About

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Alana Bartol (she/they) comes from a long line of water witches. Their site-responsive artworks explore divination, drawing, and dreaming as ways of understanding across places, species, and bodies, critically engaging with the impacts of extractive industries like oil, coal, and natural gas. Through collaborative and individual works, they examine our relationships with the Earth, the elements, and what are colonially known as natural resources. In 2019 and 2021, they were long-listed for Canada’s Sobey Art Award. They hold a BFA from the University of Windsor (Canada) and an MFA from Wayne State University (USA). Alana's work has been presented in exhibitions and festivals across Canada and internationally.

Spanning drawing, experimental video, performance art, sculpture, socially engaged art, public art, installation and curatorial work, Alana's artwork has been featured in Esse, Canadian Art, Sculpture Magazine, Blackflash Expanded, The Senses and Society, and C Magazine. They have been awarded grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and Calgary Arts Development. Alana has been an artist-in-residence with Eastern Edge Gallery, Santa Fe Art Institute, Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, Alberta Public Art Network/the City of Calgary, Empire of Dirt, and the Canadian Forces Artist Program.

Alana is a white settler with ancestry that includes Danish, German, English, Irish, and Scottish roots. Born in Mi’kmaq territory, they spent most of their life in the territory of the Anishnaabeg people of the Three Fires Confederacy. In 2015, they moved to Mohkinstsis (Calgary, Alberta), the ancestral lands of the Blackfoot people, where they began teaching at the Alberta University of the Arts. They thank the artists, curators, technicians, administrators, writers, funders, and communities, including the more-than-human communities, that have made creating and sharing their artwork possible.


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Represented by:
VivianeArt
587 349 2014
viviane@vivianeart.com