1. Paul Wong
Paul Wong is a Vancouver digital and multi-disciplinary artist whose works can be found online and in art galleries across North America such as the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, and The National Gallery of Canada. Wong is interested in themes of identity, race, and community, and creates with such mediums as digital photography, performance, video installations, and site-specific works. From 2018-19 Wong created a piece called Occupying Chinatown while artist in residence at Vancouver's Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden and also included a performance entitled "Gender Roles Playing on Stage: Traditional Chinese Opera with Contemporary Asian Drag" which was Chinatown Vancouver's first pride event!
2. Kent Monkman
Kent Monkman is a two-spirit artist who portrays Canadian history using a queer and subversive approach. Monkman is half-Cree and his work explores colonization, loss, and past and present Indigenous experiences. Resilience is also a major theme of their work. Monkman also appears, in paintings and in person, as alter-ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Their website features paintings, films, photos, works on paper, performances, and more. Their surprise performance Another Feather in Her Bonnet, produced by CoCoFilms Studio, captures two artists symbolically united to confront cultural appropriation.
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