Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow

Lecturer, Department of History, Carleton University

Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow (she/her) is Anishinaabe and Kanien’kehá:ka, and a member of Whitefish River First Nation, with maternal roots in Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Territory. Born and raised in Ottawa, she is a faculty member at Carleton University, cross-appointed with Curatorial Studies and the Department of History. From 2018 to 2024, she served as Associate Curator of Historical Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada. Her work spans Indigenous art and historical belongings in museums and galleries internationally, as well as collaborative creative and curatorial projects with contemporary Indigenous artists. Her select projects include, Histórias indígenas [Indigenous Histories] organized by Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand in collaboration with the Kode-Bergen Art Museum; Always Vessels at the Carleton University Art Gallery; Temporal Re-Imaginings at Âjagemô for Canada Council for the Arts. During her tenure at the National Gallery of Canada, she also worked on Movement: Expressive Bodies in Art, as well as numerous installations in the permanent collection galleries, and several contemporary Indigenous artist commissions. She is a member of Wolf Babe, an Indigenous artist and curatorial collective, currently co-curating, co-conspiring, and co-creating work for the upcoming Luleåbiennalen 2027 in Sápmi, northern Sweden.