Shelley Niro was born in
Niagra Falls
,
New York
, and is a member of the Turtle Clan of the Mohawk. She grew up on the Six
Nations Reserve and is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art, where she
received an Honors Fine Arts degree in painting and sculpture. Storytelling
through film and installation art, Shelley creates roles for Native women that
give them a voice of strength and community. She has exhibited widely and her
work often addresses questions of identity and how it is constructed by the self
and others. She has recently completed an MFA at the
University
of
Western Ontario
and currently lives in
Brantford
,
Ontario
.