EDUCATION
2005
Master of Fine Art, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
2003
Bachelor of Fine Art (with Distinction), Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB
EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES
2023
Fashion Fictions (Group Exhibition), Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Adrian Stimson (Solo Painting Exhibition), CS Redlick Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Buffalo Boy’s Destiny Manifest (Solo Exhibition & Performance), Ociciwan, Edmonton, AB
Buffalo Boy’s Love Back (Billboard Project), Paved Arts’ 20/50 Anniversary, Saskatoon, SK
The Bee Tower (Group Exhibition), Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, AB
The Counter/Self (Group Exhibition), Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Light the Night (Collaboration with Dylan Toymaker) Currie- Alexandria Park, Calgary, AB
2022
Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology (Travelling Group Exhibition 2022/23), IAIA Contemporary Museum of Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Anthro-Obscene and Other Works (Solo Exhibition) Nickel Galleries, Calgary, AB
Phenomena (Group Exhibition) Wanuskewin Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Manifest Buffalo: A Bison Dream (Solo Exhibition) Gurr Johns, London, UK
Anthro-Obscene (Solo Exhibition) Age of Union, Montreal, QC
ALTER/EGO Concordia Art History and Theater departments (Keynote), Montreal, QC
Reconciliation/Conciliation, Great Plains Summit (Panelist), Lincon, Nebraska, USA
Maanipokaa’iin (Solo Exhibition), Remai Modern, Saskatoon, SK
Sacred Promise (Bronze Plaque), Wealth Watchers International Inc. Edmonton, AB
Inheritance (Group Exhibition), Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
PEACE (Public Installation), Northern Lights Military Cemetery, Edmonton, AB
2021
War Art in Canada (Artist Panel), Art Canada Institute, York University, Toronto, ON
Adrian Stimson (Online talk), Vancouver Art Book Fair, Vancouver, BC
Gardenship of State (Group Exhibition), Museum London, London, ON
Reconsidering Monuments (online talk), Urban Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Artist in Residence, Wanuskewin Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Adrian Stimson visits Saskatoon (Solo Exhibition paintings), Calvin Redlick Pop UP gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Adrian Stimson: Queer Frontiers Series (Online video exhibition), LOMAA, London, ON
Wrapped in Culture (Group Exhibition), Footscray Community Arts Center, Melbourne, Australia
Adrian Stimson (online exhibition), Anna Leonowens Gallery, NASCAD University, Halifax, NS|
Iini Sukumapi: Guess who’s coming to dinner? (Group Exhibition) Remai Modern, Saskatoon, SK
Adrian Stimson (online talk), Migration Podcast X Indigenous Arts, Calgary, AB
The Future of Arts (podcast), ATB, Calgary, AB
2020
All by Myself, URI Undergraduate Research Stipend (Online Performance), University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
Water Bed-Yoko Ono Water Event, (Collaboration with Yoko Ono), Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, AB
Inii Bison Heart, Public Sculpture, Trinity Developments, Calgary, AB
Buffalo Boy Dreams in 4 Directions & BB/SE Photo installation, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, AUS
The Shaman Exterminator: HUBRIS (Performance), University of Alberta, Camrose, AB
Calgary Stampede Story Robe (Installation), Department of Humanities, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
2019
Past, Present, Future Count (Installation) Calgary Central Public Library, Calgary, AB
Inii Sukomapii: Guess Who’s coming to dinner?, Toronto Biennale, Toronto, ON
Off Centre: Queen Contemporary art in the Prairies (Group Exhibition), Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK
Naked Napi Big Smoke, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON
Prairie Vernacular (Group Exhibition), Moose Jaw Art Gallery, Moose Jaw, SK
