Fisher River Cree Nation artist Kent Monkman lives and works between Toronto and New York City creating paintings, sculptures, prints, video and performance art. An esteemed multidisciplinary artist, his work is held in the permanent collections of public institutions in the United States and abroad, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Hirshhorn Museum, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, the National Gallery of Canada and more.
Fisher River Cree Nation artist Kent Monkman. Photo credit Kent Monkman Studio.
This fall, the Frick Collection in New York City will host an installation of new paintings by Monkman in its Cabinet Gallery. The project takes inspiration from 17th-century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer’s Officer and Laughing Girl (circa 1657), one of the Frick’s three paintings by Vermeer, “to probe the ways in which it and other artworks of its time represented the effects of global trade and colonization.”
“With his characteristic humor, style and deeply researched iconography, Monkman deploys his alter ego—the time-traveling, shapeshifting, gender-fluid Miss Chief—to imagine an evolution of Indigenous and European encounters over the last five centuries, with their attendant cultural, technological and environmental changes,” the Frick Collection notes.
Visitors will also be able to view Vermeer’s Officer and Laughing Girl in the nearby South Hall in the Frick’s permanent collection galleries.
Kent Monkman: Officer and Laughing Girl will be on view from November 12 through February 22, 2027. —
November 12, 2026-
February 22, 2027
Kent Monkman: Officer and Laughing Girl
1 E. 70th Street, New York, NY 10021, (212) 288-0700, www.frick.org
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