Lori Beavis

Executive Director – Centre d’art Daphne
Michi Saagiig Anishinaabe and Irish/Welch

Lori Beavis is Executive Director of Centre d’art daphne, the first Indigenous artist-run centre in Tiohtià:ke/ Mooniyang/ Montreal. Beavis is an independent curator, art educator and art historian. Identifying as being of Michi Sagiig (Mississauga Anishinaabe) and Irish-Welsh descent, she is a citizen of Hiawatha First Nation at Rice Lake, Ontario. Her curatorial work, art practice and research, articulates narrative and memory in the context of family and cultural history, and reflects on cultural identity, art education and self-representation. Her independent curatorial practice – solo (Shelley Niro: Buffet (2016); Rebellion of my Ancestors: Jobena Petonoquot (2018); Shelley Niro: women land river (2019); mazinigwaaso / to bead something Barry Ace: Bandolier Bags as Cultural Conduit (2019) and with co-curators (The Rebel Yells; Dress and Political Re-dress in Contemporary Indigenous Art Rhonda L. Meier (2015), Maria Ezcurra and Natasha Reid (Invisible: body as reflective site, 2019) has objectively worked to further conversations on art, identity and self-representation. She serves on the Executive of the Indigenous Curatorial Collective/ Collectif des Commissaires Autochtones (IC/CA) Board of Directors.