Skeena Reece is a Tsimshian/Gitksan/Cree artist based on the West Coast of BC. Her multi-disciplinary practice includes performance art, spoken word, humour, “sacred clowning”, writing, singing, songwriting, video, and visual art. Reece has been a long standing supporter of for-youth-by-youth organizations, formerly a Board Member of the Native Youth Media Society (Redwire Magazine), an employee of the Knowledgeable Aboriginal Youth Association, and the Founder and Artistic Director of the Native Youth Artists Collective. From 2005-2007, Reece was the Director of the Indigenous Media Arts Group, organizing the 8th Annual IMAGeNation Aboriginal Film and Video Festival (2007). Reece’s installation and performance work has garnered national and international attention, most notably for Raven: On the Colonial Fleet (2010) presented at the 2010 Sydney Biennale as part of the group exhibition Beat Nation. Skeena studied media arts at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and was the recipient of the British Columbia Award for Excellence in the Arts (2012), the VIVA Award (2014), and the Hnatyshyn Award (2017). Reece’s work has been part of numerous group exhibitions across North America. Her solo exhibitions include Surrounded at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (2019); Touch Me at the Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC (2018); Moss at Oboro Gallery, Montréal (2017) and The Sacred Clown & Other Strangers at Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Winnipeg (2015).
Skeena Reece
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