Collection of the Artist

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COLLECTION OF THE ARTIST

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NEW SERIES: FRAGMENTS OF BEING (2025/2026)

Ogimaa-wiiwkwaan (Chief’s Hat) (2025) Found vintage 19th century beaver-fur top hat, birchbark, electronic components, glass beads, hide, ostrich feathers, stroud material, rooster feathers, rope, porcupine quills. 91 x 35 x 40 cm. Collection of the Artist. (Note: Sold with Convergence of Dissonant Parts (more info).  In the exhibition Indigenous Fashion Arts: Reverence and Conviction at YYZ Artists’ Outlet (Toronto) in partnership with ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival. June 4 to July 25, 2026.

Convergence of Dissonant Parts (2025) Velvet, Pellon©, birchbark, electronic components, glass beads, hide, and rope on paper. 125 x 94 cm. Collection of the Artist. (Note: Sold with Ogimaa-wiiwkwaan [Chief’s Hat] ) (more info). In the exhibition Indigenous Fashion Arts: Reverence and Conviction at YYZ Artists’ Outlet (Toronto) in partnership with ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival. June 4 to July 25, 2026.

TEXTILE WORKS

Mino-bimaadiziwin (The Way of Good Life) – Men and Women’s Regalia Suite various sizes on mannequin, mixed media, 2017. Collection of the Artist. Toured in the major beadwork exhibition Radical Stitch to the MacKenzie Art Gallery (Regina) from April 20 to  September 25, 2022; Art Gallery of Hamilton (Hamilton) from February 11 to August 27, 2023; Thunder Bay Art Gallery (Thunder Bay) from October 13, 2023 to March 3, 2024; National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa) from May 17 to September 30, 2024; Beaverbrook Art Gallery (Fredericton) from November 30, 2024 to March 2, 2025. It was also exhibited in the major exhibition INSURGENCE/RESURGENCE at the Winnipeg Art Gallery from September 22, 2017 to April 22, 2018.  

Alterity (2023) Glass beads, capacitors, resistors, light emitting diodes, circuit-boards, coated wire, canvas, velvet, cotton calico, bronze screen, horse hair, copper, coroplast, metal hardware, and video screen with digital images. Includes wall mount plinth and hanger. 210 x 35 x 17 cm. Collection of the Artist. Exhibited in the exhibition Native Art Now! at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery (Chelsea, New York) installation photographs here).

Bandolier for Tenagàdinozìbi (The River that Stops One’s Journey) (Gatineau River) (2022) 136 x 29 cm mixed media with movie. Collection of the Artist. Exhibited in the exhibition Encoding Culture II: The Works of Barry Ace, Heffel Galleries (Toronto) from October 26 to November 9, 2022, and exhibited in the exhibition Labours of Love at the MacLaren Art Gallery (Barrie) in 2024.

CERAMIC SCULPTURE

kinoownaa (to counsel somebody) (2024) Raku fired clay vessel, circuit board, plastic, paper, glass-beads, vellum, graphite, tobacco, fabric, sinew, metal, copper. 94 x 69 x 53 cm. Collection of the Gardiner Museum (Toronto). In the exhibition “From the Ground Up”, Gallery of Indigenous Ceramics. Gardiner Museum (Toronto). (VENDU / SOLD).

Reliquary of Bark, Bone, and Measured Time (2026) Pit fired clay vessel, birch bark, deer antler, electronic counter component 36 x 26 cm. Collection of the Artist.

A Shaman’s Transformation: Before He Was, the Serpent Dreamed (2026) Raku fired clay (vessel), kiln fired clay (figure), copper, circuit board, resistors, anodized wire, deer dew claws, glass beads. 35 x 25 cm. Collection of the Artist.

Aadisooke (tell a sacred story) (2025) Raku fired clay, pate de verre (melted glass beads), copper, wire. 36.83 x 10.16 x 13.97 cm. Collection of the Artist.

Listening Vessel: Clay, Signal, Memory (2026) Raku fired clay, birchbark, thermistors, circuit-board, infrared receiver modules. 18.41 (h) x 19.05 (wide) cm. Collection of the Artist.

