Hales is delighted to announce Portrait of a Living Room, a solo exhibition by Shelley Niro (Six Nations Reserve, Bay of Quinte Mohawk, Turtle Clan). Niro's first solo show at the gallery features a complete series of intimate portrait paintings from 1990-1991-exhibited for the first time in twenty years and debuting in the US. Niro's first major retrospective Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch is currently touring the US and Canada, most recently on view at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Niro is a multidisciplinary artist who, in a celebrated oeuvre spanning four decades, has developed an influential and visionary practice that foregrounds the representation of Indigenous Peoples, their history, and present-day experience. Her explorations draw upon the timeless cultural knowledge and generational histories of her Haudenosaunee community, Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of First Nations peoples in northeast America. Working across multiple media, including painting, photography, video,…