Sonny Assu BIOGRAPHY

 

Sonny Assu is an Indigenous artist of the Ligwiłda’xw of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nations, who was raised in North Delta, BC and currently resides on ancestral land on Vancouver Island. He studied at Emily Carr University and received his MFA from Concordia University. Assu has received numerous awards and distinctions including Distinguished Alumnus award from Emily Carr University, BC Creative Achievement Award in First Nations Art in 2011, named a Laureate for the Hnatyshyn Foundation’s REVEAL - Indigenous Art Awards in 2017, and is an Eiteljorg Contemporary Arts Fellowship recipient for 2021. Assu has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, and he has work in various public and private collection across Canada, the UK, USA, and Australia.