Scott Benesii(naabandan)
Winnipeg, Canada · chisel4@gmail.com
Exhibitions
Althea Thauberger’s Der Kleiekotzer: The Bran Puker. (as composer). Remai Gallery, Saskatoon, SK. Summer 2025
In a Manner of Speaking. Blackwood Gallery.Toronto, ON Winter 2025
ghostlands and other sovereign territories [an excerpt]. Platform Gallery. Winnipeg, MB. Fall, 2023
Permanent public art installation (photographic) w/Symposium. Winnipeg, MB 2024
A Hard Birth. Winnipeg Art Gallery (group exhibition) Fall 2022
Sensing Nature. Momenta Festival, Montreal, QC August 2021
Geofence. Interaccess, Toronto, ON September 2021
La machine qui enseignait des airs aux oiseaux. Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal 2020–2021
MUTEK Édition 22 September 2020
Why Sentience?. ISEA October 2020
Radical Hope. Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, ON October 2020
A Web-Based Work. Forest City Gallery, London, ON August 2020
BACA (group exhibition). Art Mur May 2020
Future [im]parfait. Oboro Gallery (group exhibition), Montreal, QC November 2019
Echoes. Burnaby Art Gallery (group exhibition), Burnaby, BC November 2019
Bcc:. Vivid Projects (group exhibition), London, UK August 2019
Hexsa'a̠m: To Be Here Always. Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC September 2019
Speculative Cultures. The New School / Parsons, New York City February 2019
Through Lines. Koffler Gallery September 2018
URL/IRL. Dunlop Gallery, Regina, SK June 2018
Here Be Dragons. CUAG September 2018
Inaabiwin. Robert McLaughlin Gallery (touring), Oshawa, ON July 2020 et al.
RADAR 2018. Galerie de l'UQÀM, Montreal, QC May 2018
Solo Exhibition. PAVED Arts, Saskatoon, SK May 2018
Newlandia:debaabaminaagwad. Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. Toronto July 2018
Resistance + Resurgence (group exhibition). Winnipeg Art Gallery September 2017
2167. TIFF Lightbox / IFF / imagineNATIVE, Toronto (touring 2017–18) July 2017
A Place Between. Urban Shaman Gallery, Winnipeg April 2017
A Few Similar Things (group exhibition). Untitled Art Society, Calgary February–March 2017
Phenomena. Parramatta Artist Studios, Sydney, Australia October 2016
Screens and Thresholds (group exhibition). Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver October 2016
Wearing Our Identity. McCord Museum (guest artist installation) January 2016
Fifth World: mii omaa ayaad (group exhibition). Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery January 2016
Whose Nation? Re-imagined National Identities. Gallery8, Budapest, Hungary June 2016
little resistance (solo exhibition). Platform Gallery, Winnipeg June 2015
underground is where the heart is (collaboration). Tom Thomson Gallery, Owen Sound June 2015
our land, together (group exhibition). Harbourfront Centre, Toronto June 2015
Mamoowiang — to make change (collaborative work). AGSM May 2015
Fifth World: mii omaa ayaad. Mendel Art Gallery, SK May 2015
Actions Must Match Words / De la parole aux gestes. Musée d'art contemporain des Laurentides, Saint-Jérôme, QC March 2015
Memetic Drive: The Video Work of Scott Benesiinaabandan. WNDX Festival, Winnipeg September 2014
I:ke — I have motion. A-Space / imagineNATIVE, Toronto September 2014
2-State Solution. Ottawa Art Gallery (projections in public space) August 2014
Storytelling: The Biennial of Contemporary Aboriginal Art, 2nd Edition. Art Mur, Montreal May 2014
termes d'appartenance. Artsouterrain, Montreal March 2014
Enduring Lands. Parramatta Artist Studios, Sydney, Australia 2014
GHOSTDANCE: Activism, Resistance, Art. Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto September 2013
The Map is Not the Territory. Jerusalem Fund Gallery, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles September 2013 / May 2014
CT International Print Biennale. Cuba 2013
Ak-Sunrise (outdoor projection). Urban Shaman Gallery June 2013
Blood Memories. Project Space, Melbourne, Australia June 2013
AK-Sunrise. Gallery 101 / ASINABKA Festival, Ottawa June 2012
Mii omaa ayaad / oshkii inendamowin. Parramatta Artist Studios, Sydney, Australia March 2012
Personal Politics (touring group exhibition). Manitoba Artist Network Winter–Spring 2011
unSacred (Lightbox Commission). Context Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland December 2011
Historical Landscapes (solo with collaborative works). Martha Street Studio September 2011
Group Exhibition. Post No Bills temporary gallery, Winnipeg August 2011
Anishinabe Solidarity Flag on Free Derry Wall (installation). Derry, Northern Ireland December 2011
Safe European Home — To Whom It Might Concern (collaboration). Vienna, Austria June 2011
My Winnipeg (Imagetaker / Preneur d'images Collective). La Maison Rouge, Paris June 2011
A.R.T. Post: a February art show (group exhibition) February 2011
unSacred (solo exhibition). G1C03 January 20 – February 26, 2011
Yellowbird (folio launch). Martha Street Studios May 2010
Mapping (group exhibition). Buhler Gallery February 2010
Spider Pig: Best of WNDX Super 8. WPG Film Group 2009
Living Conditions in First Nations Communities (group exhibition). INAC, Ottawa 2009
Spider Pig. CSIF 16th Annual $100 Film Festival, Edmonton 2008
Subconscious City (group exhibition). Winnipeg Art Gallery 2008
Spider Pig (online exhibition). Stormspirits.ca 2008
When They Came (group exhibition). Martha Street Studio, Winnipeg 2007
Flatter the Land, Bigger the Ruckus (group exhibition). Harbourfront Centre, Toronto 2006
Faces Project (collaborative project with Water & Light). Urban Shaman Gallery, Winnipeg 2006
imagineNATIVE Festival. Toronto 2005
Education+Fellowship
MFA Studio — Photography. Concordia University 2017–2020
MIT- Indigenous Digital Media Delegation at MIT: Indigenous Knowledge, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Worlds. 2020 + MIT Fellow 2020-2021.