IInniwa Celebrating Buffalo’s Return (Group exhibition), Mortar & Brick Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
Fix Your Hearts or Die: A New Chapter Acquisition Project, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
Wrapped In Culture (Group Exhibition), Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Naked Napi and the Nest, Talking Stick Visual Arts Exhibition, Vancouver, BC
Buffalo Boy and the Shaman Exterminator (photography) and Putting Buffalo Boy to Bed (Performance), Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON
2018
Buffalo Boy’s Resistance is Futile (Performance), Haskell Indian Nations University, Kansas, USA
Shaman Exterminator On the trail of the Woodcraft Indians with the Buffalo Boy Scouts of America (Video) Integrated Arts Research Initiative, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
You Can’t Get Blood Out of a Stone (Performance), Grenfell Art Gallery, Cornerbrook, NL
RANT (Performance), Queer City Cinema, Visual Q, Resistance, Defiance, Protest, Action. Regina, SK
Current Terrain (Group Exhibition), A Space, Toronto, ON
The Real Water (performance), A Space, Toronto, ON
Pipelines and Prophecies, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON
Naked Napi, SUM Gallery, Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, BC
Buffalo Boy’s Don’t Look East, Fairy Tales Calgary Queer Film Festival, Calgary, AB
Seasoned Disruptor, Arts Congress 2018, Sask Arts Alliance, Saskatoon, SK
Buffalo Bull Boat, Grow OP 2018, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON
The Governor General’s Awards in Visual Arts, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
Under Pressure (Group Exhibition), TARNANTHI Festival of Indigenous Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, AUS
Sovereign Acts II (Group Exhibition), University of Guelph Art Gallery, Guelph, ON
2017
Once Upon a Time…The Western (Group Exhibition), Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, QC
Mourning and Mayhem, A Space, Toronto, ON
TRENCH (Performance), Siksika Nation, The Military Museums Calgary, AB
School Days (Solo Exhibition), Wanuskewin Heritage Park, Saskatoon, SK
150 Blows (Performance/Exhibit), AKA, Saskatoon, SK
Plastic Rhymes (Group exhibition), Estevan Art Gallery, Estevan, SK
Sovereign Acts II (Group Exhibition), Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
If We Ever Met… (Group Exhibition), Pātaka Art + Museum in Porirua, NZ
2016
The Shaman Exterminator On the Trail of the Woodcraft Indians with the Buffalo Boy Scouts of America (Video), Urban Shaman, Winnipeg, MN
With Secrecy and Despatch (Group Exhibition), Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW, Australia
Northern Plains Artists (Group Exhibition), Calgary Stampede Art p+Pavilion, Calgary, AB
Taxidea Taxus Tuum Est – The School of Badger (performance with Rebecca Belmore and Lori Blondeau), UBC Okanagan, BC
Once we were Pilgrims (Performance with Lori Blondeau and Michael Farnan), Two Story Café, Prince Albert, SK
Pilgrims of the Wild (video with Lori Blondeau and Michael Farnan), Two Story Café and Urban Shaman, Winnipeg, MB
Buffalo Boy’s Let them Eat Pie (Performance), Nuit Blanche, Saskatoon, SK
If We Ever Met… (Group Exhibition), Pātaka Art + Museum in Porirua, NZ
150 Blows 150 (performance), 7a11b, Toronto, ON
2015
Moving Forward Never Forgetting (Group Exhibition), Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK
Silent Witness (Performance), University of Regina, Regina, SK
Buffalo Boy’s I hear the train a comin…(Performance), Talking Back to Johnny Mac, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON
Mammo’wiiang to make change (Group Exhibition), Art Gallery of Southern Manitoba, Brandon, MB
Canadian Indigenous Contemporary Art from Saskatchewan the “Prairie” province (Group Exhibition), Darren Baker Gallery/CS Redlick, London, UK
Belle Sauvage & Buffalo Boy Introducing the Wild West to the Big Smoke (Performance), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
2014
