Sonny Assu | The Paradise Syndrome
Alumnus exhibits new works at Malaspina Printmakers.
Opening Reception - Thursday, November 10, 6-9pm.
Malaspina Printmakers is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new works by ECU alumnus Sonny Assu.
Sonny Assu is a Liǥwildaʼx̱w (We Wai Kai) artist of the Kwakwaka’wakw nations. His work often focuses on Indigenous issues and rights, and how the past informs contemporary ideas and identities.
He is developing two new series for his solo exhibition. One finds Assu's work coming full circle, re-investigating his appropriations of consumer pop-culture and nostalgia. The other is based on the colonial construct of map-making and the imaginary boundaries that aim to separate, erase or re-write the Indigenous narrative.
Sonny's work has been accepted into the National Gallery of Canada, Seattle Art Museum, Vancouver Art Gallery, Museum of Anthropology at UBC, Burke Museum at the University of Washington, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Hydro Quebec, Lotto Quebec and in various other public and private collections across Canada, the United States and the UK. He received his BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2002.