Jaimie Isaac
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| nationality = Sagkeeng First Nation, Canadian
| alma_mater = University of British Columbia
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Jaimie Isaac is a Winnipeg-based Anishinaabe artist and curator.{{Cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/culural-appropriation-prize-1.4118940|title='Appropriation is theft': 3 Indigenous writers speak to CBC on 'appropriation prize' controversy|work=CBC News|access-date=2018-03-14|language=en}}
Early life and education
Isaac is of Ojibway and British descent and is a member of Sagkeeng First Nation.{{Cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/we-are-on-treaty-land-exhibition-acknowledges-traditional-territory-1.3318741|title=We Are On Treaty Land exhibition acknowledges traditional territory {{!}} CBC News|work=CBC|access-date=2018-03-14|language=en-US}} She holds a master's degree from the University of British Columbia and a BA in art history with an Arts and Cultural Management Certificate from the University of Winnipeg. Her Masters of Arts thesis was titled, "Decolonizing curatorial practice: acknowledging Indigenous cultural praxis, mapping its agency, recognizing its aesthetic within contemporary Canadian art."{{cite thesis |last1=Isaac |first1=Jaimie Lyn |title=Decolonizing curatorial practice : acknowledging Indigenous curatorial praxis, mapping its agency, recognizing its aesthetic within contemporary Canadian art |url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0303135 |website=open.library.ubc.ca |date=2016 |publisher=UBC |doi=10.14288/1.0303135 |access-date=20 November 2022}}
Career
Jamie is a founding member of The Ephemerals Collective, an all-female Indigenous arts collective based out of Winnipeg.{{Cite web|url=https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/art-gallery/programming/2011-12/the-ephemerals-trending.html|title=The Ephemerals: Trending|website=www.uwinnipeg.ca|language=en|access-date=2018-03-14}} She has sat on the boards of numerous Canadian art organizations including the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective and the Aboriginal Manitoba Music association.{{Cite web|url=http://www.leahdecter.com/official_denial/bios.html|title=bios|website=www.leahdecter.com|language=en|access-date=2018-03-14}}
In 2010, Isaac was employed as the visual arts coordinator for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. In 2016, Isaac was co-faculty with artist Duane Linklater at the Summer Institute of the Wood Land School at Plug In Institute.{{Cite web|url=https://plugin.org/summer-institute/faculty|title=Wood Land School {{!}} Plug In ICA|website=plugin.org|language=en|access-date=2018-04-05}}
From 2015 to 2017, Isaac served as the Winnipeg Art Gallery's Aboriginal Curatorial Resident, a position funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.{{Cite news|url=http://www.metronews.ca/news/winnipeg/2017/09/10/winnipeg-art-gallery-gets-new-curator-upcoming-exhibit.html|title=Winnipeg Art Gallery gets new curator, upcoming exhibit {{!}} Metro Winnipeg|work=metronews.ca|access-date=2018-03-14|language=en|archive-date=2018-04-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180406041917/http://www.metronews.ca/news/winnipeg/2017/09/10/winnipeg-art-gallery-gets-new-curator-upcoming-exhibit.html|url-status=dead}}
In 2017, Isaac was hired as Curator of Indigenous and Contemporary Art at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.{{Cite web|url=http://wag.ca/about/press/media-releases/read,release/568/wag-hires-jaimie-isaac-as-curator-of-indigenous-and-contemporary-art|title=WAG Hires Jaimie Isaac as Curator of Indigenous and Contemporary Art {{!}} Media Releases {{!}} Winnipeg Art Gallery|last=Lizard|first=Visual|website=wag.ca|language=en|access-date=2018-03-14}} In 2021, she was appointed chief curator at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.{{cite web |title=Jaimie Isaac New Chief Curator at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria |url=https://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/jaimie-isaac-new-chief-curator-at-the-art-gallery-of-greater-victoria-4691642 |website=www.timescolonist.com |date=26 August 2021 |publisher=Times Colonist, 2021 |access-date=20 November 2022}}
In 2017, she co-curated the exhibition INSURGENCE/RESURGENCE with Indigenous artist/curator Jaimie Isaac. This was the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s largest ever exhibition of contemporary Indigenous art featuring works by 29 artists.{{Cite web |title=12040, 1829-05-08, [BULGIN, BENNETT, HAWKESLEY, et a.] |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2210-7886_asc-12040 |access-date=2024-09-11 |website=Art Sales Catalogues Online}}{{Cite web |title=Winnipeg Art Gallery hosts groundbreaking Indigenous exhibit - Winnipeg {{!}} Globalnews.ca |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/3958989/winnipeg-art-gallery-hosts-groundbreaking-indigenous-exhibit/ |access-date=2024-09-11 |website=CJOB |language=en-US}}
Work
= Writing =
- "Reflections on Unsettling Narratives of Denial" in The Land We Are Now: Writers and Artists Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation (Winnipeg: ARP Books, 2015).{{Cite news|url=https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/books/reconciliation-reconsidered-316648011.html|title=Reconciliation reconsidered|last=Dudley|first=Michael|date=2015-07-18|work=Winnipeg Free Press|access-date=2018-03-14}}
- "In Dialogue: Scott Benesiinaabandan's waabana’iwewin" in Public 54: Indigenous Art: New Media and the Digital, 2016.{{Cite web|url=http://www.publicjournal.ca/54-indigenous-art/|title=INDIGENOUS ART: NEW MEDIA AND THE DIGITAL|website=www.publicjournal.ca|access-date=2018-04-05}}
- With Leach Decter, "(official denial) trade value in progress: Unsettling Narratives" in [https://web.archive.org/web/20160913132154/http://reworksinprogress.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/wcl74h.pdf Reconcile This!] (West Coast Line 71, no. 2, 2012).
