tīná gúyáńí BIOGRAPHY
tīná gúyáńí (deer road) is an artist collective from guts’ists’i / mohkinstsis (Calgary) consisting of parent/child duo Glenna Cardinal (Tsuut’ina/Saddle Lake Cree) and seth cardinal dodginghorse (Tsuut’ina/Amskapi Piikani/Saddle Lake Cree). In 2014, they were forcibly removed from their homes and ancestral land on the Tsuut’ina Nation, for construction of the Southwest Calgary Ring Road. Their multidisciplinary practice honors their connection to land and explores the effects of environmental /psychological damage. tīná gúyáńí’s work is deeply based in culture, language, oral history, family photographs, and museum/archival research. Their art is an act of cultural preservation and a protest against ongoing settler colonialism.
Links:
Artist website (seth): https://www.sethcardinaldodginghorse.com/
Instagram (seth): @sadbirthdays
REVIEWS:
Tina Guyani | Deer Road, Peripheral Review, 2019.
Tsuut'ina artist shares pain of seeing home replaced by ring road with new Central Library installation, Calgary Herald, 2020.
Tina Guyani at the Central Public Library, Calgary, Akimbo, 2020.
Interviews:
Artist Talk with tīná gúyáńí: no respect, Stride Gallery, 2023.