Caroline Monnet Featured in "Sovereign Stitches + Wild Weaves" at the McCord Stewart Museum

Caroline Monnet, Elisapie, 2023, PAR-AIR membrane, polyester, 68 x 23 x 7 in; 172.7 x 58.4 x 17.8 cm

We are delighted to share that Caroline Monnet will be featured in Sovereign Stitches + Wild Weaves, opening November 26 at the McCord Stewart Museum in Montreal. Curated by Wanda Nanibush and Sage Paul, the exhibition brings together nearly 40 Indigenous artists from more than 30 Nations whose practices challenge the boundaries between contemporary art, culture, fashion, design, and customary practices. Organized around eight themes, the exhibition explores embodiment, adornment, storytelling, activism, conservation, and the central role of creation in sustaining kinship and building ancestral futures.

Monnet’s participation reflects her ongoing exploration of Indigenous identity, cultural continuity, and futurity. Rooted in her Anishinaabe and French ancestry, her multidisciplinary practice transforms industrial building materials through Indigenous approaches to making, bringing garment forms and inherited visual languages into dialogue with contemporary systems of construction. Through these unexpected combinations of material and form, Monnet considers how ancestral knowledge can be carried forward and reimagined for future generations.

Sovereign Stitches + Wild Weaves
Venue | McCord Stewart Museum, Montreal, Canada
Dates | November 26, 2026 – September 6, 2027

Caroline Monnet Presents “Threads That Remember” at the 2026 State of Fashion Biennale

Caroline Monnet, Threads That Remember, 2026, floor and roof underlayment, waterproofing and insulating membranes, sill gasket, polyethylene, tarpaulin, thread, grommets, 95⅞ x 168 in | 243.8 x 426.7 cm photo coutesy of the artist.

Nunu Fine Art is pleased to share that Canadian artist Caroline Monnet was invited by the Wereldmuseum (National Museum of World Culture) to undertake a residency in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The residency brought Monnet’s Anishinaabe-French background and Indigenous methodologies into dialogue with fashion, material culture, local communities, and contemporary systems shaped by colonial histories.  

As an outcome of the residency, Monnet presents Threads That Remember (2026), a newly commissioned work now on view at Museum Arnhem as part of the 2026 State of Fashion Biennale, Available to Promise, from May 14 to June 28, 2026. Using industrial materials such as floor and roof underlayment, waterproofing and insulating membranes, polyethylene, tarpaulin, thread, and grommets, the large-scale work takes the shape of a traditional dress pattern, presented flat against the wall. 

While its display recalls museum modes of presentation, the form refers to a garment normally worn and animated through movement. In Anishinaabe contexts, the dress is associated with identity, cultural continuity, and relationships to land and community. Rather than replicating tradition, Monnet reinterprets it through contemporary materials, foregrounding Indigenous experience today and affirming cultural resilience across land, memory, and community. 

Threads That Remember was commissioned by Wereldmuseum, Nijmegen, in collaboration with the State of Fashion Biennale, Arnhem. 

Caroline Monnet’s "Kingdom" (2026) acquired by the Dallas Museum of Art

Caroline Monnet, "Kingdom," 2026, roof underlayment, polyester thread, 28 ¼ x 57 ½ in. | 71.8 x 146.1 cm

We are pleased to report the acquisition of Caroline Monnet’s "Kingdom" (2026) by the Dallas Museum of Art. Each year since 2016, the DMA selects works to enter the museum’s collection through the Dallas Art Fair’s Foundation Art Acquisition Fund. This year, "Kingdom" (2026) was announced on the opening day of DAF by Dr. Vivian Li, DMA Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art alongside works by Hasani Sahlehe, Gloria Klein, Raymond Saunders, and Nicole Eisenman.

"Kingdom" (2026) is an abstract triptych constructed of polyester thread on roof underlayment material. In using construction material, the artist references the housing crisis’ disproportionate effects on Indigenous populations in Canada, a social issue often discussed in her work. Caroline Monnet lives and works in Mooniyang/Montreal and originally hails from Canada’s Outaouais region. She is of Anishinaabe and French background and uses her work to communicate Indigenous identity through complex cultural narratives and to grapple with legacies of colonialism.