Rebecca Belmore

Biography

Born in Upsala, Ontario, Rebecca Belmore is an artist currently living in Montreal, Quebec. Belmore is a multi-disciplinary artist whose works are rooted in the political and social realities of Indigenous communities, making evocative connections between bodies, land, and language. Belmore has previously collaborated with Osvaldo Yero on numerous public art projects. Their public art commission trace (2014), for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, illustrates their collaborative interests. In trace, Belmore and Yero actively engaged Winnipeg's diverse community to create a large-scale blanket of beads from raw clay excavated from various locations throughout the city. For the past twenty years their working relationship has been mediated by their mutual interest in the material nature of art and its relationship to the body.