About me
Nelson White is an artist and member of the Flat Bay First Nation Band (No’kmaq Village) in Flat Bay, Newfoundland. Canada.
Nelson attended the Visual Arts program at the Bay St. George Community College in Stephenville, NL and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, NS.
Nelson exhibits throughout Canada and the US in both group and solo touring shows such as Tukien (Awaken) which toured five institutional galleries.
His work has been featured on CBC’s The National and in Visual Arts News.
His paintings are collected across North America, including the Provincial
Government art collections of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and the Smithsonian’s National
Museum of the American Indian.
In 2021 White participated in the Fogo Island Arts International Residency and in 2022, a residency with Ocean Gate and Miawpukek Horizon that took him on an expedition to the Titanic wreck site.
He was named ArtsNL Artist of the Year for 2020 and winner of the 2022 VANL-CARFAC Excellence in Visual Arts Milestone Award. In 2025, Nelson was
longlisted for the Sobey Art Award, was a finalist for the Kingston Prize and was winner of the ArtsNL Artist Achievement Award.
Nelson currently lives in St. John’s, NL with his family.