Julie Nagam

Biography

Dr. Julie Nagam is the Chair in the History of Indigenous Art in North America this is a joint appointment with the University of Winnipeg and the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Her current SSHRC projects include: The Transactive Memory Keepers: Indigenous Public Engagement in Digital and New Media Labs and Exhibitions and The Kanata Indigenous Performance, New and Digital Media Art (www.transactivememorykeepers.org). She is a co-applicant in partnership grant Initiative for Indigenous Futures (http://abtec.org/iif/) and will be hosting the first Public symposium entitled, Radically Shifting Our Indigenous Future(s): Through Art, Scholarship and Technology at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in late 2017. She has co-edited Indigenous Art New Media and the Digital as a special issue of PUBIC Art, Culture + Ideas journal. Currently she is curating a public art installation for a Reconciliation walk at the Forks in Winnipeg and leading a team to create an Indigenous App for Winnipeg’s art, architectural and place-based history. She is co-curating a massive Indigenous contemporary exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in fall 2017. She has curated and exhibited in ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. Her artwork where white pines lay over the water, was shown in, Toronto, Ontario, San Paulo, Brazil, Lyon, France and Wellington, New Zealand. Her installation singing our bones home, was shown in Markham (2013), in London, England, (2013) and in Winnipeg (2014).

Research Interest

Cultural and concealed geographies, Indigenous contemporary art, Indigenous theory and methodologies, digital and new media art, public art, critical, curatorial and cultural theory.