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Sweat Lodge, Acrylic on paper, 1982,
image size: 24 x 31 in, 61 x 79 cm
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.
Joane Cardinal-Schubert is a recognized Canadian First Nations artist. Her works are part of many important Canadian and international collections..
La Parete Gallery – Fine Art Gallery - Toronto - Canada La Parete Gallery is recognized for its selection of Fine Art: Canadian Art - Native Art - Inuit Art - First Nations Art - International Art
Artists: Antonio, Ann Beam, Carl Beam, Molly Lamb Bobak, David Bolduc, Miller Brittain, Christopher Broadhurst,
Israel Broytman, A.J. Casson, Antonio Cardarelli, J. Cardinal-Schubert, Konrad Cramer, Pal Fried, Richard Gorman, Giovanni Guarlotti,
Tom Hodgson, Gershon Iskowitz, Jean-Paul Jérôme, Lee L'Clerc, Maud Lewis, Kenneth Lochhead, Alexandra Luke
René Marcil, Norval Morrisseau, Louis Muhlstock, Louis de Niverville,
William Ogilvie, Frère Jérôme Paradis, William Ronald, Rolph Scarlett, Gerald Scott, Michael J. Seward, Arthur Shilling,
Roland Strasser, Peter Taçon, Harold Town, Jesus Carlos de Vilallonga, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Ruben Zellermayer