Kent Monkman, Richard William Hill, Lucy R. Lippard, John Ralston Saul & Barbara K. Fischer 

Through the eyes of his alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, Cree artist Kent Monkman takes us back to 150 years of Canada's existence in nine thematic chapters, marked by the implementation of devastating genocidal policies. Monkman uses the expressive power of historical painting to make us aware of the tragedies experienced in the past by Indigenous peoples. 

Hardcover | 271 pages 
29 x 23 cm (11 x 9 in.) 
Publication date: 2020

Josée Drouin-Brisebois

As the commissioning institution for the 55th International Art Exhibition, the National Gallery of Canada presents the work of Shary Boyle, a consummate object maker who uses imaginary narratives to explore human psychological and emotional states. The catalogue highlights the artist’s practice, which spans a diversity of media, including fine craft, drawing, sculpture, experimental performance and immersive installations.

Paper | 192 pages
Publication Date: 2013

English, French and Italian

Melissa Bennett, Greg Hill, and David W. Penney

Shelley Niro is widely known for her ability to explore Traditional Stories, transgress boundaries, and embody the ethos of her matriarchal culture. A member of the Six Nations Reserve, Turtle Clan, Bay of Quinte Mohawk, she uses a wide variety of media, including photography, installation, film, and painting to bring greater visibility to Indigenous women and girls.

Pushing the limits of photography, Niro incorporates imagery from Traditional Stories to focus on contemporary subjects with wit, irony, and parody. Throughout her work — in her portraiture, sculptures, landscape paintings, photography, and film and video work — Niro challenges common preconceptions about gender, culture, and Indigenous Peoples.

Hardcover | 304 pages
21.5 x 25 cm (8.1 x 9.8 in.)
Publication Date: 2023

Published by the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and distributed by Goose Lane Editions.

Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch accompanies an international touring exhibition organized by the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian with the collaboration of the National Gallery of Canada.

Melissa Bennett, Greg Hill, and David W. Penney

Shelley Niro is widely known for her ability to explore Traditional Stories, transgress boundaries, and embody the ethos of her matriarchal culture. A member of the Six Nations Reserve, Turtle Clan, Bay of Quinte Mohawk, she uses a wide variety of media, including photography, installation, film, and painting to bring greater visibility to Indigenous women and girls.

Pushing the limits of photography, Niro incorporates imagery from Traditional Stories to focus on contemporary subjects with wit, irony, and parody. Throughout her work — in her portraiture, sculptures, landscape paintings, photography, and film and video work — Niro challenges common preconceptions about gender, culture, and Indigenous Peoples.

Hardcover | 304 pages
21.5 x 25 cm (8.1 x 9.8 in.)
Publication Date: 2023

Published by the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and distributed by Goose Lane Editions.

Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch accompanies an international touring exhibition organized by the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian with the collaboration of the National Gallery of Canada.

Shine a Light Surgir de l'ombre: Canadian Biennial 2014 (Bilingual)

Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Greg Hill, Andrea Kunard, Jonathan Shaughnessy and Rhiannon Vogl

Shine a Light Surgir de l’ombre highlights an exemplar selection of recent acquisitions to the National Gallery of Canada’s Canadian Contemporary, Indigenous and Photographs holdings. This biennial showcases the production of twenty-six artists from different generations and backgrounds, and features over eighty works ranging from film and video installations to sculptures, paintings, drawings and photographs. Often looking to past events, literature, films, places, cultural movements and traditions, the artists in the exhibition are very much ingrained in issues of the present day. Their works encourage us to reconsider time and the writing of history, our relationship to the natural world, the powerful role of images in how information is communicated, and how we perceive and interpret accepted facts.

Featured artists: David Armstrong Six, Shuvinai Ashoona, Nicolas Baier, Shary Boyle, Edward Burtynsky, Tammi Campbell, Mario Doucette, Geoffrey Farmer, David Hartt, Isabelle Hayeur, Phillippa Jones, Stéphane La Rue, Rita Letendre, An Te Liu, David McMillan, Damian Moppett, Luke Parnell, Vanessa Paschakarnis, Ed Pien, Tim Pitsiulak, Kelly Richardson, Jeremy Shaw, Althea Thauberger, Jutai Toonoo, Howie Tsui, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun

Softcover | 264 pages
20.5 x 27.3 cm (8 x 10.75 in.)
Publication Date: 2014

Edited by Wahsontiio Cross
With contributions by Mojeanne Sarah Behzadi, Richard William Hill and Cheryl Sim 

Skawennati’s practice explores Indigenous futures through the lens of a Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) woman and cyberpunk avatar, blending Hotinonshón:ni storytelling with digital media to create powerful, visionary narratives. Using machinimas and machinimagraphs (movies and still images made in virtual environments), sculpture, textiles and performance, she reimagines a world where Indigenous Peoples thrive. Her work transforms personal and communal hopes into new realities – spaces that empower, reclaim ways of being and challenge historical narratives.

