The Podcast
The Podcast
Meet the Speaker
Hannah Claus
Hannah Claus is a visual artist of English / Irish and Kanien’kehá:ka [Mohawk] heritages. She lives and works in Tiohtià:ke [Montreal] where she completed her Masters of Fine Arts at Concordia University in 2004. In her practice, Claus creates artwork that explores Indigeneity, particularly through a Haudenosaunee [Iroquois] perspective, as a living current experience, through engaging with memory, space and time. Her installations and artworks may be found in public collections such as the National Gallery of Canada, the Canada Council Art Bank, the City of Montreal and Global Affairs Canada. Claus is a member of Tyendinaga – Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte in Ontario.
Jean-Philippe Uzel
Jean-Philippe Uzel is a professor of art history at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and a member of the Centre interuniversitaire d’études et de recherches autochtones (CIÉRA). His area of expertise is the history and theory of modern and contemporary art, with a focus on the relationships between art and politics. For the past 20 years he has brought this perspective to his interest in Indigenous and culturally diverse contemporary art in North America. From 2012-2013 he was Chair of Contemporary Québec Studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3; his research program addressed differing perspectives on contemporary Indigenous art in North America. He is the author of the study Professional practices in visual arts arising from Indigeneity and diversity in Montréal (Conseil des arts de Montréal, 2018).
Naghmeh Sharifi
Naghmeh Sharifi is an Iranian/Canadian Multidisciplinary artist based in Montreal. She holds a BA in visual arts and one in psychology from the University of British Columbia. Since 2006, her work has been exhibited in Tehran, Berlin, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Toronto and Skopje. In Montreal, she has presented her work at such sites as Montreal Council of the Arts (2015) Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (2017) and the MAI (Montreal intercultural arts) (2018). In 2015, Naghmeh was the recipient of the Impressions Residency at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Naghmeh recently completed an MFA (concentration Painting and Drawing) at Concordia University.
