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JL Phillips Gallery navigates the intersection of natural history, cultural narrative and global artistry. Discover the latest regarding our upcoming exhibitions and remote field work.
Two distinct artistic practices. One shared conversation about Indigenous futurity, cultural identity and the importance of continuity.
This dual exhibition from the Yukon’s Guná Megan Jensen and Toronto-based Quinn Hopkins brings together painting, digital media, and contemporary Indigenous storytelling through bold visual language and immersive form. In collaboration with HIGHNESS GLOBAL INC., we’ll be taking over Worth Gallery on DSW this June.
Gold Dust Woman
Gold Dust Woman features powerful new paintings by Guná Megan Jensen, merging ancient Tlingít formline traditions with the visual language of European art history. Through bold, large-scale canvases, the exhibition asserted Indigenous sovereignty, ancestral continuity, and cultural resilience within the contemporary art landscape.
Trading Post Humanism
Quinn Hopkins’ Trading Post Humanism explores storytelling, identity, and technology through immersive multimedia works spanning augmented reality, animation, projection mapping, and generative art. Rooted in Ojibwe and settler heritage, the exhibition examines the evolving relationship between Indigenous knowledge systems and contemporary digital culture.
Press Release: JL Phillips Gallery to open Gold Dust Woman / Trading Post Humanism dual exhibition amid FIFA World Cup fanfare
JL Phillips Gallery presents Gold Dust Woman / Trading Post Humanism, a landmark dual exhibition featuring Guná Megan Jensen and Quinn Hopkins, in collaboration with Highness Global Inc.
Art From The Turtle’s Back
Explore Art from the Turtle’s Back, a landmark Indigenous art exhibition presented by JL Phillips Gallery in partnership with Yorkville Village. Featuring contemporary Indigenous artists from across Turtle Island, the exhibition celebrates diverse mediums, cultural storytelling, and artistic traditions from coast to coast.
Wabanaki 2022
JL Phillips Gallery proudly presented WABANAKI 2022, a vibrant exhibition celebrating contemporary Indigenous art and culture from the Wabanaki Confederacy and across Turtle Island. Featuring powerful works rooted in storytelling, identity, and tradition, the exhibition invited audiences into a richly symbolic visual world shaped by Indigenous voices and creative expression.
Wabanaki
WABANAKI brought together contemporary Indigenous artists from across the Wabanaki Confederacy and Turtle Island in a powerful celebration of storytelling, identity, and cultural continuity. Through painting, sculpture, textiles, and mixed media, the exhibition highlighted the enduring strength and evolving expression of Indigenous artistic traditions.
An Artist’s Collection
An Artist’s Collection Vol. 1, presented by JL Phillips Gallery and GL Hendershott, featured a carefully curated selection of museum-quality artefacts collected over four decades by a prominent American artist. Focused on the elegance of form, geometry, and design across historical cultures of the 20th century, the exhibition explored the timeless relationship between artistic craftsmanship and visual symbolism.
Feast 2.0
FEAST 2.0 invited viewers back to the table for a renewed exploration of food, ritual, abundance, and transformation through contemporary art. Presented during the spring of 2020, this group exhibition brought together works that examined our emotional, cultural, and sensory relationships with what we consume — and what sustains us.
Feast
FEAST: A Celebration of Our Intimate Connection & Cultural Obsession with Food explored the powerful relationship between food, culture, ritual, and identity through contemporary art and design. Bringing together evocative works inspired by dining, gathering, and sensory experience, the exhibition invited viewers to reflect on the universal role food plays in memory, celebration, and human connection.
Femme
FEMME is a thematic exhibition featuring selected art from the genres I love, all in relation to the female form. This exhibition is meant for you view the female form in more ways than the social norm. From African beer pots only made by women, energetically charged abstract art, to the raw sexuality found in nature, FEMME celebrates both the power and subtlety found in femininity.