michellesound.art

Got my copies- thanks @firstamart 🎉🎉 Amazing to have my artwork on the cover but I am honestly so excited to see my mom's face on the cover of a magazine! I feel like she would be blown away and I bet she never would have expected to see her herself like a cover girl. Wish she could be here to see it but i'm sure she somehow has💙🩵💙 earrings @kihewandrose 🦅🌹

🎉 Posted @withregram • @nakinisowin ☁️ very excited to share the beautiful cover of the Canadian edition of my next book, a novel called A Minor Chorus about novels, love, community, and the coloniality of the present. The work is by the amazing @michellesound.art and is called Kinuso. It represents for me the confluence of grief and beauty that is northern Alberta ☁️ Out Sept 13, 2022! You can preorder at your fave indie or at the link in my bio! 💙so excited to have my artwork on the cover of @nakinisowin upcoming book! His writing is so amazing and I can't wait to get my hands on a copy!!🖤 "Kinuso" is part of an ongoing series called "Holding It Together" This is a photo taken in Kinuso, Alberta, Swan River Reserve, Treaty 8 territory and contains loss, grief, longing and memory. The image is ripped to show the colonial violence that my family, and other Indigenous families, have experienced including residential school intergenerational trauma, loss of language, and displacement from our territories. These losses can never be fully healed but we can process our histories and realities through art, culture and stories. beadwork, caribou tufting, embroidery thread on paper.

🖤🩵🖤 Super excited to be included on the Sobey Longlist ! Congrats to all the artists!🎉🎉🎉 📸 @sweetmoonphoto @natgallerycan

Check out "Fresh Faces" at @newzones in Calgary for another two weeks! Exhibition closes May 30💜💜 Michelle Sound is a Cree and Métis artist and mother whose work explores identity from a personal experience rooted in family, place and history. As a multidisciplinary artist, Sound works with traditional and contemporary materials and techniques to explore maternal labour, identity, cultural knowledge, and cultural inheritances. Sound has exhibited nationally and internationally, and her work can be found in prominent collections such as the Indigenous Art Centre (CIRNAC), Forge Project, NY, the McMichael Collection, and the National Gallery of Canada. We’re thrilled to introduce Michelle Sound as part of “FreshFaces” 1-Jasper National Park 2-NDN Aunties at the Mall 3-Ermineskin 4- Damn I'm Good

𝘚𝘸𝘢𝘯 𝘙𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳 and 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦 𝘕𝘰150 𝘌 are evocative mixed-media works by the Cree/Métis artist @michellesound.art , a member of Wapsewsipi Swan River First Nation in Northern Alberta. Sound marks photographic prints with interventions using traditional Indigenous techniques and materials—embroidery, beadwork, and fur embellishments—applied to mend gaps where the paper has been torn and cut. Through these gestures of repair and care, the works speak to both the colonial violence enacted on the natural world and the longstanding Indigenous stewardship, care, and protection of the land. On May 24, Sound joins Sky Glabush and Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka at the McMichael for a talk on 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘈𝘳𝘵. Together, they’ll explore how landscape, identity, and lived experience intersect in contemporary practice. 🎟️ Register for the event → link in bio! 🖼️ Plan your visit to see 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘩 𝘈𝘪𝘳, on view now 1/ Michelle Sound (b. 1977), 𝘚𝘸𝘢𝘯 𝘙𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳, 2023, embroidery thread, seed beads, mink-fur pompoms on inkjet print on paper, Purchased with the generous support of The Dr. Michael Braudo Fund of the McMichael Canadian Art Foundation, 2023.41.3 2/ Michelle Sound (b. 1977), 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦 𝘕𝘰150 𝘌, 2023, embroidery thread, seed beads, mink-fur pompoms on inkjet print on paper, Purchased with the generous support of The Dr. Michael Braudo Fund of the McMichael Canadian Art Foundation, 2023.41.1

𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 Cheyenne Rain LeGrande, Violet Johnson, Kali Spitzer, & Michelle Sound Guest Curated by Mel Granley @melgranley 💕 May 7 – May 30, 2026 at @ceremonial____art 💛 Capilano 5, 2025. embroidery thread, mink pom poms, seed beads, glass bugle beads, thread on monochrome print Ceremonial/Art is thrilled to announce our collaboration with the University of British Columbia’s Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory’s Curatorial Studies Program. Guest curated by Michif and white settler curator, Mel Granley, through materially varied photo-based practices, 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 presents varying modes of relations: between peoples, with community and culture, to land and waters, and the relationship to the self. Honouring Indigenous ways of knowing and being in relation, 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 considers how we are interlinked and the way in which our well-being is bound up with that of others. Presented with support from the Audain Endowment for Curatorial Studies through the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory in collaboration with the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at The University of British Columbia.

