seth cardinal dodginghorse is a Tsuut’ina, Amskapi Pikanii, and Saddle Lake Cree multidisciplinary artist, Prairie Chicken Dancer, musician, cultural researcher, model, and actor. They grew up eating dirt and exploring the forest on their family’s ancestral land on the Tsuut’ina nation Reserve. In 2014 their family was forcibly removed from their home and land for the construction of the Southwest Calgary Ring Road. This life changing event has been a driving force in their creative work and activism.
They are currently a part of the artist collective tīná gúyáńí (Deer Road) which also includes their mother, Glenna Cardinal. tīná gúyáńí was longlisted for the Sobey Art Award in 2022. They are currently recording and performing music as sadbirthdays. In the past they have performed in soft cure, The Basement Demons, and Quiet Groove.
Curriculum Vitae
Lives and works on No.145 Tsuut'ina Indian Reserve, Alberta, Canada.
Member of the artist collective tīná gúyáńí.
Western Education
2019 Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting Major), Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, Canada
Grants and Awards
2025 Hart House Farm Art Residency, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
Creation Residency and Grant, Grantham Foundation, Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham, QC, Canada
2024 Magnum Foundation Photography Expanded Heat Fellowship Program, New York City, NY, USA
Art for Social Change Public Art Residency, CADA, Calgary, AB, Canada
Original Peoples Investment Project Grant, Calgary Arts Development, AB, Canada
2023 Gallery TPW Artist Residency, Toronto, ON, Canada
Indigenous Regalia Making Grant, Calgary Arts Development, AB, Canada
Original Peoples Investment Project Grant, Calgary Arts Development, AB, Canada
2022 Visual Art Residency, Banff Performing Arts Center, AB, Canada
Original Peoples Investment Project Grant, Calgary Arts Development, AB, Canada
Sobey Art Award Long List, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
2021 APAN Artist Residency, The City of Calgary, AB, Canada
Original Peoples Investment Project Grant, Calgary Arts Development, AB, Canada
2020 Indigenous Artist in Residence, Calgary Central Public Library, AB, Canada
Individuals and Collectives Project Grant, Calgary Arts Development, AB, Canada
Original Peoples Investment Project Grant, Calgary Arts Development, AB, Canada
Slippery Study Award, Images Film Festival, Toronto, ON, Canada
2019 Visual Art Residency, Banff Performing Arts Center, AB, Canada
Isitsiipotaako Artist Residency, National Music Center, Calgary, AB, Canada
Original Peoples Investment Project Grant, Calgary Arts Development, AB, Canada
Indigenous Arts Individual Project Grant, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Canada
Artist Talks and Professional Experience
2025 Pirate Radio Workshop, Hart House, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
Artist Talk, Hart House, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
Bump Urban ART Conference, Contemporary Calgary, AB, Canada
Artist Talk, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, Canada
Printmaking Workshop, Alberta University of the Arts, Canada
Artist Panel, Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, Alberta, Canada
Artist Talk, Photographic Center Manuel Alvaro Bravo, Oaxaca, OAX, Mexico
Rattle Making Workshop, Montreal Arts Interculturels, QC, Canada
2024 Pirate Radio Workshop, Scrips College, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Artist Talk, Scrips College, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Artist Talk, L'Écart Rouyn-Noranda Biennale, QC, Canada
Artist Talk, Harthouse University of Toronto, ON, Canada
Indigenous Youth Pirate Radio Workshop, University of Manitoba School of Art Gallery, Canada
tīná gúyáńí Artist Talk, Dunlop Gallery, Regina, SK, Canada
Rattle Making workshop, Dunlop Gallery, Regina, SK, Canada
Indigenous Advisory Board, Calgary Arts Development, AB, Canada
2023 tīná gúyáńí Artist Talk, Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON, Canada
Artist Talk, Blue Quills University, Saddle Lake, AB, Canada
tīná gúyáńí Artist Talk, Stride Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada
