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Grounded in Indigenous knowledge and contemporary dialogues, Sheri Osden Nault utilizes relationality for artistic explorations of culture, identity, and environment. Nault’s practice engages with the overlooked and unseen, drawing out connections and knowledge from the world around them. Through careful consideration of environmental impacts, Nault aims for a sustainable practice that is attuned to localized concerns. Moving beyond concept and theory, their practice is active in its politics; existing within their communities, responsive and aware of its context. Nault’s work encourages us to think beyond the individual, recognizing ourselves in relation to each other, our environments, and our histories, moving toward a shared, equitable future.
 
Sheri Osden Nault is a Two-Spirit Métis artist, community worker, and Assistant Professor in Studio Arts at the University of Western Ontario. Their work spans mediums including sculpture, video, and more; integrating land-responsive, social, and cultural creative processes. They explore embodied connections between human and non-human beings, and relational responsibilities as artistic frameworks, prioritizing learning from more-than-human kin. Their research engages decolonizing methodologies, queer theory, ecological theory, and intersectional and Indigenous feminisms. They are a tattooer, researcher, and organizer within the Indigenous tattoo revival movement in so-called Canada and they run the community project, Gifts for Two-Spirit Youth.
Nault currently lives and works between London, Ontario – on the traditional territories of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lunaapéwak, and Chonnonton Nations – and Mohkinstsis, or “Calgary” – on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy, the Tsuut’ina, and the Stoney Nakoda, signatories of Treaty 7. They are Métis of the Charette, Bélanger, and Nault families.