DAMN I’M GOOD, 2024 Elkhide, rabbit fur, artificial sinew and acrylic paint
60 x 76 in. On view now in the "Fresh Faces" exhibition at @newzones in Calgary 🎊🪩💜 Family is the predominant theme in Sounds work, as is connection to place. Much of the artist’s inspiration stems from her aunt, but there is also a focus on her birth mother, who passed away when Sound was 10. “Damn, I’m Good” a banner created with elkhide, rabbit fur, artificial sinew and acrylic paint directly references Sound’s mother. The text was inspired from a button her mother was wearing (though partially obscured) in a photo booth picture she has of the two of them together. “I think a lot of my work is about connecting with her in that way and also honouring her, because she had a lot of really hard choices to make,” Sound says. “She was a mom, she was a sister, she was loved and she definitely struggled, but in a lot of ways, she was a really strong woman and a survivor.” Of this particular artwork, Sound says “I just liked the sassiness of it and thought that kind of sassy attitude applied to so many Indigenous women.”

NDN Aunties at the Mall, 2026.🌟✨💝 dyed rabbit fur, denim and faux leopard fur, leather, wood frame and artificial sinew. Check out the aunties in the "Fresh Faces" exhibition opening tomorrow May 2 at @newzones 💜 NDN Aunties, is a homage to our Aunties, a community of caretakers. Our aunties are also our mothers, who take care of us, our 'cool' moms. More often than not, our aunties are our first style icons, the loud aunties with the big laugh, who take us to the mall. This drum series is a tribute to their classic auntie style.

"Gussied Up" exhibition extended until May 6 at @ceremonial____art 🎉💝 One more week to check out the show! Thanks so much to everyone who has taken the time to see it so far 💕💕 Gussied Up, 2026, Inkjet print, 17¾ x 25½ in. New framed prints available at @ceremonial____art 🤩🤩 Artwork featuring @mdwjewelry and @zoeanncardinalcire ✨🌟

MICHELLE SOUND Michelle Sound is a Cree and Métis artist and mother whose work explores identity from a personal experience rooted in family, place and history. As a multidisciplinary artist, Sound works with traditional and contemporary materials and techniques to explore maternal labour, identity, cultural knowledge, and cultural inheritances. Sound has exhibited nationally and internationally, and her work can be found in prominent collections such as the Indigenous Art Centre (CIRNAC), Forge Project, NY, the McMichael Collection, and the National Gallery of Canada. We’re thrilled to introduce Michelle Sound as part of “FreshFaces”, opening May 2nd. Learn more through our website and experience it in person May 2nd, 12-2pm.

East Van Fam, 2026, 17¾ x 25½ in. Edition 1 of 3, 2AP, Inkjet print New framed prints available at @ceremonial____art On view as part of my "Gussied Up " exhibition on until April 25 Artwork featuring @zoeanncardinalcire @mdwjewelry and @teethulwut ✨💫🌟

Incredibly honoured that the amazing @jessicastellaa agreed to write the exhibition text for my artwork 💕🤩 Please take the time to read her beautiful essay, I love that writers can talk about the artwork so much better than I ever could. Hiy Hiy Jess!!🧡💛 Link in bio for full article @capturephotofest Sunday Readings #2⁠ 📖 ⁠ 'I’ll Be Right Here, and Here, and Here: Movement and Time Travel in Michelle Sound’s Wherever You Are'⁠ ⁠ Text by Jessica Johns (@jessicastellaa )⁠ ⁠ The first thing I notice about Michelle Sound’s photograph 'Wherever You Are' (2026) is the subject’s hair. I’m looking at the back of Zoe Ann Cardinal Cire’s head. One braid, fully completed, falls down her back, longer even than the fringe that runs across the middle of the hide jacket she wears. Her shadow is cast on a dusty pink wall in the background. Most of Cardinal Cire’s shadow is amorphous, covered by her body, except for the clear shape of the ends of another section of hair that she holds out at an angle, her fingers working it into another braid. This piece of hair explodes into a tuft, which is then doubled in a shadow on the wall. It is an extension of herself. Her hair moves beyond what is held in her hand and attaches itself, if only briefly, to the building of the Pink Pearl restaurant on East Hastings. At the same time, since 'nehiyawak' hair holds memories and is one of many connections to our homelands, this photo shows something not pictured: Cardinal Cire’s home community in Treaty 6 territory, over a thousand kilometres away. The hair doubling, of subject and shadow, signals her ability to be in, at least, two different locations at once.⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Read more via the Sunday Readings link in bio⁠ ⁠ Image: Michelle Sound, 'Wherever You Are', 2026 (detail). Courtesy of the Artist and Ceremonial / Art. Installation photo: Dennis Ha (@dennisha.photo )