Collection: Carrie Allison
Carrie Allison is a nêhiýaw, Métis, and mixed European descent multidisciplinary visual artist based in K’jipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki (Halifax, Nova Scotia). She grew up on the unceded and unsurrendered lands of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. Her maternal roots and relations are based in maskotewisipiy (High Prairie, Alberta), Treaty 8. Situated in K’jipuktuk since 2010, her practice responds to her maternal nêhiýaw and Métis ancestry, thinking through intergenerational cultural loss and acts of reclaiming, resilience, resistance, and activism, while also thinking through notions of allyship, kinship and visiting. Her practice is rooted in research and pedagogical discourses. Old and new technologies are combined to tell stories of the land, continuance, growth, and of healing.
Allison holds a Master in Fine Art, a Bachelor in Art History, and a Bachelor in Fine Art from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most notably Ociciwan, Edmonton, Art Centre New Jersey, New Jersey, The Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, and McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Vaughan. She has had solo exhibitions at Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, the Owens Art Gallery, the Museum of Natural History, Access Gallery, and Mary E. Black Gallery. She has received grants from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Arts Nova Scotia and Canada Council for the Arts. Allison was the 2020 recipient of the Melissa Levin Award from the Textile Museum of Canada, In 2021, Allison received the Emerging Artist Recognition Award from Arts Nova Scotia and was long listed for the Sobey Art Award. Her work has been shown in Canadian Art, Elle Quebec, Esse and Visual Arts News.