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 L u k e   S i m o n

b. 1953, Big Cove Reserve, New Brunswick
First Nations Affiliation: Mi'kmaq

Luke Simon originally studied graphic design at George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology in Toronto (1977). From 1980 to 1983 he obtained Associate of Fine Arts degrees in two and three-dimensional art at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, earning the T.C. Cannon Award, the Outstanding Student's award, plus the National Dean's List Award. In 1985 he also received a B.F.A. from the College of Santa Fe. Besides instructing art and language at the elementary level on the Big Cove Reserve, Simon devotes his time to ceramics and large paintings in an expressionistic style intuitively conceived in an organic and synthetic creative process.


R E C E N T   E X H I B I T I O N S

1993 Pe'l A'tukwey: Let Me . . . Tell a Story.
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick; Gesner Gallery, New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1992 INDIGENA.
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Québec
1990 Kimball Art Centre, Park City, Utah




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

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development. Santa Fe, New Mexico
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

Gray, Viviane, and Moira Dianne O'Neill. Pe'l A'tukwey: Let Me . . . Tell a Story: Recent Work by Mi'Kmaq and Maliseet Artists. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1993.

Hill, Rick. Creativity Is Our Tradition. Sante Fe, New Mexico: Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, 1992.

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.

 
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