Kent Monkman is Cree artist and a member of the Fisher River Cree Nation in Treaty 5 Territory (Manitoba). He currently resides and works in Toronto and New York City. Monkman’s interdisciplinary practice centres around interventions into Western European and American Art History. The artist explores themes of colonization, sexuality, loss and the contemporary and historic experience of Indigenous experience. Monkman’s practice spans a wide variety of media including painting, film/video, performance and installation. Monkman employs his gender-fluid alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, in his work to challenge historical narrative and notions of Indigenous peoples.
Monkman’s painting and installation works have been exhibited at institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal; Musée d’artcontemporain de Montréal; The Royal Ontario Museum; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Hayward Gallery; Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art; Musée d’art Contemporain de Rochechouart; Maison Rouge; Philbrook Museum of Art; Palais de Tokyo; and the Hood Museum at Dartmouth College. He has created site-specific performances at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Royal Ontario Museum; Compton Verney, Warwickshire; and The Denver Art Museum. Monkman has had two nationally touring solo exhibitions, Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience (2017-2020), and The Triumph of Mischief (2007-2010).