Terms of Engagement (Group Exhibition), Esker Foundation, Calgary, AB/Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston, ON/Mount St.Vincent Art Gallery, Halifax, NS
The Immortal Buffalo Boy (Solo Exhibition), Art Gallery of Regina, Regina, SK
Story Telling (Group Exhibition), Ottawa School of Art & Art Mur, Montreal, QC
Spirit of Alliance (Monument to the War of 1812), Public Monument, Saskatoon, SK
OSKUN (Exhibition with Michel Boutin), Wanuskewin Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Buffalo Boy’s Islands of Hiawatha (Performance), Are you out of your mind, Artscape, Toronto Island, ON
Buffalo Boy’s Chief Rogue (Performance), This could be the place, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, ON
The Life and Times of Buffalo Boy (Performance and Book launch), Truck Gallery/M:ST, Calgary, AB
Belle Savage Looking for MR. and a Good Bar (Performance with Lori Blondeau), Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
Sovereign Acts (Group Exhibition), University of Toronto Art Gallery, Toronto, ON/SAAG, Lethbridge, AB
Canadian Idol No More (Performance with Lori Blondeau), University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
2013
Lovesick Child (Group Exhibition) A Space, Toronto, ON
Witnesses: Art and Canada’s Indian Residential Schools (Group Exhibition) Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, Vancouver, BC
NET-ETH Going out of the darkness (Group Exhibition) Malaspina Printmakers, Emily Carr University, Vancouver BC
Blood Memoirs: Exploring Individuality, Memory and Culture (Group Exhibition) Tweed Museum, Duluth, Minn, USA
Reconsidering Reconciliation (Group Exhibition) TRU, Kamloops, BC
2012
Narrative Quest (Group Exhibition)– MOCA, Calgary, AB
Piece of Work (Group Exhibition)- Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, SK
Buffalo Boy’s Born Again (Performance)- Exploring Masculinities, Queen’s University Union Gallery, Kingston, ON
Where It’s At (Group Exhibition)- Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Herd & 75 Million (Installation & Solo Exhibition) – Fort Calgary, Calgary, AB
Shaman Exterminator – Currency (Performance)- Saskatchewan Arts Alliance, Artesian, Regina SK
Emnowaagosijig//Coming Out The Shifting and Multiple self (Group Exhibition), Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto, ON
Sovereign Acts (Group Exhibition), Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Buffalo Boy’s Coal Jubilee/House of the Wayward Spirits (Performance), ANDPVA, Queen’s Park, Toronto, ON
White Shame Revisited (Performance), Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Stampede Herd/Ghosts of Bison Past (Installation/Paintings), Calgary Stampede Western Showcase, Calgary, AB
Post-Modern Bison (Permanent collection), Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB
Suffer Little Children (Group Exhibition), ARNICA, Kamloops, BC
Looking for Little Horse (Performance), Two Story Café/Mann Art Gallery, Prince Albert, SK
Buffalo Boy Don’t Look East (Video)- Brick and Mortar video festival, Mass Moca, Massachusetts, USA
The Shaman Exterminator: On the Trail of the Woodcraft Indians (Solo Exhibition) Paved Arts, Saskatoon, SK
2011
La Nostalgia Remix (Performance), Special Guest Buffalo Boy with James Luna and Guillermo Gomez-Pena, TRIBE @ Paved Arts- Saskatoon, SK
Pink Panther (Performance), Open Sky, Fort Simpson, NWT
Re-Herd (Installation), Prairie Scene, National Arts Centre, Ottawa, ON
Buffalo Boy’s Blackout Bingo (Performance) SWARM, National Arts Centre, Ottawa, ON
Holding Our Breath (Solo Exhibition), Neutral Ground, Regina, SK
The Life and Times of Buffalo Boy (Installation & Performance), The Works, Edmonton, AB
Burning Sheaf (Installation), Burning Man, NV, USA
Bison Heart (Permanent Painting Installation), The James Hotel, Saskatoon, SK
The Great Mystery (Performance Collaboration Free Flow Dance Company), Refinery, Saskatoon, SK
Narrative Quest (Group Exhibition touring), Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, AB
