Winner, Toronto Book Awards

Moving the Museum documents the reopening of the J.S. McLean Centre for Indigenous & Canadian Art with a renewed focus on the AGO's Indigenous art collection. The volume reflects the nation-to-nation treaty relationship that is the foundation of Canada, asking questions, discovering truths, and leading conversations that address the weight of history and colonialism.

Lavishly illustrated with more than 100 reproductions, Moving the Museum: Indigenous + Canadian Art at the AGO features the work of First Nations artists - including Carl Beam, Rebecca Belmore, and Kent Monkman - along with work by Inuit artists like Shuvinai Ashoona and Annie Pootoogook. Canadian artists include Lawren Harris, Kazuo Nakamura, Joyce Wieland, and many others. Drawing from stories about our origins and identities, the featured artists and essayists invite readers to engage with issues of land, water, transformation, and sovereignty and to contemplate the historic and future representation of Indigenous and Canadian art in museums.

About the Author
Wanda Nanibush is the Curator of Indigenous Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Georgiana Uhlyarik is Fredrik S. Eaton Curator, Canadian Art, and co-lead of the Indigenous + Canadian Art Department at the Art Gallery of Ontario. She works collaboratively with artists and curators from across the Americas and Europe and teaches art at York University and the University of Toronto. Her publications include Moving the Museum: Indigenous + Canadian Art at the AGO, Magnetic North: Imagining Canada in Painting 1910-40, Tunirrusiangit: Kenojuak Ashevak and Tim Pitsiulak, Rita Letendre: Fire & Light, and Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry.

Reviews
"Moving the Museum is a timely and important book." -- Portia Priegert * Galleries West *


Awards
Winner of Toronto Book Awards 2023 (Canada).



Book Information
ISBN 9781773102023
Author Wanda Nanibush
Format Hardback
Page Count 264
Imprint Goose Lane Editions
Publisher Goose Lane Editions
Weight(grams) 1726g
Dimensions(mm) 260mm * 260mm * 29mm