Daphne Odjig (Wiikwemkoong, Manitoulin Island, 1919 – Kelowna, 2016) was a Canadian painter of Odawa, Potawatomi and English heritage. She is a central figure in Canadian Indigenous art, associated with the Woodlands style and pictographic painting, and her work helped bring First Nations art to the forefront of Canada's art world.
Largely self-taught and encouraged by her family, she was drawn to art from a young age. Her grandfather, a stonecarver, and her parents supported her interest, and in Toronto she encountered cubist art through galleries and museums. In the early 1960s she gained critical acclaim for her pen and ink drawings of Cree people in northern Manitoba. In 1973 she co-founded the Professional Native Indian Artists Association with Alex Janvier and Norval Morrisseau, a short-lived group known as the Indian Group of Seven and regarded as a pioneer of Indigenous art. That year she also helped open a Winnipeg shop that became Canada's first gallery exclusively representing First Nations art.
Her style blends Indigenous pictographs with twentieth-century European techniques, using curving contours, bold outlines and overlapping shapes. Her subjects ranged from Manitoulin legends to history, colonialism and family. She received the Order of Canada and the Governor General's Award, and her work remains in public collections across Canada.