| Education PhD, Cultural Studies (Expected ’25) – Queen’s University, Kingston, ON Master of Fine Arts, Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design (2018) – OCAD University, Toronto, ON Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sculpture (2016) – NSCAD University, Halifax, NS Fine Arts Advanced Diploma (2015) – Georgian College, Barrie, ON Art & Design Fundamentals Certificate (2012) – Georgian College, Barrie, ON Exhibitions 2023 – Singing Mother Earth, MoCA: Busan, Busan, South Korea 2023 – in parallel, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto ON 2022 – every answer is correct, (EY Building) The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto ON 2020 – Barbara Laronde Exhibition, Toronto Media Art Centre, Toronto ON 2019 – waabandiwag, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON 2019 – niigaanikwewag, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, ON 2018 – From Food To Monument: Northern Retellings, Quest Art, Midland, ON 2018 – Settling in Place, MacLaren Art Gallery, Barrie, ON 2018 – GradEx, Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto, ON 2018 – “very fine people on both sides” – MFA Thesis Exhibition, OCAD University Graduate Gallery, Toronto, ON 2018 – Ice Follies 2018, Lake Nipissing, North Bay, ON 2017 – Tonight’s Special: Bannock, Mille-Feuille and Berries, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON 2017 – Course Credit, OCAD University Graduate Gallery, Toronto, ON 2016 – Humanalia, OCAD University Graduate Gallery, Toronto, ON 2016 – Wake the Town and Tell The People, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL 2016 – The Mush Hole Project, Woodlands Cultural Centre, Brantford, ON 2016 – Wake the Town and Tell The People, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ 2015 – Off The Hook 2015, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON 2015 – 21st Annual ISC Outstanding Student Achievement Awards in Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ 2015 – The Art of Living, WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, ON 2015 – SDVA Scholarship Show, Georgian College, Barrie, ON 2015 – Know|Sense, Double Door Studios & Gallery, Anten Mills, ON 2015 – Print Exchange, Ulster University, Belfast, Ireland 2015 – MacLaren Benefactor Exhibition, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON 2014 – The Season: Baby It’s Cold Outside, SDVA Gallery, Barrie, ON 2014 – Getting To Zero, the front room Gallery, Barrie, ON 2014 – Off The Hook 2014, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON 2014 – Hot Off The Press, Georgian College, Barrie, ON 2014 – From The Rafters, Double Door Studios & Gallery, Anten Mills, ON 2014 – Works by Aylan Couchie, Le Studio Gallery, Lafontaine, ON 2014 – Suddenly Strung, the front room Gallery, Barrie, ON 2014 – SDVA Scholarship Show, Georgian College, Barrie, ON 2014 – Ritual Practice, the front room Gallery, Barrie, ON 2014 – By The Dozen, SDVA Gallery, Barrie, ON 2013 – Hot Off The Press, Georgian College, Barrie, ON 2013 – 91st Annual Butter Sculpture Competition, Royal Winter Fair, Toronto, ON 2013 – SDVA Scholarship Show, Georgian College, Barrie, ON 2013 – Works On Paper, University of Belgrade, Serbia 2012 – Hot Off The Press, Georgian College, Barrie, ON 2012 – 90th Annual Butter Sculpture Competition, Royal Winter Fair, Toronto, ON 2012 – SDVA Scholarship Show, Georgian College, Barrie, ON 2012 – One Night Stand, Georgian College, Barrie, ON Public Art/Special Projects/Curatorial 2023 – mmaandaawaabi, Co-curator with Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning and Nasrin Himada, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON 2020 – Wonscotonach Workshops, Response Writer, Evergreen Brickworks & OCAD University, Toronto, ON 2020 – maawandoobiwag Public Art Installation, Pratt Homes, Barrie, ON 2019 – Listen to the Land (with Placeholders Collective), Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON 2019 – [in]Sites, Artspace, Peterborough, ON 2018-19 – Overlay of the Land/Land Is Where Your Feet Touch the Ground, Critical Distance Gallery, ASpace Gallery, Onsite Gallery, Toronto, ON 2018 – Jessie Oonark (works from the permanent