Janice Toulouse paintings and art history All rights reserved 2012
Janice Toulouse is an artist painter and instructor. Anishinabe Kwe born and raised in Serpent River First Nations, Ontario, lives in Vancouver. A senior artist who has maintained a dedicated painting practice, exhibition and teaching work for over 30 years. BFA, Advanced Graduate in Painting 1979 Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, MFA, Master of Fine Arts 1985, Concordia University, Montreal. Recipient of several awards and a prestigious National Museum of the American Indian Artist Residency in New York in 2002. Teaches Senior Studio at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Exhibits often in France where she has a history of art making.
“ART en CAPITAL” Grand Palais, Salon des Artistes Indépendants, 2012 Paris France. “From Manhattan to Menatay” , AICH Gallery, 2006 New York. “Traveling Alter Native Medicine Show” 1999 Grunt Gallery, Vancouver,
Aboriginal Art Centre, 1999, Ottawa, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Ontario, Sacred Circle Gallery, Seattle 2001.
“My paintings are my statement on my life as Anishinabe Kwe through the language of contemporary art. My research is revising history from an Indigenous perspective, to respect and connect all life. I have made several large format artworks in Anishinabek - Northern Ontario, Lenape - New York, Lakota - South Dakota to Coast Salish - BC, assisting First Nations through my art, in being respected, acknowledged and attaining repatriation of our homelands.”
Thanks to Canada Council of the Arts for funding several projects.
“ART en CAPITAL” Grand Palais, Salon des Artistes Indépendants, 2012 Paris France. “From Manhattan to Menatay” , AICH Gallery, 2006 New York. “Traveling Alter Native Medicine Show” 1999 Grunt Gallery, Vancouver,
Aboriginal Art Centre, 1999, Ottawa, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Ontario, Sacred Circle Gallery, Seattle 2001.
“My paintings are my statement on my life as Anishinabe Kwe through the language of contemporary art. My research is revising history from an Indigenous perspective, to respect and connect all life. I have made several large format artworks in Anishinabek - Northern Ontario, Lenape - New York, Lakota - South Dakota to Coast Salish - BC, assisting First Nations through my art, in being respected, acknowledged and attaining repatriation of our homelands.”
Thanks to Canada Council of the Arts for funding several projects.
My last big painting. Tradition in Transformation oil/acrylic on canvas 65” x 106” 2014. If you are a gallery or museum interested to exhibit my work contact me. C'est fini, mon dernier tableau, ou le début. JT
Art News: Reviews, Anishinabek News, participating in "Walking with our Sisters" tours until 2020 (click>enlarge)
Walking With Our Sisters 1,600+ moccasin tops dedicated to the missing and murdered Indigenous women. "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. I made the ones in red on the poster, a simple process yet so hard due to the sadness you feel for these native women and their families. JT
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Review on my art in Anishinabek News
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Review in La Depeche
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Les Peintures Abstraites
*Expo Solo La Médiathèque 2013,
Lauzerte, Fr
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"Impressions de la Terre", La Mediatheque Lauzerte France, 3 - 16 Juillet 2014 (click enlarge images)
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"Indiginesse" An Exhibition by Contemporary Native Women, Aurora Cultural Centre, Ontario May 2014. Best moments was with my family at the opening, and sharing a laugh with Shelly Niro! The Massacre Painting was noticed by a government official, I believe this work has affected change in the lives of Native people. Death is a very hard subject to paint.
Click to enlarge to read my text on "The Massacre Painting">
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Former Prime Minister of Canada: Honourable Paul Martin having a quiet moment with the Massacre Painting by Janice Toulouse. " I cannot tell you how
impressed I was with Indiginesse and the artistic quality demonstrated in the exhibition. It would be
impossible for anyone to spend even a short time looking at the art on display not to realize how talented the artists are. What also touched me deeply was how much your initiative will go towards making Canadians aware of the true depth of First Nations, Metis and Inuit culture. The more this awareness grows, the stronger Canada will be.
Sincerely, Paul Martin"
Recent Exhibitions:
Recent Exhibitions and Art News:
>Teaching with Emily Carr University of Art & Design, at North Island College, Spring Term 2015. Excited to teach again and meet the graduating students!
>Travels to Mexico, inspiration for my creative and spiritual life. Art making entails more than full time work, artists need to take breaks. Dec 2014
>"Impressions de la Terre", my annual Expo Solo - La Médiathèque Pierre Sourbie July 3 - 16, 2014 Lauzerte, France. Celebrating the colours in the south of france, looking at how well the land is cared for environmentally. Where I raised my child, and she studied in this local 15th century village.
>Flew to Toronto to attend the Opening. It's been a long time since I have been in my homeland. "Indiginesse" Aurora Cultural Centre, May 7 to June 28 2014. An important exhibition, my painting will be shown with a group of strong contemporary Native women artists. It was all about family for me.
>Walking With Our Sisters opens October 2, 2013 University of Alberta. 1,600+ moccasin tops dedicated to the missing and murdered Indigenous women, touring the Americas to 2019. "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" J.Toulouse
>Imago Mundi Project, FONDAZIONE BENETTON Treviso, Italy, collection of artists work to be shown around the world.
>"Concrete Canyon": Native American Artists in New York City Phoenix Gallery. Painting created in New York, "From Manhattan to Menatay" collection AICH NY
>"Dimanche des Arts", Aix en Provence, Salon de Jardin, June 16, 36 artists
> "Les Peintures Abstraites" Expo Solo - La Médiathèque Pierre Sourbie May 16 - June 5, Lauzerte, France
Action Painting Class, at Emily Carr University, Vancouver 2013, voted best instructor by the Teen Program.
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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. (I'd like to see more of this painterly spirit today.)
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. Works inspired by tradition from the Museum's collection.
"Inspired" Woodland Cultural Centre, May 2012 from the Museum's collection <CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE>
"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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"Nay' -chem Was, The Talking Stick Exhibition", February 2012 Roundhouse, Vancouver. I curated this exhibition of nine Indigenous artists originating from coast to coast of Canada, creating a contemporary 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 / photo C.Randle
"Aanikoobijigani Gikinoohamaagewinan: Noonkom ishinamowinan-Ancestral Teachings" Gladstone Gallery Oct 2011. One of 10 Indigenous artists selected for a group show in Toronto.
Aanikoobijigani Gikinoohamaagewinan: Noonkom ishinamowinan-Ancestral Teachings Gladstone Gallery, Toronto October 2011. "THE THUNDERBIRD CENTRE SELECTS 10 ARTISTS TO PARTAKE IN ANCESTRAL TEACHINGS:
CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES curated by: Vanessa Dion Fletcher http://www.thunderbirdcentre.ca/
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Ancestral Teachings Gladstone Gallery Toronto 2011. I lived my youth in TO, my family went to the Galdstone Hotel. A spirit is shining on the Ancestors braids, nice to know they still visit.
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