Artist Talk: JACKSON 2BEARS

Jackson 2bears is a Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) multimedia artist and cultural theorist who currently resides in Lethbridge, AB. He has exhibited his work extensively across Canada, most recently at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; the Vancouver Art Gallery; PAVED Arts (Saskatoon, SK); the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; the ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival (Toronto, ON); EMedia (Calgary, AB); Latitude 53 (Edmonton, AB); and Urban Shaman (Winnipeg, MB). He has also exhibited his artwork internationally, most recently at the Futur En Seine Festival (Paris, France), Bbeyond (Belfast, Ireland), Southend Film Festival (Southend on Sea, UK) and Digital Art Weeks (Zurich, Switzerland).

2bears is currently a member of Beat Nation Live!—a First Nations artist collective that combines hip hop, live music and digital technology as a way to celebrate the spirit of contemporary Indigenous culture. He is also a co-founding member of Noxious Sector—a communal forum dedicated to the exploration of interdisciplinary artistic practice and creative expression.     

2bears’ academic writings have appeared in Ctheory, The Leonardo Electronic Almanac and most recently in the co-authored text Coded Territories: Tracing Indigenous Pathways in New Media Art (U of Calgary Press; Steve Loft and Kerry Swanson eds.) 2bears is currently Assistant Professor of Art Studio at the University of Lethbridge.

Related Links

• Jackson 2bears - artist website
• Department of Studio Arts