Sonny Assu

Sonny Assu
Legacy Format

Sonny Assu recalls the transformative experience of visiting the Ottawa institution now known as the Canadian Museum of History with a letter in hand, written by his grandmother Mitzi Assu. In it she requests that her grandson be granted access to the Chilkat robe, dance apron, and frontlet that were the belongings of his great-great-grandfather, Hereditary Chief Billy Assu, which she and her husband Herbie Assu had sold to the museum decades before with the intention of their long-term protection and preservation. In the sterile space of the museum’s vast collections, curators placed the robe on Sonny’s shoulders. He describes feeling an energy transmitted through his body, the weight and materiality of the woolen garment, a spark conducting a direct connection to his Kwakwaka’wakw ancestors, and the knowledge, ceremony, and resilience woven into the regalia.

For more details or a list of available works, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com

CLICK HERE to read Legacy Format, an essay by Kate Hennessy

Summer Group Show

Equinox is happy to share with you a curated selection of contemporary works brought together to generate conversations around colour, shadow, texture and form. This exhibition highlights works by artists with new connections to Equinox Gallery as well as those with long-standing relationships with the gallery.

This exhibition includes the works of Sonny Assu, Bobbie Burgers, Gathie Falk, Erin McSavaney, Philippe Raphanel, Gordon Smith, Takao Tanabe, Neil Wedman, Etienne Zack, and more.

For a list of available works, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com or (604) 736-2405.

Sonny Assu: A Selective History

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.

50 Years | 50 Stories

Equinox Gallery marks its 50th anniversary in 2022. To celebrate this institutional milestone and offer a glimpse into aspects of gallery life from the past 5 decades, we present 50 Years | 50 Stories, an eclectic mix of artworks that trigger significant triumphs and challenges, personal anecdotes, and creative strategies. As one of the anchors of the nation’s commercial art sector with over 400 exhibitions to its credit, we have represented many of Canada’s top talents in tandem with international artworld giants. Through a selection of works by artists who have been featured at the gallery, this exhibition is an opportunity to consider the gallery’s focus on developing artists’ careers in the context of larger and ever-shifting art world narratives.

While much has changed at the gallery over the past 50 years, our long-term relationships with artists and collectors (both public and private) remain central to the gallery’s ethos. It is by nurturing such deep-rooted connections that we are able to contribute to the significant role art plays in enriching people’s lives.

感谢您在过去50年的支持，我们期待着下一个50年的到来。

Andy, Sophie, Hannah, Chantelle, Lulu

CLICK HERE to read the stories

Sonny Assu
Omnibus

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Christopher Pratt

本次展览展示了艺术家Christopher Pratt, Sonny Assu, Kim Dorland, Erin McSavaney, Jack Shadbolt, Gordon Smith和Etienne Zack的部分作品。

For more details or a full list of works, please contact us at info@equinoxgallery.com or (604) 736 – 2405.

Together Apart

Together Apart是艺术家对时间和地点之间的联系所进行的探索。本次展览展出了Adad Hannah, Eadweard Muybridge, Al McWilliams, Nicole Ondre, Erin McSavaney, Frank Stella, Fred Herzog, Vivian Maier, Gathie Falk, Gordon Smith, Douglas Coupland, Jack Shadbolt, Geoffrey Farmer, Kim Dorland, Peter Doig, Neil Wedman, Edward Ruscha, Renée Van Halm, Takao Tanabe, Marion Nicoll, Sonny Assu, Claes Oldenburg, Louise Bourgeois, Shuvinai Ashoona的作品。

Sonny Assu
Tlakwa

T̓łakwa 在材料、概念和形式上都以铜为主要对象。在与过去的传统保持深刻联系的同时，Assu的实践强调了传统原住民艺术在更广阔的当代实践领域中的交集和界限，使既定的实践和非常规方法之间的复杂对话得以显现。

Sonny Assu, Embraced by the Ancestors, 2022

Sonny Assu, Betamax, 2023