Barry Ace
Barry Ace
1958 -
Barry Ace is a practicing visual artist and currently lives in Ottawa. He is a debendaagzijig (citizen) of M’Chigeeng First Nation, Odawa Mnis (Manitoulin Island), Ontario, Canada. Ace’s work embraces the impact of the digital age and how it exponentially transforms and infuses Anishinaabeg culture (and other global cultures) with new technologies and new ways of communicating. His work attempts to harness and bridge the precipice between historical and contemporary knowledge, art and power, while maintaining a distinct Anishinaabeg aesthetic connecting generations.

Ace has exhibited extensively, most recently in: Native Fashion Now: North American Native Style, Peabody Essex Museum (2016 – 2017: Salem, Massachusetts); Anishinaabeg Art and Power, Royal Ontario Museum (2017: Toronto, Ontario); Every. Now. Then. Reframing Nationhood, Art Gallery of Ontario (2017: Toronto, Ontario); 2017 Canadian Biennial, National Gallery of Canada (2017: Ottawa, Ontario); Àbadakone, National Gallery of Canada (2019: Ottawa, Ontario); Radical Stitch, MacKenzie Art Gallery (2022: Regina, Saskatchewan); wawindamaw—promise: Indigenous Art and Colonial Treaties in Canada, Nordamerika Native Museum (2022: Zurich, Switzerland); Art of Indigenous Fashion, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (2022: Santa Fe, New Mexico); and Persistence/Resistance: Taiwan—Canada Indigenous Art Exhibition, Tainan Art Museum (2022: Tainan, Taiwan).

Ace’s work can be found in numerous public and private collections in Canada and abroad, most notably: National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Ontario); Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Ontario); Canadian Museum of History (Gatineau, Quebec); Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto, Ontario); Ottawa Art Gallery (Ottawa, Ontario); Canada Council Art Bank (Ottawa, Ontario); Global Affairs Canada (Ottawa, Ontario); North American Native Museum (Zurich, Switzerland); Ojibwe Cultural Foundation (M’Chigeeng, Ontario); and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection (Kleinburg, Ontario).
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Bandolier for Water and Plant Life by Barry Ace sold for $35,000
Barry Ace
Bandolier for Water and Plant Life
52 x 14 1/2 x 7 in 132.1 x 36.8 x 17.8 cm
2019
mixed media
Estimate: $35,000 - $35,000 CDN
Sold for: $35,000 CDN (premium included)
Private Sale on Monday, January 25, 2021
Bandolier for Niimi'idiwin (Powwow) by Barry Ace sold for $28,000
Barry Ace
Bandolier for Niimi'idiwin (Powwow)
56 x 11 3/8 x 4 3/8 in 142.2 x 28.9 x 11.1 cm
2019
mixed media
Estimate: $28,000 - $28,000 CDN
Sold for: $28,000 CDN (premium included)
Private Sale on Friday, April 15, 2022
Fox Tail Moccasins by Barry Ace sold for $18,000
Barry Ace
Fox Tail Moccasins
5 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 43 in 14 x 19.1 x 109.2 cm
2016
mixed media
Estimate: $18,000 - $18,000 CDN
Sold for: $18,000 CDN (premium included)
Private Sale on Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Efface by Barry Ace sold for $15,000
Barry Ace
Efface
28 x 15 x 15 1/2 in 71.1 x 38.1 x 39.4 cm
2017
mixed media
Estimate: $15,000 - $15,000 CDN
Sold for: $15,000 CDN (premium included)
Private Sale on Friday, April 15, 2022
Nesting Bneswak (Thunderbirds) by Barry Ace sold for $7,500
Barry Ace
Nesting Bneswak (Thunderbirds)
16 x 5 1/4 x 5 in 40.6 x 13.3 x 12.7 cm
2022
oscilloscope electronic component, copper, bronze wire, circuit boards, acrylic, wood
Estimate: $7,500 - $7,500 CDN
Sold for: $7,500 CDN (premium included)
Private Sale on Thursday, November 10, 2022
Nesting Mgizwak (Eagles) by Barry Ace sold for $7,500
Barry Ace
Nesting Mgizwak (Eagles)
16 x 5 1/4 x 5 in 40.6 x 13.3 x 12.7 cm
2022
oscilloscope electronic component, copper, bronze wire, circuit boards, acrylic, wood
Estimate: $7,500 - $7,500 CDN
Sold for: $7,500 CDN (premium included)
Private Sale on Thursday, November 10, 2022
Study for Biiskawaagan for Maungwudaus by Barry Ace sold for $2,500
Barry Ace
Study for Biiskawaagan for Maungwudaus
7 1/2 x 13 in 19.1 x 33 cm
2020
handmade Lokta paper, calico fabric, capacitors, resistors, light-emitting diodes and glass beads
Estimate: $2,500 - $2,500 CDN
Sold for: $2,500 CDN (premium included)
Private Sale on Friday, September 30, 2022
Synthesis by Barry Ace sold for $2,500
Barry Ace
Synthesis
13 x 9 in 33 x 22.9 cm
2018
mixed media
Estimate: $2,500 - $2,500 CDN
Sold for: $2,500 CDN (premium included)
Private Sale on Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Memory Landscape II by Barry Ace sold for $2,400
Barry Ace
Memory Landscape II
12 7/8 x 31 7/8 in 33 x 81 cm
2018
digital print on archival canvas, glass beads, thread, metal hardware, wood, deer hide
Estimate: $2,400 - $2,400 CDN
Sold for: $2,400 CDN (premium included)
Private Sale on Tuesday, May 25, 2021