Terrance Houle: Ghost Days
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Kamloops Art Gallery 101-465 Victoria St, Kamloops, British Columbia V2C 2A9
Terrance Houle, "Ghost Days," 2015
digital photo
Terrance Houle: Ghost Days
This exhibition presents an experimental art adventure, bringing together film, video, performance, photography, and music. Initiated in 2015 by Terrance Houle, this project conjures the spirits and ghosts of colonial and non-colonial history that exist in the light of night, as well as in the darkness of the day.
In December 2021, Houle offered a successful series of programs in support of the Kamloops Art Gallery’s ongoing youth programs—the LAB Rats and the Fierce Unicorn Shadow Masterminds Collective Art Series with Chris Bose. These programs included screen-printing workshops in the KAG studios and a virtual artist’s talk. Chris Bose, Youth Programs Coordinator, has invited Houle back to the Gallery to build on this relationship and to offer further mentorship to local Indigenous youth. The exhibition will present the result of this process, along with work Houle developed as part of the University of British Columbia Okanagan’s Indigenous Art Intensive in Kelowna, BC, earlier this summer.
Terrance Houle, Niitsitapi (Blackfoot): Kainai/ Saulteaux, is an internationally recognized interdisciplinary media artist. He has been involved with Indigenous communities all his life and has travelled to reservations throughout North America, where he has participated in Powwow dances and Native ceremonies. Houle utilizes performance, photography, video, film, music, and painting throughout his practice. His work also incorporates tools of mass dissemination, including billboards and vinyl bus signs.
Houle received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta, in 2003. In 2004 he received the award for Best Experimental Film at the Toronto ImagineNATIVE Film Festival in Ontario, and in 2006 he received the Enbridge Emerging Artist Award. Houle's work has been exhibited across Canada, the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Europe. Most recently, Houle has been touring his multimedia project Ghost Days across Canada. His work was featured in LandMark, organized by the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, in 2018, and is part of the AGA’s permanent collection.
Curated by Chris Bose, Youth Programs Coordinator, Kamloops Art Gallery