Virtual Art Talk – Meryl McMaster

Meryl McMaster (nêhiyaw(Plains Cree)/Siksika, Dutch, British) joins us ahead of her exhibition opening on October 4th for a virtual art talk accompanied by curator Tarah Hogue (Métis, white settler ancestry) and moderated by Heard Museum curator Roshii Montaño.

This exhibition presents sixty-five works by Canadian artist Meryl McMaster, whose pioneering large-scale photographic works reflect her mixed Plains Cree, Dutch and British ancestry. Family memorabilia and photographs, diaries, and historic journalistic accounts of the region and its colonial history will be combined with new works by the artist, including a suite of photographs and videos developed specifically for this exhibition. Meryl McMaster: Bloodline explores questions around memory, containment, erasure, and self-determination, with past historical trauma filtered through the imagination of one of Canada’s most insightful and creative minds. This will be the first major solo exhibition of Meryl McMaster’s work outside of Canada.

Featured image: Meryl McMaster (b. 1988), On the Edge of This Immensity, 2019. Digital Chromogenic Print 101.6 x 152.4 cm. Courtesy of the artist, Stephen Bulger Gallery, and Pierre-François Ouellette art.