{"id":404,"date":"2018-01-30T10:25:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T15:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/?page_id=404"},"modified":"2025-05-22T16:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T20:33:11","slug":"david-garneau-interesting-meeting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/language-institute-la-cite\/david-garneau-interesting-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"David Garneau"},"content":{"rendered":"

(b. 1962)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Located in CT 216 (Language Institute (La Cit\u00e9<\/span>) 2nd floor)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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\u00a9\u00a0David Garneau. Reproduced with the permission of the artist. Photograph by the University of Regina.<\/p><\/div>\n

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An Interesting Meeting on the Prairies<\/em>, 2005<\/strong>
Acrylic on canvas<\/strong>
61″ x 37″<\/strong>
University of Regina President\u2019s Art Collection; pc.2006.4<\/strong><\/p>\n

M\u00e9tis artist David Garneau was born in Edmonton in 1962. He lived there (1962\u20131977, 1979\u201380), and Calgary (1977\u20131979, 1980\u20131999), and Regina (1999\u2013present). Growing up with a mother who was also an artist, Garneau has always made art. His first exhibition was at the Bearclaw Gallery in Edmonton in 1980. Garneau\u2019s art is inspired by Alex Janvier (Denesuline and Saulteaux), Joanne Cardinal-Schubert (Kainai), and Bob Boyer (M\u00e9tis), as well as by M\u00e9tis traditional beading and numerous Western art history traditions and techniques.<\/p>\n

Garneau has been a member of the Visual Arts Department since 1999. He is also a curator and writer who received the Governor General\u2019s Award in Visual and Media Art: Outstanding Achievement (2023), was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada (2023), and received The Order of Gabriel Dumont Silver Medal (2025). He is a member of the M\u00e9tis Nation of Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n

An Interesting Meeting on the Prairies <\/em>(2005) was commissioned by the University of Regina\u2019s Institute fran\u00e7ais to celebrate the \u201cResistance and Convergence: Francophone and M\u00e9tis Strategies of Identity in Western Canada\u201d conference in 2005. The Institute colours, traces of the logo and other morsels of information linking the work to the Institute and the conference are secreted into the work. Two white-seeming men meet for the first time. The size each other up, try to determine each others\u2019 cultural identity. Each wonder if the other is M\u00e9tis, Canayen, both or neither. Garneau asks the viewer to consider the complicated issue of M\u00e9tis identity and whiteness, and to question how such determinations are made.<\/p>\n\n\n

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David Garneau, Au C\u0153ur de la Prairie (2005)<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
David Garneau, Batoche Teepee (2009)<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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(b. 1962) Located in CT 216 (Language Institute (La Cit\u00e9) 2nd floor) \u00a0 \u00a0 An Interesting Meeting on the Prairies, 2005Acrylic on canvas61″ x 37″University of Regina President\u2019s Art Collection; pc.2006.4 M\u00e9tis artist David Garneau was born in Edmonton in 1962. He lived there (1962\u20131977, 1979\u201380), and Calgary (1977\u20131979, 1980\u20131999), and Regina (1999\u2013present). Growing up with a mother who was also an artist, Garneau has always made art. His first exhibition was at the Bearclaw Gallery in Edmonton in 1980. Garneau\u2019s art is inspired by Alex Janvier (Denesuline and Saulteaux), Joanne Cardinal-Schubert (Kainai), and Bob Boyer (M\u00e9tis), as well as… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":395,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-indigenous","category-metis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2391,"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/404\/revisions\/2391"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}