Artists —

april april, Pittsburgh, PA (forthcoming)

EXPO Chicago, with april april, Chicago, IL

aisopoiw: the wind is a messenger, Law Warschaw Gallery, Macalaster College, Saint Paul, MN

Faye HeavyShield: Issokawo’taan, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON

Faye HeavyShield: Confluences, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Saint Louis, MO

Native Artist Collaboration: Faye HeavyShield, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

The Art of Faye HeavyShield, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK (2022); toured to Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB (2023); Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB (2023); and Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON (2024)

Faye HeavyShield: New Work, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Kamotaan/be rescued, Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre, Medicine Hat, AB

Clan, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB; toured to Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette, QC

Faye HeavyShield: Calling Stones (Conversations), Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

Faye HeavyShield: outlandish, Helen Christou Gallery, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB

I.D.: Faye HeavyShield, Axenéo7, Gatineau, QC

rock paper river, Gallery Connexion, Fredericton, NB

speak of eddy, organized by Tribe Inc., Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK

camouflage, Connexxion at Sainte Croix, Gallery Connexion, Fredericton, NB, offsite installation, St. Croix, NB

blood, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB

Migrating Motifs, with Elaine Reicheck, curated by Candice Hopkins, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY

body of land, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC

spiral and other parts of the body, La Centrale galleria Powerhouse, Montreal, QC

venus as torpedo, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK

the heart as, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Sisters, Feminist Spin Forum, Calgary, AB

she: a roomful of women, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, ON

into the garden of angels, The Power Plant, Toronto, ON

heart, hoof, horn, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB

Dialogues & Conversations, Pulitzer Art Foundation, Saint Louis, MO

Paper Trails: Unfolding Indigenous Narratives, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM

Bold Women, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

Early Days: Indigenous Art at the McMichael, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, ON

Seasons, Ociciwan Contemporary Art Centre, Edmonton, AB

Earthwork, curated by Mikinaak Migwans, Art Museum University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

Open Door to the Sun, april april, Pittsburgh, PA

Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Yoko Ono Water Event 1971/2020, Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, AB

Terrestrial Beings, Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre, Medicine Hat, AB

Mothering Spaces, Mitchell Art Gallery, MacEwan University, Edmonton, AB

Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MI

III: HeavyShield, Knowles, Cameron-Weir, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, SK

raise a flag: works from the Indigenous Art Collection (2000–2015), Onsite Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto, ON

my curiosities are not your curios, Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, ON

Moving the Mountain Youth: The Shawls Project, community art project led by Faye HeavyShield and facilitated and curated by Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective, exhibited at Edmonton City Hall, Edmonton, AB

90 x 90: Celebrating Art in Alberta, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

Made in Calgary: The 1990s, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB

I:ke — I have motion, A Space Gallery and imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, Toronto, ON

Witnesses: Art and Canada’s Indian Residential Schools, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

The News from Here: The 2013 Biennial of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

Builders: Canadian Biennial 2012, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON

On Your Marks, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB

Art Quantum, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN

Speaking in Landscape Tongues, Western Front, Vancouver, BC

Tracing History: Presenting the Unpresentable, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB

Shapeshifters, Time Travelers and Storytellers, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON

The Politics of Mother, The Red Shift Gallery, Saskatoon, SK

In My Lifetime: Contemporary Aboriginal Art/Au fil de mes jours – Créations autochtones contemporaines, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, QC

Confluence: First Nations Art from John Cook’s Collection, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON

CAMP(sites), Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, PEI; toured to

Museum London, London, ON and Walter Philips Gallery, Banff, AB.

