Igloliorte, an Inuk-Newfoundlander and Nunatsiavut Beneficiary, holds the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Decolonial and Transformational Indigenous Art Practices at the University of Victoria, BC, where she is a Professor in the Visual Arts Department (2023-).  Heather has been an independent curator since 2005. She has created or co-created more than thirty curatorial projects throughout her career, and in 2021 Igloliorte was awarded The Hnatyshyn Foundation’s Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art. Heather publishes frequently on Indigenous art and curatorial practice; she has co-edited four books including The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Art Histories in the United States and Canada (2022), and has co-edited special issues of scholarly journals such as the Australia and New Zealand Journal of Art (2023), RACAR: Continuities Between Eras: Indigenous arts (2017); and PUBLIC 54: Indigenous Art: New Media and the Digital (2016). Her article “Curating Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit: Inuit Knowledge in the Qallunaat Art Museum,” was awarded the 2017 Distinguished Article of the Year from Art Journal. Igloliorte is the President of the Board of the Inuit Art Foundation and serves on the Board of the Indigenous Screen Office. In 2021 she became the first Indigenous person to be awarded a Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Medal for her service to Indigenous art and artists.

Headshot: Lisa Graves for Concordia University 2022.