Roxanne Charles

Roxanne Charles of Semiahmoo First Nation is a cultural historian employing means of visual representation, oral history, and ceremony; methods which have been utilized by Semiahma People for thousands of years. Charles holds two undergraduate degrees from Kwantlen Polytechnic University and a Master of Fine Arts from Simon Fraser University. Her work directly responds to a troubling colonial present and documents issues that reflect her life experience such as spirituality, identity, urbanization, food security, resource extraction, trauma, and forms of systemic violence.