Winnipeg Art Gallery: 2011-2020
Artists’ Gender and Racialization - Solo Contemporary Exhibitions
Racialization
More than 95% of artists with solo shows at the NGC from 2011-2020 were white.
In the summer of 2021, the NGC launched an ambitious new strategic plan, called Transform Together. It’s advertised in a web campaign, that proclaims “we’ve changed” and that explicitly embraces a more inclusive framework. Let’s hope so.
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Gender
Gender: Fewer than 40% of the solo shows of living artists at the NGC from 2011-2020 went to female artists. Seen historically, however, this is the most gender equitable representation by decade that the gallery has had. It represents a significant improvement over the previous decade: 2000-2009 only had around 20% female solo exhibitions (Dymond, 2019, pp. 31-2). In historic terms, prior to the 1970s, there were no shows given to female artists; in the 1980s, the percentage of solo shows to living female artists rose to around 18%; in the 1990s, it rose to 30%, before falling in the 2000s. It is a good sign that the trend is reversing the dip in the 2000s and rising again in the 2010s.
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