“Fleeing toward Gahoendoe … 1649.”
oil and pencil on canvas
2014-2025

Catherine Tammaro is a Toronto-based artist whose work explores memory, Ancestral continuity, land, language, and Indigenous presence across the Great Lakes region, with a particular focus on documented connections between the Tammaro family and the historic Anderdon Reserve and Wyandot(t-te)/Wendat communities in Canada
and the United States.

Through archival research, oral histories, community relationships, membership, and genealogical affirmation her practise engages Wyandot(t-te) cultural histories and intergenerational knowledge.

Working across disciplines, Tammaro bridges contemporary art, historical recovery and cultural remembrance, often bringing attention to overlooked narratives of Indigenous endurance, resistance, kinship, Motherwork and identity.

Her work explores the concept of the “Ancestral Present,” reconnecting spiritual
and creative energies with the Homeland, while supporting fellow artists and continuing her own lifelong process of teaching, learning and creative exploration.

Taǫmęˀšreˀ
date:žátǫ ⁿgyaˀwiš hatiyerunǫˀ
People of the Little Turtle
Peuple du de la petite tortue, gardiens des cieux,
porteurs du feu
Yanǫhšetsih Yaⁿdawaʔyeh
waⁿdat  ~  tǫrǫtǫʔ