Karen Tam’s Autumn TigersBridging Past and Present: Invisible Made Visible
By Imogene L. Lim, PhD
The Frontier Portraits of C.D. HoyA Chinese Canadian Photographer’s Tribute to His Community
By Faith Moosang
Interrogating IdentitySuzy Lake explores the role of photography in shaping how we understand and see ourselves
By Erin Silver
An Emboldened ArtistHow Oviloo Tunnillie achieved rare international acclaim as an Inuit female sculptor
By Darlene Coward Wight
Painting the Cultural MosaicWilliam Kurelek traversed the country in a quest to capture its diverse inhabitants
By Andrew Kear
Domestic DiscontentMary Pratt’s poetic scenes of home life are praised for their political edge
By Ray Cronin
A New Vision of the NorthAnnie Pootoogook’s art offers unprecedented insights into the contemporary Arctic
By Nancy G. Campbell
Meetings of MindsSorel Etrog found new ideas in collaborative work
By Alma Mikulinsky
Introducing Miss ChiefAn excerpt from the ACI’s book “Revision and Resistance”
By Shirley Madill
A Practice of RecoveryAn excerpt from the ACI’s book “Revision and Resistance”
By Sasha Suda
Decolonizing History PaintingAn excerpt from the ACI’s book “Revision and Resistance”
By Ruth B. Phillips and Mark Salber Phillips
A Vision for the FutureAn excerpt from the ACI’s book “Revision and Resistance”
By Nick Estes
Inside Kent Monkman’s StudioAn excerpt from the ACI’s book “Revision and Resistance”
By Jami C. Powell
The Rule of ChanceJean Paul Riopelle’s break with Automatism
By François-Marc Gagnon
From Taos to New YorkAgnes Martin and the currents of American Art
By Christopher Régimbal
An Artist BloomsMary Hiester Reid’s floral aesthetics
By Andrea Terry
The Patriotic PainterGreg Curnoe’s Canada
By Judith Rodger
Walking, Stacking, DancingFrançoise Sullivan’s conceptual 1970s
By Annie Gérin
The Extraordinary NorthTom Thomson’s diary of landscape
By David P. Silcox
A Champion of AbstractionJock Macdonald sought a new expression in art
By Joyce Zemans
Defiant SpiritQuebecois artist Ozias Leduc drew on Europe but created a Canadian ideal
By Laurier Lacroix
Queering the CultureGeneral Idea’s art foregrounded the fight for LGBT rights
By Sarah E.K. Smith
Stone SadnessHunched or standing, Inuit artist Oviloo Tunnillie’s sculptures feature figures shaped by loss
By Darlene Coward Wight
Sensing the MiraculousLondon artist Jack Chambers made the everyday profound
By Mark A. Cheetham
Art MissionThe pioneering work of New France priest Louis Nicolas
By François-Marc Gagnon
Stronger TogetherHelen McNicoll relied on the support of other female artists to find professional success
By Samantha Burton
Beyond the HorizonGershon Iskowitz gave Canadians a new way of seeing trees and sky
By Ihor Holubizky
Automatic AttractionMeeting Françoise Sullivan put Paterson Ewen at the epicenter of Montreal abstraction
By John G. Hatch
Precise OrderThe mathematical underpinnings of Alex Colville’s paintings
By Ray Cronin
Taking Back His ImageHuron-Wendat artist Zacharie Vincent’s response to colonialism
By Louise Vigneault
Inventing her StyleLargely self-taught, Pitseolak Ashoona forged a style all her own
By Christine Lalonde
The Kurelek ControversyNo Canadian painter has ever been so simultaneously praised and reviled
By Andrew Kear
Picture PerfectWilliam Notman turned pioneering photography into a prosperous business
By Sarah Parsons
The Art of WordsLanguage played a key role in Greg Curnoe’s work
By Judith Rodger
Choosing Quebec CityJean Paul Lemieux never grew tired of making a muse of his hometown
By Michèle Grandbois
Her Art of WarMolly Lamb Bobak was the first woman accredited as an official Canadian war artist
By Michelle Gewurtz
Macdonald's Move to VancouverJock Macdonald’s move west breathed new life into his art
By Joyce Zemans
From Paris to MontrealImpressionism had a short life in Canada but Helen McNicoll played a key role in its arrival
By Samantha Burton
A Spanish EducationTime abroad laid the foundations of Jack Chambers’s regionalism
By Mark A. Cheetham
Competing CanadasWhy Homer Watson was at odds with the Group of Seven
By Brian Foss
Rugged as the Canadian LandscapePaterson Ewen’s painting gets physical
By John G. Hatch
Artful FailureUnsuccessful as a missionary, Louis Nicolas created an invaluable visual record of New France
By François-Marc Gagnon
Keeping Improvised Art AliveDocumenting Francoise Sullivan’s Dance in the Snow, 1948
By Annie Gérin
Naked ConvictionThe censorship of Bertram Brooker
By James King
Reign of the ’60s Art SceneHarold Town held sway at galleries, parties, and politics
By Gerta Moray
Altruism or Availability?Why did Prudence Heward paint a series of black women?
By Julia Skelly
From the Ear to the EyeMusic guided the work of post-Plasticien painter Yves Gaucher
By Roald Nasgaard
Going GlobalThe entrance of Shuvinai Ashoona’s art into the contemporary canon and international museums
By Nancy G. Campbell
Controversial ContemplationDid 19th-century artist Paul Kane appropriate Indigenous culture, or create a valuable visual record?
By Arlene Gehmacher
Algonquin InfluenceHow an Ontario canoe trip led Tom Thomson to redefine Canadian landscape painting
By David P. Silcox
A Daring InspirationOscar Cahén was a driving force in early Canadian modernism, abstraction, and the Painters Eleven
By Jaleen Grove
The Miss General Idea PageantAlternative theatre gave Canada’s great avant-garde collective the tools for a new kind of performance art
By Sarah E.K. Smith
Picasso of the NorthNorval Morrisseau pushed back against colonial expectations of Indigenous art
By Carmen Robertson
Seeing the LightLionel LeMoine FitzGerald portrayed the vital forces of the natural world
By Michael Parke-Taylor
Naming and ReclaimingRobert Houle’s art critiques appropriation of Indigenous culture
By Shirley Madill
Rebel Girl50 years passed before Kathleen Munn's abstract art was recognized
By Georgiana Uhlyarik
Cinematic TurnMovies gave Joyce Wieland’s art a new direction
By Johanne Sloan
An Eye for AnimalsWhy wildlife plays a part in Alex Colville’s art
By Ray Cronin
Public EnemyPaul-Émile Borduas’s Refus Global began a revolution
By François-Marc Gagnon
Brush with RevolutionParaskeva Clark meets Dr. Norman Bethune
By Christine Boyanoski
Tragedy to TriumphHow widowhood began Pitseolak Ashoona’s career
By Christine Lalonde
Nude AwakeningPrudence Heward’s Girl Under a Tree
By Julia Skelly
RuptureNorval Morrisseau’s 1962 exhibition changed Canadian art
By Carmen Robertson