Brian Jungen is a Canadian artist known for his contemporary art, who currently is living and working in the North Okanagan of British Columbia. He creates sculptures out of a variety of materials that are considered everyday. Many of his sculptures take the form of traditional Aboriginal art forms, or resemble standard tools, and components of Aboriginal cultures. By combining everyday, very mainstream, materialistic, and superfluous, he is able to create and highlight the juxtaposition between the materialistic modern culture we currently experience, and its cohabitation with Aboriginal cultures. He has made things such as totems, and masks, out of sporting goods, such as golf balls, and has an installation in the National Gallery of Canada that is a whale created out of plastic lawn chairs.