Heather Igloliorte

She was appointed inaugural Canada Excellence Research Chair in Decolonial and Transformational Indigenous Art Practices at the University of Victoria in 2023.

A major objective of her academic praxis includes radically increasing Inuit participation in arts research and arts-based professional practice.

[16] She is achieving this through leadership of an academic grant that aims to empower circumpolar Indigenous peoples to become leaders in the arts through training and mentorship.

She also researches Indigenous exhibition and collecting histories, curatorial theory and practice, along with the examination of decolonizing methodologies that include inquiries into colonization, survivance, sovereignty, resistance and resurgence.

[21] SakKijâjuk: Art and Craft from Nunatsiavut, which will tour until 2020, received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Canadian Museums Association in 2017.

[23] In 2019, she co-founded the GLAM Collective (short for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums), which explores new methods to exhibit Indigenous art to the Canadian public.

in Inuktitut) with Anna Hudson and Jan-Erik Lundström, a book which celebrates art and culture within and beyond traditional Inuit and Sámi homelands in the Circumpolar Arctic.