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Brian Jungen (b. 1970 Fort St. John, British Columbia) lives and works in the North Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada. Jungen emerged with a group of young artists that graduated from Emily Carr in Vancouver who challenged the predominance of photoconceptualism. Since rising to international acclaim in 1998 following his exhibition at the Charles H Scott Gallery at Emily Carr College of Art and Design, where he presented the first eight of his Prototype for New Understanding (1998-2005) sculptures, Jungen has exhibited extensively internationally. He was the inaugural recipient of the prestigious Sobey Art Award (2002), and was the first-ever living Indigenous artist to exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington (2009). Solo exhibitions include Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (2016); Kunstverein Hannover (2013); Bonner Kunstverein (2013); Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2011); Strange Comfort, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC (2009); Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (2007); Tate Modern, London (2006); Vancouver Art Gallery (2006); Witte de With, Rotterdam (2006); and the New Museum, New York (2005). Modest Livelihood, a collaborative work with Duane Linklater, has been shown at the Edinburgh Art Festival (2014); Art Gallery of Ontario (2013); and the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre, in collaboration with dOCUMENTA (13) (2012).

Recent group exhibitions include Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now, Crystal Bridges Museum of Contemporary Art, Bentonville (2018); Beautiful world, where are you?, Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool (2018); Unsettled, Anchorage Museum (2018) and Nevada Museum of Art, Reno (2017); On Space and Place: Contemporary Art from Chicago, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and Vancouver, De Paul Art Museum, Chicago (2016); Residue: Persistence of the Real, Vancouver Art Gallery (2015); Sakahàn, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2013); Shanghai Biennial (2012); and NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith, Miami Art Museum (2009).

Jungen’s practice has been the subject of numerous international publications and six monographs that have spanned his career. His works are held in major international collections such as the Tate, London; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Vancouver Art Gallery; Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington; Seattle Art Museum; Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal; and Montreal Museum of Fine Art amongst others. He is represented by Catriona Jeffries in Vancouver and Casey Kaplan in New York

- Art Gallery of Ontario

Located in Toronto, Canada’s largest city of 5.9 million, the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) is one of the largest art museums in North America. The AGO’s collection of close to 95,000 works ranges from cutting-edge contemporary art such as Untilled by Pierre Huyghe to European masterpieces such as Peter Paul Rubens’s The Massacre of The Innocents; from the vast collection by the Group of Seven to works by established and emerging Indigenous and Canadian artists; with a photography collection that tracks the impact of the medium with deep holdings of works by artists such as Garry Winogrand and Diane Arbus; and with focused collections in Gothic boxwood miniatures and Western and Central African art. Drawing on this collection—as well as collaborations with museums around the world—the AGO presents wide-ranging exhibitions and programs, taking special care to showcase diverse and underrepresented artists. A major expansion designed by Frank Gehry in 2008 with lead support from the family of Ken Thomson makes the AGO a highly-photographed architectural landmark. Visit and follow @AGOToronto to learn more.