FILMOGRAPHY 

Monster Girl (Work In Progress) 

7min/ 4K/WIP

Dollparts II

6min/Super 8mm/2022

Hunger 

10 min/4K/2021

#ThisCouldBeUsButYouSettlin’ 

Site specific video installation/2015

FYI 

Site specific video installation/2014

Ceremony 

Video-based installation /2013

This Video Essay Was Not Built on an Ancient Indian Burial Ground 

13min/HD /2013

Are You There God? It’s Me, Your Vagina Dentata 

Video-based installation/2013

Doll Parts 

Video-based installation/2013

Target Girls 

8min/HD/2012  

 Little girl/ugly girl/not bad/ just evil girl 

Video-based installation/2011 

Dear Diary 

3min/Super 8mm /2009

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before 

5min/35mm/2009

Saviour Complex 

6min/16mm/2008  

1,2,3 Knockup 

7min/DV/2006 

Lessons in Conquest 

10min/DV/2004 

 Swallow 

11min/DV/2002 

Deconstructing Crack Ho (a memoir) 

7min/DV/2001  

SELECTED SOLO GALLERY/FESTIVAL SCREENINGS AND EXHIBITIONS: 

2016 Arboretum Festival, Ottawa Ontario 

Curated by Lesley Marshall 

2014 Plug In Institution for Contemporary Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba 

2014 Group Intervention Vidéo, Montreal, Quebec 

Curated By Anne Golden 

2013 Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival, Halifax, Nova Scotia 

Curated by Mireille Bourgeois 

2012 Access Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. 

Curated by Deirdre Logue and Allyson Mitchell 

2012 Asinabka Film and Media Arts Festival, Ottawa, Ontario 

Curated by Daina Warren 

SELECTED GALLERY/FESTIVAL SCREENINGS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 

2022 Capture 8, VUCAVU/IFCO, Online

2019 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, Toronto, Ontario 

2017 It’s Complicated , Art Garage, Canada Scene , Ottawa Ontario

2014 Surveillapocalypse, FiveMyles Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC 

2013 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, Toronto, Ontario 

2013 Urban Shaman Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba 

Curated by Daina Warren 

2013 Blink Gallery, Ottawa Ontario 

Curated by 007 Collective 

2013 Galerie SAW Gallery, Ottawa Ontario 

Curated by 007 Collective. ARIEL SMITH MS.ARIELSMITH@GMAIL.COM WWW.ARIELSMITH.COM 

2013 Gladstone Hotel, Toronto Ontario 

Curated by 007 Collective.

2012 ImagineNative, Toronto, Ontario 

2011 In an Expression of the Inexpressible, WARC Gallery, Images Festival, Toronto, Ontario 

Dawson City International Short Film Festival, Dawson City, Yukon 

Out On Screen, Vancouver B.C. 

I Heart Video Art 3, CAFKA, Kitchener, Ontario 

2010 Images Festival, Toronto, Ontario 

Boston GLBT Film Festival, Boston, Massachusetts

Out On Screen, Vancouver B.C. 

2009 Acting Up, Acting Out, Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton, New Brunswick 

Curated by Steve Loft 

Hochelaga Revisited, MAI Gallery, Montreal, Quebec 

Curated by Ryan Rice 

2008 Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival, Winnipeg, Manitoba 

Mix NYC, New York, New York 

2007 (post) Colonial Stress Disorder: imaging a way out, WARC Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 

Curated by Wanda Nanibush 

2006 Video Store, PAVED Arts, Saskatoon,Saskatchewan 

Red Eye: First Nations Short Film and Video, Carlton University Art Gallery, 

Ottawa, Ontario 

Curated by Ryan Rice 

2005 Inside Out, Toronto, Ontario 

2004 ImagineNative, Toronto, Ontario 

2003 The Living Room and The Toilet: Deconstructing Reality by Decontextualizing Daily lifeSpaces, Cold Creation Gallery, Barcelona, Spain ARIEL SMITH 

Media City, Windsor, Ontario 

2001 Queer City Cinema, Regina, Saskatchewan 

PUBLISHED WRITING 

Ariel Smith,“Indigenous Cinema and the Horrific Reality of Colonial Violence 

Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society Journal, February, 2015 

Ariel Smith,“What I Do Know: The Colonial Evisceration of Cindy Gladue” 

Tits & Sass, 2015 

Ariel Smith,“This Essay Was Not Built On An Ancient Indian Burial Ground”, Offscreen, Volume 18, Issue 8 / August 2014 

Ariel Smith,“Trespassed Lands, Transgressed Bodies:Rape Revenge Genre Within Indigenous Cinema” Bitch Flicks, 2014 Ariel Smith,“Monster Girl Takes a Lover”, Kimiwan, Issue #6/Samikēwin/Sikwan, 2014 

Ariel Smith,“Welcome To Kanata: We Are Not Your Tigerlily”, Ottawa International Animation Festival, 2014 

Ariel Smith,“Of Flesh and Bone:Pushing Back Against Indian as Artifact”, Ottawa Art Gallery 

SELECTED CRITICAL REVIEWS 

2013 Anastasia Chipelski,“Growling Beasts and Satin Sheets”, The Manitoban, Sept. 2013 

2012 John G. Hampton, “Unsettling Sex”, Vtape, 2012 

2009 Andre Seleanu, “L’art actuel des premieres nations: L’esthetisme d’un discours critique”, Vie Des Arts, Autumn 2009 

2009 Jason Rehel, “A Slice of Pie, a hunk of cake, and a week of experimental film”, National Post, April 3rd, 2009 

2008 T.S. Warren, “Celluloid Celebration, Ottawa Xpress, Feb 2008 

2006 Deirdre Swain, “Lightningchild’s Disturbing Trio”,NOW Magazine, June 2006 ARIEL SMITH MS.ARIELSMITH@GMAIL.COM WWW.ARIELSMITH.COM 

SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS 

2022 Canada Council for the Arts Production Grant (Mid Career) 

2019 Toronto Arts Council Production Grant (Mid Career) 

2012 K.M. Hunter Artist Award (Nominee), Ontario Art’s Foundation 

2011 Ontario Arts Council Production Grant (Mid Career) 

2009 Canada Council for the Arts Production Grant (Mid Career) 

2008 Best Experimental (Nominee), Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival 

2006 City of Ottawa Production Grant 

2006 Ontario Arts Council Production Grant (Emerging) 

2006 Ontario Arts Council Access and Career Development Grant 

2004 Cynthia Licker-Sage Award for Emerging Talent, imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival 

2003 Jury Third Prize , Media City Festival of Experimental Film and Video 

RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE 

Current Native Women In The Arts 

Artistic and Managing Director 

Ongoing: REEL CANADA

Indigenous Film Programme Manager

2019 Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre 

Co-Curator of Re-Joyce: Wieland for the New Millennium 

2017-2019 National Gallery of Canada Invited Curator for Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu continuel 

2016-2018 imagineNATIVE Film+Media Arts Festival 

Executive Director 

2014-2016 imagineNATIVE Film+Media Arts Festival 

Film Programmer

2014 Ottawa International Animation Festival 

Curator of Welcome to Kanata Programme. 

2013-2016 National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition 

National Director 

2006-2014 SAW Video Media Arts Centre 

Technical Director

2010-2013 Media Arts Network Ontario (IMAA) 

Board Member 

2008-2015 Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA) 

Board Member 

ARIELSMITH 

Filmmaker/Media Artist/Writer/Cultural Worker