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 I started my art career painting social statement pieces from my
 experiences as a lay minister in Kwanlun Dunn Village on the outskirts of
 Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. The most important work from this period was
 the series I titled, "A Requiem for Our Children" which described
 existence within the Residential School system in Canada.  Other noted
 pieces were the ‘National Pastimes' series in the exhibition,  INDIGENA
 which commented on Canadian apathy toward the hardship and poverty of the
 Native community in Canada .
 Currently I have been revisiting many of the themes I have explored in
 the past and have added computer art to the many mediums I practice. Most
 recently  I have been interested in art history and comparing it to
 Aboriginal art history. I am often testing the European ego concerning
 art, particular prized pieces of art that are termed masterpieces or
 trend setting pieces as I did with The Classical Aboriginal Series. I am
 working further with this theme as I have found the juxtapositioning,
 superimposing, or the re-painting  of such works offer the audience an
 interesting perspective on art causing many to rethink and perhaps
 revalue art in general.

Affiliations

 1998- Member of Red Poets Society
 The Red Poets Society promotes poetry to aboriginal students of all ages
 with readings by
 Society members, Indigenous poets from other parts of the world and by
 organizing ‘Wordshops' for emerging poets.

 Society of Canadian Artists of Native Ancestry (SCANA)
  1995-96 Appointed to Past-Chair executive position
  1991-95 Elected Co-Chair of the National Executive
  1987-91 Board Member - Yukon Territory and B.C.

 ATLATL ( American First Nations Artist Organization)
  1992-94 Member of the Second Circle Advisory Board

 Society of Yukon Artists of Native Ancestry (SYANA)
  1988-89 Co-Founder and President

 Achievements

  1999 - 2001  Participating as a curator with the Art Gallery of Nova
 Scotia in the First Peoples Secretariat of the Canada Council for the
 Arts, Aboriginal Curator Residency Program.

  1998 - Present  Member of the Arts Infusion Committee, Nova Scotia Arts
 Council, a experimental program  to introduce new ways of learning
 focusing on the arts as a means of teaching.

  1997 - Selected as the Canadian Aboriginal representative by the Sydney
 Olympic Organizing Committee for the exhibition and artist camp,
 Offshore/On-Site, at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. The art camp is a
 collaborative work project between Aboriginal peoples from around the
 world and was designed to promote the addition of more culture into
 future Olympics.

  1993 - Appointed Advisor to the BC Cultural Ministry in setting up an
 Aboriginal Art Awards Program.

  1993 - Assisted Kamloops Art Gallery in development of an acquisitions
 policy regarding the collection of Aboriginal Art.

 Film/Video

 War Against the Indians, Film, Harry Rasky, Producer, CBC/NFB Toronto,
 1992

 Drums, Video, CBC Television, 1992

 A Requiem for Our Children, Focus North, 1991, CBC Yellowknife

 Sleeping Awake, Film/Video Marjorie Beaucage/Shirley Cheechoo, 1991 NFB.

 Selected Publications

 The Trickster Shift, Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art, Allan
 J. Ryan, UBC Press, University of Washington Press. 1999

 Thunder Bay Art Gallery: Permanent Collection, R. William Hill and
 Lee-Ann Martin, Thunder Bay Art Gallery Publication.

 Classical Aboriginal Series, Allan J. Ryan, Yukon Art Center catalogue,
 1994

 INDIGENA: Contemporary Native Perspectives, Gerald McMaster/Lee-Ann
 Martin, Douglas & McIntyre, Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1992

 Jim Logan the Painter Prophet, Canadian Lutheran Magazine, Dec. 1991

 Lower Than the Angels: The Weight of Jim Logan's Art, The Canadian
 Journal of Native Studies, Vol.10 No.1 1990, Brandon University

 Authorship
 Homeboys, exhibition cataloque featuring Alex Janvier and Alan Syliboy,
 Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, April 7, 2001

 Re-claiming History, exhibition brochure, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia,
 June 22, 2000

 Mirrored, exhibition brochure, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, February 18,
 2000

 Art As Fulcrum: De Facto Magazine, Brussels,  Belgium, October 1999

 Metis, A North American Hybrid. Indian Summer exhibition catalogue
 article, Royal Museum of Art and History, Brussels, Belgium, September,
 1999

 Cultural Awareness, A paper presented to Aboriginal Tourism Team Canada,
 Halifax, Nova Scotia, August, 1999

 Art Reviewer for Mi'kmaq Maliseet Nation News. October 1999 to 2002

  Selected Solo Exhibitions
 

  2003
    24 Songs
    Bearclaw Gallery, Edmonton , Alberta.
 

  1998
   love affair: the book of joan,
   Dalhousie Gallery, Dalhousie University, Halifax NS
   (Traveling exhibition including Moose Jaw Art Museum, Moose Jaw, Sask.
   Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory in 1997)

   Moments Between Heaven and Earth, Gallery Phillip, Toronto, Ontario

   Re-Representing
   McMichael Collection of Canadian Art, Kleinburg, Ontario

  1995
   Images in Collage
   K'san National Exhibition Center, K'san BC

   Recent Works of Jim Logan
   Yukon Gallery, Whitehorse, Yukon Territtory

  1994
   Classical Aboriginal Series
   Yukon Arts Center, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory
   Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
   Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC

  1990
   A Requiem for Our Children
   Rosemont Gallery, Regina Sask.
   Various University Galleries including Lakehead University, Thunder
   Bay, Ontario, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, University of Calgary,
   Calgary Alberta, Guelph University, Windsor Ontario.

  1987
  The Weight, Territorial Gallery, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory

  1986
  Yukon Pavilion Featured Artist, EXPO 86, Vancouver BC

  1985
 Tuchone Images, Town Square Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
 
 
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