Shelley Niro

*1954 / Canada

Works

Contacts for the work of Shelley Niro

Shelley Niro

shelleyniro.ca

Solo exhibitions

In Her Lifetime

Hales, New York (US)
24 Sep 2026 – 31 Oct 2026
500 Year Itch

Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (CA)
28 Sep 2024 – 17 Feb 2025
Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (CA)
21 Jun 2024 – 25 Aug 2024
silent, waiting, moving, LOUD

Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto (CA)
2 Mar 2024 – 20 Apr 2024
Film and Photography

Andrew Smith Gallery, Tucson (US)
19 Apr 2023 – 6 Sep 2023
Scotiabank Photography Award

Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival

The Image Centre, Toronto (CA)
28 Apr 2018 – 5 Aug 2018
Hiawatha's Belt and Other Visions

Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
11 Jul 2008 – 31 Aug 2008
This Land is Mime Land

Canadian Mus. of Cont. Photogr., Ottawa (CA)
7 May 2003 – 7 Sep 2003

Group

Looking the World in the Face

Indigenous and racialized artists to the visual culture of Canada

Canada House Gallery, London (GB)
14 Oct 2026 – 1 May 2027

with Cécilia Bracmort, Sunil Gupta, Pedro Isztin, Sanaz Mazinani, Meryl McMaster, Louise Noguchi, Arthur Renwick, Jeff Thomas
In Light and Shadow

A Photographic History from Indigenous America

Obscura Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
14 Aug 2026 – 26 Sep 2026

with Brian Adams, Martin Chambi, Russel Albert Daniels, Jeremy Dennis, Duwawisioma (Victor Masayesva Jr.), Citlali Fabian, Rosalie Favell, Tom Fields, Benjamin Haldane, Tom Jones Ho-chunk, Henry S. Kaiser Jr., Pat Kane …
Collective Visions

Celebrating 25 Years of Photography

AGO Art Gallery Ontario, Toronto (CA)
7 Nov 2025 – 10 May 2026

with Kelani Abass, Diane Arbus, Barbara Astman, Rebecca Belmore, Max Dean, Harold E. Edgerton, Robert Frank, Jaromir Funke, Gauri Gill, Hannah Hoech, Bert Hardy, Peter Hujar …
Canadian Photographs: 1950 – Present

Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto (CA)
1 Nov 2025 – 20 Dec 2025

with Phil Bergerson, Lynne Cohen, Scott Conarroe, Donigan Cumming, Lutz Dille, David Evans, Evergon, Robert Frank, Rex Frost, Charles Gagnon, Tom Gibson, Richard Harrington …
Ywahentetha

Centre VU Photo, Québec (CA)
2 May 2025 – 15 Jun 2025

with Rebecca Belmore, Dayna Danger, Katherine Takpannie
In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now

Photography by and of First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and Native American Photographers

The Minneapolis Institute, Minneapolis (US)
22 Oct 2023 – 14 Jan 2024

with Jeremy Dennis, Kalen Goodluck, Robert Kautuk, Lee H. Marmon, Wendy Red Star, Cara Romero, Sarah Sense, Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, Matika Wilbur
Speaking with Light

Contemporary Indigenous Photography

Denver Art Museum, Denver (US)
19 Feb 2023 – 21 May 2023

with Jeremy Dennis, Sky Hopinka, Zig Jackson, Wendy Red Star, Cara Romero, Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie
Speaking with Light

Contemporary Indigenous Photography

Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth (US)
30 Oct 2022 – 22 Jan 2023

with Jeremy Dennis, Sky Hopinka, Zig Jackson, Wendy Red Star, Cara Romero, Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie
The Scotiabank Photography Award 2010 – 2022

A retrospective of Canada’s Foremost Photography Prize

Canada House Gallery, London (GB)
12 Oct 2022 – 7 Jan 2023

with Deanna Bowen, Dana Claxton, Lynne Cohen, Moyra Davey, Stan Douglas, Angela Grauerholz, Suzy Lake, Arnaud Maggs, Mark Ruwedel, Stephen Waddell, Jin-me Yoon
Greater New York 2021

MoMA PS1, New York (US)
7 Oct 2021 – 28 Apr 2022

with Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Robin Graubard, Bettina Grossman, Avijit Halder, Steffani Jemison, Hiram Maristany, Servane Mary, Marilyn Nance, Kayode Ojo, Raha Raissnia, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
The Grand Opening 2021

Andrew Smith Gallery, Tucson (US)
18 Sep 2021 – 5 Dec 2021

with Ansel Adams, Ruth Bernhard, Paul Caponigro, Lee Friedlander, Flor Garduno, Laura Gilpin, Zig Jackson, Annie Leibovitz

Events

Images Festival 2025

Festival Images, Toronto (CA)
10 Apr 2025 – 14 Apr 2025

with Hoda Afshar, aka TAWLA, Rouzbeh Akhbari, Ayo Akingbade, Basma Al-Sharif, Kamal Aljafari, Razan AlSalah, Sharlene Bamboat, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, WANG Bing, Nour Bishouty, Arina Chernova …
The Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival 2018

CONTACT Festival, Toronto (CA)
1 May 2018 – 31 May 2018

with Matilda Aslizadeh, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca, Christina Battle, Erwin Blumenfeld, Dana Claxton, Barbara Cole, Max Dean, John Edmonds, Awol Erizku, Rainer Ganahl, Angela Grauerholz, Sunil Gupta …