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Jeneen Frei Njootli has been working and living on unceded Tsleil-Waututh, Musqueam, and Skwxwu7mesh territories (Vancouver) for the last ten years. Jeneen Frei Njootli is a Vuntut Gwitchin artist who has performed and exhibited their work internationally, from galleries to rooftops, casinos, runways, and the bush. They work across numerous media and modes, including performance, sound, installation, fashion, and with community, and are a co-creator of the ReMatriate Collective. Frei Njootli has completed multiple residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, and has collaborated with James Luna, Dana Claxton, Olivia Whetung, Tsēmā Igharas, Krista Belle Stewart, Lindsay Lachance, Angela Code, Tania Willard, Gabrielle l’Hirondelle Hill, Chandra Melting Tallow, and her brother Stanley Grafton Njootli. Frei Njootli has been awarded the Contemporary Art Society Vancouver Artist Prize and the William and Meredith Saunderson Prize, and was a Sobey Art Prize finalist in 2018.