Peter Morin

Peter Morin is a Tahltan Nation artist, author, curator and professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design. He was born on September 8, 1977, in Telegraph Creek, British Columbia, Canada and identifies as member of the Crow clan. He addresses the issues of decolonization as well as Indigenous identity and language in his practice.

Education Morin completed his Masters of Fine Art at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in 2010, and a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2001. He also completed the Summer Publishing Program at Simon Fraser University in 2005, attended the Gulf Island Film and Television School in 2002 and obtained a Diploma of Fine Arts from Kwantlen Polytechnic University in 1997.

Curation Morin curated several exhibitions including at the Museum of Anthropology, Bill Reid Gallery, Western Front, Burnaby Art Gallery, and at the Satellite Gallery.

Exhibitions Morin has exhibited his work internationally and has worked with numerous other artists in a variety of shows.

Solo Ceremony Experiments 1 Though 8, Urban Shaman Gallery, 2013 Circle, Urban Shaman Gallery, 2011 Peter Morin's Museum, Satellite Gallery, 2010 Circle, FINA Gallery, 2010 Memory Talking Stick, Open Space Arts Society, 2010 12 Making Objects, Open Space Arts Society, 2009 In Order to Contemplate the Making, LIVE Biennalle of Performance Art, 2009 This is How We Protect Stones, The Ministry of Casual Living, 2009 Things That Are Left Behind For Ravens, ODD Gallery, 2007 Stop, Drop, and Bingo, Urban Shaman Gallery, 2004 These Are My Creations, Says Crow, You Can't Take Them Away, Grunt Gallery, 2001

Group Witnesses: Art and Canada's Indian Residential Schools, Moris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 2013 Drawuary: Not A Day Goes By, Gallery Gachet, 2013 Talking Stick, Roundhouse Community Centre, 2012 Best Before, McMaster University, 2011 Challenging Traditions, McMicheal Canadian Art Collection, 2009 Reply All, Art Metropolle, 2009 Crazy Making, Gallery Gachet, 2007 Healing and Transformation, Ministry of Casual Living, 2007 Re-Translation: Land and Language, A Space Gallery, 2007 Protection Paint: The Stories on Stones, Gallery Gachet, 2006

Published works Morin has written and contributed to several books, articles, and art reviews. These include Carrying on "Irregardless": Humour in Contemporary Northwest Coast Art in 2012, My Story of Making and Sewing Hides in 2012, Peter Morin's Museum in 2011, Access All Areas : Conversations On Engaged Art in 2008, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Neo-Native Drawings and Other Works in 2010 and Wibhun in 2007. Some of his art reviews include A Crow About Town in 2005, and 2400 An Indian Odyssey Article in 2003.

Residency Artist residencies Algoma University, 2013 Open Space Arts Society, 2010 Roundhouse Community Centre, 2005

Curator residencies Open Space Arts Society, 2012 Camosun College, 2009 Roundhouse Community Centre, 2003

Awards Morin received the Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Outstanding Achievement as an Artist Award in 2016, the Victoria 150 Award in 2012 and the Fulmer Award in First Nations Art Award in 2010. In 2014, he was longlisted for the Sobey Art Award.