Kent monkman

the making of a masterpiece

Tuesday, June 7, 2022, 7:00 p.m. (Lecture)

Koerner Hall, The Royal Conservatory of Music

PROGRAM

Introduction
KENT MONKMAN & HIS MASTERPIECE
A short video

Honouring the Land
GERALD MCMASTER
Tier 1 Canada Research Chair of Indigenous Visual Culture and Curatorial Practice and director of Wapatah: Centre for Indigenous Visual Knowledge

Opening Remarks
SARA ANGEL
Founder and Executive Director of the Art Canada Institute

Lecture
KENT MONKMAN
Born in Canada in 1965, Kent Monkman is a Cree artist widely known for his provocative explorations of colonization, sexuality, loss, and resilience. Monkman’s gender-fluid alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle often appears in his work as a shape-shifting supernatural being who reverses the colonial gaze to challenge received notions of history and Indigenous peoples.

Q & A
SARA ANGEL & KENT MONKMAN

Available Now
THE BOOK ON KENT MONKMAN

Copies of the ACI book Revision & Resistance: mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be available for sale at the event until 8:30 p.m. Learn more about the publication.

The Art Canada Institute is also proud to have published earlier this year Kent Monkman: Life & Work by Shirley Madill, as an online book. Available here.

Featuring

KENT MONKMAN
Artist

In conversation with Sara Angel
Founder and Executive Director of the Art Canada Institute

The Art Canada Institute acknowledges its benefactors whose generous support has made this event possible.