Tanya Harnett, MFA

Email

tharnett@ualberta.ca

Address

3-98 Fine Arts Building

8807 - 112 St NW

Edmonton AB

T6G 2C9

Email

tharnett@ualberta.ca

Areas of Teaching and Research

Studio art with an emphasis on Drawing & Intermedia

Biography

MFA, Drawing, University of Alberta, 2002

Tanya Harnett is a member of the Carry-The-Kettle First Nations in Saskatchewan. She is an artist and a professor at the University of Alberta in a joint appointment in the Department of Art and Design and the Faculty of Native Studies. She has previously taught at both University of Lethbridge and Grant MacEwan University. Working in various media including, photography, drawing, printmaking and fiber, Harnett’s studio practice engages in the notions and politics of identity, history, spirituality and place. She has exhibited regionally, nationally and internationally. Some of her exhibitions include; persona grata at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery (2007), Tracing Histories: Presenting the Unpresentable at the Glenbow Museum (2008),Wilderness is our wisdom… AFA TREX traveling exhibition (2011), Satoya Mani Win, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne (2011), The New World and The End of Language, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Hungary (2013) and the solo exhibition Scarred/Sacred Waters (2014) exhibited at both the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and at Oxford University’s Pitt Rivers Museum, UK. Harnett is the recipient of various grants such as; the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and Canada Council for the Arts. She is included in collections such as; the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Glenbow Museum, the Puskin Museum of Fine Arts in Moskow, RMIT in Melbourne and the Aboriginal Art Centre at the Department of Aboriginal and Northern Development Canada in Ottawa. Harnett is an avid community supporter for Contemporary Aboriginal Artists. She participated in the creation of the University of Lethbridge BFA Native American Art (Studio) and the BFA Native American Art (Art History/Museum Studies) and she contributes writings on Aboriginal Contemporary Art to Canadian Art Magazine.