Eruoma Awashish holds a Bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary art from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi and is currently completing a Master's degree in art, research and creation. Her artistic approach aims to create spaces for dialogue and thus promote understanding of First Nations cultures. The decolonization of the Sacred is at the heart of her research. Through these symbols that intertwine and clash, her works evoke contrast and interbreeding, duality and balance, wounds and healing, life and passages to the other world, mourning and ritual. Eruoma Awashish is an interdisciplinary artist. She is interested in a variety of media including painting, installation, performance, video, screen printing, digital art and traditional dance.

She participated in the 4th edition of the Biennale d'art contemporain autochtone (BACA) in 2018 and presented an installation at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in the winter of 2017-2018, a project that had been developed as part of the "Déranger" laboratory in partnership with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and the Oboro Art Centre. She grew up in her home community of Opitciwan, resided in Wemotaci and now has a studio in Pekuakami (Lac-Saint-Jean) in the Innu community of Mashteuiatsh. Her work is imbued with spirituality, symbolism and syncretism. She appropriates and diverts symbols referring to the Catholic religion. This is a way for her to reappropriate her own spirituality and thus decolonize sacred symbols in contemporary First Nations culture.

"A culture that survives over the centuries is a culture that adapts and evolves. The First Nations culture is a strong culture, because it has never been completely absorbed by the dominant culture, and despite the attempts to assimilate it, our culture survives and evolves. It metamorphoses...

- Eruoma Awashish