Jeneen Frei Njootli
Jeneen Frei Njootli is an interdisciplinary Vuntut Gwitchin artist known primarily for their work with sound and textiles, performance, fashion, workshops, and barbeques. Work. Njootli is a co-creator of the ReMatriate Collective, a group working toward better representation of Indigenous women in the media. As one of the five finalist of the 2018 Sobey Art Award, Njoottli's work, "wind sucked in through bared teeth" (2017) is included in an eponymous exhibition featuring the finalists at the National Gallery of Canada. In 2016, Njootli completed the Media Arts Residency at the Western Front, an artist-run  centre in Vancouver. Njootli has worked on several projects and presentations with artist Olivia Whetung. Whetung wrote "Fugitive Dust" to accompany Njootli’s solo exhibition "I Can’t Make You Those Mitts Because There Is a Hole in My Heart and My Hands Hurt" (2018). Education. In 2017, Njootli earned an M.F.A from the University of British Columbia. In 2016, Njootli completed the Earth Line Indigenous Tattoo training residency. Performance. 2018 2016 2015 2014 Awards and Honours. In 2018, Njootli was the Sobey Art Award Finalist for the West Coast and Yukon categories. In 2017, Njootli was also longlisted for  the Sobey Art Award for the West Coast and Yukon categories, and in the same year, awarded the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver's Artist Prize. In 2016, Njootli was awarded the Hnatyshyn Foundation, William & Meredith Saunderson Prize for Emerging Canadian Artist Lectures, Workshops & Curating.