2023 KENT MONKMAN 'The Great Mystery' Open Edition Framed Print, Museum Glass

2023 KENT MONKMAN 'The Great Mystery' Open Edition Framed Print, Museum Glass Aprox. dimensions: Frame: 17.5"W x 24.5"H Print: 12"W x 16.5"H Opening area: 11.5"W x 16.2"W Very good original condition! Custom framed with acid free materials and museum glass! KENT MONKMAN (b. 1965) is an interdisciplinary Cree visual artist. A member of ocêkwi sîpiy (Fisher River Cree Nation) in Treaty 5 Territory (Manitoba, Canada), he lives and works between New York City and Toronto. Known for his provocative interventions into Western European and American art history, Monkman explores themes of colonization, sexuality, loss, and resilience—the complexities of historic and contemporary Indigenous experiences—across painting, film/video, performance, and installation. Monkman’s gender-fluid alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle often appears in his work as a time-travelling, shape-shifting, supernatural being who reverses the colonial gaze to challenge received notions of history and Indigenous peoples. Monkman’s artworks are held in the permanent collections of numerous institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Denver Art Museum; the Hirshhorn Museum; the Hood Museum of Art; the Heard Museum; Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal; the Glenbow Museum; the Art Gallery of Ontario; and macLYON. Private collections that house his works include Art Bridges; the Horseman Foundation; the Tia Collection, the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation; Forge Project; the Gochman Family Collection; the Sobey Art Foundation; and the Rob & Monique Sobey Foundation. His works have been exhibited at institutions such as the Royal Ontario Museum; Louvre-Lens; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Hayward Gallery; Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art; Musée d’art Contemporain de Rochechouart; the Philbrook Museum of Art; Palais de Tokyo; and the Hood Museum at Dartmouth College. In 2019, Monkman was commissioned as the inaugural artist to make two monumental paintings for The Met’s Great Hall Commission project. He has created other site-specific performances at the Royal Ontario Museum; Compton Verney, Warwickshire; and the Denver Art Museum. Monkman has had two nationally touring solo exhibitions in Canada: Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience (2017–2020) and The Triumph of Mischief (2007–2010). In 2025, Monkman’s first internationally touring large-scale solo exhibition History is Painted by the Victors opened at the Denver Art Museum and the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal. Monkman’s short film and video works, collaboratively made with Gisèle Gordon, have screened at festivals such as the Berlinale (2007, 2008) and the Toronto International Film Festival (2007, 2015). Monkman and Gordon’s literary collaboration, The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island was a finalist for the 2024 Governor General Award’s Literary Award in Fiction. Monkman is the recipient of the Ontario Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts (2017), an honorary doctorate degree from Queen’s University (2024) and OCAD University (2017), the Indspire Award (2014), and the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award (2014). In 2023, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada—Canada’s highest civilian honour—and in 2025, he received the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts.