Essays

Annie Pootoogook

By: Nancy Campbell (CA)

When Annie Pootoogook won the Sobey Art Award in 2006, she cracked the glass ceiling for Inuit art, securing its place in contemporary Canadian art discourse and establishing herself as… Read More

Christopher Pratt

By: Larry Dohey (CA), Christopher Pratt (CA)

”When you revisit a place that matters to you for the first time in a long time it is a rich, spiritual experience, but if you then revisit such a… Read More

Rebecca Belmore

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Facing the monumental issues of our time.In a 2012 performance piece, Rebecca Belmore transformed an oak tree surrounded by monuments to colonialism in Toronto’s… Read More

Rita Letendre

By: Wanda Nanibush (CA), Georgiana Uhlyarik (CA)

Critically acclaimed Rita Letendre is one of the most eminent living abstract artists. Her painting career began in Montreal in the 1950s, when she associated with Quebec’s Automatistes and Plasticiens…. Read More

Stephen Andrews POV

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The work of Stephen Andrews has long mediated the successive crises of the contemporary world, exploring conflict, social change, and identity. For more than a decade, Andrews confronted the AIDS… Read More

Tunirrusiangit

By: Anna Hudson (CA), Jocelyn Piirainen (CA), Georgiana Uhlyarik (CA)

Two generations of Inuit artists challenging the parameters of tradition.Kenojuak Ashevak shot to fame in 1970 when Canada Post printed The Enchanted… Read More

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