Morgan Wood

Morgan Wood (born Southern Saskatchewan) is a curator and artist who is Stony Mountain Cree. Her family is from the Michel Callihou Band in Alberta and her Great Grandmother was Victoria Callihou.[1][2] Wood received a Bachelor of Indian Art from the First Nations University of Canada, at the University of Regina in Regina, Saskatchewan.[1]

In 2003 Wood participated in the Aboriginal Curatorial Residency at the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. It was during that time she wrote "Wildfire on the Plains: Contemporary Saskatchewan Art and Projects and Partnerships."[1]

She is a member of the Saskatchewan Aboriginal Museum Advisory Board for the Saskatchewan Museum Association.[3]

Work

Here and Now was an exhibition at the Dunlop Art Gallery, in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1999 that brought together contemporary Aboriginal art work from the Southern half of Saskatchewan.[4] Wood worked with Lee-Ann Martin Exposed: Aesthetics of Aboriginal Erotic Art, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK, 1999. Co-currated with Lee-Ann Martin.[5][6]

Her art piece Hands Off My Genes (1997) was on display at the MacKenzie Art Gallery. It is a sculpture made of a pair of found blue jeans in the surealist and dadaist style. The jeans been stuffed to resemble a woman’s legs and abdomen, equipped with protruding porcupine quills.[7] Wood referenced porcupine quills in another work titled Love & Sex (1995).[8]

Her work was included in an exhibit curated by Leah Taylor titled Towards Action at the Kenderdine Art Gallery in 2017 alongside the works of Allyson Clay, Marcel Dzama, Angela Grossmann, Istvan Kantor, Alastair Mackie, Jane Ash Poitras, and John Scott.[9]

Writing

"Daphne Odjig." In Daphne Odjig: four decades of prints. (2005). Pages 9 – 22. ISBN 1-895497-61-2.[10]

Wild fire on the plains : contemporary Saskatchewan art : Anthony Deiter, David Garneau, Cheryl L'hirondelle-Waynohtêw, Neal McLeod.[11]

Shaping the Future of Aboriginal Curatoral Practice. Lee-Ann Martin, Morgan Wood, Inuit Art Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 2, Summer, 1998, pp. 22-25. Publication Date: 1998

References
  1. ArtSask. "ArtSask". www.artsask.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-10.
  2. "Our Story". Michel First Nation. Archived from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2017-03-10.
  3. "Aboriginal Faces of Saskatchewan - Morgan Wood". www.sicc.sk.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-10.
  4. "Dunlop Art Gallery Exhibitions :: Here and Now". www.dunlopartgallery.org. Retrieved 2017-03-10.
  5. "The 2015 Rita Friendly Kaufman Lecture | Agnes Etherington Art Centre". agnes.queensu.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-10.
  6. Martin, Lee-Ann; Wood, Morgan; Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery (1999-01-01). Exposed: aesthetics of aboriginal erotic art. Regina: MacKenzie Art Gallery. ISBN 1896470254.
  7. Wood, Morgan. "Hands Off My Genes". www.artsask.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-10.
  8. Cardinal-Schubert, Joane (1997). Mark Makers. Saskatoon, SK: MacKenzie Art Gallery. p. 3.
  9. "Art Exhibit: TOWARDS ACTION". Global News. Retrieved 2017-03-10.
  10. Odjig, Daphne; Wood, Morgan; Kamloops Art Gallery (2005-01-01). Daphne Odjig: four decades of prints. Kamloops, B.C.: Kamloops Art Gallery. ISBN 1895497612.
  11. Wood, Morgan; Mendel Art Gallery (2003-01-01). Wild fire on the plains: contemporary Saskatchewan art : Anthony Deiter, David Garneau, Cheryl L'hirondelle-Waynohtêw, Neal McLeod. Saskatoon: Mendel Art Gallery. ISBN 1896359426.


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