The Earth Remembers: Echoes of Light (2024) white clay, stone buffed, raku fired, circuit board, photomultiplier tube. 35 x 18 cm. Collection of the Artist.

Clayborn Serpent: Vessel of Radiant Power (2024) black clay, stone buffed, raku fired, birch wood and bark, coated wired, photomuliplier tube. 45 x 25 cm. Collection of the Artist.

Medicine Power Vessel (2025) (front view) white clay, glaze (raku fired), capacitors, light emitting diodes, glass beads. 30 x 9 cm. Collection of the Artist.

Transformer (2018) Vitrified kiln fired clay, slip paint, capacitors, glass beads, circuit board, coated wire. 24.1 x 20.3 x 53.3 cm. Collection of the Artist. Exhibited in the exhibition Encoding Culture II: The Works of Barry Ace, Heffel Galleries (Toronto) from October 26 to November 9, 2022, and in the exhibition “From the Ground Up”, Gallery of Indigenous Ceramics. Gardiner Museum (Toronto).

Contained Currents, Earthbound Memory (2018 – 2026) Vitrified kiln fired clay, slip paint, capacitors, glass beads, computer chips, light emitting diodes, coated wire. 48.18 x 16.51 x 45.72 cm. Collection of the Artist.

Nest (2018) 17 x 9 x 21 cm, vitrified clay, bronze wire mesh, copper, resistors. Collection of the Artist. Available for purchase at LA PAI Gallery.

The Ancient Ones (2018) vitrified clay, limestone fossil, bronze wire, copper 13 x 10 x 13 cm. Collection of the Artist.

Vessel of Power (2024) clay, glaze, circuit board, bronze wire 22 x 10 cm. Collection of the Artist.

SCULPTURE/ASSEMBLAGE

Gwiiwzens Dreamed of Spirit Horses (2023) 35.7 x 12.7 x 66 cm, mixed media. Collection of the Artist. In the exhibition Rough and Ready – History of the Cowboy Boot at the BATA SHOE MUSEUM (Toronto) until September 2026.

Slipped Through the Net (2021) 101.6 x 15.2 x 7.6 cm, mixed media. Collection of the Artist. (includes Wall Mount). Exhibited in the exhibition Encoding Culture II: The Works of Barry Ace, Heffel Galleries (Toronto) from October 26 to November 9, 2022, and exhibited in Une histoire de réussite | A Journey from Coast to Coast at La Guilde (Montreal, Quebec) February 23 to May 7, 2023.

Remnant (2021) 91.4 x 10.2 x 7.6 cm, mixed media. Collection of the Artist. (includes Wall Mount). Exhibited in the exhibition Encoding Culture II: The Works of Barry Ace, Heffel Galleries (Toronto) from October 26 to November 9, 2022 and exhibited in Une histoire de réussite | A Journey from Coast to Coast at La Guilde (Montreal, Quebec) February 23 to May 7, 2023.

Migration Scroll (2018) 49 (l) x 20 (h) x 15 (d) cm, mixed media. Private Collection (Ottawa). (VENDU / SOLD).

Nibi Emosaawdang Mkiznan (Water Walker Moccasins) (2024) 22.9 x 10.2 x 74.9, mixed media. Collection of the Artist. Exhibited in the exhibition Labours of Love at the MacLaren Art Gallery (Barrie) in 2024.

INSTALLATION

waawiindmawaa – promise (2022) 40 x 35 x 15 cm x (3), mixed media. Collection of the Artist. Exhibited in the exhibition WĀWĪNDAMAW – PROMISE  at the North American Native Museum (Zurich, Switzerland) 2022-2023.

For as long as the sun shines, the grass grows and the river flows  (2018) 1,150 (l) x 178 (h) cm, mixed media. Collection of the Artist. Exhibited in the ART + LAW INDIGENOUS ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCY (University of Windsor) in the Armouries Art Gallery in 2018; and in the exhibition WĀWĪNDAMAW – PROMISE  at the North American Native Museum (Zurich, Switzerland) 2022-2023.