75 Million (Solo AFA touring Exhibition), Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB
2010
Unmasking (Group Exhibition), Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, France
Canadian Forces Artist Program, Kandahar/Masum Ghar, Afghanistan
Beyond Redemption (Solo Exhibition), Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Buffalo Boy’s Cabaret – Love Saskatchewan, Harbourfront, Toronto, ON
Brave Seduction (Performance), Gallery 101, Ottawa, ON
Kentucky Fried Chicken Dance, 2 Story Café/Art Gallery of Prince Albert, Prince Albert, SK
Putting the Wild Back into the West, Plug In Gallery, Winnipeg, MB
2009
Photo Quai Deuxième Biennale Des Images Du Monde (Group Exhibition), Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France
Transformations (two-person exhibition), Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, MB
Buffalo Boy’s You – Can Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd (Performance), Prairie North, Grande Prairie, AB
Belle Sauvage & Buffalo Boy: Putting the Wild Back into the West, Artspace, Peterborough, ON
Sick and Tired – Transformation (Solo Exhibition), FN University Gallery, FNU, Regina, SK
Art is Journey (Group show), JPL Building, The Banff Centre, Banff, AB
Buffalo Boy’s Why Not?, The Banff Centre, Performance in Banff townsite, Banff, AB
2008
Belle Sauvage & Buffalo Boy: It’s a Wonderful Life (Performance) The Church, Saskatoon, SK
Putting the Wild Back into the West (Performance), ARNICA/KAG, Kamloops, BC
Buffalo Boy’s Battle of Little Big Horny (Performance), Mountain Standard Time Festival, Calgary, AB
Old Sun/Sick & Tired/Inhumation (Solo Exhibition), TRUCK Gallery, Calgary, AB
Buffalo Boy’s The American Dream: Manifest Destiny Revisited (Performance), Burning Man, Black Rock City, NV, USA
Bison Sentinels (sculpture-Public Commission) Healing Gardens, First Nations University of Canada, Regina, SK
Face the Nation (Group Exhibition), Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
That’s So Gay (Group Exhibition), Saskatoon, SK
Buffalo Boy’s Do Not Feel the Buffalo – Moving Camp (Performance) Modern Fuel, Kingston, ON
Belle Sauvage & Buffalo Boy: Putting the Wild Back into the West (Performance), Le Centrale, Montreal, QC
Marisa Portolese & Adrian Stimson (two-person exhibition), IPS Gallery, Montreal, QC
Desperate Commons – Gym Acts (Performance), Banff Centre, Banff, AB
Honouring Tradition: Reframing Native Art (Group Exhibition), Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB
Tracing History: Presenting the Unpresentable (Group Exhibition), Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB
2007
Buffalo Boy’s Confessional Indulgence (Solo Exhibition), The Red Shift Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
SeasonNull (Group Exhibition), Snelgrove Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
Buffalo Boy’s Shaman Exterminator – The Red Man (Performance) Burning Man, Black Rock City, NV, USA
Buffalo Boy’s-More than a Woman (Performance), Congress 2007, Saskatoon, SK
Buffalo Boy’s-More than a Woman (Performance) Sâkêwêwak Story-Telling Festival, Regina, SK
Bison Heart (Solo Exhibition), Nouveau Gallery, Regina, SK
The Buffalo: Adrian Stimson (Documentary, Landscape as Muse, 291 film Co, Regina, SK
Then and Now (Group Exhibition), Avenue Community Centre, Saskatoon, SK
2006
Belle Sauvage & Buffalo Boy; Putting the Wild Back into the West (Performance) Western Front, Vancouver, BC
U of S collection exhibit (Group Exhibition), Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Gambling the Prairie Winnings (Group Exhibition), Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK
Sick and Tired (Two-person Exhibition), Grunt gallery, Vancouver, BC
Runs Down Town & Buffalo Boy: Buckskin Mounting (Performance) Talking Stick Festival, Vancouver, BC, May 2006
2005
Plane Language (Performance) University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
Buffalo Boy’s Heart On (MFA Exhibit), Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Treaty Performance (Performance), Burning Man, Black Rock City, NV, USA
