Gold Dust Woman

Guná Megan Jensen’s oil paintings bring ancient Tlingít formline into direct confrontation with the historical weight of European painting tradition. Working with large-scale canvases, Guná fuses complex Tlingit design with an awareness of colonial visual history—creating work that neither retreats nor capitulates, but intervenes. The paintings on view in Gold Dust Woman assert a Tlingít worldview with clarity and force, recentring the viewer in narratives of Indigenous sovereignty and ancestral continuity. This body of work is among the most significant presentations of contemporary Northwest Coast painting in Canada today.

Guná is of Dakhká Tlingit/Tagish Khwáan ancestry from the Dahk’laweidi Clan. Trained by Northwest Coast masters William Wasden and Mike Dangeli and educated at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, her practice has been exhibited in galleries across Canada and recognized with the William and Meredith Sanderson Prize for Emerging Canadian Artists. She has delivered lectures on cultural theft, decolonization, and healing at institutions including Princeton University and Stellenbosch University.

EXHIBITION DETAILS

Exhibition: Gold Dust Woman / Trading Post Humanism

Artists: Guná Megan Jensen and Quinn Hopkins

Opening: Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM — Public welcome

On View: June 9 – July 5, 2026

Location: JL Phillips @ Worth Gallery

Address: 830 Dundas Street West, Toronto

Admission: Free

Web: www.JLPhillips.com/golddust-tradingpost

Instagram: @JLPhillips