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Mike Alexander

Artist member since 2021
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Vancouver, British Columbia

Mike Alexander is an emerging Anishinaabe visual artist and writer originally from Swan Lake First Nation in Treaty #1 Territory, who lives on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Adopted out to a non-Indigenous family shortly after birth, Mike is a 60’s Scoop survivor, a second-generation Residential School survivor who grew up in Winnipeg, having no connection to his community, language or culture until his early 20’s. He has attended the University of Victoria, the Victoria College of Art and the Vancouver Island School of Art. Mike is honoured to have received mentorship from master carver and recipient of the Order of BC Carey Newman (Kwagiulth) as well as master of the Woodlands School of Art, Mark Anthony Jacobson (Anishinaabe) who as a Pipe Carrier and Eagle Staff carrier, serves to transmit cultural knowledge as well as artistic skill to Mike to help guide him. Mike has been the recipient of several generous grants from the Kamloops Arts Council, the First Peoples Cultural Council and the BC Arts Council and is currently practicing as a full time, internationally collected artist. Since 2015, his large acrylic paintings have received four solo exhibitions in Vancouver, Victoria, and Kamloops as well as participation in several group shows across Canada and the United States.


Work


Inside the Studio

Upcoming Exhibitions
2023-01-14

Science World, BC
Swachays Artists-In-Residence

2023-10-26

Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Native Art
13 Moons Around The Lake

Select Past Exhibitions
2021

EJ Hughes Gallery, Duncan, BC
Everywhere Beyond the Horizon solo exhibition

2021

Massy Gallery, Vancouver, BC
We and the Land, We Are the Water solo exhibition

2022

Skwachays Lodge, Vancouver, BC
Artist-In-Residence exhibition

Press
2021

Broadview Magazine
I turned to art to mourn my dad, the Anishinaabe man I never knew. Painter Mike Alexander learned to process his emotions through the canvas

2023

Windspeaker News
Anishinaabe artist paints the darker stories of the Indigenous experience

Residencies
2022

Skwachays Lodge, Vancouver
Artist-in-Residence

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