Perspectives on Landscape, Language, and Indigeneity: A Conversation With Artist Mark Igloliorte

March 23, 2023

During this virtual webinar, learn more about the work of contemporary artist Mark Igloliorte, who is included in Olana’s current exhibition, Chasing Icebergs: Art and a Disappearing Landscape, on view until March 26. Mark Igloliorte (Inuk, Nunatsiavut) is an artist, essayist and educator whose work explores Indigenous futures and identity. During this presentation, he will track the ways language, landscape, and personal perspectives inform his work. A conversation with curator and scholar Franchesca Hebert-Spence will follow.

Mark Igloliorte is an Inuk interdisciplinary artist and educator from Nunatsiavut, Labrador. His artistic work is primarily painting and drawing. He received a Bachelor of Education from Memorial University, his BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and his MFA from Concordia University. His work has been shown nationally and internationally, notably at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Quebec Triennial at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, and as part of the touring exhibition Beat Nation. His work is currently included in Chasing Icebergs: Art and a Disappearing Landscape on view at Olana State Historic Site until March 26.

Franchesca Hebert-Spence currently resides in Ottawa is Anishinaabe from Winnipeg, Manitoba, her grandmother Marion Ida Spence was from Sagkeeng First Nation, on Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is a PhD student in Cultural Mediations (Visual Culture) at Carleton University exploring the presence of guest/host protocols within Indigenous methodological practices with a focus on visual art in Canada.