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: Àbadakone, National Gallery of Canada (2019: Ottawa, Ontario); mazinigwaaso / to bead something, FOFA Gallery, Concordia University (2019: Montreal, Quebec); URL: IRL, Dunlop Art Gallery (2018: Regina, Saskatchewan); Àdisòkàmagan / Nous connaître un peu nous-mêmes / We’ll all become stories, Ottawa Art Gallery (2018: Ottawa, Ontario); Native Fashion Now: North American Native Style (2016 – 2017: Peabody Essex Museum, 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); 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, Québec); 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); and Ojibwe Cultural Foundation (M’Chigeeng, 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
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: $1,800 - $1,800 CDN
Sold for: $18,000 CDN (premium included)
Private Sale on Tuesday, February 22, 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