Heritage Biography
Angela Wiggins is an Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) artist whose work explores identity, continuity, and presence through contemporary painting. Her practice is informed by Anishinaabe ways of knowing and by lived experience shaped across generations, holding space for both inherited knowledge and personal voice.
Angela is a bloodline granddaughter of Henry Rufus Trudeau and a great-granddaughter of Gabriel Trudeau and Victoria Pelltier of Wikwemikong First Nation on Manitoulin Island. Her family history includes the enduring impacts of residential schools and displacement, realities that inform her work without defining its limits.
Through layered colour, gesture, and symbolic form, Angela creates paintings that speak to resilience, remembrance, and self-determination. Figures, hands, animals, and energetic fields appear not as illustration, but as carriers of meaning and movement, reflecting Indigenous identity as living, evolving, and unapologetically present.
Her work is rooted in respect for the past while firmly situated in the present, offering viewers a space for recognition, reflection, and connection.
(The Ghost Warrior Society has authenticated me as bloodline granddaughter of Henry Rufus Trudeau and great granddaughter of Gabriel Trudeau and Victoria Peltier of Wikwemikong First Nation through my mother Mary L Trudeau)
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Angela Wiggins
Email: angelawigginsart@gmail.com
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Recognized by the Canada Council for the Arts as a Professional Indigenous Artist (2024)
PROFILE
Indigenous visual artist working in acrylic, graphite, and mixed media whose practice investigates Indigenous cultural continuity, intergenerational memory, and contemporary visibility through both symbolic, tradition-rooted imagery and contemporary abstraction across institutional and studio-based work.
Recognized by the Canada Council for the Arts as a Professional Indigenous Artist (2024).
SELECTED COMMISSIONS & LICENSING
CAP WinnDevon Art Group Ltd. – Three-year licensing agreement for Indigenous Collection, 2026–2029.
Hockey Canada – Commissioned to create 25 hand-painted Player of the Game award paddles for the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship, presented on-ice to players and dignitaries.
PUBLIC & INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS
Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, Government of Canada, Ottawa, ON – Two works acquired for permanent collection, 2026
Sagonaska Place, Belleville ON – Permanent collection of 13 original Indigenous artworks for 2024
PUBLIC & INSTITUTIONAL INSTALLATIONS
Ontario Power Generation, Chenaux Generating Station, ON – Commissioned large-scale ceiling mural, permanent installation.
Marine Museum, Milford ON – Commissioned large-scale Indigenous mural, permanent installation.
A Path Forward, Picton ON - Three commissioned large-scale Indigenous murals, permanent installations.
INSTITUTIONAL & GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
Legislative Assembly of Ontario – Dancing With Spirit, A La Carte Program, 2025
John M. Parrott Art Gallery – Solo Exhibition, 2025.
A Path Forward Picton – Solo Exhibition 2026
Quinte Arts Council – Solo Exhibition 2026.
These 4 Walls Gallery – Solo Exhibitions, 2022 - 2025
JURIED & SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
One of a Kind Show,- Toronto ON, 2025
Muskoka Festival of the Arts,-2025
Buckhorn Festival of the Arts,- 2025, 2026
Artfest Ontario, 2023 - 2026
Quinte Arts Council – International Women’s Day Juried Exhibition, 2023 - 2026
John M. Parrott Gallery -Juried Exhibition, 2024
Quinte Arts Council Biennial Juried Exhibition, 2023, 2025
GRANTS & AWARDS
Indigenous Voices Fund – 2025 – Prince Edward County Arts Council
Arts and Culture Grant – 2025 – City of Belleville
COMMUNITY & PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
John Howard Society – Volunteer art instructor for youth at risk, two-year term.
Fixed Fur Life – Community volunteer and independent fundraiser, two years.
Eastside Secondary School – Organized and led fundraising paint-night programs.
CULTURAL IDENTITY
Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), with ancestral roots in Wikwemikong First Nation, Manitoulin Island, Ontario.
EDUCATION
Diploma, Developmental Services Worker (DSW), Loyalist College, Ontario