Bear

Acrylic on canvas.

30x40"

Mike Alexander is an emerging Anishinaabe visual artist and writer originally from Swan Lake First Nation in Treaty #1 Territory currently living and working in Vancouver, BC.
Adopted out to a non-Indigenous family shortly after birth, Mike is a 60’s Scoop survivor and a second-generation Residential School survivor who grew up in Winnipeg before moving to BC in 2015.
He has attended the University of Victoria, the Victoria College of Art and the Vancouver Island School of Art. Mike is honoured to have received mentorship from master of the Woodlands School of Art, Mark Anthony Jacobson (Anishinaabe). He has been the recipient of several generous grants from the Kamloops Arts Council, the First Peoples Cultural Council, the BC Arts Council as well as the Canada Council for the Arts and is currently practicing as a full time, internationally collected artist. He has been an exhibiting artist since 2016, having shown work at galleries such as the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art.
Mike identifies very strongly with the Woodlands School of Art. He celebrates his ongoing reclamation of culture using art as a process of decolonization, healing, and cultural revitalization.