Exhibitions
Belmore has produced installations and performances internationally since 1987, including Creation or Death, We Will Win, at the Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba (1991) and Vigil, at the Aboriginal Arts Festival, Vancouver B.C. (2003). She represented Canada at the Sydney Biennale, in Australia in 1998, in a group exhibition format. In 2004, Belmore received the VIVA Award from the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation and completed a residency with MAWA (Mentoring Artist's for Women's Art) in Winnipeg, Manitoba the same year.
Her exhibition The Named and the Unnamed was organized by the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia (curated by Scott Watson and Charlotte Townsend Gault). The Named and the Unnamed was also shown at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Confederation Centre, and the Kamloops Art Gallery. Vigil is a performance-based video installation.
She represented Canada at the 2005 Venice Biennale, where she exhibited the video-based installation Fountain. Belmore was the first Aboriginal woman to represent Canada at the Biennale.
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