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Welcome back CIMADE Artist in Residence: Peter Morin

Pjila'si, Peter! Join us in welcoming Peter Morin, CIMADE Artist in Residence, back to Kjipuktuk. Upcoming events with Peter: Artist Talk, Open Studio, and Participatory Karaoke Performance.  

Did you know? Pjila’si (êp·chi·laa·si ) is a Mi’kmaw word, meaning “welcome” or “come in and sit down”.  

Peter Morin is a grandson of Tahltan Ancestor Artists. Morin’s 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. The work takes place in galleries, in community, in collaboration, and on the land. All of the work is informed by dreams, Ancestors, Family members, and performance art as a research methodology. Initially trained in lithography, Morin’s 20 years of artistic practice moves from printmaking to poetry to button blanket making to installation drum making to bead work to performance art. Throughout his 20 year 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 as a strategy for interrogating and dismantling the colonialism. Morin was longlisted for the Brink and Sobey Awards, in 2013 and 2014, respectively. In 2016, Morin received the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Canadian Mid-Career Artist.  Morin is working as the Graduate Program Director of the Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media and Design program (IAMD) at OCADU, and the Advisor to the VP Academic on Indigenous Knowledge, Practice and Production.  Morin currently holds a tenured appointment in the Faculty of Arts at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto. Peter is the son of Janelle Creyke (Crow Clan, Tahltan Nation) and Pierre Morin (French Canadian).

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Posted Mar 17, 2023

Peter Morin stands in the forest wearing a denim jacket with a beaded rose patch on his shoulder. He holds a rawhide hand drum in one hand and a drumstick in the other, his mouth open in song.
2019 Graduation exhibition installation. Small drawings and found objects are on the wall next to a textile hanging.

The Anna Leonowens Gallery Systems is a public exhibition space within NSCAD University, presenting professional exhibitions by established artists alongside graduating student exhibitions.

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Anna Leonowens Gallery

1891 Granville Street, Halifax, NS

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Main navigation

  • Home
  • About
  • Programming
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  • Exhibitions
  • Events
  • News
  • Submissions
  • The Permanent
    Collection
  • Contact

Featured Projects

Projects and happenings initiated by the Anna Leonowens Gallery Systems

Treaty Space Gallery

The merging of current Indigenous community-based knowledge with productive academic and artistic research.

NSCAD Lithography Workshop

Canadian artists collaborate in the production of a portfolio of limited-edition, hand-printed lithographs.

Anna Leonowens Gallery Certificate in Gallery & Studio Management

A series of 5 online professional development courses for emerging artists and gallery workers. Through over 100 instructional videos, guest interviews and behind the scene tours this series is designed to provide practical skills essential to succeeding in navigating a career as a professional artist or arts worker.