Recent Acquisitions
Contemporary Indigenous Artists at AGG

Dates January 16.2025

Artists: KC Adams, Shuvinai Ashoona, Sonny Assu, Michael Belmore, Tarralik Duffy, Maria Hupfield, Ikseetaujuk, Jason Lujan, Norval Morrisseau, Native Art Department International, Pudlo Pudlat, Don Russell, Padloo Samayualie, Jutai Toonoo

Highlighting new acquisitions that enrich the Art Gallery of Guelph’s collection and deepen the communities it represents, this exhibition features works by First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists that bridge innovation and tradition. Together, these pieces offer a profound reflection of this cultural moment, emphasizing intergenerational dialogue and storytelling. Firmly rooted in relationality, the artworks embody practices shaped with and through the land, reflecting the enduring connections to place and environment central to Indigenous ways of knowing. Diverse in materials, techniques, and narratives, they collectively nurture reciprocal relationships that sustain and shape cultures and communities as inclusive, dynamic, and evolving.

Image detail: Shuvinai Ashoona, Inside the Mountain, 2020-2021, hand-coloured lithograph. Purchase, 2023. Art Gallery of Guelph Collection