Selected Exhibitions

Date

Solo Exhibitions

Location

1993

Dempsey Bob: Myth Maker and Transformer

Vancouver Centennial Museum  Vancouver, British Columbia

1989

Dempsey Bob: Tahltan-Tlingit --Carver of the Wolf Clan

The Grace Gallery                     Vancouver, British Columbia

Group Exhibitions

2001

asta’bsHil3b axW (The Return to the Swing): A Gathering of Indigenous Visual Artists

Evergreen State College Olympia, Washington

2001

Long Time: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Vancouver Art Gallery Vancouver, British Columbia

1998

Native Visions: Evolution in Northwest Coast Art from the Eighteenth Century through the Twentieth Century

Seattle Art Museum          Seattle, Washington

1998

Masks at Canada House

Canada House                London, England

1996

Topographies

Vancouver Art Gallery Vancouver, British Columbia

1992

Land Spirit Power: First Nations Artists at the National Gallery of Canada

National Gallery of Canada Ottawa, Ontario

1988

The Lost and Found Traditions; Native American art 1965-1985  (touring exhibit)

The Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art,      The Smithsonian Institute

1987

Eloquent Objects

The Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa, Oklahoma

1982

Northern Comforts

Potlatch Art Gallery    Vancouver, British Columbia

1981

Arts of the Salmon People

Museum of Northern B.C.  Prince Rupert, British Columbia

1980

The Legacy: Continuing Traditions of Northwest Coast Indian Art

Edinburgh, Scotland (organized by the Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, B.C.)

Selected Publications with Dempsey’s Work

Hice, Michael.  2000.  Artists of Change.  Native Peoples  XIII 2: 54-59.

Arnold, Grant, Monika Kin Gagnon and Doreen Jenson.  1996.                         topographies.  Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre/Vancouver Art Gallery.

1993 (spring).  Whose Nation.  Canadian Art 10 #1: 34-43.

1993 (January/February).  Making Space.  The Canadian Forum LXXl 816: 18-22.

Nemiroff, Diana, Robert Houle and Charlotte Townsend-Gault. 1992.  Land Spirit Power: First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada.                                 Ottawa: The National Gallery of Canada.

Mooney, Grace (ed).  1989. Dempsey Bob: Tahltan-Tlingit – Carver of the Wolf Clan.  Vancouver: The Grace Gallery Ltd.

Coe, Ralph T. (ed.).  1986. Lost and Found Traditions: Native American Art, 1965-1985.  Seattle: University of Washington Press.

McNair, Peter, Alan Hoover and Kevin Neary.  1980.  The Legacy: Continuing Traditions of Canadian Northwest Coast Indian Art.                                        Victoria, British Columbia: Province Museum of British Columbia Press.

Steltzer, Uli.  1976.  Indian Artists at Work. Vancouver: J.J. Douglas Ltd.

Selected Films with Dempsey

1998

In the Hands of the Raven.  Markham, Ontario: Seaton Productions.

1995

The Smart One: Dempsey Bob – Master Tahltan-Tlingit Carver – his insight, his influence. Markham, Ontario: Seaton Productions.