The most comprehensive book on her career to date, Skawennati. Bienvenue dans la maison des rêves features vibrant reproductions of key works alongside critical essays examining her impact. The title references notions of home, a child’s dollhouse, and the longhouse – central to Hotinonshón:ni culture. The publication invites readers to explore a future where Indigenous Peoples lead and shape our collective worldview.

Softcover | 136 pages
22.9 × 27.9 cm (9 × 11 in.)
Publication Date: 2025

Edited by Wahsontiio Cross
With contributions by Mojeanne Sarah Behzadi, Richard William Hill and Cheryl Sim 

Skawennati’s practice explores Indigenous futures through the lens of a Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) woman and cyberpunk avatar, blending Hotinonshón:ni storytelling with digital media to create powerful, visionary narratives. Using machinimas and machinimagraphs (movies and still images made in virtual environments), sculpture, textiles and performance, she reimagines a world where Indigenous Peoples thrive. Her work transforms personal and communal hopes into new realities – spaces that empower, reclaim ways of being and challenge historical narratives.

The most comprehensive book on her career to date, Skawennati: Welcome to the Dreamhouse features vibrant reproductions of key works alongside critical essays examining her impact. The title references notions of home, a child’s dollhouse, and the longhouse – central to Hotinonshón:ni culture. The publication invites readers to explore a future where Indigenous Peoples lead and shape our collective worldview.

Softcover | 136 pages
22.9 × 27.9 cm (9 × 11 in.)
Publication Date: 2025

Edited by Reid Shier with contributions by Ma’an Abu Taleb, Erika Balsom, Samir Gandesha, and George E. Lewis.

Stan Douglas, one of the most compelling voices in Canadian contemporary art, has long explored critical sociocultural and political change. His exhibition for the 59th Biennale di Venezia, 2011 ≠ 1848, reflects upon the language of protest, revolution and the uprisings witnessed across the globe in 2011. Douglas’ four large-scale hybrid documentary photographs re-stage protests in Tunis, London, New York and Vancouver, and his two-channel HD video, ISDN, presents Grime and Mahraganat rappers exchanging subversive lyrics between studios in London and Cairo.

This stunning 288-page illustrated catalogue, published in English, French and Arabic, features some 100 full-colour detailed images that meticulously capture behind-the-scenes views of Douglas’ elaborate productions. Essays by leading international cultural thinkers examine the artist’s work in relation to music, political economy, contemporary media theory and the rise of Grime and Mahraganat.

Hardcover | 288 pages (100 illustrations)
24.8 x 27.5 cm (9.8 x 10.8 in.)
English, French and Arabic
Publication Date: 2022

Josée Drouin-Brisebois

The National Gallery of Canada is the commissioning institution for the 54th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale featuring the work of acclaimed artist Steven Shearer. Under its pop-cultural surface, Shearer’s work is surprisingly complex and insightful. By showing us aspects of popular culture from many different points of view, he exposes the false hierarchy of high and low art and prompts us to consider the more interesting differences between the cultural industries and the art world. The generously-illustrated catalogue published to accompany the Venice exhibition highlights Shearer’s paintings, text-based works, sculptures and photographic compilations.

Paper | 257 pages
Publication Date: 2011

English, French and Italian

Robin Laurence, Mary Reid & Josée Drouin-Brisebois

For over three decades, Wanda Koop has created an overwhelming body of work. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Wanda Koop, sur le fil de l'expérience, organized by the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada, this beautifully illustrated catalogue presents a selection of paintings, as well as a number of video works. 

Paper | 164 pages
Publication Date: 2011

Experience pure deliciousness with this special collection of Ontario’s favourite sweet and savoury maple syrup recipes! 

Softcover | 138 pages
23 x 15 x 1 cm (9 x 5.9 x 0.4 in.)

Experience pure deliciousness with this special collection of Ontario’s favourite sweet and savoury maple syrup recipes! 

Softcover | 138 pages
23 x 15 x 1 cm (9 x 5.9 x 0.4 in.)

Celina Kalluk

This bedtime poem, written by acclaimed Inuk throat singer Celia Kalluk, describes the gifts given to a newborn baby by all the animals of the Arctic. This visually stunning book is infused with the traditional Inuit values of love and respect for the land and its animal inhabitants.

