Kent Monkman: Being Legendary

Kent Monkman: Being Legendary at the Royal Ontario Museum presents a new—and never before published—body of work by the revered and internationally renowned Cree artist Kent Monkman, guided by an Indigenous worldview, historical narratives, and the artist’s playful imagination. We designed a book that follows typographic conventions such as the use of Scotch Roman, a typeface designed during the cruelest moments of colonial intervention in Canada, but set in unconventional manners and in contrasting and special metallic and fluorescent inks. In a landmark exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum, Monkman, through his art and his gender-fluid, shape-shifting alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, presents in the paintings and pages of Being Legendary a powerful counter-narrative to the conventional structures of colonial collecting institutions.

Client: Art Canada Institute
Editor: Sara Angel
Photographer: Paul Eekhoff