Nayaano-nibiimaang Gichigamiin: The Five Great Lakes (2016) 183 x 228 cm x (5), mixed media. Collection of the Artist. (Also see Nigig News 2025). Exhibited at Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, M’Chigeeng ( 2017); Art Gallery of Sudbury, Sudbury (2017 ); Station Gallery, Whitby (2017 ); Ottawa Art Gallery (2018); Robert Langen Gallery, Waterloo (2019 ); Idea Exchange, Cambridge (2019). (THIS WORK IS ON HOLD).

Memory Landscape Suite I (2014) 33cm x 81cm x (22 works), mixed media. Collection of the Artist. Exhibited at Museu Nogueira da Silva, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal (2015); Latcham Gallery, (Stouffville) (2015); Karsh-Masson Gallery (Ottawa) (2016); Station Gallery, Whitby (2017 ); Art Gallery of Sudbury, Sudbury (2017 ); Robert Langen Gallery, Waterloo (2019 ); Armouries Art Gallery, Windsor (2018).

WORKS ON PAPER

Where the Morning Star Remembers the Ancient Ones (2026) 22.9 x 30.5 cm, photo transfer, acrylic, porcupine quills, glass beads on paper. Collection of the Artist. To be exhibited in the upcoming exhibition A Piercing of Ancestral Time at Orenda Galerie, Paris, France from October 10 to November 30, 2026.

A Piercing of Ancestral Time (2026) 22.9 x 30.5 cm, photo transfer, acrylic, porcupine quills on paper. Collection of the Artist. To be exhibited in the upcoming exhibition A Piercing of Ancestral Time at Orenda Galerie, Paris, France from October 10 to November 30, 2026.

The Morning Star, Keeper of the Ancestors (2026) 8.89 x 12.7 cm, photo transfer, acrylic, porcupine quills, glass beads on laser cut paper. Collection of the Artist. To be exhibited in the upcoming exhibition A Piercing of Ancestral Time at Orenda Galerie, Paris, France from October 10 to November 30, 2026.

From the City of Lights, a Letter of Remembrance for the Ancestors Who Once Crossed the Vast Body of Water (2026) 15.88 x  22.86 cm, photo transfer and micro glass beads on decorative stationary. Collection of the Artist. Orenda Galerie, (To be exhibited in the upcoming exhibition A Piercing of Ancestral Time at Orenda Galerie, Paris, France from October 10 to November 30, 2026.

A Visceral Temporal Obscuration (2026) 22.9 x 30.5 cm, photo transfer, acrylic, porcupine quills, capacitors, resistors, glass beads, light emitting diode, silver-leaf on paper. Collection of the Artist. To be exhibited in the upcoming exhibition A Piercing of Ancestral Time at Orenda Galerie, Paris, France from October 10 to November 30, 2026.

Waawaashkesh Dodem (Deer Clan) Automata Bandolier (2020) 96 x 31 cm, mixed media. Private Collection (Toronto). (VENDU / SOLD).

Biiskawaagan (Jacket) for Maungwudaus (2020) 68.6 x 123.2 cm, handmade Lokta paper, calico fabric, capacitors, resistors, light-emitting diodes and glass beads. Collection of the Artist. Exhibited in the exhibition Encoding Culture II: The Works of Barry Ace, Heffel Galleries (Toronto) from October 26 to November 9, 2022, and exhibited in Labours of Love at the MacLaren Art Gallery (Barrie) in 2024.

Spirit Mjikaawanak (Gauntlets) (2020) 43.2 x 83.8 cm, handmade Lokta paper, capacitors, resistors, light-emitting diodes, glass beads and otter fur. Collection of the Artist. Exhibited in the exhibition Encoding Culture II: The Works of Barry Ace, Heffel Galleries (Toronto) from October 26 to November 9, 2022, and exhibited in Labours of Love at the MacLaren Art Gallery (Barrie) in 2024.

