WhiteFeather has been selected as a participant in the NEW SUNS worldbuilding lab for radical futures, hosted by Artengine, Ottawa. “NEW SUNS is a collective worldbuilding lab that brings together an interdisciplinary group of creatives to explore radical futures through art and speculative fiction. As “realists of a larger reality” (Ursula K. LeGuin), the lab […]

WhiteFeather has been selected as a scholarship recipient to attend the upcoming TTTlabs: BioFeral.BeachCamp (BFBC): New Repro-Zombie Studies (NR-ZS) – Undead Bioart / Bodyart on the Beach from April 5-14, 2024. The residency will take place at Athens School of Fine Arts Residence annex of ASFA in Rethymno, Crete. For more on the residency program, […]

WhiteFeather has been invited to present her research, funded in part by the Graduate Women (WA), that she conducted during her 2022 residency at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Cornwall, UK. In 2022, WhiteFeather received the Joyce Riley Bursary in Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences, a $3000 travel award to support her research […]

WhiteFeather has been invited to partake in a two-week writing residency at Ectopia and Cultivamos Cultura in Lisbon and São Luis, Portugal. During her writing retreat, WhiteFeather will continue to develop philosophical contexts around her project, The Witch in the Lab Coat, featured in the current Matter of Flux exhibition at Art Laboratory Berlin. Her […]

SymbioticA, a keystone organization in the eco-system of the international art and science community, is under threat of imminent closure. SymbioticA is where WhiteFeather is currently undertaking PhD research, facilitated by this unique facility. Founded in 2000, by Oron Catts, Miranda Grounds, and Stuart Bunt, SymbioticA is a biological art research center at The University […]

For the month of October, The Blue Lotus will host WhiteFeather in their online Project Space, in sharing her daily discoveries while the artist-in-residence at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle, UK. The Blue Lotus Foundation was set up in 2001 by Genie Poretzky-Lee and Jay Ramsay (1959-2019). The Foundation offers a beautiful, still and sacred space for cultural and […]

WhiteFeather was selected from over 800 applicants to be the upcoming artist-in-residence at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle (Cornwall), UK, funded by a Friends of the Museum Travel Bursary, a Graduate Women WA (Western Australia) Joyce Riley Bursary, a UWA Postgraduate Student Association Fieldwork/Data Collection Award, and a UWA Graduate Research School […]

WhiteFeather has been invited to present recent research at the upcoming Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science colloquium, to be held December 10-12 at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University. WhiteFeather will present as part of the Art-Science panel, and will address research ethics/ problematics in artist residencies hosted by academic scientific institutions, […]

WhiteFeather Hunter Salivam 30.11 — 21.12 / 2018 Vernissage 30 November 2018 – 5à7 Salivam is the culmination of several months of collaborative laboratory research between WhiteFeather Hunter, Sporobole’s (bio)artist-in-residence and Dr Denis Groleau, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Microorganisms and Industrial Processes at Université de Sherbrooke. The research process encapsulated not only scientific […]

BIOTA2018 Prospective Futures: The Aurelia Project (May-December 2018) Prospective Futures: The Aurelia Project is a collaboration between Saint Mary’s University Senior Research Fellow, Dr. Linda Campbell, and WhiteFeather Hunter, Visiting Scholar/ Bioartist-in-Residence at SMU. The project also includes significant collaboration and contributions by Environmental Studies BSc Honours student, Brittany Hill, in co-developing and co-leading a […]

Art Monthly, the UK’s leading magazine of contemporary visual art, features a review of WhiteFeather’s work undertaken in Finland during the Ars Bioarctica residency. The article, Letter From Helsinki, was written by independent curator, Rob La Frenais and published in the July/August 2018 issue. Visit the Art Monthly website to see the current issue, here.

WhiteFeather was invited to work on a new research-creation project at Ars Bioarctica, an art/science residency hosted by the Finnish Bioart Society, at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station / Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences / University of Helsinki. Following the residency, WhiteFeather will deliver a “Field Notes” guest lecture at University of the Arts Helsinki, organized […]

WhiteFeather has been invited to participate in a year-long sci-art residency and collaboration through Sporobole centre en art actuel in partnership with Université de Sherbrooke. WhiteFeather’s collaborator, Dr Denis Groleau is the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Micro-organisms and Industrial Processes, hosting WhiteFeather in his lab at Université de Sherbrooke to work together part-time […]

Exhibition of works in progress by twelve current artists-in-residence at the Icelandic Textile Centre. Including work by Kristina & Dave Danehower (US), Maxime Noilou (FR), Kate Ruddle (US), Vanessa Falle (CA/ IS), Anna Taylor (CA), Reynir Katrínar (IS), Åsa Norman (SE), Kevin Lowenthal (US), Melina Bishop (US), Guðný Ragnarsdóttir (IS), and WhiteFeather (CA). Bílskúrs Gallerí, […]

WhiteFeather will be artist-in-residence at the Icelandic Textile Centre/ Textilsetur Íslands for the month of September 2016. The one-month residency will be used to creatively materialize biogeographical data obtained through genomic sequencing. WhiteFeather will produce textile translations of her Norse/Icelandic DNA, which will include exploring geo-specific, natural/ecological dye methods with local flora (lichen) and sulphuric […]

Dec 1 – 31, 2015 WhiteFeather’s project as artist-in-residence at KIAC responded to the local landscape, cultural history and mythology. Utilizing locally sourced biomaterials such as animal intestine, she constructed artificial bones that mimicked the natural biological process of osteogenesis, or bone formation. These faux artifacts were built using textile structures as scaffolds for the […]

WhiteFeather was artist-in-residence at SymbioticA Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts at the University of Western Australia, for 15 weeks, beginning May 1, 2014. During this time, WhiteFeather also lectured at UWA as guest lecturer for the course, Aesthetics Crossover of Art & Science led by Dr Ionat Zurr. Additionally, WhiteFeather showed her work in […]

WhiteFeather participated in a month-long residency at the FOFA Gallery, with Anthony Sansotta, in the production of Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #394. The work(s) culminated in the exhibition, Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings #103, #123A, #1099 and #394* Facilitated by Anthony Sansotta in partnership with Drawing LAB Dessin Vernissage 5 à 7, September 12, 2013 Exhibition runs September […]