Jeneen Frei Njootli

Jeneen Frei Njootli (they/them) is an interdisciplinary Vuntut Gwitchin artist known primarily for their work with sound and textiles,[1] performance, fashion, workshops, and barbeques.

Jeneen Frei Njootli

Work

Njootli is a co-creator of the ReMatriate Collective, a group working toward better representation of Indigenous women in the media.[2][3] Their work often focuses on the non-visible qualities, histories, and energy of the materials she uses and examines and animates their relationship to trade, ceremonial regalia, and the politics of First Nations art.[4] Key themes in their art include Indigeneity in politics, community engagement and productive disruptions.[5]

As one of the five finalist of the 2018 Sobey Art Award Njoottli's work, wind sucked in through bared teeth (2017) is included in an eponymous exhibition featuring the finalists at the National Gallery of Canada.[6]

Njootli was chosen as a LandMarks2017 artist, creating the installation Being Skidoo, which honoured and acknowledged skidoos as "tools and partners in travel."[7] Being Skidoo was filmed on a journey into Vuntut National Park in April 2017.[8]

In 2016, Njootli completed the Media Arts Residency at the Western Front, an artist-run centre in Vancouver.[9][10]

Education

Jeneen Frei Njootli completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Emily Carr University in 2012, and in 2010 completed an undergraduate exchange study at the Sydney College of Art in Australia.[11] In 2017, they earned an M.F.A from the University of British Columbia.[12] In 2016, they completed the Earth Line Indigenous Tattoo training residency.[13][14]

Performance[15]

2018

2016

  • Ishi: The Archive Performance with James Luna, la Jolla Playhouse, San Diego CA[17]
  • if this were a draft, would you dodge it? With Olivia Whetung, Axeneo7, Gatineau QC[18]
  • I want to let the words seep into my marrow so that I too could one day make good soup, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa ON [19]
  • The language your tongue might find could be haunting, Sled Island Music Festival, Calgary AB [20]
  • Melanocite, aceart, Winnipeg MB [21]

2015

  • La Pocha Nostra, Live Biennale with La Pocha Nostra at VIVO, Vancouver BC [22]
  • Native Stories: Sounds, Stories & Shadows with James Luna, Live Biennale at VIVO, Vancouver BC [23]
  • Ishi: The Archive Performance with James Luna, Stories from the Edge: Metro Theatre, Victoria BC [24]
  • Ishi: The Archive Performance with James Luna, Black Box Theatre, Kelowna BC
  • She Showed Me What I Had Done, or What I Had Been Doing, Macaulay Co. & Fine Art, Vancouver BC [25]
  • Our Ceremony is Survival, Gam Gallery, Vancouver BC
  • if this were a draft, would you dodge it?, unceded Musqueam territory with Olivia Whetung, BC
  • Artist Talk and Performance at Audain Gallery, Super Cool Tuesdays, Vancouver BC [26]

2014

Artist In Residencies [15]
  • Western Front Media Arts Residency, Vancouver BC (2016)[28]
  • BUSH_gallery, with Tania Willard, Peter Morin, Gabe Hill, Secwepemculewc Territory (2015)
  • Global Positioning System or Hacking the Coordinates to Enable Shapeshifting and Shadow Networks, The Banff Centre, Banff AB (2014)
  • Wood Land School – what colour is the present?, The Banff Centre, Banff AB (2013)

Awards and Honours

In 2018, Njootli was the Sobey Art Award Finalist for the West Coast and Yukon categories.[29] In 2017, Njootli was also longlisted for the Sobey Art Award for the West Coast and Yukon categories,[30] and in the same year, awarded the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver's Artist Prize.[31] In 2016, Njootli was awarded the Hnatyshyn Foundation, William & Meredith Saunderson Prize for Emerging Canadian Artist Lectures, Workshops & Curating. [32]

References
  1. Jeneen Frei Njootli (2015) Dinjii Zhuh: Productive Disruptions. American Indian Culture and Research Journal: 2015, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 113-120.
  2. Dick, Linnea (2017). "Red rose and lidii by Jeneen Frei Njootli". C: International Contemporary Art. 135: 49 – via EBSCOhost.
  3. "WE ARE: the ReMatriate Collective". 12 October 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  4. "Jeneen Frei Njootli | Vuntut Gwich'in Artist | Macaulay Fine Art". Macaulay & Co. Fine Art. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  5. "About the Artist - Landmarks 2017". Landmarks 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
  6. "Ever-present and Continuous: Jeneen Frei Njootli in Sobey Art Award 2018". www.gallery.ca. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
  7. "About Being Skidoo - Landmarks 2017". Landmarks 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
  8. "Being Skidoo - Landmarks 2017". Landmarks 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
  9. "Jeneen Frei Njootli - Western Front". front.bc.ca. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  10. "Jeneen Frei Njootli | Vuntut Gwich'in Artist | Macaulay Fine Art". Macaulay & Co. Fine Art. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  11. "Macaulay & Co. Fine Art - Jeneen Frei Njootli" (PDF).
  12. "Jeneen Frei Njootli | Vuntut Gwich'in Artist | Macaulay Fine Art". Macaulay & Co. Fine Art. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  13. "Cultural lineage: Reclaiming the Indigenous art of skin stitching". CBC News. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  14. "Earth Line Tattoo Training Residency June 20th-July 15th, 2016 - Indigenous Tattooing". Indigenous Tattooing. 12 June 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  15. "Jeneen Frei Njootli – Fazakas Gallery". fazakasgallery.com. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  16. Ryner, Denise (2018). Common Cause: before and beyond the global. Toronto, ON: Mercer Union. ISBN 978-1-926627-45-8.
  17. "ISHI: The Archive Performance (by James Luna) at UCSD | The UC Collaboratory for Ethnographic Design". quote.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  18. "RÉSEAU ART ACTUEL - Lancement de la Triennale internationale des arts textiles, le jeudi 18 août à 19h à AXENÉO7". rcaaq.org. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  19. "I want to let the words seep into my marrow so that I too could one day make good soup | Ottawa Arts Council". ottawaartscouncil.ca. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  20. Inc., Structured Abstraction. "the language your tongue might find could be haunting: Sled Island". www.sledisland.com. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  21. "aceart inc. Search Results jeneen". www.aceart.org. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  22. "Bodies and food get through art world defences at Live! Performance Art Biennale". Vancouver Sun. 23 October 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  23. "James Luna and Jeneen Frei Njootli |". livebiennale.ca. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  24. "Stories From The Edge | Open Space". openspace.ca. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  25. "Beau Dick / Nicholas Galanin / Jeneen Frei Njootli - Macaulay & Co. Fine Art". Macaulay & Co. Fine Art. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  26. "Geometry of Knowing - SFU Galleries - Simon Fraser University". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  27. "Claiming Space - Museum of Anthropology at UBC". Museum of Anthropology at UBC. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  28. "Jeneen Frei Njootli - Western Front". front.bc.ca. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  29. "2018 Sobey Art Award : West Coast & Yukon - Jeneen Frei Njootli | CBC Radio". CBC. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
  30. "25 Artists Longlisted for $50K Sobey Art Award". Canadian Art. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  31. "Alumna Jeneen Frei Njootli Takes Home the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver's 2017 Artist Prize | Emily Carr University of Art + Design". www.ecuad.ca. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  32. "2015 Recipients - William and Meredith Saunderson Prizes for Emerging Artists | The Hnatyshyn Foundation". www.rjhf.com. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
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