Terrance Houle  Terrance James Houle (born 1975) is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist of Blood and Saulteaux First Nation ancestry. His work ranges from subversive to humourous absurdity to solemn and poetic artistic expressions. His work often relates to the physical body as it investigates issues of history, colonization, Aboriginal identity and representation in popular culture, as well as conceptual ideas based on memory, home, and reserve communities. Houle works in whatever media strikes him, and has produced work in photography, painting, installation, mass marketing, performance, music, video, and film. Houle is based in Calgary, Alberta. Houle was born in 1975. He holds a 2003 BFA degree from the Alberta College of Art and Design. His father was an army sergeant in the Canadian Armed Forces, and the family moved around a lot. This constant relocation reinforced the importance of his Aboriginal identity and cultural backgrounds to Houle, which formed the basis of his art practice. He has been involved with Aboriginal communities all his life, traveling across North America to participate in Powwow dancing along with his native ceremonies. Since 2014, Houle has been working on an ongoing collaborative project titled GHOST DAYS. GHOST DAYS evokes colonial and non-colonial histories that exist in the light of night as in the darkness of the day, and awakens a collaboration with artists, audience, and spirit. So far it has involved a residency at Banff Centre for the Arts, performances, a blog, music tracks on Soundcloud and Bandcamp, and a feature length film hosted by Vimeo and represented by Vtape. The film was shot at IXL Brick Factory Medalta Clay Historical, Medicine Hat, Alberta. His work "Your Dreams Are Killing My Culture" (2009) was purchased for the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada in 2011. His work is also included in the permanent collections of the Glenbow Museum, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Houle was recognized as a semi-finalist for the Sobey Art Awards in 2008. He received the 2004 Enbridge Emerging Artist Award presented at the Mayors Luncheon for the Arts, City of Calgary, Alberta. He was awarded Best Experimental Film at the 2004 imagineNATIVE Film and Media Festival in Toronto, Ontario. He was also an invited participant in the Banff Centre for the Arts program "Communion and Other Conversations Artist in Residency Program" at Banff, Alberta, in 2003.