Cody Tolmie

Emerging Indigenous Studio Art Award Winner

In residency February 1st, 2024 to March 31st, 2024

Cody Tolmie, courtesy of Toonasa Photography

Cody Tolmie is an interdisciplinary Xwelmewx (Sq’éwlets) artist from their traditional territory of S’ólh téméxw, who currently lives on the unceded territories of of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Cody grew up off-reserve in Kekinow family housing in Ts'elxwéyeqw (Chilliwack), away from his family’s reservation of Sq’ewlets.  Cody’s practice investigates places of historical significance from their perspective and contemporaneous role within Xwelmewx history in S’ólh Téméxw, in the Fraser Valley.