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Biography
Dr. Heather Igloliorte is an influential Inuk academic from Nunatsiavut. She is an Assistant Professor of Aboriginal art history at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. She also holds a Concordia University research chair in Indigenous Art History and Community Engagement.
Early life and education
Igloliorte was born in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Her father is James Igloliorte, who has served as Judge with the Provincial Court of Newfoundland and Labrador, making him Labrador’s only Inuk judge and one of the few practicing Aboriginal magistrates in all of Canada.
Igloliorte completed her PhD in Cultural Mediations at Carleton University's Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture (ICSLAC)
Research activities and curatorial projects
Igloliorte's teaching and research interests center on Inuit and other Native North American visual and material culture, circumpolar art studies, performance and media art, the global exhibition of Indigenous arts and culture, and issues of colonization, sovereignty, resistance and resilience.
Publications
Igloliorte's publications include chapters and catalogue essays in Manifestations: New Native Art Criticism (2012); Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 (2012); Curating Difficult Knowledge (2011); Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art (2011); Inuit Modern (2010); Response, Responsibility, and Renewal: Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Journey (2009); and Negotiations in a Vacant Lot: Studying the Visual in Canada (2014).