Photo Sam Javanrouh

The REDress Project

AN AESTHETIC RESPONSE TO THE MORE THAN 1000 MISSING AND MURDERED ABORIGINAL WOMEN IN CANADA.

The REDress Project focuses around the issue of missing or murdered Aboriginal women across Canada. It is an installation art project based on an aesthetic response to this critical national issue. The project has been installed in public spaces throughout Canada and the United States as a visual reminder of the staggering number of women who are no longer with us. Through the installation I hope to draw attention to the gendered and racialized nature of violent crimes against Aboriginal women and to evoke a presence through the marking of absence.

Video by NMAI(National Museum) in Washington

Exhibition Review the REDress Project in EcoCentrix
Permanent Exhibit at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights


Previous Solo Exhibitions

Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, 2019

Canadian Museum of Human Rights, 2014

University of Alberta, March 2012
University of Manitoba, Nov.2011
Thompson Rivers University, Oct. 2011
University of Ottawa, July 2011
The Manitoba Legislature, May 2011
The University of Winnipeg, March 2011

 

RECOMMENDED:

University of BC Indigenous Foundations Artist Database
REDress/REdress Documentary

 

PRESS COVERAGE:

March 2019: The Guardian
Spring 2019: American Indian Magazine
October 2015: Global News

March 2012: The REDress Project at UofA 
March 2012: The REDress Project at The university of Alberta, CBC Radio Interview w. jaime Black and Andrea Menard

March 2012: REdress Project Panel Discussion U of Alberta

March 2012: The REDress Project at Uof A, Augustana Satellite Campus, the Camrose Canadian.

March 2012: The Edmonton Journal, The REDress Project UofA

January 2012: University of Manitoba Radio Interview on The REDress Project

December 10 , 2010: Examiner Art Review

December 7, 2010: The Guardian: On Canada’s ‘Highway of Tears’ by Renee Martin

October 5, 2010: CBC News: Empty dresses honour missing, slain women

October 5, 2010: CTV News: Artist aims to raise awareness regarding missing, murdered women

October 2010: Windspeaker: Red Dresses: There, but just not there by Susan Solway