Hamilton, Ontario-born Kapwani Kiwanga (b.1978) is the recipient of the 2018 Sobey Art Award and a Paris, France-based artist whose work explores history and the impact of colonialism on contemporary culture. Kiwanga’s installation piece Shady—commissioned for Frieze New York 2018—draws inspiration from the large expanses of shade cloth that cover ginseng fields in Haldimand County, Ontario. Kiwanga saw it as a metaphor for tensions between the Six Nations and settler communities. “Here is this quote-unquote foreign plant or crop brought in and then maintained with shade cloth that otherwise couldn’t be cultivated at such scale in an environment it maybe wasn’t meant to be in,” said Kiwanga. “It echoed the sort of colonial activities seen there before.”