Peter Morin is a grandson of Tahltan ancestor artists. Morin’s artistic offerings can be organized around four themes: articulating land/knowing, articulating Indigenous grief/loss, articulating community knowing and understanding the creative agency/power of the Indigenous body. The work takes place in galleries, in community, in collaboration and on the land. All of the work is informed by dreams, ancestors, family members and performance art as a research methodology.
Initially trained in lithography, Morin pursues an artistic practice that moves from printmaking to poetry to bead work to installation to drum making to performance art. In 2016, Morin received the Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid Career Award for Outstanding Achievement as an Artist and was longlisted for the Brink (2013) and Sobey (2014) Awards. Morin currently holds a tenured appointment in the Faculty of Arts at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto, and is the graduate program director of the Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design master’s program at OCADU. Morin is the son of Janelle Creyke (Crow Clan, Tahltan Nation) and Pierre Morin (French Canadian).
