meet 2025 Fellowship artist

Maria Hupfield

Cultural Affiliation: Wasauksing First Nation [Anishinaabe]

Maria Hupfield merges performance art, design, and sculpture, drawing from Indigenous storytelling traditions through art, scholarship, collaboration and social justice.

Hupfield was the inaugural ArtworxTO Legacy Artist in Residency with the City of Toronto, a recipient of Hnatyshyn Mid-career Award for Outstanding Achievement, and Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Artist Prize, amongst others. Her work has been exhibited, performed, and collected across North America. She is co-owner of Native Art Department International with her husband artist Jason Lujan.

Hupfield is martin clan and an off-rez member of the Anishinaabe Nation belonging to Wasauksing First Nation, Ontario; and since 2019 the Canadian Research Chair of Transdisciplinary Indigenous Art, and Assistant Professor of Performance and Media, Department of Visual Studies / English and Drama at the University of Toronto Mississauga.