The
Bonavista Biennale is a month-long public art exhibition that displays works at sites along the Bonavista Peninsula, NL, every other year. Launched in 2017, the Biennale includes numerous works by Newfoundland and Labrador artists, creating dialogue with work by artists from across provincial and national borders within a given theme. The 2025 edition’s theme is
String Games, and is curated by Dr. Heather Igloliorte, who is Canada Excellence Research Chair in Decolonial and Transformational Indigenous Art Practices at the University of Victoria and Inuit Art Foundation Board President. Also on Igloliorte’s curatorial team are Artistic Director of the Bonavista Biennale Rose Bouthillier and Special Exhibition Co-Curators: sewist and artisan
Vanessa Flowers; grasswork artist Ella Jacque; and painter, printmaker and curator
Jessica Winters.
String Games will feature works by several Inuit artists, including Sarah Baikie,
Andrea Flowers (1934–2019),
Maureen Gruben,
Michael Massie, CM, RCA, and Dr.
Nellie Winters, as well as works by artists from Hawai’i, Japan, Kalaallit Nunaat and Sápmi—the greatest presence of international artists in the Biennale’s history.