Rebecca Belmore - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Rebecca Belmore (born 1960) is an interdisciplinary Anishinaabekwe artist who is particularly notable for politically conscious and socially aware performance and installation work.
She is Ojibwe and member of Obishikokaang (Lac Seul First Nation).
Belmore currently lives in Toronto, Ontario. Belmore has performed and exhibited nationally and internationally since 1986.
Her work focuses on issues of place and identity, and confronts challenges for First Nations People.
Her work addresses history, voice and voicelessness, place, and identity.
To address the politics of representation, Belmore's art strives to invert or subvert official narratives, while demonstrating a preference for the use of repetitive gesture and natural materials.
Belmore's art reveals a long-standing commitment to politics and how they relate to the construction of identity and ideas of representation.
She has exhibited across Canada, the US, Mexico, Cuba and Australia.
In 2005, OCAD University conferred an honorary doctorate on Belmore in recognition of her career.She was the first Indigenous woman representing Canada at the Venice Biennale in 2005.
She also received Canadian Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2013.

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