Alex Jacobs-Blum

Alex Jacobs-Blum

Alex Jacobs-Blum (Cayuga/German) is a visual artist and curator in Hamilton, ON. Alex’s deep passion for community, relationship building, uplifting youth and challenging settler colonialism is integral to her practice and methodology. She strives to empower change by pushing boundaries to disrupt institutional spaces. 

Alex received a Bachelor of Photography at Sheridan College in 2015, where she was awarded the Canon Award of Excellence for Narrative Photography for her thesis. Since then, Alex’s artistic work has been exhibited at the University of Ottawa, Centre[3] for Artistic + Social Practice, the Woodland Cultural Centre, and Critical Distance Centre for Curators. 

Alex is a Bawaadan Collective member and currently McMaster Museum of Art’s BIPOC Curatorial Mentee.

The land we are and have always been // tsih.sa:né:yohs (when you are healing)
The land and water give and sustain all life on Earth; collectively embodying knowledge intrinsically linked to our health and wellbeing. Colonization disrupted Indigenous connectivity to land and water and by (re)building our relationships we can ensure a sustainable future for the generations to come. Offering gratitude and centering love ground us within their powers in coming home to ourselves.