Alexis Nanibush-Pamajewong offers film photographs, journal entries, short films and souvenirs of love in honour of her late Grandmother, Sandra Pamajewong. Babygirl acknowledges grief in motion and the search for healing as an Anishinaabekwe with a broken heart—one no longer comforted by her grandmother’s presence.
A grief awakened while travelling in their camper van for several months across Turtle Island in the summer of 2025, led Nanibush-Pamajewong to wonder: What does it mean to lay one’s pain upon land that is not one’s own? To let sorrow settle where her feet have only just walked? The land becomes a witness—it absorbs, accepts and holds what the heart cannot—my love and memory of her is carried, honoured and released.
Alexis Nanibush-Pamajewong (she/they) is a 2S Anishinaabe emerging artist and curator from Shawanaga First Nation. Nanibush-Pamajewong completed their BFA (Honours) in Tsi’ Tkaronto in OCADU's Indigenous Visual Culture program (2024 Medal Winner recipient). Nanibush-Pamajewong also attended the Beal Art Program. Nanibush-Pamajewong works in performance, installation, photography, video, and birch bark biting, focusing on Anishinaabe knowledge, love, and the land.
Nanibush-Pamajewong was recently selected by Maria Hupfield for the 2026 Emerging Indigenous Artist Laureate for the Ontario Arts Council. Their presence in Toronto includes: FOR THE YOUTH at Toronto’s Nuit Blanche 2025, Artist Project in C Magazine’s Issue 158: Almanac (2024), Ascension of Abundance, Xpace Cultural Centre, Nigig Diving the Depths: 10 Years of Indigenous Visual Culture at OCAD U, Ignite Gallery, KPMG x MASSIVart, Bizindamowin’ (to learn from listening). Nanibush-Pamajewong works at Evergreen Brick Works as the Coordinator of Indigenous Public Arts Programming.
