ideas cultural fragility, resilience and nostalgia.
His installation work primarily examines the residential school experience; He has used the material culture from Old Sun Residential School on his Nation to create works that speak to genocide, loss and resilience.
He was a participant in the Canadian Forces Artist Program, which sent him to Afghanistan.
Adrian was awarded the Governor General Award for Visual and Media Arts in 2018. REVEAL Indigenous Arts Award –Hnatyshyn Foundation 2017.He was awarded the Blackfoot Visual Arts Award in 2009, the Alberta Centennial Medal in 2005 and the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2003.