Kent Monkman

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    • Box 343, Station B
    • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • M5T 2W2
    • kent@urbannation.com

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Kent Monkman is an artist of Cree ancestry who works in a variety of media including painting, film/video, performance and installation. Monkman has exhibited widely within Canada, and is well represented in numerous private and public collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. He is represented by Galerie Florent Tosin in Berlin, Trepanier Baer Gallery in Calgary, and Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain in Montreal.


 Currently Showing:
  • An Autobiography of Our Collection, (group) Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., September 24 - February 12, 2012. 
  • Calgary Collects, (group) Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, September 9 - January 28, 2012.
Upcoming Exhibitions:
  • Changing Hands Part 3, (group) Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York 
  • Fashionality: Dress and Identity in Contemporary Canadian Art, (group) McMichael Gallery, Kleinburg, Ontario, April 2012
  • My Winnipeg, (group) MIAM (Musée International des Arts Modestes), Sète, France, November 5 - May 20, 2012
  • The Four Continents, (solo) Rodman Hall, Brock University, St. Catherines, January 19 – April 2012
  • Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art, (group) Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, January 14 - April 1, 2012
  • Oh, Canada, (group) MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA,  May 27, 2012 – Apr 1, 2013
  • Winnipeg Now, (group) Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG), Winnipeg, MB, September 29, 2012
Public Commissions: 
  • Painting on New France, for the Montreal Museum of Fine Art's new Pavilion of Canadian Art, Montreal, spring 2011
  • Portrait of John Ralston Saul, for Rideau Hall, Ottawa