Background
His parents are Claude and Vivian Davidson and, through Claude, he is the grandson of the Haida artist and memoirist Florence Davidson.
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Robert Davidson
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Davidson’s Haida name is: Guud San Glans which means Eagle of The Dawn. He is a leading figure in the renaissance of Haida art and culture. Davidson is known internationally as a carver of totem poles and masks, printmaker, painter and jeweller.
He lives near Vancouver, working out of a studio on Semiahmoo First Nation land and making annual return visits to Haida Gwaii.
In infancy, he moved to the Haida village of Masset, British Columbia, on Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands). Foreign high school, he moved to Vancouver to attend Point Grey Secondary School in 1965.
In 1966 he became apprenticed to the master Haida carver Bill Reid. In 1967 he began studies at the Vancouver School of Artist
In 1969 he raised the first totem pole on Haida Gwaii in approximately ninety years.
A significant solo exhibition of his work, Robert Davidson: The Abstract Edge was organized by the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (University of British Columbia) for viewing at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa in 2007.
Achievements
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Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, University of Victoria, 1992 Honorary Doctor of Laws, Simon Fraser University, 1994 Order of British Columbia, 1995 National Aboriginal Achievement Award, 1995 Member of the Order of Canada, 1996 Honorary Doctor of Letters (Doctor of Letters ), University of British Columbia, 2007 Aboriginal Art Lifetime Achievement Awards, British Columbia Achievement Foundation, 2007 Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts, Canada Council, 2010 Member, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts If we look at the world in the form of a circle, let us look at what is on the inside of the circle as experience, culture and knowledge: Let us look at this as the past What is outside of the circle is yet to be experienced. But in order to expand the circle we must know what is inside the circle.
Membership
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts]
He is a member of the Eagle moiety, Ts"ał"lanas lineage.
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United States
Awards
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Member of the Order of Canada Order of Canada
The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.