Teacher Ball

Can’t / Won’t, 2012

Deirdre Logue and Allyson Mitchell

Collaborate, nurture, cultivate, feed, enable.

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#DeirdreLogue
#AllysonMitchell
#🏳️‍🌈ContemporaryArt

El mundo del agua [The world of the water], 2024

Santiago Yahuarcani

Make it seem ancient and contemporary at once.

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#SantiagoYahuarcani
#UitotoContemporaryArt
#IndigenousContemporaryArt

In A Snow-Bound Land, 2025 inkjet print on paper towel;
image from Make Yourself At Home;
The Closet For My Troubles 1,
2024;

Jake Kimble

Use a funny bone as a tool.

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#JakeKimble
#DënesųłinéContemporaryArt
#IndigenousContemporaryArt

Nuliajuk in Mourning, 2017;
Methylmercury, 2017

Heather Campbell

‘… the woman at the centre symbolizes Nuliajuk, a symbol for the power of women, and an important figure to carry through future generations.’ cbc.ca

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#HeatherCampbell
#InuitContemporaryArt

Awareness 1 & 2, 2009-2010;
Dora Fraser (E9-2485), 2010;
E.6-1174 Michael Eevik, 2011

Barry Pottle

Allow part of Inuit history to be told, to be shared and debated.

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#BarryPottle
#InuitContemporaryArt

Grandfather I Have Something to Tell You, 2004;
may-tea, 1990

Michael Massie

Confess and apologize to someone you love.

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#MichaelMassie
#InuitContemporaryArt
#MétisContemporaryArt
#🇨🇦ContemporaryArt

Beavvit-Rising Together II, 2021;
Our Land, Our Running Colours
Min eana, min ivnniiguin, 2015;
Halo, 2012

Outi Pieski

Express feminist activism.

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#OutiPieski
#SámiContemporaryArt
#🇫🇮ContemporaryArt

Clearcut to the Last Old Growth Tree, 2013;
Red Man Watching White Man Trying to Fix Hole in the Sky, 1990;
You are on my land, this is all native land, and it’s not for sale, 2016

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun

Document and critique current political, cultural, and environmental issues.

Vancouver, 15 June 2011;
New York City, 1 October 2011;
both from the series 2011 ≠ 1848, 2021

Stan Douglas

Inspire a desire for change.

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#StanDouglas
#🇨🇦ContemporaryArt

Her Majesty's Pleasure, 1992

Lucy Willis

Question who is at the table.

She won the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in 1992 for her portrait of prison inmates, '
'At Her Majesty's
Pleasure'
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#LucyWillis
#*K ContemporaryArt

Police Man, 2023

Sahara Longe

Center figures who have historically been cast to the margins.

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#SaharaLonge
#🇬🇧ContemporaryArt

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#CannupaHanskaLuger
#MandanContemporaryArt #HidatsaContemporaryArt #ArikaraContemporaryArt #LakotaContemporaryArt #IndigenousContemporaryArt

Mirror Shield project, 2016

Cannupa Hanska Luger

Fight aggression.

A4, 2022

Ai Weiwei

Signal resistance.

‘In 2020, after Hong Kong imposed a national security law banning protest slogans, pro-democracy demonstrators used blank paper — including plastering walls with empty Post-it notes — to signal their resistance to Beijing.’ (Laura McQuillan)
cbc.ca

Clowns against Fascism, 2018;
The Wolseley Elm, 2020;
Strike with a Bike, 2021

Briony Haig

Highlight different voices concerning contemporary social justice issues.

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#🇨🇦ContemporaryArt

Under the Same "Blue" Sky,
Wherever I Go the Sky is Mine, 2024

Shabnam K. Ghazi

Invite a shared experience of humanity.

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#ShabnamKGhazi
#🇨🇦ContemporaryArt
#🇮🇷ContemporaryArt

Fortitude/Fragile
Onsite Gallery at OCADU

Four Genders Were Born, 2020

Nanibah Chacon

Incite dialogue.

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#NanibahChacon
#DinéContemporaryArt
#IndigenousContemporaryArt

(That’s A-Mori), 2016;
NorthMart (akunnirun kuupak series), 2018;
The spirit of creativity, 2024

Kablusiak

Question what we consider a subject of politics.

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#Kablusiak
#InuitContemporaryArt
#IndigenousContemporaryArt
#🏳️‍🌈ContemporaryArt

Drawing like the elephant, 2023
Shuvinai Ashoona

Find yourself.
‘…Ashoona has described her work as ‘a kingdom with another kingdom under that’, a statement as much about cosmology as it is about art.’ (Emily LaBarge)
lrb.co.uk
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#ShuvinaiAshoona

Refusal, 2020 (video)

Jenny Irene

Refuse.
‘…Standing our ground and taking up space as Indigenous peoples gets in the way of settler colonialism and is Indigenous refusal.’
jennyirene.xyz
#NotOnlyTwo111
#JennyIrene
#InupiaqContemporaryArt

‘… In making this work, Frankovich has drawn on the extensive body of research around posthuman ecologies, decolonising nature and queer theory, underscoring this beautiful exhibition with complex ideas of domination and control.’
christchurchartgallery.org.nz

Atlas of Anti-Taxonomies,
2019-22

Alicia Frankovich

Enable infinite possibilities.

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#AliciaFrankovich
#🇳🇿ContemporaryArt

Earthseed, 2020;
Angel of death, 2020

Precious Okoyomon

Consider a theology of mutation, flux, and motion.
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#PreciousOkoyomon

DOOM (House of Hope), 2025

Anne Imhof

Push past pathetic or ridiculous.

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#AnneImhof

Four Boys and a Girl, 1979

Liz Magor

Find elements and then bring them out to their ultimate conclusions.

#LizMagor
#🇨🇦ContemporaryArt
#NotOnlyTwo111

SeeSawSeat, 2011

Germaine Koh

Play and experiment in fields in which you are not an expert.

“…That conundrum is: how do you make space and time for something as simple and undervalued as play and human contact?”

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#GermaineKoh

Scale of Injustice, 2021;
Dye, 2018;
The Toilet (still), 2020

Kawita Vatanajyankur

Really deep-think about it.

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#KawitaVatanajyankur
#🇹🇭ContemporaryArt

Darwin Drag, 2025

Yuki Kihara

Save communities most at risk.

‘… Kihara herself prosthetically transformed as Charles Darwin, who confides in a renown Sāmoan drag queen, BUCKWEAT, that he has been unhappy keeping his secret in the closet about queer species for so long.’
sainsburycentre.ac.uk

Stacked, 2013;
Curtain Call (1980), 2021

Rajni Perera

Visualize and manifest Revolution.

“… I am trying to take that thing — the downward glance of the Caucasian male spectator — and turn it on its head. Or at least sideways."
homegrown.co.in
#NotOnlyTwo111
#RajniPerera

Lés Girls, 1993-4;
Coromandel:Sugar and Spice, Not So Nice,  2018  (Slaves of Fashion Series);
Indigo:The Colour of India, 2018

The Singh Twins
(Amrit and Rabindra Singh)

Challenge ideas.

‘'Lés Girls' … pays tribute our closest friends who are like sisters to us…
'Lés Girls'

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