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Shelby Lisk
shelbyliskphoto@gmail.com
www.shelbylisk.com
Ottawa, Ont. &
Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory
Education:
2020 Certificate in Mohawk language & culture, Queen's University and Tsi Tyónnheht Onkwawén:na
2019 Photojournalism Diploma, Loyalist College, Belleville, Ontario
2015 Bachelor of Fine Arts, minor in Gender Studies, University of Ottawa
2012 Intermediate Painting, Florence University of the Arts, Florence, Italy
Additional Training:
2021 Hot Docs Podcast Accelerator Program, Toronto, Ontario
2020 Emerging-20 Program for BIPOC Filmmakers, Reelworld Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario
2020 Indigenous 150+ podcast, interviewing and protocols training, Good Influence Films
2019 Short Film Lab, documentary filmmaking training, DOC Institute, Ottawa, Ontario
2018 Sovereign Bodies | Healthy Nations, filmmaking and media arts training, imagineNATIVE, Toronto, Ontario
Professional Experience:
2014 – Present Freelance Photographer, Writer, Filmmaker, and Artist, Ontario
2019 - 2022 Indigenous Hub Reporter , TVO, Ottawa, Ontario
Journalist In Residence, Carleton University Journalism and Communications department, Ottawa, Ontario
2019 Video Intern, AMJVisuals, Cobourg, Ontario
Visual Intern, the Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ontario
2018 Media Manager, Kenhté:ke Seed Sanctuary, Tyendinaga, Ontario
2017 – 2018 Media Relations, Kagita Mikam, Tyendinaga, Ontario
2016 Gallery Associate, Mountain Galleries, Banff, Alberta
2014 – 2016 Discovery University, Photography Teaching Assistant, Ottawa, Ontario
2014 – 2015 Studio Assistant to Rosalie Favell, Ottawa, Ontario
2013 – 2015 Gallery Assistant, Central Art Garage, Ottawa, Ontario
2014 Cultural Program Assistant, Minwaashin Lodge, Ottawa, Ontario
Director of Submissions, Ottawa Arts Review, Ottawa, Ontario
Director, Gallery 115, Ottawa, Ontario
Studio Assistant to Andrew Wright, Ottawa, Ontario
Gallery Intern, La Petite Mort Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2013 – 2014 Co-head Coordinator of 2014 Graduation Show, University of Ottawa, Ontario
Events Coordinator, Gallery 115 Board of Directors, University of Ottawa, Ontario
Solo Exhibitions:
2022 Shé:kon se’onhwentsyà:ke ratinékere tsi nihá:ti nè:ne yesanorónhkhwa (there are still people in the world that love you), Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario
2018 Keró:roks tsi naho’ténhson sewake’nikonhrhèn:’en (I am gathering all of the things I have forgotten), Modern Fuel, Kingston, Ontario
Group Exhibitions:
2023 Beads and Pieces, City Of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
improvement becomes a wall, and the river meanders still, On site - Don River, Toronto, Ontario
2022 Sense of Belonging: A Place Called Home, Woodland Cultural Centre, Six Nations, Ontario
Continuum, Karsh-Masson Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2019 Room of One's Own, Random Access Gallery, Syracuse University, NY
