Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience
Art Museum at University of Toronto
January 26 - March 4, 2017
Launched in response to Canada’s bicentennial celebrations, Kent Monkman’s major solo touring exhibition Shame and Prejudice challenged mythologies around Canadian nationhood from an Indigenous perspective. As told by Monkman’s shape-shifting, time-travelling, gender-fluid alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, this critical examination of Canada’s history revealed the devastating impact of European settler cultures on Turtle Island as well as the enduring resilience of Indigenous peoples. To tell this story, Monkman curated archival objects and original work by other artists along with his own original artworks.
Exhibition installation photography by the Art Museum at the University of Toronto
Exhibition Tour
Art Museum at the University of Toronto (pictured)
January 26 – March 4, 2017
Glenbow Museum
June 17 – September 10, 2017
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
January 6 – April 8, 2018
Confederation Centre Art Gallery
June 23 – September 15, 2018
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
October 14 – December 16, 2018
McCord Museum
February 8 – May 5, 2019
Museum London
June 1 – August 25, 2019
Winnipeg Art Gallery
September 27, 2019 – February 23, 2020
Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia
August 6, 2020 – January 3, 2021
Click here to download the PDF booklet of the exhibition text in Miss Chief's voice for
Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience.
Available in Cree, French, and English.