collection), Curator, Bovey Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON 2018 – Land, permanent on-site monument intervention at City of Barrie’s Canada 150 Clock Monument, Barrie, ON 2018 – now is the time to see the truth, site specific installation on Lake Nipissing, (sponsored by White Water Gallery) Ice Follies, North Bay, ON 2018 – #callresponse Social Media Writer-In-Residence, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, ON, Dec 15, 2017 – January 27 2017 – Global Experience Project with Isaac Julien, OCAD University, January-June 2016 – The Mush Hole Project, site specific installation (former) Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School, Brantford, ON 2016 – Witnesses: Called to Action Public Endurance Performance, Art Bar & Cabaret Voltaire – Atlantique, Halifax, NS 2016 – This Is What I Wish You Knew {Re}conciliation Mural (Canada Council for the Arts), Halifax, NS 2015 – The Current Current, Halifax Stanfield International Airport, NS 2015 – H.I.O. Big Chiefs, Pratt Homes, Barrie, ON Awards/Scholarships/Fellowships/Grants 2024 – Graduate Research Fellow, Pluriversal Worlding with XR 2024, Queen’s & York University, Toronto ON 2023 – SSHRC Talent Award, Queen’s University Nominee, Kingston ON 2020 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier Graduate Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada 2020 – Robert Sutherland Fellowship, Queen’s University, Kingston ON 2020 – Tri-Agency Recipient Recognition Award (TARRA), Queen’s University, Kingston ON 2019 – SSHRC Connections Grant, Place-based reparative environmental histories: Symposium 2.0, Nipissing University, North Bay, ON 2019 – SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, Reassembling Ontario’s “Near North”: Reparation through university-museum-Indigenous research partnerships, Nipissing University, North Bay, ON 2018 – Ontario Arts Council Indigenous Arts Award Nominee 2018 – Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media and Design Interdisciplinarity Award, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario 2017 – Arthur Lismer Award for Academic Excellence, NSCAD University, Halifax, NS 2016 – Delaney Entrance Graduate Scholarship, IAMD Graduate Studies, OCAD University 2016 – Ontario Graduate Scholarship, IAMD Graduate Studies, OCAD University 2016 – 2016 Premier’s Award Recipient, Recent Graduate, Ontario Colleges, ON 2015 – Barbara Laronde Award, Native Women In The Arts, Toronto, ON 2015 – Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, NJ 2015 – Excellence in Studio Award, SDVA Scholarship Show, Barrie, ON 2014 – Excellence in Studio Award, SDVA Scholarship Show, Barrie, ON 2014 – Barrie Art Club Scholarship, SDVA Scholarship Show, Barrie, ON 2013 – Grand Champion “Harvey Townsend Award” Butter Sculpture Competition, Royal Winter Fair, Toronto, ON 2013 – Randy Anderson Memorial Scholarship, SDVA Scholarship Show, Barrie, ON 2013 – Excellence in Studio Award, SDVA Scholarship Show, Barrie, ON 2012 – Award of Excellence in Fine Art Studio: 3D, SDVA Scholarship Show, Barrie, ON 2012 – John Hart Memorial Scholarship, SDVA Scholarship Show, Barrie, ON Media/Publications/Citations 2022 – Voicing Identity: Cultural Appropriation and Indigenous Issues. Ed: John Borrows, Kent McNeil, University of Toronto Press, 2022. 2020 – “Unsettling Settler Possession“, Julie Hollenbach and Carla Taunton, Visual Arts News 2020 – “Bridge Obscura: Connecting Cultures through Sculpture Installation“, MFA Thesis, Shahrzad Amin, OCAD University 2019 – “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor: The Toronto Biennial Fights its Frame“, Vince Rozario, Momus 2019 – Hunting and Gun Ownership. The New York Times Editorial Staff, United States: Rosen Publishing Group, 2019. 2019 – “waabandiwag”, exhibition essay by curator Natalie King, Xpace Cultural Centre 2019 – “Settling in Place: An Interview with Guest Curator Andrea Fatona by MacLaren Curator Emily McKibbon”, MacLaren Art Gallery 2019 – “niigaanikwewag at Art Gallery of Mississauga”, exhibition review by Terence Dick, Akimblog 2019 – “JESSIE OONARK.” (Exhibition Review) Adrienne Huard, Canadian Art. Canadian Art, 2019. 