2018 Sovereign Bodies/Healthy Nations, video screening, imagineNATIVE festival, Toronto, Ontario
Feminist Art Collective Residency Exhibition, Toronto, Ontario
Home Grown, Private Residence, Belleville, Ontario
2017 Kanata 150?, Studio Sixty Six, Ottawa, Ontario
2015 Feminist Art Conference, Toronto, Ontario
EXVEE, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island, Ontario
MIXED Art Conference, 416 Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
You’re Not Here, Daniels Spectrum, Toronto, Ontario
2014 Narrative I.D., Core Space, Chicago, Il.
6 Artists (#5 Will Blow Your Mind!), Nuit Blanche, Ottawa, Ontario
Visual Generation, Voix Visuelle, Ottawa, Ontario
Darkroom 3.0, Gallery 918, Toronto, Ontario
Preface, University of Ottawa Graduation Exhibition, Ottawa, Ontario
Feminist Art Conference, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2013-2014 Composition, Centre for Academic Leadership, Ottawa, Ontario
2013 125 Years of the Arts, Paradigm[e] Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
Spectra, Nuit Blanche, Ottawa, Ontario
Artist Residencies:
2022 Along the Way and Decolonial Ecologies Playgroup, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario
2021 Studies in Solitude micro-residency, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario
2019 Independent Writing Residency, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta
2018 Feminist Art Collective, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, Ontario
2016 BAiR Text, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta
2015 Feminist Art Conference, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, Ontario
2014 Luminous Bodies, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, Ontario
Lectures/Panels:
2022 In conversation with Jennifer Podemski and Shelby Lisk, Prince Edward County Arts Council
2022 Artist tour, Continuum, Karsh-Masson Gallery
2019 Reading Images of Indigenous People in Media, Foundations of Journalism class, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
Salam from Niagara Falls: Artist talk with Shelby Lisk, CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, Ontario
2018 “To Maria Amanda Bairo: Legacy of Love” panel, International Colloquium: Women's Voices/Voix Feminines/Voces Femeninas, University of Ottawa, ON
2018 Artist talk, Meta Figure undergraduate class, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ontario
2017 Artist talk, Off the Record Graduate Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
2015 Guest Lecturer, Digital Photography, Discovery University, Ottawa, Ontario
2014 Intersectionality – Collaboration, Cooperation, Community, Feminist Art Conference panel, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ontario
Photo Journaling: Art as a Coping Mechanism, Minwaashin Lodge, Ottawa, Ontario
Art as Resistance, Activism and Community Engagement: Indigenous Art Against Violence, Minwaashin Lodge, Ottawa, Ontario
Selected Publications:
2022 Aktsi'a, "Origins" Zine, Ottawa Design Club, Ottawa, Ontario
2020 two people who really want to feel whole braiding sweet grass, Room Magazine Issue 43.1 - Hair, Vancouver, BC
2018 As Defined By photo series, In/Words Magazine, Dis(s)ent, Ottawa,Ontario
Talking to the Man in my Phone, Red Rising Magazine Issue #8, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2017 You’re Not Here photo series, Hart House Review Issue #26, University of Toronto, Ontario
Invisible Indian, #NotYourPrincess Anthology, Annick Press, Edited by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary-Beth Leatherdale, Toronto, Ontario
Love Letter to Lake Ontario, Red Rising Magazine Issue #5, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2016 Invisible Indian, Red Rising Magazine Issue #2, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Bibliography:
2022 "With beaded earrings, photographer Shelby Lisk renews ties with the women in her life", Globe and Mail
2019 Photojournalism student receives Governor General Award, Pioneer, Belleville, Ontario
2017 Kanata 150? Exhibit Explores Counter-Narratives of Colonization, The Leveler, Ottawa, Ontario
2015 Meet the FAC Residency Artist: Shelby Lisk, Feminist Art Conference blog, Toronto, Ontario
Feminism Through Art, A Conference with A Message, Guelph-Humber Radix, Toronto, Ontario
Feminist Art: Neither Here nor There, but Everywhere, Torontoist, Toronto, Ontario
2013 Diversité identitaire de l’Université: d’hier à aujourd’hui, La Rotonde, Ottawa, Ontario
Awards:
2021 Long-listed, Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
2019 Shortlisted, Room Magazine's Poetry Contest
2019 Best Short Short, TVO ShortDoc Contest
2018 Governor General History Award, Indigenous Arts & Stories, Historica Canada
2017 Emerging Indigenous Reporters Scholarship, Journalists for Human Rights, Loyalist College and JHR
2015 Helen Nininger Scholarship in Fine Arts, University of Ottawa
2014 Daïmôn Prize for Photography, University of Ottawa
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