Nelson White
Home: St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador
Title: The Curator
Media: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 83 x 83 cm
Website: nelsonwhiteart.com
Instagram: @nelsonwhiteart
ARTIST STATEMENT
People are complex with many different, sometimes contradictory, qualities within a single personality. This painting tries to examine that idea. Suzanne Carte is the senior curator at the Art Gallery of Burlington. She has an MA in Contemporary Art History from Sotheby’s Art Institute and a BFA from the University of Windsor. Throughout her career, Carte has curated exhibitions in artist-run centres, commercial and public galleries. She is also a champion Muay Thai fighter, with many title belts to her credit. We are all more then what is seen on first glance.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Nelson White is an artist and member of the Flat Bay First Nation Band (No’kmaq Village) in Flat Bay, Newfoundland. Canada.
Nelson attended the Visual Arts program at the Bay St. George Community College in Stephenville, NL and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, NS.
Nelson exhibits throughout Canada and the US in both group and solo touring shows such as Tukien (Awaken) which toured five institutional galleries.
His work has been featured on CBC’s The National and in Visual Arts News. His paintings are collected across North America, including the Provincial Government art collections of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick , Canada Arts Council and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.
In 2021 White participated in the Fogo Island Arts International Residency and in 2022, a residency with Ocean Gate and Miawpukek Horizon that took him on an expedition to the Titanic wreck site. In 2026 he was the Artist-in-Residence at the Beaverbook Art Gallery in Fredericton, NB.
He was named ArtsNL Artist of the Year for 2020 and winner of the 2022 VANL-CARFAC Excellence in Visual Arts Milestone Award. In 2025, Nelson was longlisted for the Sobey Art Award, was a finalist for the Kingston Prize and was winner of the ArtsNL Artist Achievement Award. A collection of his work Mimajimk (Living/Vivre) was published in 2025.