(via BEYOND BUCKSKIN: Artist Profile | Kent Monkman)

Monkman uses ‘fashion’ triggers like headdresses and platform shoes to discuss identity, gender, and sexuality, as well as issues pertaining to racism and colonization.

In his multifaceted work, Toronto based painter, photographer, performance and video installation artist Kent Monkman deals a table-turning hand on the one-sided histories of Euro-American descent.

Using parody and his flamboyant alter-ego ‘Miss Chief Eagle Testickle’, he subtly turns pioneering myths of the American West into orgiastic revisions of nineteenth-century pastoral scenes. By appropriating the imagery and technique of ‘New World’ landscape painters, and by reversing the usual roles of cowboys and Indians, Monkman questions not only history, but also notions of authenticity and identity. He goes back in time to ‘queer the frontier’.

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