Biography

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Terrance Houle (Blood) is an interdisciplinary media artist whose work ranges from painting to drawing, video/film, mixed media, performance, and installation. He is also a powwow dancer. He works as a youth mentor teaching video production and art at Metis Calgary Family Services in Calgary, Alberta. Houle is the recipient of the Enbridge Emerging Artist Award given during the Mayor's Luncheon of the City of Calgary in 2006. He performed in the improv series "Diplomatic Immunities" during the 2006 Enbridge play Rites Festival of New Canadian Plays in Calgary, Alberta.

In 2004, his short The Wagon Burner won the Best Experimental Film Award at the imagine NATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto, Ontario. Houle was a resident at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 2003, producing work about colonization and communion with thirty-three other indigenous artists from Australia, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, and the United States. He received a BFA in Fibre from Alberta College of Art & Design in Calgary.