LaTiesha Fazakas

After graduating with a B.A. in Art History from the University of British Columbia, Fazakas worked at a retail-oriented traditional Indigenous gallery in Vancouver for nearly 11 years before she founded Fazakas Gallery.^[1]

In 2013, she established Fazakas Gallery, an art space that focuses on Contemporary Indigenous art and takes a curatorial approach to exploring cross-cultural works.^[1] Fazakas Gallery has represented many contemporary Indigenous artist, such as Northwest coast artist Beau Dick, Rande Cook,^[2] and Don Yeomans,^[3] and Inuk artist Maureen Gruben.^[4] The gallery has exhibited artists at a range of North American art fairs, including Seattle Art Fair,^[5] NADA,^[6] Papier,^[7] Art Toronto,^[8] The Armory Show,^[9] and the Independent Art Fair.^[10]

In 2017, Fazakas was the curatorial coordinator for Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) artist, activist, and chief Beau Dick’s participation in Documenta 14 in Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany.^[11] The exhibition garnered international acclaim and launched contemporary Northwest Coast art to a global scale.^[11]

In 2019, as an independent curator, Fazakas co-curated the first New York solo exhibition of Beau Dick, Beau Dick: Devoured by Consumerism, with Matthew Higgs at White Columns, New York. The exhibition was also shown in at the Remai Modern, Saskatchewan, from June – September 2019.^[12]

Accompanying the exhibition of the same name, Fazakas authored the publication, Beau Dick: Devoured By Consumerism, a catalogue showcasing the life and work of Beau Dick that featured essay contributions from John Cussans and Candice Hopkins.^[13][14] The 96-page hardcover book is accompanied by colour photographs of Beau Dick’s masks, along with brief textual descriptions that provide insight into their cultural significance. The book is published by Figure 1 in collaboration with the Fazakas Gallery in Vancouver.^[15][16]