Christi Belcourt was born in 1966 in Scarborough, Ontario, with her family roots connected to Manitou Saskhigan (Lac Ste. Anne) Alberta. She moved with her family to Ottawa, Ontario, in 1970 when her father was elected the founding president of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples. Belcourt is a Metis artist who has created commissioned works for the Gabriel Dumont Institute (Saskatoon), the Nature Conservancy of Canada, and the Canadian Museum of Nature (Ottawa), and her work can be found in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art and the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Guelph University, Gabriel Dumont Institute, and York University, among others. She has had solo exhibitions at Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Red Shift Gallery (Saskatoon), ArtSpace Gallery (Peterborough).