MARIA HUPFIELD (she/her) is a Toronto-based artist and transdisciplinary maker working with industrial felt at the intersection of performance art, design, and sculpture. She is currently the inaugural ArtworxTO Legacy Artist in Residency with the City of Toronto, Ravines, and a Mellon Fellow, Center for the Imagination in the Borderlands, Arizona State University, USA, 2022, which follows her inaugural Borderlands Fellowship for the project Breaking Protocol at The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School and the Center for the Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University (2020-2022). A recipient of the Hnatyshyn Mid-career Award for Outstanding Achievement in Canada (2018), she exhibited and performed her work in Nine Years Towards the Sun at the Heard Museum, Phoenix, 2019-2020, and The One Who Keeps On Giving (organized by The Power Plant 2017-2018), her first major touring solo exhibition. She has exhibited extensively, including recently in New York, USA, at CARA (Center for Art Research and Alliance), Abrons Art Center, and in Toronto, Canada, at the Art Gallery of Ontario and Patel Brown. Hupfield is Martin clan and an off-rez member of the Anishinaabe Nation belonging to Wasauksing First Nation, Ontario, Canada (Robinson Huron Treaty), and appointed Canadian Research Chair, Transdisciplinary Indigenous Arts at the University of Toronto.

Maria Hupfield is co-owner of Native Art Department International with her husband and artist Jason Lujan and founder of 7th Generation Image Makers, Native Child and Family Services of Toronto.