kent monkman

Kent Monkman is a Canadian artist of Cree ancestry who is well known for his provocative reinterpretations of romantic North American landscapes. Themes of colonization, sexuality, loss, and resilience - the complexities of historic and contemporary Indigenous experience - are explored in a variety of mediums, including painting, film/video, performance, and installation. Monkman’s glamorous gender fluid alter-ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle appears in much of his work as a time travelling, shape shifting and supernatural being, who reverses the colonial gaze, upending received notions of history and Indigenous people. Monkman has been awarded the Egale Leadership Award (2012), the Indspire Award (2014), the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award (2014), the Bonham Centre Award (2017), an honorary doctorate degree from OCAD University (2017) and the Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts (2017).

His work has been exhibited internationally and is widely represented in the collections of major Museums in Canada and the USA.

Press

TORONTO STAR: KENT MONKMAN BRINGS OUT THE DEVIL IN THE DETAILS, AUGUST 2018

GLOBE AND MAIL: KENT MONKMAN EXHIBITION ON DISPLAY IN TORONTO, JULY 2018

TORONTO STAR: KENT MONKMAN, THIS WEEK IN TORONTO, JULY 2018

NOW MAGAZINE: KENT MONKMAN SOLO SHOW TO OPEN IN TORONTO THIS AUGUST, JULY 2018

GLOBE AND MAIL: THE MODERN TOUCH OF AN OLD MASTER, DEC 2017

TORONTO STAR: KENT MONKMAN FILL IN THE BLANKS IN CANADIAN HISTORY, JAN 2017