Rolande Souliere biography

Rolande Souliere is an Australian-based and Canadian-born artist of Anishinabe descent and is a member of Michipicoten First Nation. Souliere produces work that juxtaposes her Anishinabek culture and contemporary life in a globalised environment as inspired by her Indigenous upbringing in Canada and her life in Australia over the past eighteen years. Souliere became an Australian citizen in 2006. In 2017 she received a PhD from the Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. A selection of Souliere’s international solo exhibitions include Form and Content, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe (2018); Coyote Responds: I Like America and America Likes Me, Or Gallery, Vancouver (2017); Sydney Non Objective (2015); CrossRoads, Urban Shaman, Winnipeg (2011); and Materiality and Otherness, grunt gallery, Vancouver (2008). Recent group exhibitions include niigaanikwewag, Art Gallery of Mississauga (2018); Language as Puncture, Gallery 101, Ottawa (2017); the cross-Canada touring exhibition Beat Nation (2012-2014); the Australia-wide touring exhibition Alterbeast (2014), Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto (2010), and Point of Origin at Artspace, Sydney (2008). Her public art commissions include Bringing Back Wabakinine (2015) in the Bala Underpass, Toronto, and the recently completed Mediating the Treaties (2017-18) at Air Canada Park in Winnipeg, commissioned by the Winnipeg Art Council.