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Kent Monkman

Kent Monkman OC[1] (born 13 November 1965) is a Canadian First Nations artist of Cree ancestry. He is a member of the Fisher River band situated in Manitoba's Interlake Region.[2] Monkman lives and works in Toronto, Ontario.[3]

Kent Monkman
OC

(1965-11-13) 13 November 1965

St. Mary's, Ontario, Canada

Fisher River Cree Nation

performance artist, painter

socio-political art

Officer of the Order of Canada (2023)
Indspire Award (2014)
Premier's Award for Excellence in the Arts (2017)

www.kentmonkman.com

He works in painting, film/video, and installation.[4] In the early 2000s, Monkman developed his gender-fluid alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle.[5] He has had many solo exhibitions at museums and galleries in Canada, the United States, and Europe.[4]: 1  He has achieved international recognition for colourful and richly detailed works that combine genre conventions to recast historical narrative.[2]

Polarities, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 1993

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The Prayer Language, Indian and Inuit Art Gallery, Hull, Québec, October 11 - November 22, 2001

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Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience, Art Museum at the , Toronto, Canada, January 26 - March 5, 2017[54]

University of Toronto

Kent Monkman: Being Legendary, , Toronto, Canada, October 8, 2022 - April 16, 2023[55]

Royal Ontario Museum

(2014)[56]

Indspire Award

Premier's Award for Excellence in the Arts (2017)[58]

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Monkman was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2023.[59][60]

Madill, Shirley. . Toronto: Art Canada Institute, 2022. ISBN 978-1-4871-0280-7

Kent Monkman: Life & Work

Monkman, Kent. Revision and Resistance: mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Toronto: Art Canada Institute, 2020. ISBN 9781487102258

Monkman, Kent. Toronto: Art Canada Institute, 2022. ISBN 978-1487102937

Being Legendary.

Monkman, Kent and Gisèle Gordon. The memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: a true and exact accounting of the history of Turtle Island. McClelland & Stewart, 2023. ISBN 978-0-7710-6123-3

Astrid M. Fellner: Camping Indigeneity. The Queer Politics of Kent Monkman. In: The Dark Side of Camp Aesthetics. Queer Economy of Dust, Dirt, and Patina. Ed. Ingrid HotzDavis, Georg Vogt, Franziska Bergmann. Routledge, New York 2017, pp 156– 176

Brandon, Laura. . Toronto: Art Canada Institute, 2021. ISBN 978-1-4871-0271-5

War Art in Canada: A Critical History

by Shirley Madill published by the Art Canada Institute.

Kent Monkman: Life & Work

Official website

by Shirley Madill, an excerpt from Revision and Resistance: mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, published by the Art Canada Institute

"Introducing Miss Chief"

by Sasha Suda, an excerpt from Revision and Resistance: mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, published by the Art Canada Institute

"A Practice of Recovery"

by Ruth B. Phillips and Mark Salber Phillips, an excerpt from Revision and Resistance: mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, published by the Art Canada Institute

"Decolonizing History Painting"

by Nick Estes, an excerpt from Revision and Resistance: mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, published by the Art Canada Institute

"A Vision for the Future"

by Jami C. Powell, an excerpt from Revision and Resistance: mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, published by the Art Canada Institute

"Inside Kent Monkman's Studio"

at the National Gallery of Canada

Kent Monkman

"" and "The Alternative Realism of Kent Monkman - A virtuoso paints Indigenous life into Canadian history" in The Walrus Magazine

Historic Drag - Kent Monkman's new show redresses colonial art

Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine at Pierre François Ouellette art contemporain, Montréal (PFOAC)

Works by Kent Monkman