Heather Igloliorte (Inuit, Nunatsiavut Territory of Labrador) is a Concordia University Research Chair in Indigenous Art History and Community Engagement in the Department of Art History at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. She completed her phd in Cultural Mediations at Carleton University’s Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture (ICSLAC) in 2013; her dissertation contributes the first art history of the Nunatsiavummiut, focusing on over 400 years of post-contact production, Nunatsiavummi Sananguagusigisimajangit / Nunatsiavut Art History: Continuity, Resilience, and Transformation in Inuit Art. Heather is also an active independent curator. Her recent projects include reinstalling the Brousseau Inuit Art Collection at the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec (opening 2015), aboDIGITAL: The Art of Jordan Bennett (2012), and Decolonize Me (Ottawa Art Gallery, 2011 – 2015).

Heather’s research interests center on Inuit and other Native North American visual and material culture, the exhibition of contemporary Indigenous arts and culture, and issues of modernist primitivism, anti-modernism, colonization, sovereignty, resistance and resilience. Some of her recent publications related to this work include book chapters and catalogue essays in Negotiations in a Vacant Lot: Studying the Visual in Canada (2014), Manifestations: New Native Art Criticism (2012); Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 (2012); Curating Difficult Knowledge (2011); Inuit Modern (2010); and Response, Responsibility, and Renewal: Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Journey (2009).