Opening Now – Robert Houle: Red is Beautiful

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Robert Houle. Paris/Ojibwa, 2010. Multimedia installation: oil on wood, oil on canvas, video (colour, 3 min. 52 sec.), audio (6 min. 20 sec.), and gold lettering, Installed: 358 × 488 × 488 cm. Gift of Robert Houle, with funds by exchange from a gift in memory of J.G. Althouse from Isobel Althouse Wilkinson and John Provost Wilkinson, 2020. © Robert Houle 2020/3

Robert Houle is one of the most influential First Nations artists to break into the contemporary art world. His work blends abstraction, modernism and conceptualism with First Nations aesthetics and histories. Houle went from residential school to art school to museum boardrooms and on to the art world stage as an artist, curator and writer.

Robert Houle: Red is Beautiful consists of over 90 large installations, paintings and drawings created between 1970 and 2021. Themes in the exhibition include Sacred Geometry, The Spiritual Legacy of the Ancient Ones, Beyond History Painting, The Aesthetics of Disappearance, Residential School Years, and Sovereignty.

The exhibition runs December 3 – April 17, 2022