Heather Igloliorte

Heather L. Igloliorte
Born1979 (age 44–45)
Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
NationalityInuit
EducationBFA, NSCAD University; MA, Canadian Art History, Carleton University; Ph.D., Cultural Mediations, Carleton University

Heather L. Igloliorte (born 1979) is an Inuk scholar, independent curator and art historian[1] from Nunatsiavut.

She was appointed inaugural Canada Excellence Research Chair in Decolonial and Transformational Indigenous Art Practices at the University of Victoria in 2023.[2][3]

Between 2019 and 2023, she was an associate professor of Indigenous art history at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec,[4] where she held the University Research Chair in Indigenous Circumpolar Arts.[5] Prior she was the Indigenous Art History and Community Engagement Research Chair at that university from 2016 to 2019.[6] She was a Scholar in Residence at the University of Winnipeg in summer 2020.[7]

Igloliorte was co-director of the Initiative for Indigenous Futures (IIF) Cluster at the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia University and was a special advisor to the university's provost on advancing Indigenous knowledges.[8]

She currently holds Board positions with the Native North American Art Studies Association,[9] the Inuit Art Foundation,[10] and was a board member of the Nunavut Film Development Corporation. Igloliorte has advised the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the National Film Board of Canada and the Otsego Institute for Native American Art History at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York.

  1. ^ "Igloliorte, Heather | Inuit Literatures ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐊᓪᓚᒍᓯᖏᑦ Littératures inuites". inuit.uqam.ca. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
  2. ^ "New $8M Indigenous research chair - University of Victoria". UVic.ca. 2023-11-16. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  3. ^ "Former Concordian Heather Igloliorte named Canada Excellence Research Chair in Decolonial and Transformational Indigenous Art Practices - Concordia University". www.concordia.ca. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  4. ^ "Faculty". www.concordia.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-25.
  5. ^ "From circumpolar art to city logistics, 11 new Concordia University Research Chairs define next-gen knowledge". Retrieved 2019-09-02.
  6. ^ "Annie Pootoogook: 1969–2016". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2017-03-25.
  7. ^ "If you can have one Inuk, why not have four?". wag.ca. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  8. ^ "Concordia creates two new Indigenous leadership positions". concordia.ca. Retrieved 2018-10-22.
  9. ^ "2015-2017 Board Members". www.nativearts.org. 2009-01-15. Archived from the original on 2016-02-10. Retrieved 2019-02-05.
  10. ^ "Board of Directors". www.inuitartfoundation.org. Retrieved 2019-02-05.[permanent dead link‍]