2022 Artist Talk, National Access Arts Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada
Braided Voices Artist Talk, InPath, Montreal, QC, Canada
Artist Talk, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Canada
Equity Diversity Inclusion Accessibility Group, Calgary Arts Development, AB, Canada
Indigenous Advisory Board, Calgary Arts Development, AB, Canada
TRUCK Strategic Planning Consultation, Truck Contemporary Art, AB, Canada
2021 Equity Diversity Inclusion Accessibility Group, Calgary Arts Development, AB, Canada
Indigenous Advisory Board, Calgary Arts Development, AB, Canada
Artist Talk, The New Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada
Artist Talk, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Canada
Artist Talk, Articule, Montreal, QC, Canada
2020 Indigenous Pirate Radio Youth Workshop, Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, AB, Canada
Indigenous Advisory Board, Calgary Arts Development, AB, Canada
ART NOW Lecture Series, University of Calgary, AB, Canada
tīná gúyáńí Artist Talk, Calgary Central Public Library, AB, Canada
2019 Un-Tunneling Vision, Jin Me-Yoon Project Consultant/Performer, Calgary, AB, Canada
Nasagha Tsuut’ina Youth Art Workshop, Esker Foundation, Calgary, AB, Canada
Before the Ring Road Artist Talk, Fish Creek Public Library, Calgary, AB, Canada
Art after the TRC Panel Discussion, Nickle Galleries, Calgary, AB, Canada
tīná gúyáńí Artist Talk, Art Gallery of Guelph, ON, Canada
2018 M:ST 10th Biennial, Jin Me-Yoon Project Consultant, Calgary, AB, Canada
M:ST Programming Committee, Calgary, AB, Canada
M:ST 9th Biennial, Suzanne Kite and Nathan Young Project Researcher, Calgary, AB, Canada
2017 In Memoriam, Hired Performer, Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Exhibitions as tīná gúyáńí
2025 Ellipticals, Walter Philips Gallery, Banff, AB, Canada (group)
agency, Montreal Arts Interculturels, QC, Canada (solo)
2024 Creation Stories, BACA Biennale Art Mûr, Montreal, QC, Canada (group)
guwasidodi/old agency, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Canada (solo)
2023 her name, Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON, Canada (solo)
Truths That Remain, SBC Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada (group)
2022 No Respect, Stride Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada (solo)
Big Rock River, Okotoks Art Gallery, AB, Canada (group)
2021 New Agency, Articule, Montreal, QC, Canada (solo)
2020 for 210 chaguzagha tsi-tina, Calgary Central Public Library, AB, Canada (solo)
2019 tīná gúyáńí, The Art Gallery of Guelph, ON, Canada (solo)
Solo Exhibitions
2019 I am Home, Marion Nicoll Main Space, Calgary, AB, Canada
Weaselhead Road, Sled Island Art and Music festival, Calgary, AB, Canada
Lawrence Teeth, The Wall Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada
2018 Pointing the Finger #3, The Ivan Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada
Pointing the Finger #2, Sled Island Music and Arts Festival, Calgary, AB, Canada
Pointing the Finger #1, Marion Nicoll +15, Calgary, AB, Canada
the basement smelled like mold, The Water Cooler Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada
2017 I want to live in a castle, Marion Nicoll +15, Calgary, AB, Canada
Group Exhibitions
2025 nâpêhkâsowinowâk/ᓇᐯᐦᑲᓱᐃᐧᓄᐊᐧᐠ, The Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
I dreamt I was home again, The Chapter House, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2024 Making Treaty 7, ATB Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada
Creation Stories, BACA Biennale Art Mûr, Montreal, QC, Canada
2023 To Broadcast is to Scatter, University of Manitoba School of Art Gallery, MB, Canada
2022 Sparkle, Black Diamond, AB, Canada
2021 Calling Planet Earth!, Espace POP, Montreal, QC, Canada
2020 Someplace We Used to Go, Centre Clark, Montreal, QC, Canada
LAND BACK, Open Space, Victoria, BC, Canada
Water Event with Yoko Ono, Contemporary Calgary, AB, Canada
slippery study, Images Film Festival, Toronto, ON, Canada
2019 Of Surroundings, The Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
Performance Symposium: Tempaurality, M:ST 9th Biennial, Calgary, AB, Canada
