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Peter Morin is a grandson of Tahltan Ancestor Artists. His artistic offerings can be organized around four themes: articulating Land/Knowing; articulating Indigenous Grief/Loss; articulating Community Knowing; and understanding the Creative Agency/Power of the Indigenous body. This work takes place in galleries, in community, in collaboration, in publication, in the classroom and on the land. All of this art/work is informed by Dreams, Ancestors, Family Members and quantum theory, and is shaped/reshaped by a guiding principle — performance art as a research methodology.
Morin began art school in 1997, completing his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver in 2001. He completed his Master of Fine Arts at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in 2010. Initially trained in lithography, Morin’s artistic practice has travelled from printmaking to poetry, beadwork, Button-Blanket making, installation, drum making and performance art. Throughout his exhibition and making history, Morin has focused upon his matrilineal inheritances in homage to the matriarchal structuring of the Tahltan Nation and prioritizes cross-Ancestral collaborations in honour of his parents — Janell (Crow Clan, Tahltan Nation) and Pierre (French-Canadian, Thetford Mines, Qué).
In 2016, Morin received the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Canadian Mid-Career Artist. He was long-listed for the Sobey Award in 2014 and 2024. Morin is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto.
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Peter Morin is a grandson of Tahltan Ancestor Artists. His artistic offerings can be organized around four themes: articulating Land/Knowing; articulating Indigenous Grief/Loss; articulating Community Knowing; and understanding the Creative Agency/Power of the Indigenous body. This work takes place in galleries, in community, in collaboration, in publication, in the classroom and on the land. All of this art/work is informed by Dreams, Ancestors, Family Members and quantum theory, and is shaped/reshaped by a guiding principle — performance art as a research methodology.
Morin began art school in 1997, completing his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver in 2001. He completed his Master of Fine Arts at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in 2010. Initially trained in lithography, Morin’s artistic practice has travelled from printmaking to poetry, beadwork, Button-Blanket making, installation, drum making and performance art. Throughout his exhibition and making history, Morin has focused upon his matrilineal inheritances in homage to the matriarchal structuring of the Tahltan Nation and prioritizes cross-Ancestral collaborations in honour of his parents — Janell (Crow Clan, Tahltan Nation) and Pierre (French-Canadian, Thetford Mines, Qué).
In 2016, Morin received the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Canadian Mid-Career Artist. He was long-listed for the Sobey Award in 2014 and 2024. Morin is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto.
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