Blake McLeod wearing a cap, glasses and black necklace looking down to the right
Self portrait (2024) Blake McLeod

Blake McLeod

Blake McLeod is an interdisciplinary artist and storyteller of Nehiyaw + settler descent from Fort St. John, BC in Treaty 8 and has been living and working as a guest on Treaty 7 territory in Mohkinstsis/Calgary, AB since 2013. McLeod is the Creative Director and Founder of CINIC Studio, an arthouse providing service work to collaborators and community designing and producing apparel, zines, stickers, photos and video.

Through the means of writing, illustration, photography, filmmaking, silkscreen printmaking and music, they weave together narratives of identity, space/placemaking, and the ongoing search for belonging amidst polite-washing and historical erasure in the prairies.