Daina Warren

Daina Warren is from the Akamihk (Cree) Nation in Maskwacis (Bear Hills), AB. She has a BFA from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design (ECU, 2003) and an MA from University of British Columbia (2012). Daina was awarded the Emily Award from ECU (2015) and was selected as one of six Indigenous women curators to participate in the International First Nations Curators Exchange that took place in Australia (2015), New Zealand (2016), and Canada (2017). Daina has won the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellency (2018) and the Manitoba Arts Award of Distinction (2022). Over the past twenty-five years, Daina has worked in programming roles at institutions such as grunt gallery, National Gallery of Canada, Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art, and the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is currently Executive Director, Indigenous Initiatives at Emily Carr University.

Participation

2021