{{Infobox artist | name = Joseph Tisiga | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1984}} | birth_place = Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | death_date = | death_place = | alma_mater = Nova Scotia College of Arts and Design | nationality = | field = Painter | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = | honorific_suffix = | style = }} '''Joseph Tisiga''' (born 1984) is a multi-disciplinary artist and a member of the Kaska Dena Nation. He lives and works in Montreal, Quebec.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Joseph Tisiga: Work, Biography & Press|url=https://bradleyertaskiran.com/en/artists/joseph-tisiga-en/|access-date=2021-11-22|website=Bradley Ertaskiran|language=en-US}}</ref>
== Work == Tisiga's artistic practice includes performance, photography, sculpture, and installation, but painting and drawing are at the root of all his work. His work examines notions of identity, cultural and social inheritance, the mundane, the metaphysical and the mythological.<ref name="rjhf.com">{{Cite web|url=http://www.rjhf.com/programs/indigenousawards/2017/TISIGA.php|title=Indigenous Awards {{!}} The Hnatyshyn Foundation|website=www.rjhf.com|access-date=2019-03-09}}</ref>
Interestingly, Tisiga outlined how his art practice connects with his family history and experience in a personal essay, "[https://canadianart.ca/essays/joseph-tisiga/ The Working Life of a Cultural Amnesiac"] published by Canadian Art in 2017.<ref name="Tisiga">{{Cite web |last=Tisiga |first=Joseph |title=The Working Life of a Cultural Amnesiac |url=https://canadianart.ca/essays/joseph-tisiga/ |access-date=2023-09-03 |website=Canadian Art |language=en-US}}</ref>
Collections of Tisiga's work are held by the National Gallery of Canada<ref>{{Cite web|title=Search the Collection|url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/search-the-collection|access-date=2019-03-09|website=www.gallery.ca|language=en}}</ref> and the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Government of Canada|first=Department of Canadian Heritage|title=Artefacts Canada|url=https://app.pch.gc.ca/application/artefacts_hum/humaines_humanities.app?w=tisiga&t=any&i=false&n=0&pID=1&r=50&s=1&v=none&l=l&lang=en|access-date=2019-03-11|website=app.pch.gc.ca}}</ref> Exhibitions of Tisiga's work have been featured at the Audain Art Museum, the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, the Yukon Arts Centre, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, the Ottawa Art Gallery and the West Vancouver Museum.<ref name=":0" />
== Awards == Tisiga was the recipient of a REVEAL Indigenous Art Award / Prix en art autochtone from the Hnatyshyn Foundation in 2017<ref name="rjhf.com"/> and a Historica-Dominion ‘Our Story’ Visual Arts Award in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nationalpost.com/arts/artists-without-adjectives-aboriginal-arts-challenge-winners-let-their-work-speak-for-itself|title=Artists without adjectives: Aboriginal Arts Challenge winners let their work speak for itself {{!}} National Post|last=Arts|date=2011-06-07|language=en-CA|access-date=2019-03-09}}</ref>
Tisiga was long-listed for the Sobey Art Award in 2011<ref>{{Cite web|title=2011|url=https://sobeyartfoundation.com/en/sobey-art-award/past-winners/2011/|access-date=2019-03-09|website=The Sobey Art Foundation|language=en-US}}</ref> and in 2009 he was semi-finalist for the RBC Painting Competition.<ref name="Yukon2">{{Cite web|date=2016-03-11|title=Tisiga presents a death defying art exhibit|url=https://www.yukon-news.com/news/tisiga-presents-a-death-defying-art-exhibit/|access-date=2019-03-09|website=Yukon News|language=en-US}}</ref>
In 2021, Joseph received [https://yukonprize.ca/joseph-tisiga/ Yukon Award for Visual Arts].<ref name="Tisiga"/>
== See also ==
* Jim Robb (painter) * Ted Harrison
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