Conferences

Conference and symposia presentations, peer-reviewed

2024                                           “Indigenous Curatorial Practices in Canada and the United States.” workshop Indigeneity in a (European) Museum Context. Wereldmuseum, Leiden Netherlands. January 8 to 11

2023                                            Visioning New Horizons 2-spirit/queer Art making and Curatorial Practices.  asinnajaq, Leuli Eshrahi, Kablusiak and Michelle McGeough. Post Image Symposium, Concordia University.

2023                                       Utopian Dystopias: Indigiqueer Futurity through the Len of                                                 T.J.Cuthand. NAASA Conference Halifax Nova Scotia, October                                                 11-14.

 2021                                          “Re-Thinking Sex: Revolution, Liberation, and Sovereignty.  Organization of American History. April 15-17, On-Line

 2021                                           “Go-won-go Mohawk: Queering the Wild West,” 

Universities Art Association of Canada.  Roundtable In Relation: Conversations on Indigenous Performance Art. October 22, On-Line. 

2021                                   “Colour My World: Norval Morrisseau and the Erotic” Native American Art Studies Association. November 04, On-Line

2019                                    “Erotic Affections: The Continuing Influence of Norval Morrisseau.” Native American Art Studies Association. Minneapolis, Minnesota October 2-6, 2019

2019                                     The Indigenous Sovereign Body: Gender, Sexuality and                                               Performance. Noted

Scholar Series Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice Institute, University of British Columbia.

Publications

2025                                          “Go-won-go Mohawk: Troubling Settler Colonial Constructions of Gender and Performativity.” In Looking Back and Looking Forward: American Indian Art Studies Today. Ed. Laura Smith and Kathleen Ash-Milby.  UNM Press~ forthcoming

2024                                           “Introduction.” Museum Queeries: Two-Spirit,                                              Indigiqueer, and LGBTTQ*

Interventions into Museums and Curation. Edited by Angela Failler, Michelle McGeough, and Heather Milne. Jagiellonian University Press. 2024

2024                                          “Finding the Unicorn: “Locating Queer Indigenous Lives in the Archive,” Museum Queeries: Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer, and LGBTTQ* Interventions into Museums and Curation.  ed. Angela Failer, Michelle McGeough and Angela Milne. Jagiellonian University Press. Forthcoming in 2024~peer reviewed.

2023                                   “Beyond Queer Survivance.” The Routledge Companion                                                             of Indigenous Art Histories in Canada and the United                                                                   States. New York: Routledge.  Peer reviewed

2008                                       “Norval Morrisseau and the Erotic.” Me Sexy: an                                       Exploration of Native Sex and Sexuality, edited by Drew                                         Hayden Taylor, Douglas & McIntyre, 2008, pp. 59–86.

Publications, non-peer-reviewed (print or electronic)

2023                                           Utopian Dystopias: Indigiqueer Futurity through the Len of T.J. Cuthand. Union Docs, New York, New York. print

2023                                           Marjorie Beaucage: Rainbow Warrior and Art-ivist. The Habour Collective. January 08, 2023. electronic

2023                                           Carol Geedes: Haat kanadaayí géide kei nañúý. The Harbour Collective. February 08, 2023. electronic

2023                                           Skawennatti biography for Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions.  Paris, France. electronic

2023                                           Dana Claxton biography for Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions. Paris, France. electronic

2022                                           “Indigenous Space Feminism: An Interview with Michelle S. A. McGeough Marie-Pier Boucher.” Espace Art Actuel. Vol 130 (Winter 2022), 72-77. print

2022                                           “Unearthing Secrets, Gathering Truths: Jules Koostachin’s Poetic Response to the Residential School Experience.” Apartment 7 Collective. electronic

2018                                 “A Review of Maker of Monsters: The Extraordinary Life of Beau Dick.” BC Studies: The British Columbia Quarterly, no.199 Fall 2018. University of British Columbia.

2012                               

                                        “Through Their Eyes: Indigenous Curatorial Practices.”  Wicazo                                          Sa Review.  University of Minnesota Press. Minneapolis. Vol.                                         27, No. 1, (Spring 2012), pp. 13-20.

Conference Presentations

October 12, 2024                Nation to Nation moderator with Ryan Rice, Skawennati and Cathy Mattes. FOFA Gallery, Concordia University.

October 05, 2024                Return to Indigena; Lee-Ann Martin, Michelle McGeough, Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow. Teraanga Commons, Rooms 270 / 272 / 274, Carleton University, October 5, 2024

January 25, 2024                Indigenous Curatorial Practice.  IFRC Annual Symposium 

January 27-29 2023         IFRC Inaugural Research Symposium Panels: January 27-29

Panel 4: Love and tattoos: Engaging Community Through Creative Practice. -Moderated 

Panel 5: Love Medicines and Healing Knowledges. -Presenter

May 2022                          Beading Kinship. Conversations with Katherine Boyer, Gregory Scofield and Audie Murray. Radical Stitch, McKenzie Art gallery.

April 24, 2022                    Concordia University Art History Symposium. Moderator, Keynote Discussion with daphane founders Skawennati and Hannah Claus  

February 01, 2022            Keywords Reading the Arts Across the Disciplines. Interdisciplinarity in Action~ roundtable on “care.” FFAR 250 

February 08, 2022             Thinking Through the Museum Research Cluster (SSHCR) "Approaches to Unsettling, Indigenizing, and Decolonizing the Archives.” Roundtable

March 07, 2021.                 Indigiqueering Oral Traditions: A conversation with TJ Cuthand and Michelle McGeough. March 07. University of Manitoba.  

January 13, 2021                 YIARA Coffee Dates with Yiara and CUJAH: Conversation with 

Dr. Michelle S.A. McGeough. January 13.                  

Boards and Memberships

2024 -present                                         Mobile Decolonial Do Tank

2022- present                                         daphne Indigenous Artist Run Centre- Montreal

2018-2023                                                Indigenous Curatorial Collective (ICCA) Board          member and Co-chair of the governance committee

2017-present                                           Tegan and Sara Foundation

2020- 2023                                              Shuskitew Collective funded initiative completed

ARTH 376 Indigenous Art Survey

ARTH 396:  Mexican Muralism and its Legacies

ARTH 613: Seminar on Indigenous Feminism(s)

PhD Supervision -

M.A. Supervision

MFA 
2018  Jay Pahre M.F.A. Studio UBC 

External Examiner

External Examiner

2023                                           And Now Our Minds are One: The Founders Exhibition

                                                      daphne Artist Run Center, Montreal. June21 – August 19

2021                                           Art in the Open Festival Charlottetown, PEI

                                                      Curated 2 Indigiqueer artists in festival

2015-2016                          Curatorial Fellow.

I.D.E.A. Center, Colorado College, Colorado Springs.

Curated an exhibition entitled Corollary Acts

Summer 2013                   Guest Curator

Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Aboriginal Art Centre, Hull, Quebec.

Beyond Recognition; Aboriginal Abstractions and They Gather Together In One Place

Summer 2010                      

Guest Curator

Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Rose B Simpson: Matterings.

2006-2009                        Assistant Curator,

The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian. Santa Fe, New Mexico.

 2024                                     Banff International Curatorial Residency: Art, Writing,                                                 Practice  ~Faculty Jack Halberstam, Tina Campt, Saidiya                                                 Hartman, Macarena Gomez- Barris.

                                                July 02 – 19, 2024

2020                                        Digital Residency SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art,                                                   Montreal, Quebec. 

      November 15 –28th.

2017                                          Banff Center for Creativity “Indigenous Art Journal.” May 28-June 24.