Rosalie Favell is a celebrated artist whose 40-year career has earned national and international recognition. Working with photography, video, portraiture, and painting, she is a leading figure in Indigenous contemporary art and photography. Favell’s work is held in major institutions like the National Gallery of Canada, the Indigenous Art Centre, and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. She has received numerous prestigious accolades, such as the Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award, the Karsh Award, and an Honorary Doctorate from OCAD University. Based in Ottawa, she continues to challenge boundaries, affirming Red River Metis history, and fostering dialogue on belonging and representation.

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Rosalie Favell | Belonging (1982-2024)

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Curated by Ryan Rice, Rosalie Favell | Belonging (1982-2024) is the first retrospective of renowned Red River Metis artist Rosalie Favell, showcasing a powerful curated selection of her lens-based works from 1982 to 2024. This exhibition celebrates Favell’s groundbreaking photographic practice—from seminal series like Living Evidence and Plain(s) Warrior Artist to her expansive archive Facing the Camera—which invites us to bear witness and explore the complex themes of identity, empowerment, same-sex desire, community and the nuanced search for belonging through a lens that is both deeply personal and subtly subversive.

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Rosalie Favell | Facing the Camera: TSÍ TKARÒN:TO 

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Curated by Ryan Rice, Facing the Camera: TSÍ TKARÒN:TO is presented as a unique, large-scale, outdoor installation on the façade of Onsite Gallery, Rosalie Favell’s TSÍ TKARÒN:TO comprises a suite of photographs selected from the Ottawa-based Red River Metis artist’s renowned portrait series Facing the Camera, a monumental national and international visual archive documenting the broad diversity of Indigenous arts and cultural communities. This iteration features a curated selection of photographs taken over three open-invitation sessions, hosted by the university’s Indigenous Visual Culture program during Favell’s 2016 tenure as Nigig Artist in Residence at the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD U) in tsi Tkaròn:to.

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Facing the Camera: TSÍ TKARÒN:TO is presented in conjunction with Onsite Gallery’s touring exhibition Rosalie Favell | Belonging (1982–2024) and is a 2025 Core Program with the CONTACT Photography Festival.

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Onsite Gallery is generously supported by The Delaney Family.

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Onsite Gallery Production Team: Alessandra Camille V. Perreras, Chelsea Rodriguez, Jay Saltanatkhah, Lion (Ismail) Sher and Víctor Medina Vázquez. 

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Video production by Lion (Ismail) Sher.