Sonny Assu

Sonny Assu (b. 1975; Ligwiłda’xw of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nations) received his BFA from Emily Carr University (2002) and his MFA from Concordia University (2017). His diverse practice deals with the realities of being Indigenous in the colonial state of Canada through strategies such as humour, pop culture references, and activism. He has received several prestigious awards, including a BC Creative Achievement Award in First Nations Art (2011), Hnatyshyn Foundation’s REVEAL – Indigenous Art Awards (Laureate, 2017), and an Eiteljorg Contemporary Arts Fellowship (2021). Assu’s work is featured in numerous public and private collections across Canada, the US, the UK, and Australia.