Joe David

A n I n t r o d u c t i o n t o
C o n t e m p o r a r y N a t i v e A r t i s t s i n C a n a d a

J o e D a v i d

b. 1957, Kanehsatà:ke, Québec
First Nations Affiliation: Mohawk

Carver, sculptor, painter, and installation artist, Joe Tehawehron David has actively engaged in the struggle for Native rights, particularly land rights. During the Crisis of 1990 (Oka) he fought to resist the further encroachment of non-Natives onto remaining Mohawk territory. As well as participating in the major exhibition INDIGENA at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in 1992, David also wrote the moving poem which prefaces its catalogue.

R E C E N T E X H I B I T I O N S

1998	International Human Rights Festival. ISART, Montréal, Québec
1992	INDIGENA. Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Québec (travelling)
1991	4^th Havana Biennial. National Museum of Modern Art, Havana, Cuba Solidarity: Art After Oka. SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario Okanata. A Space Gallery / Workscene, Toronto, Ontario
1990	Four Cardinal Points. Boréale Multimedia, Centre d’Exposition de la Gare, L’Annonciation, Québec
1987-88	Festival Culturel. Le Centre d’Amitié Auctochtone/Native Friendship Centre, Montréal, Québec

S E L E C T E D C O L L E C T I O N S

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Ottawa, Ontario

S E L E C T E D B I B L I O G R A P H Y

Blair, Lorrie. "Montreart is divining rights from wrong." Hour, 27 November - 3 December 1997, p. 27.

McMaster, Gerald, and Lee-Ann Martin, eds. INDIGENA: Contemporary Native Perspectives. Vancouver, British Columbia: Douglas & McIntyre, 1992 / INDIGENA:. Perspectives autochtones contemporaines. Hull, Québec: Musée canadien des civilisations, 1992.

Pindera, Loreen. "The making of a warrior (Oka confrontation, Summer 1990)." Saturday Night 106, no. 3 (April 1991): 30-39.

York, Geoffrey, and Loreen Pindera. People of the Pines. [forthcoming]

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