Roxanne Charles-George
Roxanne Charles-George is a mixed media artist, activist, curator, storyteller, and cultural historian of Strait [Coast Coast Salish peoples|Salish peoples|Salish] and European descent. She previously was a councilor, and continues to be an active band member of Semiahmoo First Nation in Surrey, British Columbia, promoting art, language, and culture. As an artist, she works with a wide range of media. She directly responds to the problems of colonialism, and documents issues that reflect her life experiences such as spirituality, identity, urbanization, food security, resource extraction, trauma, and various forms of systemic violence. As a contemporary storyteller and cultural historian, her goal is to touch, move, and inspire others through her work. Her work employs traditional Semiahma forms of knowledge such as visual representation, oral history, and ceremony.
Her work is in the collection of Surrey Art Gallery.
Exhibitions
Solo
The Strata of Many Truths, Museum of Vancouver, 2019.Group
Ninety-Seven Days, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, 2014Views from the South Bank I: Histories, Memories, Myths, Surrey Art Gallery, 2015Gross Density Parcel, AgentC Projects, 2015Intangible: Memory and Innovation in Coast Salish Art, Bill Reid Gallery, 2017Ground Signals, Surrey Art Gallery, 2017how do you carry the land, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2018Connecting Threads, Surrey Art Gallery, 2018Li iyá:qtset – We Transform It, Reach Gallery Museum, 2019The Lind Prize 2019'','' Polygon Gallery, 2019- In 2020, Charles-George began a collaboration with Laiwan and Daniel Negatu on a story-based artwork installation, in conjunction with the opening of Simon Fraser University's School of Sustainable Energy Engineering in Surrey.