Brian Jungen
Friendship Centre
Born in the remote northern community of Fort St. John, British Columbia, to a Dane-zaa mother and a Swiss-Canadian father, Brian Jungen’s dual heritage often provides the themes and subject matter for his work. Brian Jungen: Friendship Centre examines over 80 pieces from Jungen’s imaginative body of work, including sculptures, drawings, and film stills — from whale skeletons composed of white plastic chairs and gas cans decorated with floral beadwork designs to totem pole-like forms constructed out of golf bags and Northwest Coast masks made out of repurposed sneakers. This generously illustrated volume details Jungen’s material explorations of a long history of inequality, the environment, and Indigenous ways of knowing and making.
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Kitty Scott is an independent curator and writer based in Canada, and the chief curator of the 2025 Shanghai Biennale. Until 2022, she was the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada. Previously she was Director of Visual Arts at The Banff Centre, Canada; Chief Curator at the Serpentine Gallery, UK; and Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada. Scott’s extensive curatorial work includes exhibitions of artists such as Francis Alÿs, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Paul Chan, Peter Doig, Theaster Gates, Brian Jungen and Duane Linklater, Janice Kerbel, Ragnar Kjartansson, Scott McFarland, Silke Otto-Knapp, Frances Stark and Ron Terada.
Scott was a co-curator of the Liverpool Biennale, curator of the Canadian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, and a core agent for Germany’s dOCUMENTA (13) in 2012. She has written extensively on contemporary art for catalogues, books and journals and regularly lectures at art schools and curatorial programs throughout North America.
