Past Residents
Past Resident2016: Creative Saskatchewan, Mackenzie Art Gallery
Judy Anderson
By honoring Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women, Judy Anderson provides spaces of exploration for experiences, sensibilities, thoughts, fears, and hopes, presented as female-based realities. The cultural act of honoring is at the core of Anderson’s recent series of work. Her multimedia approach creates interactions between sound components, beading, handmade paper, and found objects to reveal the complexities of personal relationships. Anderson’s Sole Project opens dialogue on the importance of honoring people and the many ways ceremonies can enrich the lives of both First Nation and non-First Nations people.
Judy Anderson is a Cree artist from the Gordon First Nation, SK whose practice includes beadwork, installation, handmade paper, painting, three-dimensional pieces, and, more recently, collaborative projects. Her work is deeply personal with a focus on issues of spirituality, family, graffiti and popular representations of Aboriginal people, all of which are created with the purpose of honoring the people in her life. She holds a BA and a BFA from the University of Saskatchewan and an MFA from the University of Regina. Anderson is a faculty member at the First Nations University of Canada and the University of Regina.
Events & Exhibitions
Spring Open Studios 2016
April 29–April 30, 2016
Judy Anderson, Exploit Robe (Toying Around), 2012, Beads on moose hide, 62 × 58 in. (157.48 × 147.32 cm).
Judy Anderson, Childhood Memories, 2007, Handmade paper, thistles, family photos, synthetic sinew, and sound, 8 × 19 × 7 in. (20.32 × 48.26 × 17.78 cm).
Judy Anderson, Nohkom Jane Mary, 2013, Glass beads, 51/2 × 31/2 in. (13.97 × 8.89 cm).
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2017: Bunka-cho - Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
Maki Toshima
Maki Okamoto Toshima is a multimedia artist; her recent works are video installations. She is interested in questioning the relationships between imagination and corporeality produced by sensory experiences. Toshima’s work is partly inspired by Japanese animism from the prehistoric Jōmon period, exploring various states of transitional emotional being and ideas of memory and change.
Maki Okamoto Toshima (born 1979, Hyogo) is a Tokyo-based artist. She graduated with an MFA in Intermedia Art from the Tokyo University of the Arts, where she then started working as a research associate and lecturer. Toshima was the winner at the 1st Osaka Contemporary Art Competition in 2004; recipient of the Jury Recommended Works award at the 11th Japan Media Arts Festival; and awarded second place at the Kobe Biennale Grand Prix. Between 2007 and 2009, she worked as Eiko Ishioka’s personal assistant at the 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony costume department. Toshima has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Japan and abroad, including the Gwangju Biennale, Korea, 2012.
Maki Toshima, The Breath Below °C, 2012, Projection on snow, 5313/8 × 7811/16 × 1113/16 in. (1349.76 × 199.9 × 29.97 cm).
Maki Toshima, Casket of Tsukuyomi, 2012, Projection on mirror, 157 × 57 in. (398.78 × 144.78 cm).
Maki Toshima, Meta.Morphs, 2012, Video loop and mixed media, 291/2 × 455/8 × 411/16 in. (74.93 × 115.82 × 11.94 cm).
Maki Toshima, Drawing, 2005, Mirror on Indian ink, 9 × 9 in. (22.86 × 22.86 cm).
Past Resident2016: Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation
Anushka Rajendran
Anushka Rajendran’s curatorial practice realizes ideas that emerge from her research about exhibitions, with a focus on arts from South Asia. As an art writer and editor, she facilitates discursive engagement within the arts in India. Her ongoing interests include socially engaged art practices in India and the ways in which aesthetic practices are seeking out publics that fall outside of traditional contemporary art audiences. This is an extension of her previous research and curatorial interest in trauma narratives in contemporary art.
Anushka Rajendran is a New Delhi based curator, writer and researcher. Her ongoing PhD Where lies the Public? Aesthetics of Social Engagement studies how the arts are surpassing traditional publics in India. She has an Ph.M from the Jawaharlal Nehru University during which she wrote Installation Art in India: Preoccupations with Trauma, and an MA in Arts and Aesthetics. Her recent exhibition, The Lay of the Land, charted an alternative cartography for the South Asian region based on experiences of artists rather than political borders. In her upcoming exhibition Corporeal, Rajendran will look at the absent body as a universal/intimate subject position. Rajendran is the Editorial Coordinator of the Indian art magazine TAKE on art, and recipient of the Art Scribes Award 2015.
Events & Exhibitions
Spring Open Studios 2016
April 29–April 30, 2016
Danushka Marasinghe, Night Watchman, 2014, Set of 12 found images digitized and manipulated, 36. Photo by Danushka Marasinghe.
