About EVAN DUCHARME

Evan Ducharme is Metis from St. Ambroise, MB (Treaty 1). With both ancestral and contemporary Michif knowledge, their work examines Metis history and its cultural iconography with a subversion of colonial notions of gender, queerness, and relations to place.

Ducharme’s work has been featured in National Geographic, The Globe and Mail, Vanity Fair Italia, FASHION Magazine, ELLE Canada, and Vogue.com. Costume design work featured in “Skyborn” by Quelemia Sparrow (Savage Society 2020) & Tai Amy Grauman’s “You Used to Call Me Marie” (Savage Society, 2022 & 2024)

Ducharme’s work has been exhibited at The Winnipeg Art Gallery, The Seattle Art Museum, ARTS at King Street Station, “Love Yourself” at Ociciwan Contemporary Art Centre and The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute exhibition “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion”, marking the first representation of a contemporary Metis fashion designer in the Costume Institute’s history.

Ducharme currently lives and creates with gratitude on their home territories in Winnipeg, MB (Treaty 1).