User:Becgroves/sandbox

Hannah Claus is a visual artist of English and Kanien’kehà:ka (Mohawk ancestries) and currently lives in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal, Quebec). Claus' artist practice addresses memory and transformation from within an Indigenous worldview. Her artwork belongs to various collections, including the Canada Council Art Bank, London Museum (Ontario) and NONAM Museum (Zurich, Switzerland).

Biography
Claus was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick in 1969 and raised in nearby Saint John.

Education
Claus graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, Ontario in 1997 and obtained her Masters of Fine Arts from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec in 2001.

Career
Select solo exhibitions include: interface, grunt gallery (Vancouver), 2000; délestages, Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges (Montréal), 2008; nephology, Confederation Centre for the Arts (Charlottetown), 2010; hochelagal rock, Artspace (Peterborough), 2018.

In 2015, Claus created video art project in which she filmed people from three First Nation communities — Odanak, Kanesatake and Kahnawake — as well as people from Montreal writing out the names of missing or murdered Indigenous women.

In 2014, Claus was apart of the traveling exhibition Reading the Talk, which was organized and circulated by The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in collaboration with Museum London, Art Gallery of Peterborough and MacLaren Art Centre. Reading the Talk presented contemporary artists engaging in critical conversations about relationship to lands, region and territory, while considering distinct Indigenous perspectives on the history of treaties in this land now referred to as Canada.