Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Nationality
Inuit
Education
BFA, NSCAD University; MA, Canadian Art History, Carleton University; Ph.D., Cultural Mediations, Carleton University
Heather L. Igloliorte (born 1979) is an Inuk scholar, independent curator and art historian[1] from Nunatsiavut.
She was appointed inaugural Canada Excellence Research Chair in Decolonial and Transformational Indigenous Art Practices at the University of Victoria in 2023.[2][3]
Between 2019 and 2023, she was an Associate Professor of Indigenous art history at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec,[4] where she held the University Research Chair in Indigenous Circumpolar Arts.[5] Prior she was the Indigenous Art History and Community Engagement Research Chair at that university from 2016 to 2019.[6] She was a Scholar in Residence at the University of Winnipeg in summer 2020.[7]
Igloliorte was Co-Director of the Initiative for Indigenous Futures (IIF) Cluster at the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia University and was a special advisor to the university's provost on advancing Indigenous knowledges.[8]
She currently holds Board positions with the Native North American Art Studies Association,[9] the Inuit Art Foundation,[10] and was a board member of the Nunavut Film Development Corporation. Igloliorte has advised the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the National Film Board of Canada and the Otsego Institute for Native American Art History at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York.
^"New $8M Indigenous research chair - University of Victoria". UVic.ca. 2023-11-16. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
^"Former Concordian Heather Igloliorte named Canada Excellence Research Chair in Decolonial and Transformational Indigenous Art Practices - Concordia University". www.concordia.ca. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
Heather L. Igloliorte (born 1979) is an Inuk scholar, independent curator and art historian from Nunatsiavut. She was appointed inaugural Canada Excellence...
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team designing the exhibit was HeatherIgloliorte. Each of the four curators represented an area of the north. Igloliorte comes from Nunatsiavut, Krista...
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ethnographer, and a member of the French Resistance during World War II. HeatherIgloliorte Inuit b. 1979 Indigenous art history Alice Ming Wai Jim Canadian Contemporary...
and SakKijâjuk: Art and Craft from Nunatsiavut (2017, curated by HeatherIgloliorte). In 1984, 45 of Kalleo's drawings were published in the book Taipsumane:...
Retrieved 16 January 2018. "Reciprocal Research Network". 2014. Igloliorte, Heather (2012). ""No History of Colonialism": Decolonizing Practices in Indigenous...
Education Malcolm King, Health Edward Kantonkote Cree, Health James Igloliorte, Law & Justice Rose Toodick Boyko, Law & Justice Allen Sapp, Lifetime...
ca. National Gallery of Canada. 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019. Igloliorte, Heather. “Arctic Culture/Global Indigeneity.” In Negotiations in a Vacant...
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