Shame And Prejudice; A Story Of Resilience – By Kent Monkman

As the cross-Canada tour of Kent Monkman’s spectacular exhibition climaxes at MOA, news has come through that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has acquired the Cree artist’s monumental diptych mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People) – further proof of his growing international standing. Like the paintings and installations in Monkman’s multidisciplinary exhibition at MOA, mistikôsiwak employs the conventions of Western art history to “upend conventional historical narratives of the European settlement of North America.”