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Tania Willard
Assistant Professor
Creative Studies
Office: CCS 366Phone: 250.807.8584
Email: tania.willard@ubc.ca
Research Summary
Visual Arts, Indigenous contemporary art, Indigenous languages, contemporary art, relational aesthetics, socially engaged practice, curatorial.
Courses & Teaching
Visual Strategies and Research, Indigenous Land Art, Contemporary Indigenous Art
Biography
Tania Willard, of Secwépemc and settler heritage, works within the shifting ideas around contemporary and traditional, often working with bodies of knowledge and skills that are conceptually linked to her interest in intersections between Aboriginal and other cultures. Public Art projects include, Rule of the Trees, a public art project at Commercial Broadway sky train station, in Vancouver BC and If the Drumming Stops, with artist Peter Morin, on the lands of the Papaschase First Nation in Edmonton, AB. Willard’s ongoing collaborative project BUSH gallery, is a conceptual land-based gallery grounded in Indigenous knowledges and relational art practices. Willard is an assistant professor at UBCO, her current research constructs a land rights aesthetic through intuitive archival acts.
Websites
Degrees
MFA, UBC Okanagan, 2018
Selected Publications & Presentations
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories (2016)
Claiming Space (2009) Kamloops Art Gallery exhibition catalogue
Dissimulation (2017) Burnaby Art gallery exhibition catalogue
Exhibitions
Gut Instincts (2018) Kelowna Art Gallery, Tania Willard: Dissimulation, Burnaby Art Gallery (2017) Tania Willard: Claiming Space (2009) Kamloops Art Gallery.
Soundings (2019) Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, #callresponse (national tour), group exhibition, 2017-2019, The Work of Wind, Air, Land and Sea (2018) Missasuaga ON.
Curatorial (selected): Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories (2016, MOA UBC), Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture (2012, Vancouver Art Gallery and National Tour), BUSH Gallery residency (ongoing)