Charlene Vickers is an Anishnabe Ojibwa artist from Kenora, Ontario currently living and working in Vancouver, British Columbia. She graduated from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and received an MFA from Simon Fraser University. She is a Board of Directors at grunt gallery in Vancouver, BC. Her work, Sleeman Makazin, is in the permanent collections at the Museum of Anthropology at University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, BC. She creates political work and, in one work, has been inspired by "the plight of missing and murdered aboriginal women in British Columbia".