Jeneen Frei Njootli
Exhibitions
Jeneen Frei Njootli: The skies closed themselves when we averted our gaze, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, ON (2025) →
Jeneen Frei Njootli – Throats tight with medicine, teeth that cannot chew, mountains and rivers in the gut, Macaulay + Co. (2024) →
How imminent is this: love n prayers, Fierman Gallery, New York City, NY (2023) →
small mounds of flesh form, PLATFORM centre, in collaboration with WNDX, Winnipeg, MB (2021) →
Jeneen Frei Njootli | attachment, Macaulay + Co. (2020) →
from strength to this question, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, SK (2019) →
BAD STITCH – Audie Murray, Judy Chartrand, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Macaulay + Co. (2018) →
Jeneen Frei Njootli — LUX | MAM, Macaulay + Co. (2017) →
Beau Dick / Nicholas Galanin / Jeneen Frei Njootli, Macaulay + Co. (2015) →
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Jeneen Frei Njootli
(B. 1988, Vuntut Gwitchin)
Jeneen Frei Njootli lives and works in their Vuntut Gwitchin homelands, outside of Old Crow, Yukon. There is an industrial and photo adjacent lean in their practice, working with culturally intimate materials that manifest in sculpture, regalia, performance and sound. They have gotten to work with many mentors and knowledge holders over the years in addition to holding an MFA from the University of British Columbia and a BFA from Emily Carr University.
Represented by Macaulay & Co. Fine Art in Vancouver, Frei Njootli’s work has been presented in many galleries, museums and artist-run centers around the world. Recent exhibitions include Jeneen Frei Njootli: The skies closed themselves when we averted our gaze, at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, ON (2025), Indian Theatre: Native Art, Performance, and Self-Determination Since 1969 at the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK (2025), Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions at KADIST San Francisco (2024) Noise of the Flesh: Score for Gina Pane at the FRAC (Fonds régional d’art contemporain) France (2023), Indian Theatre, curated by Candice Hopkins at CCS BARD Hessel Museum, NY (2023), I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality at UB Art Galleries, Buf- falo (2023), Early Days: Indigenous Art at the McMichael at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection (2021), Soft Water Hard Stone an exhibition at the New Museum Triennial, New York (2021), Listen Up: Northern Soundscapes, Anchorage Museum (2021), Where Do We Go From Here? At the Vancouver Art Gallery (2021), Kunstverein Braunschweig in partnership with the Contemporary Art Gallery in Germany (2021); and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2018). Selection of group exhibitions, biennales, and conferences include The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2019-2018); Vancouver Art Gallery (2018-2016); Anchorage Museum, Alaska (2020); and the Toronto Bienniale of Art (2020) among others.
(B. 1988, Vuntut Gwitchin)
Jeneen Frei Njootli lives and works in their Vuntut Gwitchin homelands, outside of Old Crow, Yukon. There is an industrial and photo adjacent lean in their practice, working with culturally intimate materials that manifest in sculpture, regalia, performance and sound. They have gotten to work with many mentors and knowledge holders over the years in addition to holding an MFA from the University of British Columbia and a BFA from Emily Carr University.
Represented by Macaulay & Co. Fine Art in Vancouver, Frei Njootli’s work has been presented in many galleries, museums and artist-run centers around the world. Recent exhibitions include Jeneen Frei Njootli: The skies closed themselves when we averted our gaze, at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, ON (2025), Indian Theatre: Native Art, Performance, and Self-Determination Since 1969 at the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK (2025), Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions at KADIST San Francisco (2024) Noise of the Flesh: Score for Gina Pane at the FRAC (Fonds régional d’art contemporain) France (2023), Indian Theatre, curated by Candice Hopkins at CCS BARD Hessel Museum, NY (2023), I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality at UB Art Galleries, Buf- falo (2023), Early Days: Indigenous Art at the McMichael at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection (2021), Soft Water Hard Stone an exhibition at the New Museum Triennial, New York (2021), Listen Up: Northern Soundscapes, Anchorage Museum (2021), Where Do We Go From Here? At the Vancouver Art Gallery (2021), Kunstverein Braunschweig in partnership with the Contemporary Art Gallery in Germany (2021); and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2018). Selection of group exhibitions, biennales, and conferences include The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2019-2018); Vancouver Art Gallery (2018-2016); Anchorage Museum, Alaska (2020); and the Toronto Bienniale of Art (2020) among others.
