Jordan Bennett

Bennett's artwork often references urban First Nations youth and culture. jilaqami’g no’shoe, created in 2009, is a skateboard carved into a snowshoe, referencing Indigenous skater culture and traditional practices.

Bennett's focus within his MFA looked at Mi’kmaq and Beothuk visual culture of Ktaqamkuk, which drew inspiration from the drawings of Shanawdithit, the last known living member of the Beothuk peoples.

After completing a tattoo apprenticeship with Nlaka'pamux artist Dion Kaszas, Bennet, Métis visual artist Amy Malbeuf and Kaszas co-founded an Indigenous tattoo collective and residency called Earthline Tattoo, which focuses on the resurgence of Indigenous cultural tattoo practices in Canada. In 2016, they conducted a training residency in which six Indigenous artists were invited to learn tattooing practices connected to Indigenous Traditions. The residency was supported, in part, by the Initiative for Indigenous Futures and hosted by the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, University of British Columbia Okanagan.

In another notable work, Turning Tables (2010), shown in the touring exhibition Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture, is a handcrafted mixing table made out of various woods. The record needle plays the sound of the tree's rights. In this work Bennett asserts the continuation of Traditional Knowledge in a digital era.

Bennett works predominantly with painting, silkscreening, sculpture, video, installation and sound. Since 2008, Bennett has shown his work both nationally and internationally in over 75 exhibitions, notably Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture , an exhibition co-curated by Kathleen Ritter and Tania Willard that toured nationally in Canada from 2012–2014.

Bennett earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at Grenfell Campus in Corner Brook, Newfoundland in 2008. He then went on to receive a Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) Degree at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in Kelowna, British Columbia in 2016. The focus of Bennett's MFA was to "re-imagin[e] the traditional art forms of the Beothuk and Mi’kmaq into a contemporary art discourse." Bennett was also a participant at the Earthline Tattoo Training Residency in 2016.

Jordan Bennett (born 1986) is a multi-disciplinary artist of Mi'kmaq descent from Stephenville Crossing, Newfoundland, also known as Ktaqamkuk. He is married to Métis visual artist Amy Malbeuf.