Gerald McMaster

Gerald McMaster

Gerald_McMaster@ago.net

Gerald McMaster is the Curator of Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario. A Plains Cree from Red Pheasant, Saskatchewan, he first studied fine art at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He later attained a Master of Arts in Anthropology from Carleton University and a doctorate at the University of Amsterdam’s School for Cultural Analysis. Gerald has worked as a Curator of Contemporary Indian Art at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and as Deputy Assistant Director for Cultural Resources the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian before joining the AGO in 2005.

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exhibitions created by Gerald McMaster

Indian Church

 Indian Church

Indian Church can be read as the rapid encroachment of Western modernity on First Nations: as a formal religious institution unconnected to everyday life; as an instrument of a colonial…

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