Professional Experience
MARCH 2021 - PRESENT
Akinasi Silaapik Partridge, Ottawa - Freelance artist
Self-guided artist specialising in drawing, illustration, prints, commercial commissions, logo design and contemporary and traditional Mohawk and Inuit beadwork and jewellery.JANUARY 2025
Arctic Youth Conference, Tromsø, Norway - side event presenter
Side event presenter and co-author for session proposal titled: Reclaiming Identity - Exploring 2SIQTIP+ Resistance through Land, Art and Community, focusing on the impacts of colonization, homophobia and transphobia in Inuit and Northern Indigenous communities and the practices they engage in to reclaim connection to land, belonging, and traditional identities
Projects
APRIL 2024
YIRRAMBOI x VicHealth Future Healthy initiative, Melbourne (AUS) - Art presentation/workshop facilitator for ‘Young Onez’ First Nations Youth Summit
Provide mentorship in visual arts development for First Nations Australian youth, with a focus on promoting wellbeing through creativity and building cultural connections.Commissions
MAY 2025
YIRRAMBOI 2025 First Nations Festival, Melbourne (AUS), High Commission of Canada in Australia, in Canberra - Cross cultural art collaboration
Beaded possum skin using traditional Haudenosaunee and Inuit beadwork styles in collaboration with a First Nations/Torres Strait Islander artist from Australia, to be unveiled at YIRRAMBOI 2025
DECEMBER 2024
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, Ottawa - Annual Christmas card design
Full colour five-figure illustration interpreting ITK’s logo for their annual Christmas card using historical photos of traditional Nunavik Inuit clothing as reference
JULY 2022 AND JULY 2023
Canadian Roots Exchange, Toronto - Illustration and design for grant funding social media advertisements
Graphic design illustration for CRE’s Indigenous youth grant funding program under the “Sprout” stream, July 2022Full colour two-figure illustration for CRE’s Indigenous youth grant funding program under the “Youth Empowerment” stream, July 2023
https://www.instagram.com/p/CvaHG4bONnr/?igsh=cnE3aTljNWZ2MTc1
Education
SEPTEMBER 2023 - PRESENT
N’we Jinan Artworks Program, Remote - Young Professional Artist program
A three-year program for young, emerging Indigenous professional artists to develop and learn artistic and entrepreneurial skills to further their practice through engaging in career building activities, with guidance by professional mentorship and culminating in an end of year art project.https://nwejinan.com/artworksprogram/
SEPTEMBER 2015 - APRIL 2017
Dawson College, Montreal - D.E.C. in Arts and Culture
Two year program in arts, literature and communications.
Exhibits
DECEMBER 2022 - OCTOBER 2024
https://ago.ca/agoinsider/exploring-our-land-our-art-nunattini-takuminartuqutivut
APRIL 2022
https://www.instagram.com/fruitionmtl/p/CcqgSlmrm7M/
MARCH 2021 - MARCH 2024
https://nunavikstta.com/artists/akinasi-partridge/
DECEMBER 2022 - OCTOBER 2024
Canadian Museum of Nature, Avataq Cultural Institute, Ottawa - Our Land, Our Art
Commissioned by the Canadian Museum of Nature and Avataq Cultural Institute to work on a collaborative installation piece of a traditional Inuit beaded womans amauti with Taqralik Partridge and Isaac Partridge.https://ago.ca/agoinsider/exploring-our-land-our-art-nunattini-takuminartuqutivut
APRIL 2022
Fruition Collective x Lucki Delite, Montreal - Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous and People of Colour Artist Showcase group exhibition
Exhibition of self-portrait drawing titled “Alone on my phone”, pencil, pen and marker, 2022https://www.instagram.com/fruitionmtl/p/CcqgSlmrm7M/
MARCH 2021 - MARCH 2024
Avataq Cultural Institute, Online group exhibition - The Standing Together Through Art project, sanannguanitigut makitaqatigiinniq
Granted funding through the Aumaaggivik Nunavik arts secretariat department to create two drawings entitled“Keniiohontesha/Strawberries” (pencil crayon, pen, marker, czech seed beads, 2021) and “Transforming” (pencil and pen, 2021) responding to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic as a Nunavik Inuk and how art can foster resilience and build community.https://nunavikstta.com/artists/akinasi-partridge/
Grant Awards
November 2024Canada Council For The Arts, Tokyo, Japan - Creating, Knowing and Sharing: The Arts of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples - The art of manga: foundational skills for Indigenous comic making
May 2024Avataq Cultural Institute, Karuizawa, Japan - Takuminartuliurnimut grant program - Mokuhanga: Japanese woodblock printing
July 2023
November 2024
Canada Council For The Arts, Tokyo, Japan - Creating, Knowing and Sharing: The Arts of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples - The art of manga: foundational skills for Indigenous comic making
Recipient of the Creating, Knowing and Sharing grant to partake in a two-week intensive manga course to learn the basics of professional manga creation to develop a manga loosely based on lived experience as an urban Inuk
May 2024
Avataq Cultural Institute, Karuizawa, Japan - Takuminartuliurnimut grant program - Mokuhanga: Japanese woodblock printing
Recipient of the Takuminartuliurnimut grant to partake in a two week residency to learn the foundations of Japanese woodblock printing, as it provided the basis for many prolific Inuit print artists from cooperatives in Nunavik in Nunavut after being introduced by James Houston who had learned in Japan
July 2023
Inuit Art Foundation Kajungiqsaut Grants- Iniqarvik (to have space) stream
Recipient of the Iniqarvik stream funding grant to research, experiment and create a series of five drawings using mainly, pencil crayons, pen, and markers over a 12-month period focusing on themes of everyday life as an urban Inuk.Filmography
April 2023
Uyaraqk - Nuna Is Who Claims (Official VHS tape)
Director of photographyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrUKy9gOqwc&ab_channel=Uyarakq
