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Judy Chartrand is a contemporary artist of Manitoba Cree heritage, based in Vancouver. Her ceramic and installation-based work features rich elements of ready-made appropriations and repurposed materials. Chartrand’s practice is characterized by a keen interest in social circuits of value, in both art and consumer society. Using the humour of appropriation with a cutting cynicism, Chartrand’s work exposes urgent issues around racism, ignorance and privilege.

Chartrand’s art is found in public and private collections across Canada and abroad, including the collections of the Glenbow Museum, SK Arts, and the Gardiner Museum.

Barry Doupé is a Vancouver-based artist who works primarily with computer animation, digital painting, and sculpture. His work uses imagery and language derived from the subconscious, developed through writing exercises and automatic drawing. Doupé’s films are often characterized by fragmented and porous narrative structures, richly textured characters, and surreal, poetic situations.

His films have been screened across Canada and internationally at venues including the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Chicago Underground Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Swallow in Lithuania, and DOK Leipzig in Germany.

Peter Morin is of Crow Clan, Tahltan Nation ancestry through his mother, and French-Canadian ancestry through his father. In his work, he focuses on his matrilineal inheritances in homage to the matriarchal structure of the Tahltan Nation, while also prioritizing cross-ancestral collaborations. His artistic offerings are organized around four themes: Land/Knowing, Indigenous Grief/Loss, Community Knowing, and Understanding the Creative Agency/Power of the Indigenous Body.

Morin’s work is informed by dreams, ancestors, family members, and performance art as a research methodology. He is a tenured faculty member and Graduate Program Director of the Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media and Design at OCAD University.