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Sweat Lodge,
Acrylic on paper, 1982,
image size: 24 x 31 in, 61 x 79 cm
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Joane Cardinal-Schubert
LLb (Hon),
Born in Red Deer,
Alberta
1942 - 2009
First Nations Affiliation: non-status Blood, Kainaii Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
Joane Cardinal-Schubert is represented in selected public collections: The National Gallery of
Canada, The Art Bank, The Indian Arts Centre Collection, Ottawa, The Canadian Museum of
Civilization, and The Thunder. Bay Art Gallery, The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts and in the collections of the Canadian Embassies in
Japan, New York, Stockholm and Tokyo, and the collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth
II, (Duke and Duchess of York) London, England. Her work is included in many corporate
collections such as Shell Canada Limited, Bank of Montreal, Bank of America, Esso
Resources, and Northern Telecom and many international private collections.
A retrospective of her work was organized by the FAB Art Gallery at the University of
Alberta, in 1993 and her retrospective Joane Cardinal Schubert: Two Decades, organized by
the Muttart Gallery in 1997, continued to tour Nationally until after the year 2000. She
is represented in British Columbia by the Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria, and Spirit
Wrestler Gallery, Vancouver; in Calgary by Masters Gallery; in Edmonton by Bearclaw
Gallery, in Ottawa by Galerie Vincent, and in Toronto by Hollander York. She appears in
Vancouver filmmaker, Loretta Todd's National Film Board of Canada documentary entitled
'Hands of History". More than 26 solo exhibitions in Canada, the United States and
Europe and numerous international touring group exhibitions have included her work.
Cardinal-Schubert
received the Queens Golden Jubilee Medal for a significant contribution to Canada, and her
community. In 2003, the artist was granted an Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLB), University of
Calgary, Calgary, AB.; and was invited to give the Keynote Address: Flying With Louis, the
last voyage of the Aboriginal Concord9; Making a Noise, International Aboriginal
Symposium, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta. Joane Cardinal- Schubert, presently finishing a 3
year project - a sculptural commission for the Calgary Airport, lives and works in
Calgary, continuing to address her family's history and place in Southern Alberta.
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