That’s So Gay (Group Exhibition) Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Tarred & Feathered Derivative (Solo Exhibition), Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB
SURE? (MFA Group Show), Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
2004
Buffalo Boy loves Burning Man (Performance), Burning Man, Black Rock City, NV, USA
Wilder West (Performance), AKA Members Space, Saskatoon, SK
Putting the WILD back into the West: Belle Sauvage and Buffalo Boy (Performance) Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Summer Group Show, Susan Whitney Gallery, Regina, SK
Untitled (MFA Group Show), Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
2003
Winter Group Show (Group Exhibition), Susan Whitney Gallery, Regina, SK
Fall Group Show (Group Exhibition), Susan Whitney Gallery, Regina, SK
Wake up (Solo Exhibition), Domicile Interiors, Calgary, AB
Summer Group Show, Susan Whitney Gallery, Regina, SK
in reference: faculty and Fascism (Group Exhibition), Gallery 371, ACAD, Calgary, AB
5 degrees (Group Exhibition), Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, AB
2002
Buffalo Particles and Shields – Nitsitapiisinni: Our way of life exhibit (Solo Exhibition), Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB
2000
Resonance (Solo Exhibition), Tathacus Resources Ltd/Xogen Power Inc Calgary, AB
1999
Life Textures (Solo Exhibition), Jawz Technologies, Calgary, AB
AWARDS
2019
Alumni of Influence Award, University of Saskatchewan
2018
The Governor General Award in Visual and Media Arts, Awarded by the Governor General of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts
2017
REVEAL Indigenous Art Awards, The Hnatyshyn Foundation
2009
Blackfoot Visual Arts Award – Blackfoot Visual Arts Society
2005
Alberta Centennial Medal, Awarded by the Alberta Government for Outstanding Service in Human Rights, Citizenship and Diversity with various Alberta communities
2003
Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal, Awarded by the Alberta Government for outstanding service in Human rights, Citizenship and Diversity with various Alberta communities
2002
Heinz Jordan Memorial Award, ACAD, Calgary, AB
Illingworth Kerr Scholarship, ACAD, Calgary, AB
Jason Lang Scholarship, ACAD, Calgary, AB
Maimer/Davies International Prize, ACAD, Calgary, AB
2001
Jason Lang Scholarship, ACAD, Calgary, AB
Old Sun Post Secondary Hawaiian Exchange Award, Old Sun College, Siksika, AB
2000
Aboriginal Veterans Commemorative Millennium Medallion, Awarded by the National Aboriginal Veterans Association for peacetime service in the Canadian Military
Jason Lang Scholarship, ACAD, Calgary, AB
1999
Paul Van Ginkel Art Scholarship, Calgary Exhibition & Stampede, Calgary, AB
GRANTS
2019
Creating, Knowing, Sharing Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2018
Creation Grant, Alberta Foundation for the Arts
2013
Independent Artist Grant, Saskatchewan Arts Board
2010
Independent Artist Grant, Saskatchewan Arts Board
Aboriginal Curatorial Fellowship, (Scholarship) The Banff Centre
2009
Archive Restored, Thematic Residency, (Scholarship) The Banff Centre
2008
Independent Artist Grant, Saskatchewan Arts Board
2007
Independent Artist Grant (co-submitted with Elizabeth Matheson), Saskatchewan Arts Board
2006
Canada Council Assistance to Aboriginal Curators for Residencies in the Visual Arts, Mendel Art Gallery
CRITICAL REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
2020
Equinox 2020 Cultivate: Artist Talk https://www.neverapart.com/features/adrian-stimson-talk/
The Yeehaw Agenda. The Pigeon Podcast https://anchor.fm/the-pigeon-podcasts/episodes/EP01-The-Yeehaw-Agenda-elcaqi
Q CBC – When AA Bronson approached the Siksika people, Blackfoot artist Adrian Stimson decided to listen https://www.cbc.ca/radiointeractives/artconnectsonq/art-connects-on-q-aa-bronson-adrian-stimson
