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BIOGRAPHY

Kent Monkman, born in Canada in 1965, is a Cree artist who is widely known for his provocative interventions into Western European and American art history. He explores themes of colonization, sexuality, loss, and resilience—the complexities of historic and contemporary Indigenous experiences—across a variety of mediums, including painting, film/video, performance, and installation. Monkman’s gender-fluid alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle often appears in his work as a time-traveling, shape-shifting, supernatural being who reverses the colonial gaze to challenge received notions of history and Indigenous peoples.

With Miss Chief at center stage, Monkman has created site-specific performances at the Royal Ontario Museum, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, Compton Verney, and the Denver Art Museum. His painting and installation works have been exhibited at numerous institutions including the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal; the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; the Art Gallery of Ontario; the National Gallery of Canada; the Des Moines Art Centre; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art; the Musée d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, France; the Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France; Maison Rouge, Paris; and the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Monkman’s second nationally touring solo exhibition, Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience, will visit nine museums across Canada until 2020. In 2019, Kent accepted a commission from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City to produce two large-scale works to hang in the museum’s Great Hall.

Monkman’s award-winning short film and video works have been screened at various international festivals including the 2007 and 2008 Berlinale and the 2007 and 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Many of his media works are made with his longtime collaborator, Gisèle Gordon. Monkman has been awarded the Indspire Award (2014), the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award (2014), the Bonham Centre Award (2017), an honorary doctorate degree from OCAD University (2017), and the Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts (2017).

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HIGHLIGHTS

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The Collapsing of Time and Space in an Ever-expanding Universe, 2011, life-sized mannequin, antique furniture, paint, wallpaper, wood, taxidermied animals, 6 channels of audio, 640 x 427 x 488 cm, collection of La Maison Rouge (Paris)		still from the video Dance to Miss Chief, 2010, digital betacam, 5:00 min, edition of 3
Dance to the Berdashe, 2008, five channel video installation, collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (photo by Christine Guest)		Salon Indien, 2006, installation view, Remix: New Modernities in a Post-Indian World, Art Galery of Ontario (photo by John Goldstein)
Théâtre de Cristal, 2006-2007, installation view at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, July 2007, collection of the Glenbow Museum (photo by Walter Willems)		Séance, 2007, performance at the Royal Ontario Museum (photo by Brian Boyle)
Trappers of Men, 2006, acrylic on canvas, 213.25 x 365.75 cm (84" x 144"), collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts		Taxonomy of the European Male, 2005, performance at Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK (photo by John Batten)

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WORKS FOR SALE

For a current list of works in inventory please click here

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PFOAC EXHIBITIONS

Octobre 2019 - "TAIF" (groupe), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain
March 2019 - "The Madhouse" (solo), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain
November 2018 - "La Maison de Fous" (solo), CENTRE SPACE, Toronto
November 2017 - "The Human Zoo" (solo), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain
August 2017 - "The Domain Beyond the Territory" (group), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain
Febuary 2016 - "A Story of Canada" (group), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain
October 2016 - "Bordering the Fantastic" (group), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain
August 2016 - "Kent Monkman" (solo), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain - on line
January 2015 - "Expelling the Vices" (solo), CENTRE SPACE, Toronto
November 2014 - "Urban Res" (solo), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain
April 2014 - "Papier 14" (group), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain booth
October 2012 - "Toronto International Art Fair" (group), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain booth
October 2012 - "Toronto International Art Fair" (group), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain booth
August 2012 - "Kent Monkman: Miss America" (solo), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain
June 2012 - "Kent Monkman: Miss America" (solo), CENTRE SPACE, Toronto
May 2011 - "The Atelier" (solo), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain
May 2011 - "LOOP 2011" (solo), Barcelona, Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain booth
April 2008 - "NEXT" (duo with Dil Hildebrand) the invitational exhibition of emerging art (Chicago)
December 2007 - "Photo Miami" (group), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain booth
October 2007 - "Toronto International Art Fair" (group), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain booth
May 2007 - "Hunting Scenes and Other Amusements from the Great North West" (solo), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain

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PRESS

link: www.kentmonkman.com/press

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ARTIST'S C.V.

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