Scott Benesiinaabandan Artist-in-Residence
Scott Benesiinaabandan, Fragments of the Futures, 2018
Scott Benesiinaabandan is an Anishinabe intermedia artist that works primarily in photography, printmaking and video. Scott has recently completed international residencies at Parramatta Artist Studios in Australia (2012), Context Gallery in Derry, North of Ireland (2010) and is most recently been awarded the University Lethbridge/Royal Institute of Technology iAIR residency 2013, along with international collaborative projects in both the U.K and Ireland. He is currently in Montreal, and recently completed a Canada Council New Media Production grant through OBx Labs/Ab-tech and Concordia.
In the past four years, Benesiinaabandan has been awarded multiple grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Manitoba Arts Council and the Winnipeg Arts Council.
Benesiinaabandan has taken part in several group exhibitions across Canada and the United States, most notably in Harbourfront’s Flatter the Land/Bigger the Ruckus (2006), Subconscious City at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (2008) and with more recent solo exhibitions, unSacred, at Gallery 1C03 ( 2011) and in Sydney, Mii Omaa Ayaad/Oshiki Inendemowin (2012).In September, 2013 Benesiinaabandan will take part in Ryerson Image Centre’s Ghost Dance exhibition.
In 2021, Benesiinaabandan will undertake a residency at the Aabijijiwan New Media Lab.
Scott Benesiinaabandan, Fragments of the Futures, 2018
“I would like to continue to explore the metaphysical intersections of language, digital media and physical objects. Interested in the generative process of translation and monuments, this work seeks out what is gained over what is lost during the translation process. The idea of excavating, then manifesting the future from parrell digital realities that surround us. Echos of slightly esoteric mapping and divination of the future lies at the heart of these explorations. My series Fragments from the Future (2018) was my first foray into these ideas. Recently introduced to AR technologies, I would adapt the ideas founding the Fragments of the Future work to adapt to this new technology.”
— Scott Benesiinaabandan
Scott Benesiinaabandan, Fragments of the Futures (Creative Process), 2018