Chris Dufour (they/them) is an interdisciplinary social practice artist working across several territories on turtle island, including Kanien’kehá:ka, Cheslatta Territory, and Mi'gma'gi. Chris uses mediums of plants, gardening, textiles, quilting, installation, darkroom manipulation, leather tanning, and sculpture to process questions of how do we push against empire while cultivating resilient communities and cultures of care? What practices of living can we recuperate, develop, and employ within contemporary cultures of crisis? In exploring these questions, Chris values projects which seek to utilize material practices as a facilitator, to process connections and relationships to ecologies, modalities of care, alternative futures, and ruminations about world building.

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Of Irish and Quebecois heritage, Chris grew up outside of Kjipuktuk (so called Halifax, Nova Scotia) and has spent the last 8 years working and living across many territories on Turtle Island. After attending the Yukon School of Visual Arts, Chris took on a practice of grassroots learning that brought them to social practice, permaculture, soil ecology, and accessible community-based education. In recent years, they’ve been working with lichen mobile programming space, Oxygen Arts Centre, and L’imprimerie, centre d’artistes producing new work and conducting material research.

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