David Garneau

David Garneau (Métis Nation of Saskatchewan) is a Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Regina. He is a painter, curator, and writer who engages creative and critical expressions of Indigenous contemporary ways of knowing, being, and doing. He received the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Art: Outstanding Achievement, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and received The Order of Gabriel Dumont Silver Medal. Garneau has curated more than two dozen exhibitions in Canada and internationally (including the Museum of the American Indian, NYC). He has given keynotes in Australia, New Zealand, and throughout Canada and written numerous articles and book chapters on re/conciliation, museums, Indigenous contemporary and public art, and numerous other topics. His performance, Dear John, featuring the spirit of Louis Riel meeting with John A. Macdonald statues, was presented in Regina, Kingston, and Ottawa. David recently installed a large public artwork, the Tawatina Bridge paintings, in Edmonton and designed the Riel Commemorative Silver Dollar for the Canadian Mint. His painting exhibition, Dark Chapters is currently touring Canada, and is supported by Chapters: Reading the Still Lives of David Garneau, a collection of poems and essays by seventeen authors (University of Regina Press, 2025).