ree painter Kent Monkman is widely considered to be the most famous artist in Canada, but he doesn’t seem to agree. “I think it’s actually Céline Dion,” he says with a laugh at his studio in Toronto’s west end.
Whether Monkman believes it or not, he’s cemented his place in art world superstardom. He had a career-crowning exhibit at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2019, his Picton home was recently featured inMonkman is best known for his large-scale acrylic-on-canvas works, which challenge colonial depictions of history by placing Indigenous characters front and centre, often using humour for maximum impact.
The paintings show, with Monkman’s characteristic cheek and audacity, how Indigenous teachings have been passed down since the beginning of the cosmos, and how knowledge keepers—Indigenous artists, historians, professors and activists—kept those traditions alive during genocidal colonial settlement. Monkman completed the 35 new works with the help of 20 staff, including 10 assistant painters and long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon. To find out how Monkman does it, we went behind the scenes at the artist’s studio.In 1885, eight Indigenous men were hanged in Battleford, Saskatchewan, after the North-West Resistance, a response to the Canadian government’s encroachment on Indigenous ways of life.
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