Bachelor of Arts — Psychology and Cultural Studies (Honours). University of Winnipeg 2002
Mentorship / New Works Creation. Martha Street Studios with Patrick Neufeld 2008–2009
Mentorship / Professional Development with Rita Leistner. Oklahoma 2009
Printmakers Workshops with Lynne Allen. Martha Street Studios 2006–2007
Books+Publications (select)
(Upcoming) EE Handbook on Religion and AI. Gikendasongwad:it appears intelligent Fall 2026
(Upcoming)The Art History Book We Wish We Had: IBPOC Artmaking in Northern Turtle Island: “Imagining Otherwise” Summer 2026
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. “Embracing the Ineffable” March 2026
Entretiens-Interviews by Nicole Gingras 2023
Speaking With Your Cat: An Artist and Researcher Talk Artificial Intelligence, Community, and Cultural Expression. Forge Journal 2024
Sound America. No. 25 2021
Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence Position Paper: "Gwiizens, the Old Lady and the Octopus Bag Device" — an AI creation story (2020)
Public Journal Fall 2017
Blackflash — Artist Folio Spring 2017
C Magazine Summer 2016
little resistances. Platform Gallery 2015
Visual Celebrations. Buhler Gallery 2012
Historical Landscapes. Prefix Magazine, Vol. 24 No. 2 December 2011
unSacred. G1C03 2011
Subconscious City. Winnipeg Art Gallery 2008
Flatter the Land, Bigger the Ruckus. Urban Shaman Gallery 2006
Talks & Presentations (select)
Marshal McLuhan Lecture + Transmediale 2026
University of Manitoba: Guest lecture-Faculty of Fine Arts. 2025
University of Manitoba: Guest lecture- Faculty of Environmental Design. 2025
Digital Landscapes and Land Acknowledgements. MUTEK 2024
Epistemological Foundations Series 2024
Artist Talk. Sunview Diner, Brooklyn, New York 2023
Abaakwad:panel discussion. Venice, IT. 2023
Emerging Scholar Series. University of Toronto 2021
Art History Department Talk. University of Winnipeg 2021
Public Talk. Martha Street Studios 2021
A Place Between. Urban Shaman Gallery May 2017
Indigenous Art History. McGill University September 2015
Artist Talk. Yamaji Arts Centre, Geraldton, Western Australia June 2015
Art History Class. University of Winnipeg June 2015
This Could Be the Place Conference. Waterloo June 2014
Congress 2014. Brock University May 2014
Transmissions Conference. Concordia University March 2013
Pictures by Indians Symposium. Ryerson University February 2013
Artist Talk. Parramatta Artist Studios March 2012
Artist Talk. Geraldton Cultural Centre, Western Australia February 2012
Artist Talk on unSacred. Gallery 1C03 2010
Grants & Awards
Canada Council for the Arts: Creating, Knowing, Sharing grant. 2021
Canada Council for the Arts New Media Production Grant. Concordia University / OBx Labs 2017
Canada Council for the Arts: Research / Production 2013
University of Lethbridge – Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Residency May–June 2013
Canada Council for the Arts New Media Production Grant. Concordia University / OBx Labs May 2012 – May 2013
Canada Council for the Arts International Residency Program. Parramatta Artist Studios 2012
Manitoba Arts Council Creative Development 2011
Manitoba Arts Council Creative Development 2010
Winnipeg Arts Council 'B' Grant 2009
Winnipeg Arts Council Professional Development 2009
INAC — Living Conditions in First Nations Communities Project (National) 2008
Manitoba Arts Council: Creative Development 2008
Manitoba Arts Council: Creative Development 2006
Collections
Global Affairs Canada — Canadian Paris Embassy
Manitoba Provincial Art Bank
Winnipeg Foundation
New Directions Foundation
Manitoba Hydro Art Bank
Indigenous and Northern Affairs Art Collection
Private collections