ExhibitionsRuns in the Family
September 14 - December 14, 2025
Simon Brascoupé and Mairi Brascoupé, "Fall," 2019. Risography on paper. Indigenous Art Collection, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada. Photograph by Lawrence Cook.
Networks of family running through and across generations of artmaking
Runs in the Family brings together the work of artists from Inuit communities, Flatland communities and Anishinaabeg communities to create new conversations about how the processes of art making involve multi-generational knowledge transmission and innovations.
The exhibition is grounded in a conceptual understanding of looking backward into the future, revealing complex networks that express “family” through artistic relations, materiality and creative contributions in art making and curatorial practices.
Runs in the Family offers audiences new ways of seeing Indigenous kinship ties through a multitemporal frame that invites greater understandings of Indigenous relationality.
CUAG thanks Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada for so generously lending numerous artworks to Runs in the Family.
Curated by
Carmen Robertson and Hanako Hubbard-Radulovich
Runs in the Family includes The Stories Say So, curated by Lujeen Aburawi, Heba Burquan, Emily Critch, Rosita Khorram, Theresa McAvoy, Erin O’Neil, Sevane Paroyan, Moira Power, Amanda Sam and Janneke Van Hoeve, as part of the graduate seminar Indigenous Curation: Critical Applications
Artists in the exhibition
Cruz Anderson, Judy Anderson, Sorosiluto Ashoona, Carl Beam, Shirley Bear, Michael Belmore, Katherine Boyer, Mairi Brascoupé, Simon Brascoupé, Christian Chapman, Wally Dion, Gayle Uyagaqi Kabloona, Douglas Kakekagumick, Victoria Mamnguqsualuk, Jean Marshall, Glenna Matoush, Gerald McMaster, Meryl McMaster, Maime Migwans, Norval Morrisseau, David Neel, Daphne Odjig, Jessie Oonark, Travis Shilling
Credits
Supported by Thinking Through the Museum, a Partnership Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada