Shelley Niro, 500 Year Itch – Sophie Guignard

[Winter 2024]

Shelley Niro, The Rebel, 1987, épreuve à la gélatine argentique coloriée à la main / hand-tinted gelatin silver print, 25 × 36 cm

By Sophie Guignard

National Museum of the American Indian, New York
27.05.2023 — 1.01.2024

[Excerpt]

The exhibition Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch is the first major retrospective for Shelley Niro, a multidisciplinary Mohawk artist from the Bay of Quinte Kanyen’kehá:ka Nation and member of the Six Nations of the Grand River, Turtle Clan. Presented at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York, the exhibition is the result of a collaboration with the Art Gallery of Hamilton and received support from the National Gallery of Canada. Curators David Penney, Melissa Bennett, and Greg Hill combined forces to pay tribute to a towering artist in the contemporary Indigenous scene. The result is entirely worthy of Niro’s prolific body of work, which extends over more than four decades, and of this major centre for Indigenous arts, the first institution to host this long-awaited retrospective…

[ Complete issue, in print and digital version, available here: Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS ]
[ Complete article, in digital version, available here: Shelley Niro, 500 Year Itch – Sophie Guignard ]