Wild Flowers
SGidGang.Xaal / Shoshannah Greene
June 22nd – August 16th, 2024
SGidGang.Xaal / Shoshannah Greene was born and raised on Haida Gwaii. She is a member of the St’awaas XaaydaGaay, from Hlkinil llnagaay (Cumshewa Village). From a young age, Shoshannah always had a strong drive to be creative. She pursued a Bachelor of Media Arts at Emily Carr University, with a major in hand-drawn animation. During these years, her interests shifted from classical animation to classical Haida formline. Today, Shoshannah works as a full-time artist, with a creative practice focused on Haida design, both traditional and digital painting, and illustration. Utilizing formline and passed-down cultural stories to colour her work, Shoshannah brings a contemporary lens to the Pacific Northwest artistic style of art-making.
Greene has exhibited at the Bill Reid Gallery, the Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, as well as the YVR Art Founda- tion all here in Vancouver, BC. She is a two-time Emerging Artist Scholarship recipient and has received two Bill McLennan Masterpiece Study Program Travel grants; one to attend the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois and one to attend the Museum of Natural History in New York. At these institutions she had the opprotunity to research treasures in the Haida collections; masks, argillite sculptures, mountain goat horn spoons, regalia, and formline composition within the pieces which would go on to inform her own practice. In addition she has also received a microgrant to support research at the McCord Stewart Museum in Montreal, Quebec. Most recently her work was included in the Contemporary Native Art Biennial (BACA) in Montreal, QC in addition to being featured at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, New York.
“With each creation another root extends; a root weaving a stronger sense of identity and connectedness to my culture. Connecting with the masterworks and culture has increased my confidence in developing my practice as a young contemporary Haida artist.”
– SGidGang.Xaal / Shoshannah Greene
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Installation View,
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Installation View,
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Installation View,
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Volcano Woman's Grief II,
2024,
15" x 23",
Watercolour on paper
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Generational Wealth II,
2024,
20" x 24.5",
Watercolour on paper
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And Now We're Over 384,000 km Apart,
2024,
11.5" x 12.5",
Archival inkjet print
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Conversations Concept,
2024,
12.5" x 15",
Inkjet print on archival paper
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New Growth,
2022,
19" x 23",
Inkjet print on archival paper
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The Transformation of Bear Mother,
2014,
18.5" x 13.5",
Pencil, watercolour on paper
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Red Sky in The Morning,
2024,
19" X 23" ,
Archival inkjet print
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And Now We're Over 384,000 km Apart,
2024,
11.5" x 12.5",
Ink on paper
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Volcano Woman Grief I,
2021,
15" x 23",
Inkjet print on archival paper
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Reflections I,
2024,
11.5" x 12.5",
Inkjet print on archival paper
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Reflections II,
2024,
11.5" x 12.5",
Coloured pencil on ink paper
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Conversations,
2024,
12.5" x 15",
Inkjet print on archival paper
![](https://ceremonialart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/WILD-FLOWERS-19-scaled.jpg)
My Little Love,
2023,
13.5" x 15.5",
Coloured pencil, watercolour on paper
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A Tender Moment - Sculpture Study,
2024,
18.5" x 13.75",
Archival inkjet print
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Volcano Woman's Grief III,
2024,
15" x 23",
Watercolour on paper
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