Past Exhibitions

This dream pays for its space in my heart uses sculpture, drawing, sound, installation and poetry to engage personal and political aspects of respective ancestral traditions to negotiate human relationships with nature, land and nationhood. The featured artists emphasize that the relationship between land and body is porous, holding history, memory and feeling.

Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (b. Napanee, Ontario, 1898, d. Toronto, Ontario, 1994) is a painter who is widely known for her portraiture and depictions of northern Québec and Labrador communities.

Sila is the first mid-career survey of renowned sculptor Billy Gauthier’s work outside of his home province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Installation view of FASTWÜRMS: #VOLCANO_LOV3R, at Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, 25 May to 22 September 2024. Photo courtesy of KWAG, by Toni Hafkenscheid.

Highlighting works by students from across the Waterloo Region, Cambridge and selected works from the KWAG Permanent Collection. Organized by the Public Programs Department

John Gould (Canadian, 1929-2010). Central Casting Picnic, 1971. Conté on paper, 104.5 x 155.8 cm. Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery Collection: Purchased in memory of Mrs. C. Elspeth Hall Kaufman, 1973

Bangishimo, Charmed by the Forest Hag, 2023. Digital photograph. Made possible by the Artist-in-Residence program at the City of Kitchener, 2023. Courtesy and © of Bangishimo.

Erratic Behaviour is an exhibition that brings together contemporary artworks that centre human entanglements with geologic events, processes or entities, acknowledging rocks as vibrant matter that shape our understanding of time and place.