Through printmaking, artist Jamie John examines the complexities and contradictions of Indigeneity in a time of late stage capitalism and growing global fascism. Drawing from Anishinaabe oral histories, global steadfast fights for decolonization, and understandings of belong to land, family, and non-human kin, Jamie weaves a tapestry of Native life in the 21st century.
Jamie John is a 2Spirit queer and trans Anishinaabe and Korean-American artist working primarily in printmaking, zines, and moving image. He is a dually enrolled citizen of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians and the United States of America. Jamie’s desire to create stems from a need to communicate their lived experience as a queer and trans mixed race Indigenous person living and resisting the logic capitalism and colonialism. His cultural and familial relationships offer a profound sense of kinship and what it means to connect to land, to ancestry, and to each other.
