Kimowan McLain

Assistant Professor
Kimowan2000@hotmail.com

Kimowan McLain comes from the Cold Lake First Nations, a Cree Indian reservation in Western Canada. In the 1990s he worked for a weekly Indian Newspaper for six years, beginning as a political cartoonist and eventually serving as the managing editor. Later, McLain worked in advertising and public relations. His formal art training has taken him from the Universities of Alberta, New Mexico, Yale, and North Carolina. Currently, McLain is a professor of art at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. A mixed media artist, he often employs photography, drawing and found objects. His work uses juxtaposition to suggest typologies and narratives, challenging the authority of fixed representations. His work is an aesthetic appeal for political and cultural understanding.

McLain’s work has been purchased for numerous public and corporate collections including the University of North Carolina, the Canadian Government, Syncrude Canada, and Peace Hills Trust. His many awards include the 2000 Minority Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of North Carolina, the University of New Mexico Graduate Fellowship, the Ellen Battel Stoekel Fellowship from Yale, and a national award from the Canadian Native Arts Foundation. He is also a recipient of a 2003 Individual Artist Fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council.

Recent Exhibitions:

www.icaphila.org
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American Indian Studies at UNC

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Kimowan McLain

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