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Natalie King is a queer interdisciplinary Anishinaabe (Algonquin) artist, facilitator and member of Timiskaming First Nation. King's arts practice ranges from video, painting, sculpture and installation as curation.

Often involving portrayals of queer femmes, King’s works are about embracing the ambiguity and multiplicities of identity within the Anishinaabeg queer and 2S experience(s). King's practice operates from a firmly critical, anti-colonial, non-oppressive, and future-bound perspective, reclaiming the realities of lived lives through frameworks of desire and survivance. King’s works 

King’s recent exhibitions include POWER at ONSITE gallery (2024), World-builders, Spape-shifters at the Robert MacLaughlin Gallery (2024),  Come and Get Your Love at Arsenal Contemporary, Toronto (2022), Proud Joy at Nuit Blanche Toronto (2022), Bursting with Love at Harbourfront Centre (2021) PAGEANT curated by Ryan Rice at Centre[3] in Hamilton (2021), and (Re)membering and (Re)imagining: the Joyous Star Peoples of Turtle Island at Hearth Garage (2021). King has extensive mural making practice that includes a permanent mural currently on at the Art Gallery of Burlington. King holds a BFA in Drawing and Painting from OCAD University (2018).  Permanent collections include: McMaster University and the Doris McCarthy Gallery.

I titled my exhibit, “The Grandmother’s Story” because I want to share a teaching given to me by Mike Bisson, Nigani. I will be sharing this teaching at my artist talk. Some of the paintings depict parts of the teaching but also my role as a grandmother. And reflects my role in giving back in this stage of my life, as a grandmother and a Midewin Kwe.

I also have included some of my older paintings to show some of my progression in art. To show people anyone and everyone is an artist in their own way. It could be the art they produce, the stories they share, crafts, the way they dress or wear the hair or make up, it's about self expression. And it can evolve over time.

Lisa is from Wiikwemikoong Unceded Indian Reserve, residing in Sudbury, Ontario. She is from the Mooze clan and is second degree Midewin. Lisa is a self taught artist. She likes painting in acrylics on canvas. She is also a traditional artisan, making traditional hide mitts, moccasins, beadwork and pow-wow regalia, and tanning fish skins. She is learning how to tan deer and moose hides.

Lisa began painting in 2009 with the encouragement of friend Christie Belcourt, who provided her with a space, paint, brushes and encouragement and guidance. Lisa has a painting on permanent display in Benetton Gallery in Turin, Italy. A commissioned piece of sewing/regalia/jingle dress at the McCord Museum in Montreal, Quebec.