EMILY DUNDAS OKE
Emily Dundas Oke is an emerging curator and interdisciplinary artist. As a 2018 graduate of Philosophy and Visual Art (BA) from Thompson Rivers University, she has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Ken Lepin Award of Excellence. She is an alumni of the TRU Indigenous Knowledge Makers program, where she developed research addressing complicated relationships to land as they are embodied within the performative work of contemporary Indigenous artists. Her philosophical research in epistemology guides her interest in works that deal with the production and retention of knowledge and shared histories. Emily has exhibited nationally and internationally and has been an artist in residence at Nida Art Colony (Lithuania), Ideas Block (Lithuania) and the Kamloops Printmakers Society (Canada). She is of Cree, Métis, Scottish, and English descent and is a visitor on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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