Celeste Pedri-Spade

Celeste Pedri-Spade is an Anishinabekwe artist from Lac Des Mille Lacs First Nation. She identifies as a “mark maker” who works primarily with textiles and photography. Celeste holds a PhD in Visual Anthropology and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University where she is also the inaugural Associate Provost of Indigenous Initiatives. Her art practice is committed to honouring the women in her life and exploring the tactile and sensuous meanings made possible through creative entanglements with our material environments.

Celeste Pedri-Spade
Celeste Pedri-Spade, Ogichidaakwewag, 2016 (cotton, bridal veil, batting, LED light insert; 123.5 x 152 cm). Courtesy of the artist and the Indigenous Art Collection, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada. Photo: Rebecca Bose

From the Archives

  • 2023 / core / exhibition

    Group Exhibition
    Materialized

    Critical Distance
    Combining portrait photography with elements from adornment arts, textiles, sculpture, and customary Indigenous art practices, Materialized examines themes of intergenerational memory, familial narrative, and decolonization through the work of artists Joi T. Arcand, Celeste Pedri-Spade, Catherine Blackburn, and Nadya Kwandibens. By using their craft to reclaim portraiture as a form of self-expression and self-determination, each artist resists the colonial metanarratives contained in settler-made images of Indigenous subjects.
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