Meryl McMaster
Bloodline
June 18, 2025 - October 21, 2025 Curated by Sarah Milroy, Chief Curator, McMichael Canadian Art Collection and Tarah Hogue, Curator (Indigenous Art), Remai Modern.Meryl McMaster: Bloodline is a survey exhibition of a remarkable Canadian artist whose pioneering large-scale photographic works reflect her mixed Plains Cree/Métis, Dutch and British ancestry. This exhibition looks back to McMaster’s past accomplishments and brings us up to date on her current explorations of family histories, in particular those of her Plains Cree female forebears from the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in present day Saskatchewan.
The exhibition features photographs across six bodies of work, evoking themes of memory, containment, erasure, and self-determination. McMaster’s most recent series in this exhibition, “Stories of My Grandmothers” (2022-2023) highlights the artist’s deep reckoning with her family’s history focusing on the lives and experiences of her great great-grandmother Mathilda “Tilly” Schmidt, great-grandmother Isabella “Bella” Wuttunee, and grandmother Lena McMaster.
In dialogue with McMaster’s large-scale photographs, the exhibition includes two new video-based works titled Niwaniskân isi Kiya | I Awake to You (2023) and Nipēhtēnān Kiteh | We Can Hear Your Heartbeat (2023).
Organized and circulated by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in partnership with Remai Modern.
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