Board Book | 30 pages
19 x 15 cm (6 x 7 ½ in.) 
Publication Date: 2016

Pierre Théberge, Jean Clair 

On the heels of the Roaring Twenties, the 1930s, which spanned from the economic crisis of 1929 to the outbreak of the Second World War, was a dark decade. Beyond similar governmental mechanisms, these regimes shared an ideology: the will to create what they called the "New Man." This decade began with a more or less innocent dream of the theme of the original egg, germination, the harmonious growth of a fabric both biological and social, but ended with the nightmarish discovery of corpses in the concentration camps by the armies of liberation in 1945. 

Softcover | 396 pages 
23 x 30 cm (9 x 12 in.) 
Publication date: 2008

Andréi Nakov

Beginning in 1914 in Russia, a group of artists primed for experimentation introduced an entirely new direction for the visual arts, articulating the language of abstraction with Suprematism and Constructivism. This catalogue centers on the emergence of the Russian avant-garde movement in Moscow until the mid-1920s. Works by El Lissitzky, Vladimir Tatlin, Kazimir Malevich, Ilya Chashnik, Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova and Ivan Kliun are featured. Also included is a rich selection of books, manuscripts, drawings and prints, reminding us that, for many Russians in the early twentieth century, art was a part of everyday life.

Paperback | 168 pages
Publication Date: 2016

Edited by Réjean Legault with contributions by Susanna Caccia Gherardini, Karen Colby-Stothart, Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Serena Maffioletti, Cammie McAtee, Franco Panzini, and Andrea Pertoldeo.

This richly illustrated book offers a detailed account of the history and evolution of the Canada Pavilion, built in 1958 in the gardens of the Venice Biennale.

Complete with reproductions of archival material including photographs, drawings, and maps, along with a portfolio from contemporary photographers, this commemorative publication includes essays on: the cultural and political context in which the Canada Pavilion committee worked; the concept and construction of the building and the links with architect Enrico Peressutti and the BBPR partnership; the Pavilion’s role in the postwar Italian cultural context and its fortunes from its inauguration in 1958 to the restoration in 2018; the restoration project itself, and finally, the relationship between the Pavilion and the Biennale Gardens.

Following the roles of key players involved in the design and construction of the building, to its multifaceted use over the past sixty years in exhibiting the work of some of Canada’s most talented artists and architects, The Canada Pavilion at the Venice Biennale illuminates the Pavilion’s great importance in the context of modern architecture, art and culture, and international political diplomacy.

Hardcover | 192 pages
24 x 28 cm (9.4 x 11 in.)
Publication Date: 2020

Erika Dolphin
with Jonathan L. Meakins

The Collectors’ Cosmos: The Meakins–McClaran Print Collection provides a glimpse into the making of what is, undoubtedly, the foremost private collection of 16th and 17th-century Dutch and Flemish prints in Canada. While that is the strength of the collection, there is also a joyful touch of eclecticism reflecting the Renaissance interests of the collectors Dr. Jonathan Meakins and Dr. Jacqueline McClaran.

In this beautiful and fully illustrated catalogue, Dr. Meakins takes us through the collection’s history, which began forty years ago in Paris following an afternoon in a room full of prints by Camille Pissarro at the Grand Palais. He reflects upon how a collection is never static; it ebbs and flows much like life. The other essay by Erika Dolphin, a personal account of her exploration of the collection, examines the flourishing of images of landscape in northern Europe and illustrates how art in the form of a humble print can lead us to reflect upon the myriad wonders of life.

Softcover | 216 pages
24.5 x 30 cm (9.6 x 11.8 in.)
Publication Date: 2021

Winning Title (Pictorial), The Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada, 2018

Ann Thomas and John McElhone

This lavish publication celebrates fifty years of collecting photographs at the National Gallery of Canada. When the NGC began acquiring photos in 1967, few museums viewed the medium as fine art. Thanks to the passion and dedication of early supporters, a comprehensive collection has taken shape over the past half century. Drawn from one of the world’s most significant photographs holdings, The Extended Moment highlights the collection’s rich diversity, chronicling its formative years and exploring how the technical photographic process has evolved.

Hardcover | 336 pages 
23 x 29 cm (9 x 11.4 in.)
Publication Date: 2018

Anne Newlands

For decades, the paintings of the Group of Seven have been instantly familiar to Canadians. But in the early part of the 20th century, these artists were engaged in a struggle for acceptance, mocked by critics and the public alike. In The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson author Anne Newlands explores the ambitions and visions of this unique cast of characters, capturing the cultural and historical realities of their time and bringing to life their artistic response to the Canadian wilderness.

