Charlene Vickers

Charlene Vickers is an Anishinaabe artist living and working in Vancouver, BC. Born in Kenora, ON, and raised in Toronto, Vickers’ art explores her ancestry through the mediums of painting, sculpture, performance and video, often exploring memory, healing and embodied connections to ancestral lands. Her work has been exhibited across Canada and the United States and can be seen in the permanent collection of the Museum of Anthropology (Vancouver). Trained as a painter, Vickers graduated from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (1994), attained a BA from Simon Fraser University in Critical Studies of the Arts (1998), and holds an MFA from Simon Fraser University (2013). In 2025, Vickers made the Sobey Award Long List.

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2015