Reframed

Building on the important work that began with WAG-Qaumajuq’s Artworks Renaming Initiative, this exhibition invites you to consider your orientation to the artworks, histories, peoples represented. Curator Marie-Anne Redhead places historical images of Indigenous figures by settler artists — shaped by the dominant colonial perspectives of their time — alongside pieces by Indigenous and racialized artists of today who challenge, reclaim, and recontextualize these narratives.

Reframed traces shifting representations of Indigenous identity, from 19th-century portraits and landscape paintings to 20th-century ethnographic photography and the circulation of Indigenous imagery within mass-media and popular culture. Together, these works examine Indigenous figures across time from contemporary perspectives.

Artists include Kent Monkman, Jeffrey Thomas, Dana Claxton, Michelle Sound, Rosalie Favell, Murray McKenzie, Caroline Monnet, Fritz Scholder, Charles Comfort, Frederick A. Verner, Arthur Lismer, Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, and many more.