“Maria Hupfield is a maker, a mover, a connector, an Anishinaabe-kwe of Wasauksing First Nation. Like the artist herself, Hupfield’s work is never static. Her performances, sculptures and installations reference different spans and scales of times. She values expansive exchange over isolation, and inclusion over hierarchy.”

– Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Art in America

 

Maria Hupfield is an artist, researcher and urban Anishinaabe belonging to Wasauksing First Nation (Robinson Huron Treaty). She is the Canada Research Chair in Transdisciplinary Indigenous Arts at the University of Toronto Missisauga, where her work foregrounds Indigenous epistemologies in art-making and critical accountability practices. A cofounder of Native Arts Department International alongside her husband and artist Jason Lujan, Maria is deeply invested in embodied practice, Indigenous feminisms, and ethical collaborative processes.

Her art has been presented at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Art Gallery of Ontario, Power Plant, National Gallery of Canada, NONAM – Nordamerika Native Museum Zurich, National Museum of the American Indian, Bronx Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Wexner Centre for the Arts, Toronto Biennial of Art, and SITE Santa Fe among others. She was a 2025 recipient of the Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship and currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada.