Judy Anderson is Nêhiyaw (Cree) from Gordon First Nation, Saskatchewan, Treaty 4 territory and an Associate Professor of Canadian Indigenous Studio Art in the Department of Art at the University of Calgary. Anderson’s practice includes beadwork, installation, hand-made paper, painting, three-dimensional pieces, and, collaborative projects all of which are deeply personalwith a focus on issues of spirituality, family, colonialism and Indigenous epistemological and ontological traditions.

CONTACT

Judy Anderson: judy.anderson@ucalgary.ca

BIO

Judy Anderson is Nêhiyaw from Gordon First Nation, Treaty 4, Saskatchewan. Her practice involves beadwork, installation, three-dimensional pieces, painting, and collaborative projects; her work focus on spirituality, family, colonization, decolonization, and nêhiyaw ways of knowing and being. Her current work is created with the purpose of honouring people in her life and nêhiyaw intellectualizations of the world. She is a professor of Canadian Indigenous Studio Art in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Calgary.

MEDIA

24.11.25 GALLERIES WEST Judy Anderson and Katherine Boyer — mâmawohkamâtowak: “A conversation between two flatland artists who draw on the rich legacy of beading and other crafts

23.05.17 DUNLOP ART GALLERY Judy Anderson: …Indigenized

17.10.24 CANADIAN ART Cree Artist Judy Anderson Wins Salt Spring National Art Prize

17.03.19 HUFFINGTON POST Judy And Cruz Anderson Transform Graffiti Into Traditional Cree Beadwork

14.11.12 CBC Regina artist teaches Prince Charles to make moose hide art

CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

2008 M.F.A. (Painting) University of Regina.
2002 B.F.A. (Painting) with Great Distinction, University of Saskatchewan.
1998 B.A. (Native Studies) with High Honours and Most Distinguished Graduate, University of Saskatchewan.
1990 Diploma (Visual Communications) Grant MacEwan Community College, Edmonton, Alberta.

 

SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2024 mâmawohkamâtowak with Katherine Boyer, Nickel Galleries, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Sept 19 – Dec 14)
2023 …Indigenized, Art Gallery of Swift Current, Swift Current, Saskatoon, Canada (Sept. 15 – Nov 8)
2023 …Indigenized, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatoon, Canada (April 15 – June 19)
2017 They told me to honour him…, Project Space Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2008 Issue/d Paper, Harcourt House, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2007 Coyote’s Trick, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2005 Caution: Not Suitable for Children, Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Saskatchewan, Canada
2002 Caution: Not Suitable for Children, Wanuskewin Heritage Site, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
2002 Caution: Not Suitable for Children, B.F.A. Graduating Show University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Relatives, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (Fall)
2025 Sports, Sports, Sports, Art Windsor Essex, Windsor, Ontario, Canada (Mar 8 – Sept 28)
2025 Ascending Horizons, McMaster Museum of Arts, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (Jan – June)
2025 DesignTO Festival: REVIVE, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2025 Eiteljorg, Indianapolis, USA (Apr 21 – Aug 3)
2024-25 The Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada (Dec 5 – Mar 21)
2024 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (May 17 – Oct 20)
2023-24 Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada (Oct 13 – Mar 3)
2023 Radical Stitch (tour) Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (May 20 – Aug 28)
2022 Ohkotoksitahtayi Big Rock River, Contemporary Indigenous Art in an Ancient Land, Okotoks 2022 Art Gallery, Okotoks, Alberta, Canada (Sept 17 – Nov 4)
2022 Radical Stitch (tour), MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan (Apr 30 – Sept 25)
2021 Art Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Oct 29 – Nov 7)
2021 Touching Earth and Sky, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan (June 12 – Nov 14)
2020-21 borderLINE: 2020 Biennial of Contemporary Art, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada (Sept 26 – Feb 14)
2020-21 Yoko Ono: Water Event 1971/2020, Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Sept 17 – Jan 31)
2020 Bead Speak 2.0, Slate Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2020 BACA (Biennale d’art contemporain autochtone / Contemporary Native Art Biennial): Honouring Kinship, Montréal, Québec, Canada
2020 Biennial of Contemporary Art, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
2019 Relate(d), Point Gallery, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada
2019 Power Play: Hockey in Canadian Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
2019 Beading Now, La Guilde 1906, Montréal, Québec, Canada
2017 Extratextual, Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2017 Eye of the Needle, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2017 Salt Spring National Art Prize, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia; Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada
2016 Sole Project, Art Gallery of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2016 Bead Speak, Slate Fine Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2014 It’s Fine Arts, First Nations University of Canada Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2013 – 2018 Walking With Our Sisters, Travelling, Canada and United States
2013 – 2014 Working Mom, Last Mountain Lake Gallery, Regina Beach, Saskatchewan, Canada
2013 Coming into View: Honouring the Professional Native Artists Inc., Slate Fine Art Gallery and Sakewewak Artists’ Collective Inc., Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2012 –2013 The Synthetic Age: Fine Arts Faculty at the University of Regina and First Nations University of Canada, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2012 Critical Faculties, First Nations University Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2011 Prairie Post Moderns, Dunlop Art Gallery and ACCESS 7, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2011 Toys Gone Rogue, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2011 Mind the Gap!, Estevan Art Gallery, Estevan, Saskatchewan; Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario; Art Gallery of Swift Current, Swift Current, Saskatchewan; GeNext, Art Gallery of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2010 This Train – Fine Arts Alumni, 1990 – 2010, Kenderdine Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
2009 Mind the Gap!, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada