“500 Year Itch” — Shelley Niro
C Magazine, Dec 30 Fall, 2024, v. Almanac, no. 158, pp. 80-81
C Magazine feature on the Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch exhibition. Showing 70 works throughout her artistic career, including several films, photo series and other multimedia pieces. Julian Jason Haladyn highlights two photo series, "Abnormally Aboriginal" (2014-2017) and Abnormally Aboriginal, Waitress (1987) as a way to focus on Niro's main thematic. Haladyn mainly discusses Shelly Niro's photographic series, while briefly mentioning her cinematic work.
ITEM 2024.037 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Time Travels Through Us – Shelley Niro
Abnormally Aboriginal – Shelley Niro
Abnormally Aboriginal, Waitress – Shelley Niro
This Land Is Mime Land – Shelley Niro
500 Year Itch – Shelley Niro
Mohawks in Beehives – Shelley Niro
The Iroquois is a Highly Developed Matriarchal Society – Shelley Niro
Standing on Guard for Thee – Shelley Niro
The Shirt – Shelley Niro
Ghosts, Girls, Grandmas – Shelley Niro
he Moon and Me and A Celestial Tree – Shelley Niro
In Her Lifetime – Shelley Niro
Passing Through – Shelley Niro
Pandemic Moon (Post-Industrial / Pre-Colonized) – Shelley Niro