Rebecca Belmore (b. 1960, Anishinaabe) creates sculpture, installation, video, photography and performance. Central to her work is the body in relation to history, place and Indigeneity. Recent monographic exhibitions include Turbulent Water, Griffith University, Brisbane; and Facing the Monumental, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Recent major international exhibitions include the 2022 Whitney Biennial, 2019 Istanbul Biennial, and documenta 14. Belmore has been awarded the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize, among many others. She holds honorary doctorates from Université Laval, Quebec City; Nova Scotia College of Art and Design; Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver; and Ontario College of Art & Design University, Toronto.
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Gichigami
Over the past year, Rebecca Belmore spent extended time with family in Thunder Bay, where her daily view was of Lake Superior and a park sheltering a substantial un-housed population. During a trip to the dump at the outskirts of the city, she was struck by a golden eagle, rare in Ontario and listed as […]
September 26 – December 20
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Opening Weekend Performance: Gichigami by Rebecca Belmore
Rebecca Belmore’s new work, Gichigami, opens as a procession that moves from Queen’s Park to the University of Toronto, where it will remain on view as an installation at the Art Museum for the duration of the Biennial. Presented in partnership with the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Accessibility: This program requires moving […]
September 26, 2026
12:00pm – 12:30pm
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Convening: An Arrival, A Grounding, A Departure – Day 1
Things Fall Apart is developed with a set of propositions anchored by the question: What can we learn from artists who explore rupture as an ontological tool or a way of understanding? In connection with this guiding question, Allison Glenn collaboratively curated the convening, An Arrival, A Grounding, A Departure, which creates space for those […]
October 16, 2026
1:00pm – 6:00pm
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