Katya Serré
2S - Interdisciplinary Artist - Nipissing First Nation
Digital Media
OGICHIDAAKWEWAG, 2023
Through her work, Katya shares stories of resistance, celebration, and power. In her series titled “Ogichidaakwewag”, she illustrates Indigenous women that inspire her, each with their own individual story. The title is Anishinaabemowin for “Warrior Women”, and she believes warriors come in many different forms.
Every subject was interviewed prior to the making of the work, and each work was made to speak of that individual’s life and of their spirit. During the process of making her work and interviewing her subjects, she was inspired by the Indigenous worldview of “All My Relations”, which speaks of the interconnection of all beings. The colours in the paintings represent the subject’s spirit, and the artist was honoured to work in such an intimate way with her subjects.
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Bio
Katya Serré is a two spirit Anishinaabe interdisciplinary artist from Nipissing First Nation. Her artistic practice often revolves around complications between notions of tradition and modernity working in harmony, or in some cases, in dissonance with one another. For Serré, Anishnaabe artistic discourse is both a means of cultural and communal building and celebration while serving as a form of anticolonial resistance. Katya graduated from Nipissing University (North Bay, ON) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (honours, with distinction) minoring in Indigenous Studies. She is currently serving as the Network Facilitator for the Near North Mobile Media Lab. Previously, she was a Program Facilitator for Digital Creator North and was integral in this North Bay-based digital art program’s success with the youth. Serré has shown work at: WKP Kennedy Gallery, White Water Gallery; North Bay, and the Temiskaming Art Gallery; Haileybury.
CURRICULUM VITAEEDUCATIONNipissing University, BFAEXHIBITIONS2024- Wiijiiwdiwag, Solo Exhibition, Between Pheasants Contemporary, Kerns, Ontario
2023- Ogichidaakwewag, Nipissing University BFA Exhibition, W.K.P Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, Ontario
2022- Quannah Chasinghorse, Nipissing Fine Arts Juried Exhibition, W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, Ontario
2020- Shkode Nini, Beauty in the Time of Corona, Temiskaming Art Gallery, Haileybury, Ontario
2016- Ashley Callingbull, White Water Gallery, North Bay, Ontario
2016- Violet Chachki, Art on Main, North Bay, Ontario
2016- Dancing in the Rain, Student Exhibition, St. Joseph Scollard Hall, North Bay, Ontario
2015- Untitled, DRAWN Exhibition, Line Gallery, North Bay, OntarioPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE2023/24- Network Facilitator, Near North Mobile Media Lab, North Bay, Ontario
2022- Program Lead, Digital Creator North, North Bay, Ontario
2022- Forum Presenter, Rendezvous North, Sudbury, Ontario
2022- Digital Artist: Contract, Kinoomaadziwin Education Body
2020- Community Arts Intern, Aanmitaagzi Big Medicine Studio, Nipissing First Nation
Contact
Please reach me at [email protected], or through my accounts linked below.
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Background Image Credit: Sophie Aultman, Exposxre Photography