David Garneau
David Garneau is a painter, curator, and writer who engages creative and critical expressions of Indigenous contemporary ways of knowing, being, and doing. He received the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Art: Outstanding Achievement (2023), was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada (2023), and received The Order of Gabriel Dumont Silver Medal (2025).
Image by Mika Abbott.
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Contributions
Vol. 12, No. 3
Métis Artists as Non-State ActorsBy David Garneau
Métis Citizenship and Métis Identity
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Vol. 11, No. 3
Restor(y)ing Colonial Public ArtDavid Garneau
Current reflections on 1951 “Alberta History” mural controversy
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Vol. 11, No. 1
Non-Colonial Indigenous Public ArtDavid Garneau
Canada blooms with Indigenous memorials and public art.
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Vol. 10, No. 3
Decolonizing and Returning to Ancestral PracticesDavid Garneau and Margo Kane
Cultivating Kin has intentionally chosen to document its process and journey through a set of conversations.
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Vol. 9, No. 3
The 83rd Call to ActionBy David Garneau
Indigenous/settler art collaborations explored.
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Vol. 8, No. 4
Reason for PassionBy David Garneau
Destroying colonial statues. New column by David Garneau.
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Vol. 8, No. 3
Visiting IndigenousBy David Garneau
Understanding Indigenous identity. New column by David Garneau.
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Vol. 8, No. 2
Indigenization and Its Opposite, IndigenizationBy David Garneau
Contronyms as a colonial strategy.
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Vol. 5, No. 2
An Uncertain Latitude: A PC/Cp ReflectionBy David Garneau
I wonder about artistic privilege. The advantages, attention, and public money granted to select artists, but especially the social margin, passage, and exception we occasionally enjoy.
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