Vernon Ah Kee and Richard Bell: Sakahàn: 1st International Quinquennial of New Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada.

 

Vernon Ah Kee and Richard Bell have both been selected as artist in Sakahàn: 1st International Quinquennial of New Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Ah Kee and Bell's work will stand amongst some of their most important global contemporaries including Jimmie Durham and Teresa Margolles.  Sakahàn, meaning “to light a fire” in the language of the Algonquin, is the National Gallery of Canada’s largest survey of recent Indigenous art. The exhibition will open on 17th May 2013 and run to 2nd September 2013. 

Sakahàn: 1st International Quinquennial of New Indigenous Art

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. 17 May - 2 September 2013.

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