Rosalie Favell
Facing the Camera: TSÍ TKARÒN:TO

Presented as a unique, large-scale, outdoor installation on the façade of Onsite Gallery, Rosalie Favell’s TSÍ TKARÒN:TO comprises a suite of photographs selected from the Ottawa-based Red River Metis artist’s renowned portrait series Facing the Camera, a monumental national and international visual archive documenting the broad diversity of Indigenous arts and cultural communities. This iteration features a curated selection of photographs taken over three open-invitation sessions, hosted by the university’s Indigenous Visual Culture program during Favell’s 2016 tenure as Nigig Artist in Residence at the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD U) in tsi Tkaròn:to.

Facing the Camera: TSÍ TKARÒN:TO is presented in conjunction with Onsite Gallery’s touring exhibition Rosalie Favell | Belonging (1982–2024) and is a 2025 Core Program with the CONTACT Photography Festival.

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Left: Rosalie Favell, Terri, Facing the Camera, NIGIG Residency Toronto, 2016, photograph, dimensions variable. Image courtesy of the artist. 
Right: Rosalie Favell, Tom, Facing the Camera, NIGIG Residency Toronto, 2016, photograph, dimensions variable. Image courtesy of the artist.}} 

https://contactphoto.com/festival/2025-highlights

https://rosaliefavell.com/portfolio/facing-the-camera-complete-series/

About:

Rosalie Favell is a distinguished Red River Metis artist who has achieved national and international acclaim, with a creative practice spanning over 40 years. Favell has used portraiture in photography, painting, and video to understand and represent her ancestry and identity in works that have been exhibited and collected nationally and internationally. Drawing inspiration from her family history and Red River Metis heritage, she uses a variety of sources, from family albums to popular culture, to present a complex self-portrait of her experiences as a contemporary Indigenous woman. Over the course of her career, she has received numerous grants, won prestigious awards, and was granted an Honorary Doctorate from OCAD University in 2022.

Onsite Gallery is generously supported by The Delaney Family.