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Clth, 9.5 x 12 in. / 176 pgs / 86 color. PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 3/18/2025
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Denver Art Museum, 04/20/25–08/17/25
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Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 09/27/25–03/08/26
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| | | Kent Monkman: History is Painted by the VictorsEdited with text by John P. Lukavic, Léuli Eshraghi. Text by Ned Blackhawk, Brenda J. Child, Adrienne Huard, Bryan C. Keene, Patricia Norby.
 The renowned Cree artist unmasks a whitewashed, Eurocentric history through provocative paintings full of sexuality and dramaPublished with Denver Art Museum and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
One of Canada’s most renowned artists, interdisciplinary Cree artist Kent Monkman challenges the art historical narrative of settler cultures that colonized First Peoples from North America. He incorporates influences from the canon of European and Euro-American painting, reframing historical, contemporary and speculative future Indigenous experiences. Taking inspiration from Western artists such as George Catlin, as well as from the Old Masters, Monkman’s monumental history paintings feature white colonizers in violent conflict with Indigenous people. The depictions range from early colonial encounters to modern and contemporary clashes between Indigenous communities and uniformed police or clergy. In borrowing the visual language of his oppressors, Monkman reclaims the narrative written by Western art history about the brutalization and cultural genocide carried out against Indigenous North American communities.
History is Painted by the Victors accompanies the artist’s first major exhibition in the United States. The catalog gathers rich analysis of Monkman’s art from prominent scholars, expanding our understanding of his oeuvre and offering new insight via queer theory, historical and contemporary contexts, visual analysis and lived experience.
Kent Monkman was born in 1965 in Ontario, Canada and is a member of Fisher River Cree First Nation in Treaty 5 Territory. Monkman’s works have been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Hayward Gallery, Philbrook Museum of Art, Palais de Tokyo and many more. He is the author of two bestselling novels, The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, Volumes 1 and 2, which are based on his gender-fluid alter ego who often appears in Monkman’s work as a time-traveling, shape-shifting, supernatural being who reverses the colonial gaze to challenge received notions of history and Indigenous peoples. He lives and works in New York City and Toronto.
"The Storm" (2021), 'Kent Monkman: History is Painted by the Victors,' DelMonico Books / Denver Art Museum / Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.PRAISE AND REVIEWSForbes Chadd Scott [In this exhibition] Monkman’s artistic brilliance achieves its greatest height The New York Times Ted Loos [Kent Monkman] is known for his monumental canvases featuring Indigenous protagonists that offer a new perspective on the history painting genre. Bookforum Sarah Stryker With the lives of migrants, trans people, and many other minorities now under renewed assault, it’s the perfect time to imagine a world organized beyond settler states. Monkman opens a path for us all to get there. Artnet Kate Brown Few contemporary artists challenge the narratives of Western art history as provocatively and playfully as Kent Monkman. Hyperallergic Hrag Vartanian The robust essays in this catalog for an exhibition that is jointly organized by the Denver Art Museum and the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts are an illuminating read, as they linger on his major history paintings and situate them in the context of Romantic and Neoclassical history paintings. Monkman’s work lends itself well to deep readings; it has an easy illustrative style that never gets in the way of the content but piques wonder and awe all the same. Hyperallergic Hrag Vartanian A trickster of imagery, Monkman has famously inserted new narratives into museums the world over, spaces that long excluded First Nations stories and imagery. His paintings play with the European Old Master tradition and insert humor and sexuality in ways that make you reconsider the dynamics of the source imagery. |
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| | FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG JACK TEEHAN | DATE 3/1/2026 Kent Monkman’s Compositional Study for The Sparrow (2022) is reproduced from History is Painted by the Victors, published to accompany the enormously popular traveling exhibition of the same name. On view through March 8 at the Musée des beaux-arts, Montréal, the largest solo exhibition of Monkman’s work to date reopens in April at the Akron Museum of Art. In it, the artist’s heroic tableaux reverse the imperialist gaze inherent to Eurocentric academic painting, while scenes of erotic, decolonial drama unfurl against backgrounds lifted from canonical landscape artists like Canada’s Group of Seven. The work animates peoples and communities across Turtle Island (North America) representing a wide variety of societal concerns, from the climate crisis and environmental protection to intergenerational trauma and the visual agency of Two-Spirit, Queer and transgender Indigenous communities. Featuring 86 color reproductions, the accompanying monograph gathers prominent scholars Ned Blackhawk, Brenda J. Child, Léuli Eshrāghi, Adrienne Huard, Bryan C. Keene, John P. Lukavic and Patricia Norby, addressing themes such as Queer theory, historical and contemporary contexts, visual analysis and lived experience. Léuli Eshrāghi and Lukavic cite an interview in Toronto Life where Monkman states, “I started looking at landscape painting and North American art history as it was painted by Europeans and how they saw Indigenous people… that narrative needed to be challenged.” continue to blogFROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/6/2025 Kent Monkman’s “The Great Mystery” (2022) is reproduced from History is Painted by the Victors, the catalog to the renowned Cree Canadian artist’s current show at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Generally organized around Monkman’s alter ego, “Miss Chief,” this volume takes on issues of colonization and queerness, dark histories and corrective imaginations, with dark humor and pointed fury. “The subjects of Monkman’s paintings range from brutal scenes of oppression to moments of lament and celebrations of triumph and valor,” John P. Lukavic and Léuli Eshroghi write. “They challenge authority, or rather authorship, of the official colonial histories that many have learned and perpetuated. Some of these works are allegorical or metaphorical, while others are of known moments in history. If you find Monkman’s work challenging, enlightening, offensive, affirming or validating, it is absolutely meant for you.” They conclude: “A little mischief can lead to monumental change.” continue to blog | ART BOOKS & MUSEUM EXHIBITION CATALOGS: FORTHCOMING AND RECENT RELEASES |  | The Museum of Modern Art, New YorkISBN: 9781633451803
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