Join artist Adrian Stimson, member of the Siksika Nation, for a conversation exploring the complexities of his multi-disciplinary art practice that includes photography, video, painting, performance, sculpture installation, and public art. Through his work, he tells stories about historical and contemporary realities for Indigenous Peoples.

The McCready Lecture on Canadian Art is named in honour of Philip J. McCready, a respected and well-known dealer in Canadian art during the middle years of the 20th Century. Following his death in 1981, a group of his friends and colleagues raised a fund to support a biannual lecture on Canadian art. 

Adrian Stimson is a member of the Siksika Nation, Treaty 7, Alberta. Adrian has a BFA with distinction from the Alberta University of the Arts and MFA from the University of Saskatchewan. He has exhibited in three International Biennales, Photo Quai, Paris, France 2009, The Shoreline Dilemma, Toronto 2019 and Narin, Sydney 2020. His bison paintings are melancholic, memorializing, political and sometimes whimsical. His performance art looks at identity construction, specifically the hybridization of the Indian, cowboy, shaman and Two Spirit being. Buffalo Boy, The Shaman Exterminator are two reoccurring personas. His installation work examines the residential school experience; he attended three residential schools in his life, works that speak to genocide, loss and resilience. He was a participant in the Canadian Forces Artist Program, which sent him to Afghanistan in 2010. 

His public art includes; From Earth To Sky, Airdrie Public Library and Multi-use Facility, Spirit of Alliance, Saskatoon; Bison Sentinels First Nations University of Canada, Regina, Inii Bison Heart and Sweet Grass Bison, Trinity Developments, Calgary, Past Present Future count Downtown Calgary Public Library, National Monument to Canadas Mission in Afghanistan (Ground breaking March 2026), Ottawa and recently announced Indian Residential School Memorial, Calgary. 

 Adrian was awarded the Alumi of Influence award by the University of Saskatchewan in 2020, the Governor General Award for Visual and Media Arts in 2018. REVEAL Indigenous Arts Award –Hnatyshyn Foundation 2017. He was awarded the Blackfoot Visual Arts Award in 2009, the Alberta Centennial Medal in 2005 and the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2003.