Biography
Theo Jean Cuthand (b. 1978 Regina, SK) makes short experimental videos and films about sexuality, madness, Queer identity, love, and Indigeneity, which have screened in festivals and galleries internationally. He completed his BFA majoring in Film/Video at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2005, and his MA in Media Production at Ryerson University in 2015.
He has performed at Live At The End Of The Century in Vancouver, Performatorium in Regina, and 7a*11d in Toronto. He is a Whitney Biennial 2019 artist. He is Plains Cree/Scots, a member of Little Pine First Nation, and resides in Toronto, Canada.
Being Indigenous is always something I’ve cared about and has been at the forefront of my life, so [storytelling] became about how to talk about being Indigenous and queer at the same time...There are so many mainstream queer voices out there and I’m more interested in talking about where that intersects with race and identity...there are a lot of people that can talk about being queer but not a lot that can talk about being two-spirit.
—Theo Cuthand
