Background
The daughter of Susan Paul-Bear and Noel Bear Junior., she was born on the Negootgook reserve in New Brunswick, attended the Collège Maillet in Saint-Basile and went on to study photography and painting in New Hampshire.
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Virgin Bones
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Shirley Bear
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In 1968, she received a Ford Foundation fellowship. Her work has appeared in exhibitions at the Clement Cormier Gallery in Moncton, at the Restigouche Gallery in Campbellton, at the Université Saint-Louis in Edmundston and the Connexion Gallery in Fredericton, as well as in group exhibitions in Canada and the United States. Her work is included in the collections of the New Brunswick Art Bank, the National Indian Art Centre, the Canadian Museum of History and the University of Moncton, among others
In 1990, she was curator for a touring exhibition of art by native women, Changers: A Spiritual Renaissance.
She was the subject of a short National Film Board film Minqwon Minqwon by Catherine Martin which was produced in 1990.
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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.