Flight of the Mgizwak (Eagles) Automata (2021) 101.6 x 67.3 cm, vintage circuit-board, beads, porcupine quills, acetate computer keyboard template on paper. Collection of the Artist. Exhibited in the exhibition Encoding Culture II: The Works of Barry Ace at Heffel Galleries (Toronto) from October 26 to November 9, 2022; and in the exhibition Beyond the Bead at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery (Waterloo) from September 23, 2023 to January 7, 2024.

Abinoojiiyens Ogichidaa – Baby Warrior (2024) Limited Edition four-colour screen print, (1/10,…,10/10 ), 2 Artist Proofs (A/P 1/2, A/P 2/2), 1 Printer’s Proof (P/P), 1 Studio Proof (S/P), Hors Commerce (HC1/2, HC 2/2), Trial Proof (TP 1/1). Stonehenge – White, 22″x30″, 250gsm, 100% Cotton Rag.  (1/10 VENDU / SOLD). Available for direct purchase from Artist: Editions #6 to #10 (unframed); 2 Artist Proofs (A/P 1/2, A/P 2/2) (unframed). Collection of the Artist.

Mnemonic Code (2020) 56 x 76 cm, mixed media on Somerset paper . Private Collection (USA). Exhibited in the exhibition Encoding Culture II: The Works of Barry Ace, Heffel Galleries (Toronto) from October 26 to November 9, 2022. Consigned to Robert Kardosh – Marion Scott Gallery (Vancouver). (VENDU / SOLD).

Flux (2017) 105cm x 76cm unframed size, mixed media. Private Collection (Vancouver). Exhibited in the exhibition Encoding Culture II: The Works of Barry Ace, Heffel Galleries (Toronto) from October 26 to November 9, 2022. Consigned to Robert Kardosh – Marion Scott Gallery (Vancouver). (VENDU / SOLD).

Manidoominens (Beaded) Landscape (2014) 76 x 56 cm, framed mixed media. Private Collection (USA). Exhibited in the exhibition Encoding Culture II: The Works of Barry Ace, Heffel Galleries (Toronto) from October 26 to November 9, 2022. Consigned to Robert Kardosh – Marion Scott Gallery (Vancouver). (VENDU / SOLD).

Study For Women’s Dance Regalia Yoke (2021) 66 x 78.7 cm, mixed media. Collection of the Artist. Exhibited in the exhibition Encoding Culture II: The Works of Barry Ace, Heffel Galleries (Toronto) from October 26 to November 9, 2022 and exhibited in By Design: Fashionable Inspiration at the Woodland Cultural Centre (Brantford) from February 18 – April 15, 2023.

Transformation Bandolier (2015) 100 x 32 cm, mixed media on Arches Platine paper. Collection of the Artist. Exhibited in Mnemonic (Re)Manifestations – Karsh-Masson Gallery (Ottawa) from January 28 to March 6, 2016; and exhibited in “mazinigwaaso / to bead something – Barry Ace’s Bandolier Bags as Cultural Conduit” Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery (FOFA), Concordia University (Montreal) from November 4 to December 13, 2019; and in the exhibition Encoding Culture II: The Works of Barry Ace, Heffel Galleries (Toronto) from October 26 to November 9, 2022.

Bloodline Triptych (#3, #4, #6) (2020) 17.8 x 38.1 cm, digital output, capacitors, resistors, light-emitting diodes, beads and acrylic on paper. Collection of the Artist. Exhibited in the exhibition Encoding Culture II: The Works of Barry Ace, Heffel Galleries (Toronto) from October 26 to November 9, 2022.

Buckskin (2021) 172 x 99 cm, Lokta Nepalese handmade paper, Pellon, capacitors, resistors, light-emitting diodes, porcupine quill, horse-hair, velvet, rope, glass beads and bias trim. Collection of the Artist. Exhibited in the exhibition Encoding Culture II: The Works of Barry Ace, Heffel Galleries (Toronto) from October 26 to November 9, 2022.

Also see Small Works on Paper.

