Through large-scale installation, sculpture, photography, printmaking,
and painting, Sonny Assu merges the aesthetics of Indigenous iconography
with a pop-art sensibility. This stunning retrospective spans over a
decade of Assu's career, highlighting more than 120 full-color works,
including several never-before-exhibited pieces.
Through analytical essays and personal narratives, Candice Hopkins,
Marianne Nicolson, Richard Van Camp, and Ellyn Walker provide brilliant
commentary on Assu's practice, its meaning in the context of
contemporary art, and its wider significance in the struggle for
Indigenous cultural and political autonomy. Exploring themes of
Indigenous rights, consumerism, branding, humor, and the ways in which
history informs contemporary ideas and identities, Sonny Assu: A
Selective History is the first major full-scale book to pay tribute to
this important, prolific, and vibrant figure in the contemporary art
world.