= Exhibitions =
- Curated with Julie Nagam, Insurgence/Resurgence, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2017{{Cite news|url=https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/arts/sagkeeng-first-nation-member-named-wag-curator-of-indigenous-and-contemporary-art-442909873.html|title=Sagkeeng First Nation member named WAG curator of Indigenous and contemporary art|last=Comments|first=Posted: 09/6/2017 1:20 PM {{!}}|date=2017-09-06|work=Winnipeg Free Press|access-date=2018-03-14}}{{Cite news|url=https://globalnews.ca/news/3958989/winnipeg-art-gallery-hosts-groundbreaking-indigenous-exhibit/|title=Winnipeg Art Gallery hosts groundbreaking Indigenous exhibit|work=CJOB|access-date=2018-03-14|language=en}}
- Vernon Ah Kee: cantchant, Winnipeg Art Gallery{{Cite news|url=http://www.gallerieswest.ca/events/boarder-x-vernon-ah-kee-cantchant/|title=Boarder X & Vernon Ah Kee: cantchant|date=2016-10-31|work=Galleries West|access-date=2018-04-05|language=en-us}}
- Curator, Border X, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2016.{{Cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/arts/exhibitionists/how-the-art-of-skateboarding-can-also-be-an-act-of-empowerment-1.3722164|title=How the art of skateboarding can also be an act of empowerment {{!}} CBC Arts|work=CBC|access-date=2018-03-14|language=en-US}}
- Curator, We Are On Treaty Land, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2015-2016.
- Quiyuktchigaewin; Making Good, Winnipeg Art Gallery{{Cite news|url=http://abtec.org/iif/third-annual-symposium-on-the-future-imaginary-asinnajaq-isabella-weetaluktuk-jamie-isaac-heather-campbell/|title=Third Annual Symposium on the Future Imaginary: Asinnajaq (Isabella Weetaluktuk), Jamie Isaac, Heather Campbell! - Initiative For Indigenous Futures|date=2017-11-15|work=Initiative For Indigenous Futures|access-date=2018-04-05|language=en-US}}
- With Leah Decter, official denial (trade value in progress), travelling participatory art project, across Canada, 2011-2015.{{Cite web|url=http://www.leahdecter.com/official_denial/Kamloops_Daily.html|title=Blanket statement|last=Youds|first=Mike|date=October 8, 2011|website=Kamloops Daily|language=en|access-date=2018-03-14}}
- Creator, Burning an Effigy, film, 2014.{{Cite web|url=https://vucavu.com/en/video-pool-media-arts-centre/2014/burning-an-effigy|title=Burning An Effigy|website=VUCAVU|language=en|access-date=2018-04-05}}
= Awards and nominations =
- Participant in Canada Council for the Art's Indigenous delegation, Venice Biennale, 2017.{{Cite news|url=https://canadianart.ca/reviews/ryan-rice-venice-biennale/|title=Trouble Me Venice: An Indigenous Curator's View of the Biennale|work=Canadian Art|access-date=2018-03-14|language=en-US}}
- Finalist, Making a Difference Award, Winnipeg Arts Council, 2017.{{Cite web|url=http://winnipegarts.ca/wac/about-nominations/2017|title=WAC Arts Awards Nominations for 2017 {{!}} The Winnipeg Arts Council|website=winnipegarts.ca|language=en|access-date=2018-03-14}}
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