Biography

Dr. Susan Blight (Anishinaabe, Couchiching First Nation) is a place-based researcher and interdisciplinary artist working with public art, site-specific intervention, wearable art, film and social practice. Her solo and collaborative work engages questions of personal and cultural identity and its relationship to space. Susan is co-founder of Ogimaa Mikana, an artist collective working to reclaim the roads and landmarks of Anishinaabeg territory with Anishinaabemowin and has recently co-founded AKI|ACKEE with Yuseph Jackman, a collective focused on the convergence of art, fashion and social justice. She earned a PhD in Social Justice Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.

Susan is the former Chair in Indigenous Visual Culture at OCAD University and was an Associate Editor at The Capilano Review for the publication's Indigenous Places and Names series. Susan is currently Assistant Professor in Indigenous Arts in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance, and Design at York University. Most recently, Susan is the recipient of a Governor General’s Meritorious Service Award (Civil Division), one of the highest distinctions a civilian can receive, for her work with Ogimaa Mikana.