Paperback | 66 pages 
23.5 x 23.5 cm (9.25 x 9.25 in.) 
Publication Date: 2008

The Indigenous Art Collection, cared for by Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, and located at 10 Wellington, Gatineau, Quebec, is one of the most important collection of contemporary Indigenous art in Canada. Comprising over 4,300 artworks by both prominent and emerging artists, it showcases First Nations, Inuit, and Métis expression of their histories, cultures, and realities, both past and present.

Created to celebrate the Art Centre’s 50th anniversary, this stunning volume and first major monograph published by the Government of Canada about the collection, highlights the richness and the importance of Indigenous cultures and heritage as an essential part of Canadian culture.

Featured artists: Barry Ace, Roger Aksadjuak, Allen "Ahmoo" Angeconeb, Tracey Anthony, George Arluk, Germaine Arnaktauyok, Arnaquq Ashevak, Kenojuak Ashevak, Kiawak Ashoona, Shuvinai Ashoona, Jason Baerg, Rebecca Baird, Mary Anne Barkhouse, Carl Beam, Shirley Bear, Jackson Beardy, Henry Beaudry, Lance Belanger, Christi Belcourt, Leland Bell, Michael Belmore, Rebecca Belmore, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Dempsey Bob, Vince Bomberry, Bob Boyer, Simon Brascoupé, Bruno Canadien, Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Sarah Carr, Christian Chapman, Benjamin Chee Chee, Dorothy Chocolate, Lee Claremont, Hannah Claus, Dana Claxton, Eddy Cobiness, Ruth Cuthand, Colleen Cutschall, Joseph T. David, Joe David, Reg Davidson, Robert Davidson, Patricia Deadman, Blake Debassige, Beau Dick, Gertrude Dick & Simon Dick, Freda Diesing, Wally Dion, Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Sheojuk Etidlooie, Thomasie Etuangat, Jerry A. Evans, Rosalie Favell, David Garneau, David General, Richard Glazer-Danay, David Hannan, Tanya Harnett, Walter Harris, Faye HeavyShield, Chuck "Ya’Ya" Heit, Tom Hill, Richard W. Hill Sr., Robert Houle, Calvin Hunt, Henry Hunt, Tony Hunt, Maria Hupfield, Sarah Inukpuk, Elisapee Ishulutaq, Naomi Ityi, Mattiusi Iyaituk, Joseph "Joe" Jacobs, Alex Janvier, Philip Janzé, Alfred Joseph, Francis Kagige, Joshim Kakegamic, Roy Kakegamic, Towkie Karpik, Elsie Anaginak Klengenberg, Katia Kak'wa Kurtness, Rita Letendre, Eva Linklater, George Littlechild, Martin "Akwiranoron" Loft, Jim Logan, Kayley Mackay, Joelee Maniapik, Qavavau Manumie, Clifford Maracle, Teresa Marshall, Glenna Matoush, Walter McKenzie, Kevin McKenzie, Gerald McMaster, Ohotaq Mikkigak, Kent Monkman, Shirley Moorhouse, Christian Morrisseau, Norval Morrisseau, Ken Mowatt, Earl Muldon & Ron Sebastian, Nadia Myre, David Neel, Marianne Nicolson, Shelley Niro, Jeneen Frei Njootli, William Noah, Ron Noganosh, Daphne Odjig, Tim Paul, Lionel Peyachew, David Ruben Piqtoukun, Tim Pitsiulak, Susan Point, Edward Poitras, Jane Ash Poitras, Annie Pootoogook, Kananginak Pootoogook, Barry Pottle, John Powell, Pudlo Pudlat, Carl Ray, Bill Reid, Arthur Renwick, Ryan Rice, Garmel Rich, Rick Rivet, Eric A. Robertson, Kakulu Saggiaktuk, Pitaloosie Saila, Nicotye Samayualie, Allen Sapp, Frank Shebageget, Arthur Shilling, Roger Simon, Pierre Sioui, Skawennati, Ann Smith, Henry Speck, Greg Staats, Alan J. Syliboy, Gerald Tailfeathers, Winnie Tatya, Ningeokuluk Teevee, Jeffrey M. Thomas, Roy Thomas, Art Thompson, Simon Tookoome, Oviloo Tunnillie, Helen Wassegijig, Elisapee Weetaluktuk, Hjalmer Wenstob, Tania Willard, Linus Woods, Lauren I. Wuttunee, Donald Yeomans, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun.

Hardcover | 383 Pages
23.5 x 21.5 x 3.7 cm (9.3 x 8.5 x 1.5 in.)