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Bambitchell

 

BAMBITCHELL is the artistic collaboration between Sharlene Bamboat and Alexis Kyle Mitchell. Since 2009, their research-based practice has taken form through moving image, installation and performance to re-imagine nationalist histories – playfully recycling official state documents and institutional archives. Their works have been exhibited at festivals and galleries such as Mercer Union (Toronto), International Film Festival Rotterdam, Berlin International Film Festival, Galerie Dazibao (Montreal), and BFI London Film Festival (UK). Their practice has been the subject of writing in ArtForum, The Brooklyn Rail, Canadian Art, and the Routledge published book “Contemporary Citizenship, Art, and Visual Culture”. The duo held fellowships at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany (2016-2017), The MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, USA (2018) and The Darling Foundry in Montreal, Canada (2019). Bambitchell were long list recipients of the 2020 Sobey Art Award, through the National Gallery of Canada. They have an upcoming solo exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle).