Artist CV

CV
EMMA HASSENCAHL-PERLEY
Wolastoqey Visual Artist, Curator, Arts Writer


 

EDUCATION

2021 - 2023
Concordia University – Master of Arts in Art History

2013 – 2017
Mount Allison University – Bachelor of Fine Arts
Recipient of the J.E.A. Crake Award in Fine Arts

 


 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2024 Tekweywinen Tel Welijesultiek, The Rooms, NFLD.
2023 Pisuwin: A Wolastoqiyik Story, Costume Designer, Atlantic Ballet of Canada
2023 it started with a thought . . ., George Fry Gallery, Fredericton, NB
2021 Isolated/Together, The Andrew & Laura McCain Art Gallery, NB
2020 BACA Contemporary Native Art Biennale, Montreal, QC
2019 WE ARE STILL HERE, George Fry Gallery, Fredericton, NB
2019 Channels, Gallery on Queen, Fredericton, NB
2019 HARBOUR, Saint John Arts Centre & Beaverbrook Art Gallery
2019 Materiality and Perception, Beaverbrook Art Gallery
2018 SOFA World Fair, Chicago, IL
2018 THIRD SHIFT Performing Arts Festival, Saint John, NB
2017 Redress Project: Indigenous Women’s Voices, York University, Toronto, ON
2017 The Last Gairdners, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, NB
2017 Wish150: A Long Way Home, Roundhouse Arts & Community Centre, Vancouver, BC
2017 Wish150, Centre Culturel Aberdeen, Moncton, NB
2016 Art and Activism, Purdy Crawford Centre of the Arts
2016 Sharing Stories, Lieutenant Governor’s House, Fredericton, NB
2016 Maplewish Mosaic, Nuit Blanche, Winnipeg Art Gallery

 


 

CURATED EXHIBITIONS 

2024 Radical Stitch (Local Artist Additions), Beaverbrook Art Gallery
2024 Epekwitk Quill Sisters: Etleoogoeiog (Talking Together), Beaverbrook Art Gallery
2023-2024 Turtle Island, Contemporary Native Art Biennial (BACA), Quebec (touring), Canada
2023 wesuwe-tpelomosu, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB
2023 Shane Perley-Dutcher: Reweaving the Basket, Beaverbrook Art Gallery
2022 ehpituwikuwam, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB
2022 Wabanaki Modern, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB
2021 Everything in Between, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, NB
2020 Inter: fuse, lace, relate, Saint John Arts Centre, Gallerie Sans Nom, Galerie Bernard-Jean
2020 aulajijakka (things I remember), Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB
2020 Space, Place, Home, Art Gallery Louise et Reuben Cohen, University of Moncton, NB
2019 Everything’s Gonna Be Fine, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB
2019 Carl Beam: One Who is Brave-Hearted, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB
2019 Keepers of the Light, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s, NFLD
2019 Percy Sacobie – Walastokwey Notatkohket, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB
2018 50th Anniversary of collectionartNB, Beaverbrook Art Gallery

 


 

PUBLISHED WRITING 

2024 “Mn’tu wikk ti!” at Petapan: First Light Indigenous Arts Symposium, Billie Art Magazine
2023 Erratic Love: Shelley Niro & Daniel David Moses, McMichael Canadian Art Collection
2023 Aaron Rice, Essay for Parallelogram, Polygon Gallery, Vancouver
2022 Wabanaki Modern, Goose Lane Editions
2022 Space, Place, Home, Curatorial Essay, Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen
2022 Changers: A Spiritual Renaissance, Master’s Thesis, Concordia University
2021 Alexandrya Eaton: Everything in Between, Curatorial Essay
2020 Visual Culture Atlantic … but Make it Safe and Inclusive, Billie Art Magazine
2019 Psi-kewk Keti Mewi: Tout Va Bien Aller, Curatorial Essay, Beaverbrook Art Gallery
2019 Elisgenooasig: Inter: Fuse, Lace, Relate, Curatorial Essay, Saint John Arts Centre, NB

 


 

MURALS AND PUBLIC ART

2024, weckuwi-macekulticik (ones that are growing up), Tobique Day Care Centre
2024, Birds of a Feather, Brookside Mall, Fredericton
2024, niponankik, Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery, Halifax, NS
2024 Mawiyamok, Fredericton Public Library
2024 Wolastoqewiyik Nilun, Wolastoqey Tribal Council, Inc.
2023 Abundance, John Hugh Flemming Forestry Centre, Fredericton, NB
2023 Possesomuwihke, Fredericton High School, NB
2023 Kcicihtomuwakon, Southern Victoria High School, NB
2023 Mawiyewakon, Mudwas Park, Tobique First Nation, NB
2023 Wesuwe-tpelomosu, Portland Museum of Art, ME
2022 Nit Leyic, Perth-Andover Middle School, NB
2022 Regenerative Love, University of Moncton – Edmunston Campus, NB
2021 Double-Curve Design, Tobique Child and Family Services, NB
2020 FLOURISH, Mawiw Council Inc., Fredericton Office, NB
2020 Ponek-apc amonopekek, Friends of Fundy, Alma, NB
2019 Wici-Kseltomuwakon, City of Fredericton, NB
2019 Wolastoqey Lateuwewakon, Perth-Andover Middle School, NB

 


 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Lead Costume Designer for Pisuwin: A Wolastoqiyik Story (CBC News)

  • Press for Wabanaki Modern documentary (CBC News)

  • One of four artists selected to paint hockey sticks for the World Junior Hockey Tournament, Moncton 2022  Link here