Indigenous Art Exhibition, Calgary Public Library, AB, Canada
2017 Niche: The In-between, Niche House, Calgary, AB, Canada
2016 Symphony of Fire, Lucky’s Comics, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Lovely Cabin pop-up showcase, Lovely Cabin, Calgary, AB, Canada
Niche: Art Show, Niche, Calgary, AB, Canada
A Spaceship Is Just a Time Machine, Untitled Art Society, Calgary, AB, Canada
Selected Performances
2025 sadbirthdays - Dirt Song, Ziibiing University of Toronto, ON, Canada
sadbirthdays, Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film, Durham, ON, Canada
Itsooaki & seth cardinal dodginghorse, Truck Contemporary Art, Calgary, AB, Canada
seth cardinal dodginghorse - Dirt Song, Montreal Arts Interculturels, QC, Canada
seth cardinal dodginghorse - Dirt Song, The Chapter House, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2024 seth cardinal dodginghorse - Dirt Song, 7A*11D International Festival of Performance Art, Toronto, ON, Canada
seth cardinal dodginghorse - Dirt Song, L'Écart Rouyn-Noranda Biennale, QC, Canada
lawrence teeth, Next Fest, Edmonton, AB, Canada
seth cardinal dodginghorse - Dirt Song, Newworks, Calgary, AB, Canada
seth cardinal dodginghorse - Dirt Dance #3, University of Manitoba School of Art Gallery, Canada
2023 seth cardinal dodginghorse - sorry is as sorry does, ViVa! Art Action, Montreal, QC, Canada
2021 seth cardinal dodginghorse - POP Montreal Festival, QC, Canada
seth cardinal dodginghorse - Dirt Dance #2, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Canada
2019 soft cure, Sled Island, Calgary, AB, Canada
seth cardinal dodginghorse - Dirt Dance, The Art Gallery of Guelph, ON, Canada
seth cardinal dodginghorse - Dirt Dance, The Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
seth cardinal dodginghorse - Lawrence Teeth, The Wall Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada
seth cardinal dodginghorse - Dirt Dance, The Closet Gallery, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, AB, Canada
2018 seth cardinal dodginghorse M:ST 9th Biennial Symposium: Tempaurality, National Music Center of Canada, Calgary, AB
soft cure, Flip Fest, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
soft cure, Big Winter Classic, Calgary, AB, Canada
2017 Postcommodity - In Memoriam, Winspear Centre, Edmonton, AB, Canada
soft cure, For Goodness Cakes Fundraiser, Truck Contemporary Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada
soft cure, Femme wave, AB, Canada
soft cure, Valentina Drag Ball, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, Canada
Selected Discography/Recorded Projects
2025 seth cardinal dodginghorse - Moon Noonk Edouard Film Score, Commissioned by the National Film Board of Canada
2024 lawrence teeth - omahkokata, Commissioned by Habitat Sonore: A Kind of Harmony for the PHI Centre
lawrence teeth - Dirt Song, Commissioned by Newworks Calgary
lawrence teeth – machine wash cold/Consequences Film Score, Commissioned by Mackai Sharp
2023 lawrence teeth - her name Film Score, commissioned by Glenna Cardinal
2022 seth cardinal dodginghorse - Smoke and Mirrors Film Score, Commissioned by Johanna Householder & Judith Price
2020 lawrence teeth – soft cure (demos)
lawrence teeth - Nisguya Chu Film Score
2019 seth cardinal dodginghorse - Un-Tunneling Vision Film Score, Commissioned by Jin Me-Yoon Film
lawrence teeth - Voices on the Rise Film Score, Commissioned by Eli Hirtle & Telus
ISITSIIPOTAAKO – winter/spring (performer as seth cardinal dodginghorse), Commissioned by IRIM
2017 Postcommodity - In Memoriam (performer as seth cardinal dodginghorse), Commissioned by Ociciwan
2016 The Basement Demons – Pets
2015 soft cure – sad
The Basement Demons – Baby Teeth
Public Art
2021 Truth Before Reconciliation, Utility Box, Chinatown, Calgary, AB, Canada
Selected Film Credits
2025 KLEE, lead role “klee”, Directed by Gavin Baird
2024 Skylar’s Comet, lead role “Skylar”, Directed by Bruce Miller
2024 Secret History: Woman Warriors, lead role “Black Horse”, Directed by Julian Black Antelope
2018 Chasing Tears, Riff Raff, Directed by Chantelle Marie Anderson
2005 Cowboys Run, child at birthday party, Directed by Philip Spink
