Bill Reid

Bill Reid

male, deceased (1998)
FirstNationsartist, Northwest Coast Art, totem pole, University of British Columbia, Canadian, Jewellery maker…First Nations
William (Bill) Ronald Reid was a Canadian jeweler, sculptor and artist. He was born to a father of European descent and a mother from the Haida...
Roy Henry Vickers

Roy Henry Vickers

male, 63 years old
Eagle clan, Kitkatla, Laxsgiik, FirstNationsartist, Nass River, Laxgalts'ap…First Nations, Contemporary artist, artist
Roy Henry Vickers CM, OBC (born June, 1946, in Laxgalts'ap (now known as Greenville), British Columbia) is a Canadian First Nations artist. He owns...

Calvin Hunt

male, 53 years old
Kwakwaka'wakw, FirstNationsartist, George Hunt, Tony Hunt
Calvin Hunt (b. 1956) is a Canadian First Nations artist from the Kwakwaka'wakw (formerly "Kwakiutl") nation of coastal British Columbia. He was...
Robert Davidson

Robert Davidson

male, 63 years old
painter, Semiahmoo First Nation, Haida artist, FirstNationsartist, Museum of Anthropology, Northwest Coast Art…artist, Dawn Artist Ltd
Robert Charles Davidson, C.M., O.B.C., D.F.A. (Hon) (born 4 November 1946 in Hydaburg, Alaska), is a Canadian artist of Haida heritage. His...

Richard Hunt

male, 58 years old
artist, Victoria, B.C., Alert Bay, Thunderbird Park, Stanley Hunt, British Columbia Provincial Museum…FirstNationsartist
Richard Hunt (b. 1951) is a Canadian First Nations artist from the Kwakwaka'wakw (formerly "Kwakiutl") nation of coastal British Columbia. He was...

Tony Hunt

male, 67 years old
Kwanusila, Northwest Coast Art, woodcarver, FirstNationsartist, George Hunt, thunderbird…Indigenous artist, First Nations, artist
Tony Hunt (b. 1942) is a Canadian First Nations artist of Kwakwaka'wakw ancestry noted for his work carving totem poles. He was born in 1942 at the...
Mungo Martin

Mungo Martin

male, deceased (1962)
Canadian, First Nations musician, FirstNationsartist, woodcarver, Coast of British Columbia, Northwest Coast Art…Indigenous artist, First Nations
Chief Mungo Martin or "Nakapenkim" (meaning a potlatch chief "ten times over"), "Datsa" (meaning "grandfather"), was a noted expert in the...
Rebecca Belmore

Rebecca Belmore

female
Contemporary artist, University of British Columbia, Canadian, Performance artist, installation, PeRFoRMaNCe…FirstNationsartist
Anishinabe-Vancouver artist Rebecca Belmore's highly political work has long addressed history, place, and identity through the media of sculpture,...
Dempsey Bob

Dempsey Bob

male, 61 years old
Canadian, Telegraph Creek, FirstNationsartist, Tahltan, Gitanmaax School of Northwest Coast Indian Art, Hazelton, B.C.
Dempsey Bob (b. 1948) is a Northwest Coast carver from British Columbia, Canada, who is of Tahltan and Tlingit First Nations descent. He was born...
Walter Harris

Walter Harris

male, 78 years old
FirstNationsartist, Canadian, woodcarver, Kispiox, Gitxsan, Duane Pasco…artist
Walter Harris (b. 1931) is a Canadian artist and hereditary chief from the Gitksan First Nation in northwestern British Columbia. He studied...