Native Art Department International (NADI) is a Toronto-based collaborative project of wife-and-husband pair of artists Maria Hupfield (b.
"[8] In 2015, the couple established a blog that documents their activities as Native Art Department International and publishes interviews with artists and scholars and articles on subjects of interest such as South African magazine Chimurenga and early Japanese American photographer Frank Matsura.
[10][11] Exhibitions by Native Art Department International include Curatorial projects in which their own work isn't a part include Inclusion in other group shows, residencies, and talks In Christopher Green of Hyperallergic's interview of the couple about their work in the 2016 Brooklyn show "free play," he wrote about the contrast between their individual styles.
"[24] They received a review in Artforum of their 2020 solo show at Mercer Union in Toronto,[25] an installation of a variety of works since 2017, including Untitled (Carl Beam), 2017,[6] and two videos they made when they lived in New York City including one with a number of artist-friends made filmed the Bard Graduate Center Gallery, Everything Sacred Is Far Away, 2019.
Of the latter, which staged episodes around the life of anthropologist Franz Boas, Gabrielle Moser wrote, "Reminiscent of community-access television, organized-labor role play and strategies from the Theater of the Oppressed.... they reveal something honest about intercultural interactions: that they are always messy, deeply strange, and perpetually under construction.