(At Home) On Art and Healing: Artist talk with AA Bronson and Adrian Stimson, Hirshhorn Smithsonian, Washington, DC, USA https://hirshhorn.si.edu/event/at-home-on-art-and-healing-artist-talk-with-aa-bronson-and-adrian-stimson/
2018
Aesthetic Arousal, Canadian Art Dec 13, Essay by Adrian Stimson, canadianart.ca
Adrian Stimson Governor General Arts – Adrian Stimson on history, redemption and exorcising energy, Rhyne Vermette ggavma.canadacouncil.ca
In the Making – Adrian Stimson, Sean O’Neill www.cbc.ca>inthemaking (CBC documentary)
Two Spirit Siksika Artist Adrian Stimson’s New Work Addresses Colonial Erasure and Sexuality, Inside Vancouver, Kendell Yan, September
Adrian Stimson – Creating Sensorial Experiences, Freq Magazine, Lisa Baldissera, June
Shaman Exterminator by Adrian Stimson- AWAYE! Daniel Browning https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/awaye/adrian-stimson/9591500
As above so below: drone visualities of the aftermath, testimonies of the more-than-human and the politico-aesthetics of massacre sites, Joseph Pugliese, Social Identities Journal for the study of Race, Nation and Culture https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2018.1514159
One thing: Adrian Stimson’s Old Sun reframes history at the Art Gallery of Ontario,The Star, Murray Whyte Visual Arts Critic, Tues, April 24, 2018
2017
Mourning and Mayhem: The work of Adrian Stimson, Wanda Nanibush, Imaginative/A Space. Imaginenative.org
2015
Saskatchewan First Nations Artists showcase their art in London, Tiffany Head, Eagle Feather News, Saskatchewan, July 21, 2015 http://eaglefeathernews.com/interviews/index.php?detail=1449
The Land We Are: Artist & Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation, Edited by Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill & Sophie McCall
2014
Swiftly Moving Career, Ashleigh Mattern, The Starphoenix, Saskatoon, SK, December 16, 2014
Complex Social Change: teaching Performing exhibiting designing mapping 2013-14, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Josie Mills
Term of Engagement, Averns_Feldman-Kiss_Stimson, Conley and Robertson, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston_MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax_Esker Foundation, Calgary
Masculindians, Sam McKegney, University of Manitoba Press
The Life and Times of Buffalo Boy, Edited David Garneau, Truck Contemporary Art in Calgary
Kimiwan, Buffalo Boy, Issue 6 2014
2013
Memory and Culture in Native Portraits at Tweed Museum, ICTMF Staff, Indian Country Today Media Network,
Artist gets the experience of a lifetime in Kandahar, Windspeaker magazine Vol. 30 Issue 11, Cara McKenna
2012
Palimpsest, Chapter 7, Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts
2011
Saskatchewan Art Star Becomes a War Artist, Gregory Beatty, June
Suffer Little Children, West Coast Line #47 Reconcile This! – Jonathan Dewar and Ayumi Goto
Seize the Space: Buffalo Boy, Jeff Tomas Blackflash Magazine, Fall, Volume 29 Issue 1
2010
Holding Our Breath, Adrian Stimson, Blackflash Magazine, Fall, Volume 28.1
Adrian Stimson: Beyond Redemption, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon
2009
Buffalo Boy Testifies: decolonizing visual testimony in a colonial-settler society, Lynne Bell, Australian National University Press
Adrian Stimson: the artist awakes, Inspired, The Banff Centre, Summer
Saskatchewan Ambassadors, 60 yrs of Art, SAB Annual report 2008/09
Two-Spirit in Aboriginal culture, Canadian Dimension, Vol.43 No.4
Buffalo Boy: Then and Now, FUSE Magazine, Feature Spring 2009, Ryan Rice and Carla Taunton
Articulation, Adrian Stimson curator, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
2008
Living History Lessons, FFWeekly, Calgary, Anthea Black
III Omens-Adrian Stimson’s Old Sun, Bryn Evan, Shotgun review.ca
Dismantling the Shards of Past Identities, Leah Sandals, National Post, Arts and Life
Male Magnificence, Hour, Isa Tousignat, (IPS Gallery), Montreal, QC
Face the Nation, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
Honouring Tradition: Reframing Native Art, Glenbow Museum Publications
