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Kent Monkman

April 8 – December 16, 2023
The Great Mystery

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  • A museum gallery installed with paintings and one sculpture in the center of the installation. The gallery walls are painted white and the ceiling is very high.

    Kent Monkman: The Great Mystery installed in Lathrop Gallery. Photo by Rob Strong.

  • A museum gallery installation of a tripartite wall. There are three paintings hanging. The one on the far left is a mimic of the one on the far right and is comprised of various blue squares, the one on the left has a figure inserted into it.

    Kent Monkman: The Great Mystery installed in Lathrop Gallery. Photo by Rob Strong.

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Featuring a new body of paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman—including two commissioned works for the Hood Museum of Art's permanent collections—The Great Mystery serves as both an introduction to and a revisitation of Monkman's early interest in abstract expressionism. Drawing on the museum's existing collection of modernist abstraction, Monkman's paintings create pathways for multiple and shared understandings across cultural divides and are unlike anything we have seen from him before.

This exhibition is organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, and generously supported by the Katharine T. and Merrill G. Beede 1929 Fund.

Exhibition Curator

Jami C. Powell

Related Publications

The Hood Museum of Art Quarterly, Spring 2023

Press Mentions

Exhibition subject: Modern & Contemporary ArtNative AmericaUnited States & Canada

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FALL OPENING EVENT

Sep 28
5:00-7:00PM

THE DR. ALLEN W. ROOT CONTEMPORARY ART LECTURESHIP: KENT MONKMAN 

Oct 13
5:00-6:00PM