2023 Stonecroft Lecture: Maria Hupfield

Maria Hupfield, installation view of the exhibition Manidoowegin, 2022, wood, industrial felt, cotton and acrylic, dimensions variable. Photo by Mike Patten

8th Annual Stonecroft Foundation Visiting Artist Lecture
“Maria Hupfield on Maria Hupfield”

Thursday, November 2, 2023, 6:00 PM ET
Auditorium, National Gallery of Canada, 380 Sussex Drive, Ottawa
Event in-person and online via Zoom livestream.

The Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa, in collaboration with the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) is proud to present Maria Hupfield for the Eighth Annual Stonecroft Foundation Visiting Artist Lecture on Thursday, November 2 at 6:00 PM. The University of Ottawa is located on unceded territories of the Anishinabe Algonquin Nation, who are the traditional guardians of this land.

This lecture series is made possible thanks to a significant gift from the Stonecroft Foundation for the Arts, in support of contemporary art discourse. The annual Stonecroft Foundation Visiting Artist Lecture Series allows the University of Ottawa students and general public to discover prominent Canadian artists’ practices. We invite you to join us on Thursday, November 2 at the NGC auditorium for the artist talk by Maria Hupfield. The event will also be made available online for live streaming via Zoom.

Maria Hupfield, Solidarity Acknowledgement Banner, 2017, cotton and acrylic, 24 × 4 in. Photo by J. Bascom.

As a transdisciplinary artist, Maria Hupfield crosses boundaries at the intersection of performance art, design and sculpture. In her work, the art object is positioned as active belongings where sculptures become performers in a form of object choreography between artist, audience, and art gallery. She is engaged in an ongoing series of relations with community, places, ideas, and materials. An Urban off-reservation member of the Anishinaabek People belonging to Wasauksing First Nation in Ontario, Hupfield is deeply invested in embodied practice, Native Feminisms, and ethical collaborative process. Her art was included in the exhibition Beat Nation, as solo project Nine Years Towards the Sun at the Heard Museum, and The One Who Keeps on Giving at The Power Plant, which travelled nationally. Her work was also shown at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Galerie de l’UQAM, Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada, NONAM – Nordamerika Native Museum Zurich, National Museum of the American Indian, Museum of Arts and Design in New York, Abrons Arts Center, Center for Art – Research and Alliances (CARA), BRIC House gallery, The Bronx Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, SITE SANTA FE amongst others.

Please join us at the NGC auditorium on Thursday, November 2 at 6:00 PM or if you prefer to attend the conference online, register for the live streaming of the lecture.

The lecture will be in English with simultaneous French interpretation.

For more information:
Talia M Boileau
Department of Visual Arts
University of Ottawa
613-562-5868
arvsec@uottawa.ca

Maria Hupfield, Headshot II, industrial felt, cotton and acrylic, dimensions variable. Photo by Grégoire Féron

About the University of Ottawa

The University of Ottawa is committed to research excellence and encourages an interdisciplinary approach to knowledge creation. The Department offers attentive teaching and mentoring within a close-knit university community, while also encouraging student interaction with a broad network of art institutions and professionals. For more information, visit Department of Visual Arts.

University of Ottawa MFA Visual Arts

In this bilingual two-year program students take an in-depth look at theories informing contemporary art and image culture. Theory courses provide exposure to contemporary artistic and cultural discourse, and the basis for students’ contextualization of their personal studio work within current art practice and theoretical investigation. The Professional Internship course, in which students have the opportunity to work at one of the many art institutions in the region, or with a professional artist, is a distinctive feature of our program.

The deadline for application to the program is February 1, 2024. Information about the application process is available here.

Interested candidates are invited to contact Professor Lorraine Gilbert, Graduate Program Director for more information: lorraine.gilbert@uottawa.ca

About the National Gallery of Canada
Ankosé — Everything is Connected — Tout est relié

The National Gallery of Canada is dedicated to amplifying voices through art and extending the reach and breadth of its collection, exhibitions program, and public activities to represent all Canadians, while centering Indigenous ways of knowing and being. Ankosé—an Anishinaabemowin word that means Everything is Connected—reflects the Gallery’s mission to create dynamic experiences that open hearts and minds, and allow for new ways of seeing ourselves, one another, and our diverse histories, through the visual arts. The NGC is home to a rich contemporary Indigenous international art collection, as well as important collections of historical and contemporary Canadian and European Art from the 14th to 21st centuries. Founded in 1880, the National Gallery of Canada has played a key role in Canadian culture for more than a century. To find out more about the Gallery’s programming and activities visit gallery.ca and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram. #Ankose #EverythingIsConnected #ToutEstRelié.