Raymond Boisjoly

Raymond Boisjoly is a contemporary Indigenous artist from the Haida Nation who lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Born in Langley, British Columbia in 1981, Boisjoly received his BFA from Emily Carr University in 2006 and his MFA from the University of British Columbia in 2010.

Boisjoly's work explores the intersections of Indigenous identity, language, and culture with contemporary art and technology. He often works with photography, digital images, and text-based works to examine how colonialism has affected Indigenous communities and how they have responded and adapted.

Boisjoly's work has been exhibited extensively in Canada and internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, and the SFU Gallery in Burnaby, British Columbia. He has also participated in group exhibitions at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, among others.

In addition to his art practice, Boisjoly is also a writer and educator, and has taught at Emily Carr University and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. He has received numerous awards and honors for his work, including the VIVA Award from the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts in 2016.