Early Days. Indigenous Art from the McMichael Canadian Art Collection

Quebec City, Wednesday, October 16, 2024 o The Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec (MNBAQ) is highlighting Indigenous art from October 17, 2024 to April 21, 2025 through Early Days. Indigenous Art from the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, a major exhibition produced and circulated by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario.

The MNBAQwill host the exhibition’s exclusive Quebec presentation on its international circuit. It is proud to contribute to raising the profile of more than 5o artists from 13 nations spanning Canadian soil through no works ranging from past traditions to contemporary practices.

This sweeping panorama, celebrating zoo years of artistic creation, has been organized in collaboration with Indigenous specialists in light of recent research. Early Days. Indigenous Art from the McMichael Canadian Art Collection presents a fine selection of objects ranging from18th-century ceremonial insignias to the significant work of avant-gardist artists of the 1960,197os, and 198os, and including works by contemporary artists.

The exhibition’s key artists include Caroline Monnet (Anishinabeg, French), Norval Morrisseau (Anishinaabe), Nadia Myre (Anishinabeg), Meryl McMaster (Plains Cree/Metis, Dutch, and British), Kent Monkman (Cree), Shuvinai Ashoona, Annie Pootoogook, Pudlo Pudlat et Nick Sikkuark (Inuit), Dana Claxton (Wood Mountain Lakota), Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (Cowichan-Syilx), Carl Beam (Ojibwa), Robert Houle (Anishnabe, Saulteaux) and Faye HeavyShield (Kainawa), to name but a few.

The exhibition not only affords visitors a rare opportunity to immerse themselves in the richness and diversity of Indigenous art but also reveals our relationship with the earth and our ancestors, and the ties that bind us. It proposes a unique encounter with living cultures that are deeply rooted in our shared history.

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