Glenn Gear

Glenn Gear (born 1970) is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker, based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Gear's animations and installations have been showcased across Canada. He is the first Indigenous artist to be commissioned to create an outdoor installation piece for the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Biography Glenn Gear is a queer "urban Inuk" artist with mixed Inuit and settler ancestry from Corner Brook.

Gear is an artist mentor for emerging Inuit youth filmmakers He was also a visiting lecturer and artist-in-residence at Queen's University between November 2021 and September 2022.

Artistic career Gear uses archival images in his installations. and includes images of his own textile projects (beadwork and sealskin) in his exhibitions and films.

Through his artwork, Gear aims to change the narrative around the social view that indigenous peoples are frozen in time; instead, he shows how Inuit spirit and strength are intertwined and evolving alongside new technologies. which highlights the qimmiijagtauniq (sled dog killings) events of the 1960s and 1970s. Gear's personal connection to nature, and the effects of climate change and the Royal Bank Plaza Main Branch in Toronto. Ulitsuak|Marée montante|Rising Tide, projected on the exterior front of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion building, from October 1, 2024 until March 30, 2025, from nightfall until 11:00 pm,

Exhibitions Solo exhibitions:

Installation at the Banff Center of Arts and Creativity in 2016 Gear revamped his video Rosewood Casket to be projected as the backdrop on Parliament Hill's main stage, during Canada Day Celebration in 2018. Installation at The Rooms called Ivaluk Ullugiallu-Sinew and Stars in 2023 Iluani/Silami (it's full of stars) for Qaumajuq's inaugural exhibition INUA in Winnipeg, AB, Canada, in 2021 J’entends ton chaud murmure à travers la brume froide / I hear your warm whisper through the cold mist. An installation that was created in collaboration with Christine Sioui Wawanoloath and Carla Hemlock, showcased in Drummondville from November 12 to December 18, 2022. Gear created a short animation video that was projected on the entrance wall. Three Way Mirror (2022-2023) exhibition at the grunt gallery in Vancouver, BC, Canada TakKik rising mural at Onsite Gallery in Toronto, ON, showcased in May 2024 as part of the Up Front: Inuit Public Art series