I’m Not Your Kinda Princess is the first solo exhibition by the multidisciplinary artist, Lori Blondeau in Hamilton. This exhibition is a survey of works that evinces the nuanced breadth of the artist’s three-plus decades career. An artistic career whose vigour and cultural relevance continues to grow retrospectively. The oldest work featured in this survey exhibition dates back to 1996 while the latest is from 2023.

Opening Reception
Thursday, June 6, 4 – 7PM
We are very excited to share that artist Lori Blondeau will be in attendance and will give a short artist talk.

A survey of work originally curated by Nasrin Himada.

Organized by Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art.

Lori Blondeau is Cree/Saulteaux/Métis from Saskatchewan. Since the 1990s, Blondeau’s artistic practice in the fields of performance, photography and installation, along with her curatorial work and activities as co-founder and Executive Director of the Indigenous art collective TRIBE, has proved decisive to the ever-increasing centrality of Indigenous art and knowledge production in Canada. With her performances, which include Are You My Mother? (2000), Sisters (2002) and States of Grace (2007) and photographic work, including COSMOSQUAW (1996), Lonely Surfer Squaw (1997) and Asinîy Iskwew (2016), Blondeau’s practice, both as a solo artist and in collaboration with fellow Visual artists including Visual Artists James Luna, Rebecca Belmore, Shelly Niro and Adrian Stimson, demonstrates a clarity of focus which is remarkable for its precision, humour and strength. Her photographic and installation work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Windsor (Ontario), Kelowna Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton) and Remai Modern (Saskatoon) among numerous others. Her performance pieces have been showcased at Nuit Blanche (Saskatoon and Winnipeg), VIVO (Vancouver), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto) and the 2007 Venice Biennial. Blondeau has participated in panel discussions and given lectures at the AGO, the University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon), the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (Santa Fe) and the 2020 Sydney Biennale. Since 2018, Blondeau is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Art at the University of Manitoba School of Art; sat on the Advisory Panel for the Canada Council, Visual Arts program and served as a member of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective. Blondeau was a recipient of the 2021 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts.

Plug In Institute for Contemporary Art acknowledges and is grateful for the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council.