Dr. Glenn Gear

Biography

Glenn Gear is an Indigiqueer filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist of Inuit settler descent currently living in Montréal. Originally from Corner Brook, Newfoundland, he has deep family ties to Nunatsiavut. His artistic practice is grounded in a research-creation methodology shaped by Inuit Indigenous ways of knowing, utilizing a variety of traditional materials including animation, photo archives, painting, and beading. Glenn has worked with the National Film Board of Canada and has collaborated with other artists to create installations, online works, and live video/audio projections that explore the complex relationships between land, animals, history, and archives. His films have been screened at festivals across Canada and worldwide. A growing area of his artistic practice involves sharing animation knowledge and low-budget experimental techniques through mentoring opportunities, workshops, and collaborations with Indigenous youth and first-time filmmakers. Glenn served as an artist-in-residence for Inuit Futures in Arts Leadership from 2020 to 2021, a joint position held at Concordia University and the University of Winnipeg, and was a visiting artist-in-residence at Queen's University from November 2021 to September 2022. He has been recognized with a longlisting for the 2021 Sobey Art Award and the 2023 Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award.

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