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Kent Monkman (Cree) is visual artist whose work encompasses painting, filmmaking, set design, and illustration. Monkman founded the film company Urban Nation with producer Gisele Gordon. His film Blood River won the Best Film Award at the 2000 ImagineNATIVE Film Festival in Toronto and his dance video A Nation Is Coming won Best Experimental and Best Editing awards at the 1997 Alberta Film and Television Awards. He attended the 1999 Screenwriting Lab at the Sundance Institute. An accomplished painter, Monkman has exhibited at many venues, including the Royal Ontario Museum and the Indian Art Centre. He participated in the Bienal de Poesia Visual in Mexico City in 1993. In 2004, Monkman received a Visiting Artist fellowship from NMAI's Native Arts Program, to research 19th-century North American painters who contributed to the paradigm of the "romantic savage." A member of the Fisher River Band of northern Manitoba, Monkman lives in Toronto, Ontario.

"In my recent films and paintings, I play with sexuality and gender to discuss power. I employ the cinematic and painterly idioms of the nineteenth century, creating narratives with which to challenge the subjectivity of the original artists, and dismantle commonly held assumptions regarding Native peoples, history, and the colonization of our sexualities."

"Under the guise of 'cultural preservation' and 'ethnology', these contrived romantic images ultimately served a more sinister agenda of cultural and racial obliteration: if Native people could be depicted as relics of the past, and romantic casualties of a dying race, they would be innocuous, irrelevant, and without a future."

"But we are still here! And we are constantly redefining ourselves as Native people in a fast-changing world. We cannot escape history, but we can question the subjectivity of those who wrote it."

Presentado por NMAI

• Blood River (2000) director
• A Nation Is Coming (1996) producer, director

Créditos Fotográficos: Kent Monkman - gentileza del realizador