Janice Toulouse paintings and art history All rights reserved 2012
Award-winning painter, Anishinabe kwe from Northern Ontario, lives on the central coast of BC. Exhibitions and International public collections in Canada, United States, and Europe. Awarded Smithsonian residency in 2002, exhibited this work at AICH Gallery, New York in 2006. Advanced Graduate in Painting 1979, Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver. Master of Fine Arts 1985, Concordia University, Montreal. Former instructor Emily Carr University. Lived in France in the 90‘s represented by the first Native Art gallery in Paris.
"The paintings are my statement on my life as an Indigenous woman, a fusion of contemporary art and traditional Ojibwe art. I make art for change and the inclusion of Indigenous people in our homelands. Painting has always been a process I am passionate about. In 2003 I changed my life after becoming deathly ill, I survived a long healing process and now help others through my art. I have received several awards yet most of my art is self funded. Native artists merit all the funding and exposure possible, coming from a life of struggles to finally having doors open, it is our time to share our art with the world."
"The paintings are my statement on my life as an Indigenous woman, a fusion of contemporary art and traditional Ojibwe art. I make art for change and the inclusion of Indigenous people in our homelands. Painting has always been a process I am passionate about. In 2003 I changed my life after becoming deathly ill, I survived a long healing process and now help others through my art. I have received several awards yet most of my art is self funded. Native artists merit all the funding and exposure possible, coming from a life of struggles to finally having doors open, it is our time to share our art with the world."
Art News (click to enlarge)
Review on my art in Anishinabek News
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Walking With Our Sisters 1,600+ moccasin tops dedicated to the 600+ missing and murdered Indigenous women. "I made the ones in red on the poster, it was a simple process yet so hard due to the sadness you feel for these native women and their families. JT
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The American Indian Community House (AICH) and the Phoenix Gallery are proud to present Concrete Canyon: Native American Artists in New York City, Phoenix Gallery August 2013
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- Walking With Our Sisters opens October 2, 2013 University of Alberta. I have a work with 1,600+ moccasin tops dedicated to the 600+ missing and murdered Indigenous women, a vision of Christi Belcourt, exhibit tour travels across the Americas to 2019. Artist Description: "These moccasin vamps are made to honour a Native woman’s daughter who never lived long enough to dance in her moccasins. May they help her to walk her path in the spirit world by Janice Toulouse
-Concrete Canyon: Native American Artists in New York City the Phoenix Gallery . The painting I created in New York, "From Manhattan to Menatay" (left centre) collection AICH NY
-June 29.. Traveling back to Canada, Bordeaux then Paris. Rejuvenated from Helder's Gymzen class in Lauzerte!
-Dimanche des Arts, Aix en Provence, Sunday June 16, 36 artists
*Expo Solo - La Médiathèque Pierre Sourbie May 16 - June 5, Lauzerte, France.
Star blanket Valerie made a wedding gift for Alexander & Janice 2007
In honour of my sister Ogema kwe - Valerie McCue (Toulouse) April 22, 1941 - Oct. 17, 2013 our family celebrate her life and wonderful quilt making. My mom was known as Princess Shingwauk at Shingwauk Home Residential School, Valerie was the oldest daughter, she was taken away to Spanish Residential School along with my other brothers and sisters including Marilyn who died last year. We two youngest girls were taken away to a Children's Aid home, until my mother could get us all 9 children back and bravely raise on her own after our dad Joseph Toulouse died. Val gifted many star blankets and influenced so many people by her teachings on the Ojibwe people. Gizaagin
Action Painting Class at Emily Carr University, Vancouver 2013, voted best instructor by the students.
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I exhibited in the Salon des Artistes Indépendants ART en CAPITAL au Grand Palais, Paris, Nov 27 - Dec 2 2012. SOCIÉTÉ DES ARTISTES INDÉPENDANTS, Historical Salon of Painters. In a sphere of influence of uprising, the painters néo - impressionnistes such as Cézanne, Gauguin, Redon, Modigliani, Van Gogh .. tired of being refused by the jury of the Official Salon decide to create their own Salon in 1884.
Ojibwe Red acrylic on linen 8x10" 2012
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ART en CAPITAL au Grand Palais
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The opening night of Salon des Artistes Indépendants.
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"Inspired" Woodland Cultural Centre, May 2012 from the Museum's collection <CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE>
Inspired, Woodland Cultural Centre, May 2012. Works inspired by tradition from the Museum's collection.
"The Lay of the Land" Thunder Bay Art Gallery April - May 2012 from the collection, curator Suzanne Morrissette
 The Lay of the Land
with works by Carl Beam, Henry Beaudry, Bob Boyer, Julius Cook, Greg Hill, Robert Houle, Gerald McMaster, Margaret Mitchell, and Janice Toulouse Shingwaak
March 30 – May 27 , 2012 Gallery II
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The Lay of the Land Thunder Bay Art Gallery April 2012 Curator Suzanne Morrisette photo Klaus Rossler
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Healing the Earth 2001, mixed media painting based on the Anishinabek history, collection Thunder Bay Art Gallery
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I Curated "Nay' -chem Was, The Talking Stick Exhibition", February 2012 Roundhouse, Vancouver. I selected nine outstanding Indigenous artists for this group show, the artists created their own version of a talking stick.
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Nay'-chem Was “The Talking Stick” Exhibition at the Roundhouse for Full Circle's Stick Festival.
The artists are Rebecca Belmore, Lance Cardinal, Merritt Johnson, Peter Morin, Dionne Paul, Michelle Sylliboy, Janice Toulouse, Charlene Vickers, and Xwalacktun (Rick Harry)
55 meter space / photoC.Randle
Ancestral Teachings Gladstone Gallery Oct 2011. One of ten Indigenous artists selected for group show in Toronto.
Ancestral Teachings at Gladstone GalleryToronto October 2011 group show
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Ancestral Teachings GladstoneGalleryToronto2011
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