The McIntyre Ranch Project, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB

Form-Space-Concept-Metaphor: Contemporary Alberta Sculpture, Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts, Calgary, AB

Au fil de mes jours, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, QC

Art 05: The Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB and Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB

Alberta Scene – A Centennial Biennial: A Selection of Artists and Artworks from the Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON

A Question of Place, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB

A History Lesson: Contemporary Aboriginal Art from the Collection of the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON

Mapping Our Territories, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB; toured to Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, YT

Tradition of Change: First Nations Art at the McMichael, McMichael Canadian Art

Collection, Kleinburg, ON

Private Investigators: Undercover in Public, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB

Trames de mémoire, Centre d’exposition de St-Hyacinthe, St-Hyacinthe, QC

Revisit-Recall: New meanings who the past, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB

Nations in Urban Landscapes, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Ordinary Magic: Aspects of Ritual in Contemporary Art, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal, QC

Feminist Works from the Permanent Collection, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB

Seven Lifetimes: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: An Exhibition of the Art of Aboriginal Artists of Alberta, Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts, Calgary, AB

Local Stories, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB

Land, Spirit, Power: First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON

Time for Dialogue: Contemporary Artists: An Exhibition of Contemporary Alberta Aboriginal Art, Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts, Calgary, AB

New Territories: 350/500 Years After: An Exhibition of Contemporary Aboriginal Art of Canada, Les Maisons de la culture, Montréal, QC

Changers: A Spiritual Renaissance, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, NS

The Heard Museum Fourth Biennial Invitational, Heard Museum Phoenix, AZ

Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB (forthcoming)

awaaniiyaawa/they are speaking, Lethbridge Public Library, Lethbridge, AB

now & then, Edmonton Public Art Project for the 102 Avenue Bridge over Groat Road, Edmonton, AB

Gershon Iskowitz Prize

Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Distinguished Artist Award

Eiteljorg Native American Contemporary Art Fellowship

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CN

McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, ON

Alberta Foundation of Art, Calgary, AB

Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

Forge Project, Hudson, NY

Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB

Gochman Family Collection, New York, NY

Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ

The Indigenous Art Centre, Gatineau, QC

Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC

MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON

Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN

Angeleti, Gabriella. “Artist Faye HeavyShield receives one of Canada’s top art prizes.” The Art Newspaper, 16 Mar.

Abdessamad, Farah. “Celebrating Native American Photography’s Sovereign Gaze.” Observer, 20 Nov.

Hassencahl-Perley, Emma. "Changers: A Spiritual Renaissance - Recentering Indigenous Women's Self-Determination, Artistic Sovereignty and Excellence in the 1980s and 1990s." Master's thesis, Concordia University (Montreal, QC), 2022.

Laurence, Robin. "Charlene Vickers and Faye HeavyShield." Border Crossings 41, no. 1, May.

Crazybull, Lauren and Faye HeavyShield. "Miinakii and Me." C Magazine no. 147.

Griwkowsky, Fish. "Indigenous art show Motherwing Spaces glows with mother artists." Edmonton Journal, 15 Jan.

Kauanui, J. Kehaulani, Paul Chaat Smith, and Robert Warrior. ”Paul Chaat Smith on The Politics of Representation." In Speaking of Indigenous Politics: Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders, edited by J. Kehaulani Kauanui, 268-80. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Western, Jenny. "Mother Me." In Desire Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada, edited by Heather Davis, 195-208. Montreal and Kingston, ON: McGill- Queen's University Press, 2017.

Pageot, Edith-Anne. "Figure de l'indiscipline. Domingo Cisneros, un parcours artistique atypique." RACAR: Revue d'art Canadienne / Canadian Art Review 42, no. 1.

Hill. Richard. "10 Indigenous Artworks that Changed How We Imagined Ourselves." Canadian Art, 28 April.

Hill, Richard. "9 Group Exhibitions That Defined Contemporary Indigenous Art," Canadian Art, 28 July.

Phillips, Ruth B. "Between Rocks and Hard Places: Indigenous Lands, Settler Art Histories, and the 'Battle for the Woodlands.'" Journal of Canadian Art History 37, no. 1.

"Faye HeavyShield: Strength of the Kainai," Mason Design (online journal), 20 Mar. Williams, Carol, ed. Indigenous Women and Work: From Labor to Activism. Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Phillips, Ruth B. "'Learning to Feed off Controversies': Meeting the Challenges of Translation and Recovery in Canadian Museums.” In Museum Pieces: Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums. Montreal and Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Kate Morris. "Running the 'Medicine Line': Images of the Border in Contemporary Native American Art." American Indian Quarterly 35, no. 4, Fall.

