ᓯᑯ ᕿᕐᓂᖅᓯᓯᒪᔪᖅ | Dark Ice
Organized and circulated by the Ottawa Art Gallery, Dark Ice is an essential examination of the profound and drastic impact that climate change is already having on our varied ecosystems and how this impact is most evident in communities of the North. The exhibition was conceived through the collaboration of artists Leslie Reid (Ottawa, ON) […]
Kim Adams: Earth Wagons
Canadian artist Kim Adams is known for his “assemblage” sculptures incorporating readymade and prefabricated materials in fun and uncanny ways to explore social structures, the implications of technology and mobility, and the divide between life and art. Earth Wagons is a miniature world – a terrain of culture on trailers consisting of small vignettes of […]
Animating the Figure with Photography
Animating the Figure with Photography features work from WAG-Qaumajuq’s permanent collection. This exhibition considers the medium of photography and its relationship to the human figure. Featuring artists, Barbara Astman, Donigan Cumming, Adad Hannah, and Stephen Livick. Barbara Astman uses portraiture to express ideas, emotions, and parts of her own identity. She immediately establishes a connection between […]
Riopelle: Crossroads in Time
To celebrate the centennial of Jean Paul Riopelle’s birth, WAG-Qaumajuq will host a special retrospective of the artist that examines the 20th-century artistic trailblazer through a 21st century lens. Organized by the National Gallery of Canada and curated by Guest Curator Sylvie Lacerte, Riopelle: Crossroads in Time draws on the artist’s oeuvre across various mediums […]
Lita Fontaine: Winyan
Winyan (the Dakota word for “woman”) is a solo survey exhibition of Dakota/Anishinaabe/Metis artist Lita Fontaine. Bringing together both seminal and recent work, this exhibition honours the career of a beloved Treaty 1 artist. Fontaine’s work centers and celebrates the beauty of Indigenous femininities as a resistance to heteropatriarchal and colonial practices that often relegate them […]
Lita Fontaine: Winyan
Winyan (the Dakota word for “woman”) is a solo survey exhibition of Dakota/Anishinaabe/Metis artist Lita Fontaine. Bringing together both seminal and recent work, this exhibition honours the career of a beloved Treaty 1 artist. Fontaine’s work centers and celebrates the beauty of Indigenous femininities as a resistance to heteropatriarchal and colonial practices that often relegate […]
Dominique Rey: MOTHERGROUND
An exhibition that presents the work of Dominique Rey, MOTHERGROUND will represent one of the first exhibitions of its kind in a Canadian context to thoroughly meditate on the subject of motherhood. Dominique Rey: MOTHERGROUND presents the work of Franco-Manitoban artist, Dominique Rey as a solo survey exhibition in three “chapters” referring to three distinct phases of her visual […]