Two sculptural works by Anishinaabe artist Maria Hupfield join the AGO Collection, with support from the 2021 York Wilson Endowment Award

This winter, thanks to the generosity of the Canada Council’s 2021 York Wilson Endowment Award, the AGO welcomes to its Collection two recent works by celebrated, transdisciplinary Anishinaabe artist Maria Hupfield. Through her sculptural works, performances and film installations, the artist aims to make space for Indigenous histories and bodies, repurposing everyday materials and activating the works with her own body. 

Currently on view on Level 4 of the Vivian & David Campbell Centre for Contemporary Art, alongside a work by Jana Sterbak, Hupfield’s Golden Dollar (Sacagawea) (2018) and The Silver-Tongued Taste of Progress (2018) are both sculptures and live performance props, designed to be activated by the artist’s touch. 

Born in Parry Sound, Ontario, Hupfield is a member of the Wasauksing First Nation and is based in Toronto. “After living nearly a decade in Brooklyn, New York,” says Hupfield, “it feels like progress to bring two works home to the AGO that embody economic and symbolic international power by Native Women.” Read the full article, in this week’s AGOinsider.