Julie Nagam

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Dr. Julie Nagam
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NationalityCanadian
EducationYork University, Toronto, Ontario; University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Occupation(s)Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of Winnipeg (2015-); Assistant Professor, Indigenous Visual Culture Program, OCAD (2009-2015).
TitleCanada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts, Collaboration and Digital Media
Website https://glamcollective.ca https://aabijijiwanmedialab.ca

Dr. Julie Nagam is a scholar, artist, and curator based in Winnipeg, Canada.

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Education

Nagam has a BA (Honours) in Women Studies and Art History and an MA in Native Studies from the University of Manitoba. She received a PhD in Social and Political Thought from York University.[ citation needed ] Her thesis “Alternative Cartographies: Grafting a New Route for Indigenous Stories of Place” was published in 2011. [1]

Career

Nagam's academic career began in 2009 at OCAD University where she worked as an assistant professor in Indigenous visual culture. In 2015, Nagam accepted a position as Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Winnipeg. Between 2015 and 2019, Nagam was the Research Chair of Indigenous Arts of North America, jointly appointed by the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the University of Winnipeg.[multiple citations needed] In 2019 Nagam was awarded a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts, Collaboration and Digital Media. [2] Nagam was the director of the Aabijijiwan New Media Lab and the co-director of the Kishaadigeh Collaborative Research Centre. [3] She has been an adjunct faculty member at York University, University of Manitoba, and OCAD University. [4] [5] She was a scholar in residence at Concordia University and Massey University.[citations needed]

Controversy

Dr. Nagam has claimed Métis, German and Syrian heritage, but the Winnipeg Free Press and Hamilton Spectator exposed her Pretendian ambitions, and the $18m she raised to support them, in August 2024. [6] [7] [8] Former students and colleagues reported the harm this caused to them and to their Indigenous cultures in the Brandon Sun. [9]

Research activities

Nagam’s research focused on Indigenous art and curatorial practices, theory, and methodologies. She was especially interested in public, digital, and new media art.

In 2020-2021, Nagam became Nuit Blanche Toronto’s inaugural Artistic Director. [10] [11] Nagam was leading the partnership [12] "The space between us: Collaborations within Indigenous, Circumpolar and Pacific places through digital media", funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. [13] [14] Nagam presented it as the inaugural artistic director for Nuit Blanche Toronto. [15] The theme "focuses on the connections across urban, polar and pacific landscapes revealing the space between us as a potential site for sharing knowledges." [16]

Edited journals, books and catalogues

Articles and chapters

Curatorial practice

In 2017, she co-curated the exhibition INSURGENCE/RESURGENCE with Indigenous artist/curator Jaimie Isaac. This was the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s largest ever exhibition of contemporary Indigenous art featuring works by 29 artists. [17] [18] Nagam has worked with The Forks and the Winnipeg Foundation to curate a public art installation at Niizhoziibean. [19] [20] [21]

GLAM Collective

Nagam is a member of GLAM Collective, a group of scholars who work collaboratively “through theory, curatorial and artistic practices.” [22] With GLAM, Nagam co-curated a series of digital and new media incubators (Memory Keepers I, II, and III) for Indigenous artists, resulting in the installation of works at three Canadian night festivals in 2019. [23] [24] That same year, she also co-curated gathering across moana with GLAM Collective. The exhibition brought together artists from the Pacific and Turtle Islands at Trinity Square Video in Toronto, Canada. [25]

Artistic practice

Nagam has exhibited her work internationally, including in Canada, United States, Brazil, France, New Zealand, and England. In 2019, her solo exhibition locating the little heartbeats was shown at Gallery 1C03 in Winnipeg and travelled to Te Whare Hera in Wellington, New Zealand. Nagam's work our future is in the land: if we listento it was exhibited in the 2017 group show Transformers at the Smithsonian Museum in New York. [26] She has presented works at Nuit Blanche Toronto and has a received public art commission in Winnipeg. [27]

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  3. ↑ "Directors". Aabijijiwan. Archived from the original on 30 June 2023. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  4. ↑ "Faculty | Theatre & Performance Studies | Faculty of Graduate Studies | York University". theatre-studies.gradstudies.yorku.ca. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  5. ↑ "Julie Nagam | History of Art | The University of Winnipeg". www.uwinnipeg.ca. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  6. ↑ Posted, Maggie Macintosh (2024-08-22). "U of W prof accused of misrepresenting herself as Métis". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 2024-08-22.
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  8. ↑ Press, Maggie Macintosh, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Winnipeg Free (2024-08-22). "U of W prof, who's received millions in grants, accused of misrepresenting herself as Métis". The Hamilton Spectator. ISSN   1189-9417 . Retrieved 2024-08-23.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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  25. ↑ "EXHIBITIONS: gathering across moana". Trinity Square Video.
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