Lori Blondeau, Lonely Surfer Squaw

Lori Blondeau is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in performance and photography. She is Cree/Saulteaux/Métis from Saskatchewan. Blondeau holds an MFA from the University of Saskatchewan. Much of Blondeau's work revolves around the misrepresentation of First Nations women in popular culture and media culture. She regularly works with associations attached to the tropes of the Indian Princess and the Squaw, examining how post-colonial imagery impacts the reception of Aboriginal women in urban communities.

In addition to her extensive exhibition history, Blondeau is co-founder of the Indigenous artist collective, TRIBE, and has sat on the Advisory Panel for Visual Arts for the Canada Council for the Arts. Blondeau has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally including at the Banff Centre; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon; Open Space, Victoria and FOFA, Montreal. In 2007, Blondeau was part of the Requickening project at the Venice Biennale. She recently had a solo exhibition at Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art Gallery, Winnipeg and was part of the Scotia Bank Contact Festival in Toronto. Her art is held in both public galleries and private collections.

Blondeau is an assistant professor at the University of Manitoba’s School of Art
(https://www.youraga.ca/bio/lori-blondeau, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori_Blondeau, 2020)