Maria Hupfield was born in Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada in 1975. She works across disciplines such as video, performance, and industrial felt. After ten years of living in Brooklyn, NY, she has now returned to Canada, currently residing in Toronto. She identifies as an urban Anishinaabe who belongs to the Wasauksing First Nation (Huron Robinson Treaty) in Ontario.
Jingle Spiral (2015) (pictured above) references the Ojibwe sacred powwow dress. Such dresses feature hundreds of metal cones that creae a soothing sound when the dancer moves. In her 2017 exhibition at the Power Plant in Toronto, Jingle Spiral is presented mounted on the wall and in a performance video. Watch the video at this link.
Maria Hupfield is an assistant professor in Indigenous Performance and Media Art at the University of Toronto in Mississauga where she runs the Indigenous Creation Studio and is the Director and Lead Arrtist in the Department of Visual Studies / English and Drama. She also works at the St. George Campus of U of T with graduate students in the Masters of Visual Studies Program. Hupfield states: "My research brings together studio based practices and processes with expansive definitions of art that are informed by knoweldge from nations connected to the campus in the Great Lakes region."
Maria Hupfield is number 9 in the Canadian Arists who work with Textiles
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