Terrance James Houle (born 1975) is an internationally recognized Canadian interdisciplinary artist and member of the Kainai Nation with ancestry as well in the Sandy Bay Reservation, Manitoba. His mother is Maxine Weasel Fat, Naatoyiipotaki (Sacred Soaring Bird Woman/ Soaring Flying Holy Woman) from the Kainai Nation and father Donald Vernon Houle from Sandy Bay Reservation in Manitoba. Both were third-generation Residential School attendees.
Terrance’s work ranges from subversive to the absurdly humorous to solemn and poetic artistic expressions. His work o en relates to the physical body as it investigates issues of history, colonization, Aboriginal identity and representation in popular culture, as well as conceptual ideas based on memory, home, and reserve communities. Houle works in whatever media strikes him, and has produced work in photography, painting, installation, mass marketing, performance, music, video, and lm. Houle is based in Calgary, Alberta.