2019 – “The White People Problem: Experiments in The Reverse Gaze”, MFA (Digital Futures) Thesis, Kirsty Boyce, OCAD University 2018 – Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest in 3 Acts, Aruna D’Souza, United States: Badlands Unlimited, 2018. 2018 – “The ‘Site-Specific’ art and politics of Aylan Couchie”, Anishinabek News, February 2018 2018 – Talking Art with Aylan Couchie, The Roundtable Podcast hosted by Wayne K. Spear, January 2018 2017 – “Choosing change and reconciliation in the arts“, Simon Brault and Steven Loft, Globe & Mail, September 7, 2017 2017 – “Supporting Indigenous art in the spirit of cultural self-determination and opposing appropriation“, Canada Council for the Arts 2017 – 2017 Graduation Catalogue, NSCAD University, Halifax, NS 2017 – “A Day in the Life” with Anishinaabe Artist Aylan Couchie, Toronto Guardian, April 2017 2016 – “Double win for Georgian alumnae at Premier’s Awards Gala”, Georgian News, November 2016 2016 – “Anishinaabe artist receives nomination in Recent Graduate category of the Premier’s Awards”, Anishinabek News, October 2016 2016 – “Wake the Town and Tell the People”, Suzanne Seesman, Mana Contemporary, 2016 2016 – “New Art: Aylan Couchie” Annual Artist Feature, The Coast, February 2016, Halifax, NS 2015 – “Birch bark plane one of eight art pieces by NSCAD students installed at Halifax airport”, Metro News, Halifax, December 2015 2015 – “2015 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards”, Sculpture Magazine, October 2015 2015 – “Aylan Couchie’s piece chosen to adorn Pratt Homes building”, Barrie Examiner, September 2015, Barrie, ON 2015 – “Georgian Fine Arts alumna chosen to create Barrie art installation”, Georgian College News, September 2015, Barrie, ON 2015 – “Aboriginal-inspired artwork wins Pratt Homes contest in Barrie”, Barrie Advance, September 2015, Barrie, ON 2015 – “Artist close with her grandfather”, Anishinabek News, August 2015, Ontario 2015 – “Vote for one of two Georgian artists in Barrie art competition”, Georgian College News, July 2015 2015 – “Former Barrie artist wins sculptor’s award”, Barrie Advance, July 2015, Barrie, ON 2015 – “Sculptor Award” (television), CTV Barrie, June 2015, North Bay, ON 2015 – “North Bay Sculptor” (television), CTV Northern Ontario, June 2015, North Bay, ON 2015 – “Local artist wins worldwide award”, Baytoday, June 2015, North Bay, ON 2015 – “Aylan Couchie – Artist Feature” Sunday Crush, Barrie, ON 2014 – “Extraordinary Experience: Carving A Grand Prize Winner”, GeorgianView 2014 Issue, Barrie, ON 2013 – “Fine Arts Student Hops to Grand Champion Win with Her Royal Winter Fair Butter Sculpture”, Georgian College News, Barrie, ON Publications as Author/Contributor 2019 – “We Didn’t Know the Monument Was So Important Until Someone Said It Should Be Removed”, CMagazine, Issue 142, Summer 2019 2019 – “The Walrus Drinks LaCroix”, Guest exhibition essay for Pawatamihk (Rihkee Strapp, Artist), White Water Gallery, North Bay, ON 2018 – “Zeal Without Wisdom: Rushing for Reconciliation” by Aylan Couchie, CMagazine, Issue 139, Fall 2018 2018 – “Layers Over Layers” in The Unpublished City: Volume II, edited by Dionne Brand, Phoebe Wang and Canisia Lubrin, Toronto, ON. 2018 – Rebecca Belmore: Facing the Monumental exhibition catalogue, researcher, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, July 2018. 2018 – “very fine people on both sides” MFA Thesis, OCAD University 2018 – “When Textbooks are Held Within Forest Floors”, Arts Everywhere 2018 – “Appropriation” by Aylan Couchie, Raven Davis and Chief Lady Bird, moderated by Lindsay Nixon, Canadian Art, Spring 2018 2017 – “Anti-Seal hunt rhetoric ignores facts and suppresses Indigenous Culture” Co-authored w/ Ian Mosby, The Globe & Mail, October 12 2017 – “Let’s Start with What Cultural Appropriation is Not”, Global News, May 19 2017 – “Returning Our Voices to Us: The recent debate about cultural appropriation shows that true reconciliation is not about saying sorry, it’s about listening to Indigenous Voices”, IRPP Policy Options, May 16 Presentations/Artist Talks/Symposia 2023 – Course: Art and Decolonization: Transformation through Indigenous Resurgence, Guest Lecture, University of Victoria, BC, October 31 2023 – Indigenous Research Collaboration