Barry Ace
Odawa, b.1958

Barry Ace is a band member of the M’Chigeeng First Nation, Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada. His multi-disciplinary work has been included in numerous shows in Canada since 1996, and he has had two solo exhibitions Modern Indians Standing Around at the Post 1998) and Super Phat Nish (2005). His work was also included in Emergence from the Shadows: First Peoples Photographic Perspectives at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and The Dress Show: La mode dans tous ses états at the The Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec. Ace’s work can be found in several prominent public collections in Canada including the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton, Woodland Cultural Centre and the Royal Ontario Museum. He is the recipient of numerous grants from agencies including the Canada Council for the Arts, Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton and the Ontario Arts Council. His most recent exhibition is Playing Tricks, a two person show at the American Indian Community House Gallery in NYC. He is also co-founder of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective/Collectif des Conservateurs Autochtone (ACC/CCA), a non-profit organization that supports, promotes and advocates on behalf of the work of Aboriginal art and cultural curators and associated Aboriginal cultural workers in Canada and internationally.


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