WORKS ON BIRCH BARK

Digital wiigwaas-mkak (2017-2019) 24.13 (w) x 12.7 (h), mixed media. Collection of the Artist. Currently on exhibition in Love Medicine June 11 to November 1, 2026, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan.

Gaak (Porcupine) (2020) 41 x 22.2 cm, mixed media. Collection of Deloitte Canada (Ottawa). (VENDU / SOLD).

Ampacity (2020) 29.2 x 20.3 cm, mixed media. Collection of the Artist. Exhibited in the exhibition Encoding Culture II: The Works of Barry Ace, Heffel Galleries (Toronto) from October 26 to November 9, 2022. Available for purchase at LA PAI Gallery. 

BEADWORK

Thunderbird in the Digital Age Two Concepts of Power (2022) mixed media 43.18 x 17.78 cm. Private Collection (Ottawa) Exhibited in the exhibition Hope is Resiliency. Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG). New York City Jewellery Week from November 14 to 20, 2022. (VENDU / SOLD).

Thunderbird Medicine Bling (2023) mixed media 46 x 18 cm. Collection of the Artist. Consigned to Robert Kardosh – Marion Scott Gallery (Vancouver).

Baapish (NOW) (2023) mixed media 44 x 20 cm. Collection of the Artist. Consigned to Robert Kardosh – Marion Scott Gallery (Vancouver).

Spirit Berry Bling (2022), mixed media.  46 x 18 cm. Collection of the Artist. Available for purchase at L.A. Pai Gallery (Ottawa).

BEADWORK ON CANVAS

Maungwudaus: Through the Luminous Threshold of Skyworld, Middleworld and Underworld (2026) 48 cm x 106 cm, photo-transfer, acrylic, and glass beads on canvas. Collection of the Artist. To be exhibited in the upcoming exhibition A Piercing of Ancestral Time at Orenda Galerie, Paris, France from October 10 to November 30, 2026.

Mishibijiw and Morning Star (Memory Landscape II #9) (2019) 36.8 x 81.3 cm, digital print on canvas, glass beads, thread, wood and deer hide. Collection of the Artist. Exhibited in the exhibition Encoding Culture II: The Works of Barry Ace, Heffel Galleries (Toronto) from October 26 to November 9, 2022.

Memory Landscape II # 1 (2018) 33 x 81 cm, mixed media (on verso signed, titled, dated 2018 and inscribed “#5-30”). Collection of the Government of Ontario. (VENDU / SOLD).

Memory Landscape II # 2 (2018) 33 x 81 cm, mixed media (on verso signed, titled, dated 2018 and inscribed “#5-30”). Collection of the Government of Ontario.  (VENDU / SOLD).

Memory Landscape II # 3 (2018) 33 x 81 cm, mixed media (on verso signed, titled, dated 2018 and inscribed “#5-30”). Collection of the Government of Ontario. (VENDU / SOLD).

Memory Landscape II # 4 (2018) 33 x 81 cm, mixed media (on verso signed, titled, dated 2018 and inscribed “#5-30”). Collection of the Government of Ontario. (VENDU / SOLD).

Memory Landscape II # 5 (2018) 33 x 81 cm, mixed media (on verso signed, titled, dated 2018 and inscribed “#5-30”). Collection of the Artist. (wall mount included). Exhibited in the exhibition Encoding Culture II: The Works of Barry Ace, Heffel Galleries (Toronto) from October 26 to November 9, 2022.

Memory Landscape II # 6 (2018) 33 x 81 cm, mixed media (on verso signed, titled, dated 2018 and inscribed “#6-30”). Collection of the Artist. (wall mount included). Exhibited in the exhibition Encoding Culture II: The Works of Barry Ace, Heffel Galleries (Toronto) from October 26 to November 9, 2022.

Memory Landscape II # 7 (2018) 33 x 81 cm, mixed media (on verso signed, titled, dated 2018 and inscribed “#7-30”). Collection of the Artist. (wall mount included). Exhibited in the exhibition Encoding Culture II: The Works of Barry Ace, Heffel Galleries (Toronto) from October 26 to November 9, 2022.

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