{{short description|Canadian indigenous photographer (born 1987)}} '''Kali Spitzer''' (born 1987) is a Canadian indigenous photographer. She is Kaska Dena from the Yukon and then Daylu (Lower Post, British Columbia). Her father is Kaska Dena and her mother is Jewish from Transylvania, Romania.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kalispitzer.photoshelter.com/about|title=Kali Spitzer Photography: About|last=Spitzer|first=Kali|website=Kali Spitzer Photography|access-date=2019-03-30|archive-date=2022-02-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220210004608/https://kalispitzer.photoshelter.com/about/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2018/10/photography-tintype-native-american-artists/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330190917/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2018/10/photography-tintype-native-american-artists/|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 30, 2019|title=Reclaiming an old medium to tell new stories of Native Americans|last=Berger|first=Maurice|date=October 8, 2018|website=National Geographic|access-date=March 30, 2019}}</ref>

== Education == Spitzer earned her certificate in professional photography from the Western Academy of Photography and has studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, under the mentorship of Will Wilson.<ref name=":0" />

== Career == Spitzer has worked with film in 35mm, 120 and large format, as well as wet plate collodion process using an 8-by-10 camera.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/ccna-dineyazhi-spitzer/|title=CCNA: Dene bāhī Naabaahii|website=Portland Art Museum|access-date=2019-03-30|archive-date=2019-03-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330192421/https://portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/ccna-dineyazhi-spitzer/|url-status=dead}}</ref> She works in portraiture, and photographs cultural practices and ceremonies in her community. At the age of 20, she returned to the Yukon, where she is originally from, and documented the cultural practices around hunting, fishing, trapping, tanning moose and caribou hides, and beading.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.neverapart.com/features/kali-spritzer-exploring-resilience/|title=Kali Spitzer: Exploring Resilience|last=Jay|first=Mikela|date=January 16, 2017|website=Never Apart|access-date=March 30, 2019}}</ref> She is also known to use tintype photography as a means to place her work "in dialogue with the problematic history of Native American imagery by white photographers".<ref name=":1" />

Spitzer received a Reveal Indigenous Art Award in 2017<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://canadianart.ca/news/reveal-indigenous-art-awards/|title=150 Indigenous Artists Receive $1.5 Million in Awards|date=April 12, 2017|website=Canadian Art|access-date=March 30, 2019}}</ref> from the Hnatyshyn Foundation.

Spitzer's photograph ''Sister'' (2016) is the image used as the basis for the sculpture ''Every One'', which is part of the social engagement work called the ''MMIWQT Bead Project'' by artist Cannupa Hanska Luger.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cannupahanska.com/mmiwqtbeadproject|title=Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Queer and Trans People – Bead Project (Every One)|last=Luger|first=Cannupa|website=cannupahanska|access-date=March 30, 2019|archive-date=August 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810042942/http://www.cannupahanska.com/mmiwqtbeadproject|url-status=dead}}</ref> The work was made up of over 4,000 clay beads made by people all over North America as to create portrait in a way to "rehumanize data" surrounding missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, queer and trans people.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Bead project aims to 'rehumanize' tragic statistic |url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/life/features/bead-project-aims-to-rehumanize-tragic-statistic/article_ac704fca-2b8c-5e4d-aaf1-71b267bb0b96.html |last=Edge|first=Sami|date=February 24, 2018|work=The New Mexican|access-date=March 30, 2019}}</ref>

== Exhibitions ==

Spitzer's work was showcased at the 2018 Contemporary Native Art Biennial.

She has done exhibitions at the Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts, Sherbrooke, Quebec,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Beavis|first=Lon |date=December 2018 |title=Contemporary Native Art Biennial/La Biennale d'art contemporain autochtone 2018|url=https://bordercrossingsmag.com/article/baca-indigenous-biennial|journal=Border Crossings|volume=37|issue=148|pages=102–104|id={{ProQuest |<!--insert ProQuest data here--> }}}}</ref> the Portland Art Museum's Center for Contemporary Native Art,<ref name=":0" /> the Never Apart Centre in Montreal, Quebec,<ref name=":2" /> and the grunt gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia.

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == * [https://kalispitzer.com Artist website]

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