Curatorial Tour with Ryan Rice II

Curator Tour with Ryan Rice

Curated by Ryan Rice, Rosalie Favell | Belonging (1982 - 2024) is the first retrospective of renowned Red River Metis artist Rosalie Favell, showcasing a powerful curated selection of her lens-based works from 1982 to 2024. This exhibition celebrates Favell’s groundbreaking photographic practice—from seminal series like Living Evidence and Plain(s) Warrior Artist to her expansive archive Facing the Camera—which invites us to bear witness and explore the complex themes of identity, empowerment, same-sex desire, community and the nuanced search for belonging through a lens that is both deeply personal and subtly subversive.

Presented as a unique, large-scale, outdoor installation on the façade of Onsite Gallery, Rosalie Favell’s TSÍ TKARÒN:TO comprises a suite of photographs selected from the Ottawa-based Red River Metis artist’s renowned portrait series Facing the Camera, a monumental national and international visual archive documenting the broad diversity of Indigenous arts and cultural communities. This iteration features a curated selection of photographs taken over three open-invitation sessions, hosted by the university’s Indigenous Visual Culture program during Favell’s 2016 tenure as Nigig Artist in Residence at the OCAD University in tsi Tkaròn:to. . Rosalie Favell | Facing the Camera: TSÍ TKARÒN:TO is curated by Ryan Rice

Onsite Gallery is generously supported by The Delaney Family

About the Curator

Ryan Rice is the Executive Director + Curator, Indigenous Arts. Ryan Rice, Kanien’kehá:ka of Kahnawake, is a curator, critic and consultant. In 2021, Rice was appointed Curator, Indigenous Art at Onsite Gallery and since Fall 2023, he has taken on the role of Executive Director. His institutional and independent curatorial career spans 30 years in community, museums, artist-run centres and galleries. He received a Master of Arts in Curatorial Studies from Bard College, New York; graduated from Concordia University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and received an Associate of Fine Arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Rice’s writing on contemporary Onkwehón:we art has been published in numerous periodicals and exhibition catalogues, and he has lectured widely. In 2022, Rice presented three solo exhibitions including Jordan Bennett: Souvenir for Onsite Gallery, Pageant: Natalie King for Centre [3] and January Rogers Versification at daphne Contemporary Art. He has developed two major public art projects as the Indigenous Public Art Curator with Waterfront Toronto and actively consults on public art projects. Rice’s service to community, leadership, and organizational experience includes co-founder and former director of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective, the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Education Advisory Council, the Inuit Art Foundation and two terms on the Native American Arts Studies Association board of directors.

Host or Publisher Onsite Gallery, OCAD University