About

Alana (Al) Bartol (she/they) is an interdisciplinary Canadian artist whose work explores resource extraction, ecological change, and more-than-human relations. Through research, ritual, participation, and sensory experience, she creates site-responsive projects that investigate how extraction shapes relationships with land, water, and other forms of life. Rooted in local contexts and embodied forms of knowledge, her work considers how we come into relation with place amidst the ongoing violences and uncertainties of environmental change.

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 been screened across Canada, as well as internationally in Colombia, Argentina, Belgium, Turkey, Hong Kong, Romania, the USA, and at the Berlin Feminist Film Festival. Her videos are distributed by Vtape, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, and Video Pool Media Arts Centre.

Bartol's work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and Calgary Arts Development. She has participated in residencies across Canada, including at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, as well as internationally through the Santa Fe Art Institute (USA), the Canadian Forces Artists Program (Latvia), and the ARCUS Project (Japan).

Bartol is a white, queer settler artist with ancestry that includes Danish, German, English, Irish, and Scottish roots. 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 thanks the artists, curators, technicians, administrators, writers, funders, collaborators, and communities, human and more-than-human, who make her work possible.

Photo: Karin McGinn

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