Day, Presenter, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, October 26 2023 – Indigenous Land-Based Digital Gathering Talk, Panelist, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston ON, August 26 2023 – mmaandaawaabi (see a wondrous sight) Artist Talk, Moderator, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston ON, August 20 2022 – Re:Countering Memory, Panelist, Creative Counter-Memorializations Symposium, NSCAD University, Halifax NS, November 24 2022 – Guest Artist Talk, Texas Woman’s University, Denton TX, September 26 2022 – Monuments of the Future Transatlantic Partnership, Lead Speaker, OCAD University, Toronto ON, March 17 2021 – techniques of observation, Moderator, 2021 Images Festival co-presented with Video Data Bank and FAVA, Toronto ON, May 25 2021 – Sustainability, Panelist, UND Writers Conference, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks ND, March 26 2021 – Guest Artist Talk, UND Writers Conference, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks ND, March 24 2021 – Subsistence, Panelist, UND Writers Conference, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks ND, March 24 2020 – Presentation Matters: The Importance of Exhibition and Display in the Reconciliation Process, Panelist, Ontario Association of Art Galleries, York University, Toronto, ON, March 6 2020 – Wonscotonach Workshops: Learnings from Sydney, AU, Presenter, Evergreen Brickworks & City of Toronto, Toronto, ON, March 6 2020 – Deconstructing Colonial Place-making Through Language, Moderator, NWIA Inaabandam Symposium, Toronto Media Arts Centre, January 18 2019 – Pathfinding A Good Way Forward, panelist, Cold Waters Media Arts Symposium, North Bay, ON 2019 – Resistances Through Art, Panelist, Canadian Federation of Students AGM, Nipissing University, ON 2019 – Reason Over Passion, Re-Joyce: Wieland for a New Millennium, Panelist, Canadian Filmmakers’ Distribution Centre, Toronto, April 6 2019 – Keynote, Georgian College, Barrie ON, Mar 23 2019 – Re:place: An Inquiry, Panelist, UrbanSpace Gallery, Toronto, ON, Jan. 10 2018 – Aboriginal Curatorial Collective: Global Discussions, Panelist, Pjilita’q Mi’kmaki: L’nuite’tmukl tan wejkuwaql naqwe’kl International Gathering, Halifax, NS, Oct. 12 2018 – Indigenous Placemaking: Making city sites places of reconciliation, Panelist, Innovations in Creative Space and Placemaking, Artscape in assoc. w/ World Cities Culture Forum and City of Toronto, Toronto, ON, June 7 2018 – The Dynamics of Urban and Rural Arts in Ontario, Panelist, CPAMO Gathering, Toronto, ON, May 29-31 2018 – Post-Reality NDN Art: Disrupting Indigenous Art and its Cannon, Presenter, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) Tenth Annual Meeting, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, May 17 2018 – The Labour of Being Studied/The Labour of Refusing to be Studied, Speaker, University of Toronto, May 11 2018 – “Aylan Couchie Guest Artist Talk” Nipissing University, North Bay, ON, February 9 2017 – “Indigenous Tattoo Resurgence Panel,” Ka’nikonhrí:yo Gatherings, Moderator, Native Women in the Arts, Onsite Gallery, Toronto, ON, November 16 2017 – “social media disruptor,” Art & Activism, Panelist, Native American Art Studies Association Biennial Symposium, Tulsa, OK, October 25-28 2017 – “glu-it: forcing Inuit art into settler creations,” Questioning the Artist: Indigenous and non-indigenous strategies and practices, Panelist, Native American Art Studies Association Biennial Symposium, Tulsa, OK, October 25-28 2017 – “Resilient Women Must Sing,” Pop Up Speaker, AGO: First Thursdays, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON Arts Administration/Teaching Experience 2024 – Communications and Membership Engagement Coordinator, OCAD Faculty Association (OCADFA), Toronto ON 2023 – Sessional Instructor, School of Graduate Studies, Directed Studio 1, IAMD Program, OCAD University, Toronto ON 2023 – Communications and Membership Engagement Coordinator, OCAD Faculty Association (OCADFA), Toronto ON 2022 – Sessional Instructor, School of Graduate Studies, Indigenous Art, Design and New Media, OCAD University, Toronto ON 2020 – aabaakwad 2020 NIRIN Sydney Biennale, Programming Coordinator, Art