Adrian Stimson
Adrian Stimson is an artist and a member of the Siksika Nation.
Stimson earned a BFA with distinction from the Alberta College of Art and Design and an MFA from the University of Saskatchewan.
Stimson is a multidisciplinary artist: He creates paintings, installations, performances and video. His mostly black and white paintings often depict bison in fictional settings. In his installations, he refers to the experiencing the residential school system. His performances look at the blending of the Indian, the cowboy, the shaman and the Two Spirit being. Two recurring personas in Stimson's performances are Buffalo Boy and the Shaman Exterminator.
In 2019, Stimson collaborated with A.A. Bronson for the Toronto Biennial of Art on A public apology to Siksoka Nation by Bronson and Iini Sookumapii: Guess who’s coming to dinner? a work that explored the connection between two of their ancestors: Bronson's great-grandfather John William Tims, an Anglican missionary who established a residential school in 1886 and Stinson's great-grandfather Old Sun, the traditional chief of the North Blackfoot and a participant of the making of Treaty 7.
Stinson was awarded a 2018 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. He won the Blackfoot Visual Arts Award in 2009, the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2003, and the Alberta Centennial Medal in 2005.Collections
Two of Stimson's paintings are in the North American Indigenous collection of the British Museum. His work is included in the collections of the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
