About

Alana (Al) Bartol (she/they) is an interdisciplinary Canadian artist whose work explores resource extraction, ecological change, and more-than-human relations. Longlisted for Canada's Sobey Art Award in 2019 and 2021, she holds an MFA from Wayne State University (Detroit) and a BFA (Honours with Distinction) from the University of Windsor.

Her work has been presented nationally and internationally in exhibitions, festivals, and public spaces, including Walter Phillips Gallery, Remai Modern, Plug In ICA, Art Gallery of Alberta, Art Windsor-Essex, Dunlop Art Gallery, Yukon Arts Centre, Museo de la Ciudad (Guadalajara, Mexico), and DiverseWorks (USA). Her video work has screened across Canada and internationally in Colombia, Argentina, Belgium, Turkey, Hong Kong, Romania, the United States, and at the Berlin Feminist Film Festival.

Residencies have taken Alana across Canada, including to Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and internationally through the Santa Fe Art Institute (USA), the Canadian Forces Artists Program (Latvia), and the ARCUS Project (Japan). Her work is held in various collections, including the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Art Gallery of Alberta, Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery, City of Calgary Public Art Collection, RBC Art Collection, Scotiabank, BMO Centre at Stampede Park, and private collections. Her video work is also held and distributed by Vtape, the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, and Video Pool Media Arts Centre. Her practice has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and Calgary Arts Development.

Alana is a white, queer settler artist with Danish, German, English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. She has lived in Mohkinstsis (Calgary, Alberta), in Treaty 7 territory, since 2015, on the ancestral lands of the Blackfoot Confederacy and the traditional territories of the Tsuut'ina Nation, the Stoney Nakoda Nations, and the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3. She is grateful to the artists, curators, technicians, administrators, writers, funders, collaborators, and communities (human and more-than-human), who make her work possible.

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