Martin, Lee-Ann. “Faye HeavyShield: In the Blood." In Art Quantum: The Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, 2009, edited by James H. Hottage. Seattle and Indianapolis: University of Washington Press and Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art.

Smith, Paul Chaat. "From Lake Geneva to the Finland Station." In Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Fowler, Cynthia. “Hybridity as a Strategy for Self-Determination in Contemporary American Indian Art.” Social Justice 34, no. 1 (2007): 63-79.

Langford, Martha. "Repossessions." In Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art. Montreal and Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

McTavish, Lianne. “Floating World: The Post-Minimalist Art of Faye HeavyShield.” Border Crossings 25, no. 2, June.

Laviolette, Mary-Beth. An Alberta art chronicle: adventures in recent & contemporary art. Canmore. AB: Altitude Publishing, 2006. 327-30, 371. Humphry, Sharon E. "In my blood: memory and remembering as contextual framework for Faye HeavyShield's Untitled, North End, Kutoyis, and body of land." Master's thesis, University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, MB).

Martin, Lee-Ann. Au fil de mes jours. Québec. QC: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. 2005. Exhibition catalogue.

Martin, Lee-Ann. A History Lesson: Contemporary Art from the Collection of the MacKenzie Art Gallery. Toronto: Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. 2004. Exhibition catalogue.

Smith, Paul Chaat. Faye HeavyShield: blood. Lethbridge, AB: Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 2004. Exhibition catalogue.

Anderson, Joseph. “blood at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery.” Lethbridge Insider, 25 Mar.

Martin, Lee-Ann. Mapping Our Territories. Banff, AB: Walter Phillips Gallery, 2002. Exhibition catalogue.

Maclear, Kyo and Kathryn Waiter, eds. Private Investigators: Undercover in Public Space. Banff. AB: Banff Centre Press, 1999.

Baert, Renée. “Materializing Memory: The Clothing Works of Faye HeavyShield.” n. paradoxa 3, Jan.

Acland, Joan Reid. “Spiral and other parts of the body.” In Multiplier: points de due sur l’art actual des femmes, edited by Danielle Racine, 38-41.Montreal: Éditions du remue-ménage: La Central Galerie Powerhouse.

Crosby, Marcia, and Paul Chaat Smith. Faye HeavyShield, Shelly Niro, Eric Robertson: Nations in Urban Landscapes. Vancouver: Contemporary Art Gallery. Exhibition catalogue.

Collins, Curtis Joseph. “Nations in Urban Landscapes.” Parachute no. 84 (Oct–Dec): 64.

Lemecha, Vera. Faye HeavyShield: venus as torpedo. Regina: Dunlop Art Gallery. Exhibition catalogue.

Renwick, Arthur. Faye HeavyShield: Into the Garden of Angels. Toronto: The Power Plant. Exhibition catalogue.

Tousley, Nancy. “HeavyShield’s Exhibition Reflects Life Experiences.” Windspeaker (Edmonton, AB), 5 Dec.

Tousley, Nancy. “Faye HeavyShield: Heart, Hoof, Horn.” Canadian Art 10, no. 3, Fall. Murphy, Mike. “Intuition Before Order: A Conversation with Faye HeavyShield.” Artichoke 5, Fall.

Nemiroff, Diana, Robert Houle, and Charlotte Townsend-Gault. Land, Spirit, Power: First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada. Exhibition catalogue.

Enright, Robert. “Bone Things: The Art of Faye HeavyShield,” in “The Sky is the Limit: Conversations with First Nations Artists.” Border Crossings 11, no. 4, Dec.

Bear, Shirly. Changers: A Spiritual Renaissance. Ottawa: National Indian Arts and Crafts Corporation. Brochure.

Archuleta, Margaret. The 4th Biennial Native American Fine Arts Invitational. Phoenix: Heard Museum.

“Kainai News (August 6, 1987).”

“Kainai News (July 25, 1986).”

“Kainai News (July 2, 1985).”