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Solo Exhibitions

2025    Tukien (Awaken), Daphne Art Gallery, Montreal Quebec

2024    Wutanminu - Our Community,  Fogo Island Arts

2023    Ni'kmaq - My Family, Gallery@501, Sherwood Park, AB

             Flat Bay Tipi Project , Flat Bay, NL

2023    Tukien (Awaken), The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery of Newfoundland & Labrador , St. John’s, NL

2022    Ni'kmaq - My Family, Ottawa  School of  Art, Ottawa , Ont 

             Ni'kmaq - My Family , Dieppe Arts and Culture Centre (DACC), Moncton, NB

             Tukien (Awaken), St. Francis Xavier University. Antigonish, Nova Scotia

2021    Tukien (Awaken), Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax , NS  (October)

2020    Gatherings, Eastern Edge Gallery, St, John’s, NL
             Tukien (Awaken, Grenfell  Art Gallery, Corner Brook, NL

             Tukien (Awaken), Confederation Art Center, Charlottetown, PEI

2019    Eymu’tiek – We are Here, The Rooms, St. John’s, NL                                                 

2016    Dancers, Sipuke'l Gallery, Liverpool, NS

             Dancers, Tina Dolter Art Gallery / Rotary Arts Center, Corner Brook, NL

2014    Familiar Places, Arts & Culture Center, Stephenville, NL

 

Group Exhibits

2025    Kingston Prize, Canada’s Portrait Prize- Arta Gallery, Toronto, ON - Finalist,

             Dog Show, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, Alaska

             Counter Culture: Seeds of Resistance, Cape Breton Centre for Craft & Design, Cape Breton, NS

2024    Tekweywinen tel Wejesultiek(Be With Us In Our Joy), The Rooms St. John’s

              First Nations Art 2024, Woodland Cultural Center, Brandford , ON

2022     Noojimo (She Heals), All My Relations Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

              RE: Place, Union House Arts, Port Union, NL

2021    me <---->you, The Rooms, St. John’s, NL

              First Nations Art 2021, Woodland Cultural Center, Brandford , ON

2020    Survivance of Indigenous Art: 2020 Pandemic, Mawi’Art: Wabanaki Artist Collective, Virtual

2019    Keepers of the Light, Petapan Indigenous Arts Symposium, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s, NL

             Wolankeyutomon, Abbe Museum, Bar Harbour Maine

​2018    FigureWorks, Wallack Galleries, Ottawa, Ont    ** Shortlisted for National prize

             Quest Midland 2018 TD Wealth - Thor Wealth Management Group Art Prize. Quest Art School & Gallery, Ont    ** Shortlisted for National prize

             Reclamation- Government House (Identify Festival), Government House, St. John’s, NL

             Celebrating the Indigenous Spirit, Humber College, Toronto, ON

              Indigenous Artists in Atlantic Canada, McCarthy Gallery, Nova Scotia Community College, Truro, NS

              Our Games - Hockey and Sports theme Art, Tina Dolter Art Gallery, Corner Brook, NL

2017    Surmirt Art Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

             Salvage, 2017 Writers at Woody Point Art Show, Woody Point, NL

             First Nations Art 2017, Woodland Cultural Center, Brandford , ON

             Paws of Love, The Tifton Museum of Arts and Heritage, Tifton, GA

             Elements -Historic Sites Association of Newfoundland and Labrador- Water Street Gallery, St. John’s, NL              

2016    Cat Person. Dog Person. Whatchamacallit Person, Agryle Fine Art, Halifax, NS

             National Aboriginal Day Arts & Craft Exhibit, Rotary Arts Center Corner Brook, NL

             Spirit Song Festival, St. John’s Native Friendship Center, St. John’s, NL  

Residencies

2022    OceanGate / Miawpukek Horizon Maritime Services  Titanic expedition.

2021    Fogo Island Arts, Fogo Island, NL – (October to November)

2018    First Indigenous artist in Residence at Rooms Provincial Art Gallery of Newfoundland & Labrador in conjunction with Eastern Edge Gallery

 

Collections

Smithsonian Institute- Museum of the American Indian

David & Pamela Hornik Collection

The Rooms, St. John’s NL

Confederation Center- PEI

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS

Canada Council Art Bank

TIA Foundation

McCarthy Gallery, Truro, NS

Qalipu First Nations Band

St. John's Native Friendship Center

Canadian Border Services

Barry Levine-Bocca Raton FL

City of St. John’s, St. John’s, NL

Philadelphia Flyers – Philadelphia , Pen.

Montreal Canadiens – Montreal Quebec

Provincial Government of Newfoundland and Labrador

 

Awards

2025 ArtsNL Artist Achievement Award - Winner

2025 Sobeys Art Award long list

2025 Kingston Prize Finalist

2020 ArtsNL Artist of the Year - Winner

2022 VANL Excellence in Visual Arts Milestone Award - Winner

2021 VANL CARFAC, Excellence in Visual Arts Milestone Award – Shortlisted

2019 VANL Excellence in Visual Arts Milestone Award – Shortlisted

Publications

Nelson White: Mimajimk (Living/Vivre) Grenfell Art

Cover – Riddle Fence Magazine – Nov. 2020

Visual Arts News – Feature profile Spring 2019

Newfoundland Quarterly- Feature profile – Fall, 2018

Aboriginal Coloring Book  -Superior-Greenstone District School Board. Marathon, ON

Maps & Illustrations  - Weavers of the Tapestry By Kathrine E. Bellamy, RSM,  Flanker Press

Cover – Beckett Hockey Magazine- Houston Texas

Cover- Power Play Hockey

Other

Petapan: First Light Indigenous Arts Symposium Charlottetown , PEI, 2024

Petapan: First Light Indigenous Arts Symposium Fredericton, NB  2022

Petapan: First Light Indigenous Arts Symposium St.  John’s, NL  2019

Petapan: First Light Indigenous Arts Symposium Dieppe, NB 2016

Juror - 2020 NL Arts & Letters Competition

Juror – 2022 Winterset Book Awards

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