Künstler/-in: Kent Monkman

Kent Monkman is a Canadian artist of Cree ancestry who is widely known for his provocative interventions into Western European and North American art history. He works with a variety of mediums, including painting, film/video, performance, and installation, and has exhibited at major museums worldwide, including the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, and the Palais de Tokyo and Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris. In 2019, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City commissioned Monkman to create two large-scale paintings that went on display in the museum’s Great Hall.