Krista Belle Stewart

Krista Belle Stewart presented Indian Momento (2017) an installation which revisits a scene from Michel Régnier’s Indian Memento, produced for the “Indians of Canada” pavilion at EXPO 67, Montréal. Referencing Catholicism and Indigenous residential schools, the work engages with questions on representation, intervention and violence.

Krista Belle Stewart’s participation formed part of Little did they know, the Guest Programme of the 39th EVA International, curated by Merve Elveren. 

Biography 

Krista Belle Stewart is a Berlin-based artist and member of the Syilx Nation. Stewart works with video, land, performance, photography, textiles, and sound, using personal and political narratives inherent in archival materials while questioning their articulation in institutional histories. Stewart holds an MFA from the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College, NY. She was recently an artist-in-resident at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien through the Sobey Art Award Residency Program. Stewart was the recipient of The Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation VIVA for the Visual Arts Award (2019).

Stewart’s work has been exhibited as part of CTM Festival, Berlin; Hessel Museum, CCS Bard, Annandale-On-Hudson; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Nanaimo Art Gallery; Artspace, Peterborough; SFU Teck Gallery, Vancouver; Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal; Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal; Independent Studio and Curatorial Program, New York; Plug In ICA, Winnipeg; and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.