This thesis focuses on artists’ projects that, through varying means of publishing, experiment with strategies for food sovereignty. These projects by the Creative Food Research Collaboratory, Ogimaa Mikana, and Christina Battle fit into a larger vision for a Canada where every resident tastes access to fresh, healthful food—and the freedom to choose what and how they eat. At a time when many people can only access a suspect diet that industrial food chains and entrenched systems of power serve up, artists are responding by returning to food as a transformative source of physical, cultural, and spiritual health. To induce what artists hope to achieve by investigating alternative food movements, the thesis considers two main questions: One, why has food taken on such diverse, unwholesome positions? And two, how can works of art offset or critique the modern food industry’s status quo? As forms of activism, artists’ projects can be effective political interventions into what and how people eat. Artists can incite audiences to imagine different possibilities in food culture, especially in Canada. This research arises from a broader engagement with food in the history of modern and contemporary art, and aims to widen the genre’s capacity for political critique and aesthetic expression.