Glenn Gear is a filmmaker, animator and visual artist of mixed Inuit ancestry from Nunatsiavut (Hopedale, Labrador) now based in Montreal. Much of Glenn’s work explores alternative forms of storytelling through research-based creation in addition to personal, tactile, and sensorial knowledge rooted in his Inuit heritage. Primarily focused on animation and moving images, he also uses archives, photographs, drawings, traditional crafts, and objects in his practice. Glenn is passionate about low-budget and experimental animation techniques and shares these through mentoring opportunities that have become an integral part of his practice. His work delves into the relationships between people, animals, and land, rethinking the spaces in which history, hope and Inuit knowledge may thrive.

In 2020, Gear will undertake a year-long joint residency between Concordia University and the University of Winnipeg. During his residency, Gear will create and exhibit multiple works on campus, host a series of workshop with Fine Arts students, and participate in a panel discussion during First Voices Week. The culmination of Gear’s residency will be the creation of a large-scale work for the inaugural exhibition of the Inuit Art Centre, INUA, set to open in the late Fall of 2020 as well as a soundscape project from archival materials mined at the Concordia University Library as well as the Visual Collections Repository.