Shelley Niro
Subtitle: Scotiabank Award
Publisher: Steidl/Scotiabank
Published: Jun 26, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9783958294011
Description: "The Scotiabank Photography Award is the largest peer-reviewed photographic art award in Canada, recognizing an established artist working in the medium. Shelley Niro is a member of the Six Nations Reserve, Bay of Quinte Mohawk, Turtle Clan. She uses photography, painting, beadwork, installation, and video to redefine contemporary Indigenous experience and identity. This survey exhibition celebrates Niro's career, and includes more than 70 objects, spanning from 1991 to 2017, featuring seminal works and never-before-shown photographs, along with some of the artist's recent projects. The accompanying book also presents a coherent overview of Niro's work, and both the exhibition and the book serve as prestigious acknowledgements of her outstanding contribution to the field."
Notes: Source title: Shelley Niro: Scotiabank Award