Over the course of over 35 years, April Hickox has mined the distinctions between personal and public sites through film, video, photography and installation. Her work is rooted in the narrative histories that individuals accumulate throughout their lives and the ability of... Read More
Past Exhibitions
22 June 2017 to 17 September 2017
Yukon-based Joseph Tisiga is known for his watercolours and sculptures that reflect on history, hybrid identities and an evolving personal mythology. His work combines imagery inspired by social and philosophical influences that have shaped his perspective. Ultimately, Tisiga’s... Read More
24 March 2017 to 11 June 2017
Maggie Groat is an artist for whom site-specific interventions and salvage practices function as research. By reconfiguring and recontextualizing both materials and images, Groat encourages us to consider how we identify potential within marginalized knowledge. For Suns also... Read More
11 December 2016 to 12 March 2017
Kent Monkman is a Canadian artist of Cree ancestry whose work has been lauded for its humorous and sexually-charged critique of Canada's colonial past. Working across a variety of mediums--including painting, installation, film and performance--Monkman reimagines how betrayal... Read More
22 April 2017 to 11 June 2017
Expressions 42: Spin, Twist, Shift is all about changing our perspectives and re-thinking how to interpret what we see. We want to encourage students to experiment with materials, processes, and ideas! Expressions 42 will showcase artwork by Waterloo Region elementary and... Read More
16 September 2016 to 11 January 2017
For over thirty years the work of Edward Burtynsky has focused on how industrialisation has rapidly changed the natural world. His subjects have included industrial architecture in the form of factories in both China and North America, the depletion of natural resources from... Read More
26 August 2016 to 27 August 2017
The 60th anniversary of the founding of the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery provided the opportunity to celebrate our significant milestones and achievements. The founders' vision for the Gallery was to show the best of contemporary art. This mandate continues to this day,... Read More
22 May 2016 to 5 September 2016
Over the course of a decade, Annie Dunning has explored the limitsof an anthropocentric environment through projects which combine curiosity and playfulness. Her sculpture and installation often includes audio and kinetic elements, amplifying modes of productivity that can be... Read More