Photo credit: Nic Adamson
Jordan Bennett is a Mi’kmaq multi-disciplinary visual artist from Stephenville Crossing, Ktaqmkuk (NL). Bennett has shown extensively in Canada and abroad, in venues such as The Museum of Art and Design, NYC, NY; Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM; Project Space Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia; The Power Plant, Toronto, ON; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France; The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC and most recently was one of two artists to represent Newfoundland and Labrador at the 2015 Venice Biennial at Galleria Ca’Rezzonico, Venice, Italy. Bennett was long listed for the 2016 and 2015 Sobey Art Awards, presented with the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council’s Artist of the Year, received the Excellence in Visual Arts Newfoundlands’ Large Year Award and was named as one of the artists in the 2014 Blouin ARTINFO’s Top 30 under 30 in Canada.