Tracing History: Presenting the Unpresentable, Glenbow Museum Publications
2007
Buffalo Boy at Burning Man, Lynne Bell, Canadian Art, Spotlight Summer, Vol.2 No.2
Bison Heart, Jack Anderson Galleries West, Exhibit reviews
Bison Heart, Jack Anderson, Regina Leader Post Exhibition reviews
Putting the Wild Back into the West, The Front, Western Front, Vancouver, BC
Bordercrossings, Western Front Review, Putting the Wild Back into the West
Brunt Magazine, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2006
Burning Man @ 20 in 05, Adrian Stimson, BlackFlash Magazine Winter issue 23.2
Our common ground, Adrian Stimson- Blind Faith, Peter von Tiesenhausen, Mendel Art Gallery
2005
Heart of the Community – Artist Adrian Stimson, SHAW cable Saskatoon
Tarred and Feathered Derivative, Daybreak Alberta CBC
2002
One Foot Forward, Caron Elody, New Tribe, September 2002:3
Adrian Stimson, Ambrose Tan, Current Projects 3, Issue 3. 2002:14
Four Enterprising Artists Enjoy Collective, Heather Miller, Alberta Native News, May 2002:5
Special Edition, Current Projects 3, Issue 3, 2002: 5
Facade and the Earth Goddess, Current Projects 2, Issue 2, 2002:12
2001
Drawn to the flame, James Merithew, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 September, 2001:1
Native Artist – Adrian Stimson, Adrian Wolfeg, News @ 6 A Channel, Calgary, April 11
Four Directions, Aboriginal Times
1996
Prairie Roots, Eleanor Ward, Canadian Living. June 1996: 44-47.
CURATORIAL
2017
Unsettled, Queer Arts Festival, June 17-29, 2017, Vancouver, BC
2014
Kisiskatchewani Sipi – Swiftly flowing River, 14 Saskatchewan artists, Blackall Studios, Shoreditch, London, UK & Bilbao, Spain
2011
The Beginning of the End, The Banff Centre Indigenous Residency – Revolution 2012
2010
Coming to Presence II, Art Gallery of Prince Albert, SK
Restoration, Strandline Curatorial Collective, AGPA, SK
2009
Art is Journey, Thematic Group Exhibition, The Banff Centre JPL Bldg, Banff, AB
2008
MOTHER: Sarah Beck, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
In the Neighborhood: Rachelle Vaider-Knowles, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Coming to Presence, SK Aboriginal Art, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK
2007-08
Associate Curator, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
2006
Curator in Residence, Mendel Art Gallery, Canada Council Aboriginal Curator Program, Saskatoon, SK
2007
Articulation Series
Conex – Us, Various Artists Saskatoon, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Express, Ahasiw Muskegon-Iskwew, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Joined, Various Artist Saskatoon, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
From Here to There: Barrett Russell, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Emotional Geographies, Permanent Collection, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
2006
LIVE/LIVE, City Park Collegiate/Artist residency, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
ARTSUP, Riversdale Artists/ Artist Residency, Mendel Art Gallery – 20th Street studio, Saskatoon, SK
2003
Ab-Original Mix, ACAD Aboriginal artists, FN Gallery Calgary, AB
SNAG, Student Show, Gallery 351 ACAD
2002
An Aboriginal Affair, ACAD Aboriginal artists, Gallery 351 ACAD
TEACHING
2013-16
Sessional Instructor, Performance Art: Theory and Praxis, University of Saskatchewan
2011- current
The Banff Centre – Visiting Faculty/Residency Lead –Revolution 2012
COLLECTIONS
Remai Modern
The British Museum
Campbelltown Arts Centre
Museum of Fine Arts Montreal
Art Gallery of Ontario
Art Gallery of Alberta
City of Saskatoon
Detroit Institute of Arts
Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Glenbow Museum
Mackenzie Art Gallery
Mendel Art Gallery
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Saskatchewan Arts Board
First Nations University of Canada
Indigenous Art Centre Ottawa
Burning Man
Siksika Nation
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Rawlco
Private collections