Gallery of Ontario & Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia 2020 – Sessional Instructor, Faculty of Art, Indigenous Art Experimentation (Indigenous Visual Culture), OCAD University, Toronto ON 2019 – Sessional Instructor, Faculty of Art, Indigenous Art Experimentation (Sculpture & Installation), OCAD University, Toronto ON 2018 – aabaakwad Global Indigenous Gathering Lead Coordinator, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON 2018 – Creation of Cultural Appropriation Learning Module for 1st Year Drawing & Painting Program, OCAD University, Toronto, ON 2018 – Teaching Assistant, Drawing & Painting, OCAD University, Toronto, ON Professional Development/Affiliations/Boards/Juries 2024 – Board Member, Near North Mobile Media Lab (N2M2L), North Bay ON 2024 – Committee Member, Nipissing FN Language and Culture Committee, Nipissing First Nation ON 2024 – Committee Member, Royal Victoria Hospital Art Committee, Barrie ON 2024 – Director General, Native Women in the Arts, Toronto ON 2023 – Reviewer, CCP/CADN Colloquium, School of Graduate Studies, OCAD University, Toronto ON 2023 – Juror, Indigenous Arts Projects, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto ON 2023 – Juror, Indigenous Artists in Communities and Schools Projects, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto ON 2023 – Committee Member, NFN Culture & Language Committee, Nipissing First Nation ON (ongoing) 2022 – Juror, Multi and Inter-Arts Projects, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto ON 2018-20 – Board Chair, Native Women in the Arts, Toronto ON 2019 – Juror, Northern Arts Projects, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, ON 2019 – Juror, Northern Ontario Mobile Residency, Near North Mobile Media Lab, North Bay ON 2018 – aabaakwad Global Indigenous Gathering Lead Coordinator, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto ON 2018 – Public Art Jury for Creative City Campus, Toronto ON 2017-18 – Secretary, Native Women in the Arts, Toronto ON 2017-19 – Fine Arts Advisory Committee, Georgian College, Barrie ON 2015-19 – Art & Design Fundamentals Advisory Committee, Georgian College, Barrie ON 2015 – Juror, The First Floor Gallery (Department of Culture/City Hall) Barrie ON 2014 – Director of Marketing – the front room gallery, Barrie ON Residencies and Professional Development 2023 – Indigenous Land-based Digital Arts Gathering, August 19-27, Queen’s & York University, Howe Island ON 2019-20 – Community Researcher/Curator in Residence, CUSP Research Project, Nipissing University, North Bay, ON 2019 – Sculpture Mentor, ᑯᐦᐹᑌᔨᑖᑯᓯᐃᐧᐣ | the act of being thought of as contemptible (artist Joe Wood), White Water Gallery, North Bay ON 2018 – Facilitator, Oral Histories Wikipedia Workshop programming as part of From Food to Monument: Northern Retellings, Midland Public Library, Midland, ON 2018 – Delegation member, World Cities Culture Forum Leadership Exchange, (Topic: Indigenizing Urban Spaces through Public art/landscape) City of Toronto exchange with Sydney, Australia, October 26-Nov 2 2018 – Mentor, Indigenous Curation Grant, White Water Gallery, North Bay, ON 2018 – Researcher, Rebecca Belmore: Facing the Monumental exhibition, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON 2018 – Groundworks Indigenous Art Intensive, Residency, UBC Kelowna, July 12-28 2018 – Cultural Appropriation Workshop, Facilitator, Lambton-Kent District School Board, April 27 2018 – Delegation member, Canadian Embassy invitation and tour of Washington & North Carolina National Galleries, Washington DC, March 5-9 2018 – Curatorial Intern, Indigenous Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON 2018 – Graduate Student Representative, OCAD University Senate Graduate Studies Committee, Toronto, ON 2015 – Event Curator, “Keesic Douglas: Films Short Like Loin Cloths”, Barrie Film Festival Aboriginal Days Feature, June 2015, Barrie, ON 2014 – Event Coordinator in cooperation with ACSC – “Getting to Zero” (World AIDS Day 2014), Barrie, ON 2014 – Key Organizer – “Who New?!” Community Art Crawl (September 16), Barrie, ON 2014 – Key Organizer – “Who New?!” Community Art Crawl (April 5), 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