Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity addresses the ways in which Indigenous contemporary artists and collaborators tackle issues of climate change, globalized Indigeneity, and colonial encounters within the circumpolar Arctic and the Amazon during times of crisis. Indigenous ways of knowing and being in relation to the land are a major source of the artists’ creativity. The works represent a politics of resistance and resurgence while also revealing their connections to the Arctic or the Amazon.

A constellation of new and past works by artists Sonya Kelliher-Combs (Iñupiaq and Athabascan, United States), Tanya Lukin Linklater (Alutiiq/Sugpiaq, United States/Canada), Couzyn van Heuvelen (Inuk, Canada), Máret Ánne Sara (Sámi, Norway), Uýra (Indigenous in diaspora), Olinda Reshinjabe Silvano, Wilma Maynas & Ronin Koshi (Shipibo-Konibo, Peru), Morzaniel Ɨramari Yanomami (Yanomami, Brazil), Gisela Motta & Leandro Lima(Brazil), Pia Arke (Kalaaleq and Danish, Greenland/Denmark), Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe (Yanomami, Venezuela) and Biret & Gáddjá Haarla Pieski, Outi Pieski (Sámi, Finland) are featured in Arctic/Amazon. Encompassing a range of media, including paintings, drawings, sculpture, installation, video, and performance, this exhibition seeks to shed light on current geopolitical and environmental sustainability issues that inform artistic practices in these two vastly different, yet interconnected, regions.

Arctic/Amazon was curated by Dr. Gerald McMaster (Lead Curator), Dr. Nina Vincent (Co-Curator), and Noor Alé (Institutional Curator).