{"id":311,"date":"2015-09-23T16:31:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T16:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guelphoutdoorschool.wordpress.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2016-06-09T15:12:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T19:12:46","slug":"kent-monkman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/2015\/09\/23\/kent-monkman\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Monkman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image-title\"><strong>Kent Monkman is a Canadian artist<\/strong>\u00a0of Cree ancestry who works with a variety of mediums, including painting, film\/video, performance, and installation. He has had solo exhibitions at numerous Canadian museums including the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and the Art Gallery of Hamilton. He has participated in various international group exhibitions including:\u00a0<em>The American West<\/em>, at Compton Verney, in Warwickshire, England,\u00a0<em>Remember Humanity<\/em>\u00a0at Witte de With, Rotterdam, the\u00a0<em>2010 Sydney Biennale<\/em>,\u00a0<em>My Winnipeg<\/em>\u00a0at Maison Rouge, Paris, and\u00a0<em>Oh Canada!<\/em>, MASS MOCA. Monkman has created site specific performances at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, The Royal Ontario Museum, and at Compton Verney, he has also made Super 8 versions of these performances which he calls \u201cColonial Art Space Interventions.\u201d His award-winning short film and video works have been screened at various national and international festivals, including the 2007 and 2008 Berlinale, and the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. His work is represented in numerous public and private collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Museum London, The Glenbow Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, The Mackenzie Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of the American Indian and the Vancouver Art Gallery.<\/div>\n<div class=\"image-title\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"image-title\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong>Taxonomy of the European Male:\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"image-title\" style=\"text-align:justify\">\n<p>Performance\u00a0\u2014\u00a02005<br \/>\nCompton Verney, Warwickshire, UK<\/p>\n<p>Miss Chief recruits two European Males as specimens in her ongoing study of the European male in his natural habitat. Unwittingly she has stumbled upon Robin Hood and Friar Tuck who, after a contest of bows and arrows and a little figure modeling, prove to be more than she can handle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"image-title\" style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/guelphoutdoorschool.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/siteplaceholder.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"318\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/2015\/09\/23\/kent-monkman\/siteplaceholder\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/09\/siteplaceholder.jpg?fit=1000%2C662&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,662\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON 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