We Need to Talk: Kent Monkman and Kimberley Moulton

We need to talk is a bold new series of public conversations that brings together artists, thinkers, and cultural leaders to explore the art world from every angle.

For our next edition of We need to talk, please join artist Kent Monkman in conversation with Kimberley Moulton.

We need to talk is a space for spirited exchange, fresh ideas, and unexpected connections. Focusing on themes and experiences that have shaped Kent Monkman: Miss Chief’s Picture Show, join us as we look deeper, think wider, and experience art in new ways.

Kent Monkman

Kent Monkman (b. 1965, St Marys, Ontario) is a member of Fisher River Cree Nation in Treaty 5 Territory (Manitoba, Canada), he lives and works between New York City and Toronto.  

Kent Monkman’s works have been exhibited at institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; Hayward Gallery, London; Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; Musée d’art Contemporain de Rochechouart; the Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and the Hood Museum at Dartmouth College, Hanover. Monkman has had two nationally touring solo exhibitions, Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience (2017–2020), and The Triumph of Mischief (2007–2010).

Kimberley Moulton

Kimberley Moulton is a Yorta Yorta woman and independent curator and writer. She is Senior Curator Exhibitions at RISING, Melbourne’s international arts festival. She recently held tenure as the Adjunct Curator Indigenous Art at Tate, London (2023-2026) and holds a PhD in curatorial practice from Monash University. Kimberley was appointed Emeritus Curator, First Peoples at Museums Victoria in 2023 and is a Sidney Myer Creative Fellow (2025–2026).

With nearly 20 years’ experience across museums, galleries, festivals and independent practice, Kimberley works across modern and contemporary art and historical collections. Her research and curatorial practice connect knowledge, histories and futures that centres Indigenous and Global Majority creative practices, ecological and cultural relationships. Her practice foregrounds underrepresented histories and renews new relationships between collections, place and community.

Image: Photo of Kent Monkman courtesy of Kent Monkman Studio. Photo of Kimberley Moulton by Eugene Hyland.