Past Exhibitions

Each spring, Expressions showcases student art from across Waterloo Region and highlights the perspectives and experiences of young artists in our community.

What does it mean to follow one’s own stars rather than follow the path that others seek to impose? This exhibition of works from the Permanent Collection explores the pursuit of independent thought in the face of external pressure to conform.

Marcel Barbeau, Christopher Birt, Jack Bush, Adèle Duck, Harold Feist, Eric Gamble, Robert Hedrick, Reg Holmes, Gershon Iskowitz, Richard Lanctôt, Rita Letendre, Ron Martin, Arthur F. McKay, Gordon Rayner, Milly Ristvedt, William Ronald, Gordon Smith, Takao Tanabe, Harold Town, and Claude Tousignant

Adad Hannah's “living pictures” play with the fascinated and attentive eye of the spectator by using dynamic modes of expression such a photography, video, installation and performance to generate the still image.

all the world began with a yes marks the KWAG premiere of two works recently acquired for the Permanent Collection.

Featuring works by Edward Burtynsky, Elizabeth M. Eastman, Michael Flomen, Judy Garfin, John Gould, Susanna Heller, John Heward, Tom Hodgson, Louis Marius Amorim Ferreira de Moraes

Curated by Linda Jansma and Crystal Mowry. Organized by the Robert McLaughlin Gallery. ­In an otherwise empty gallery space, six reflective panels are positioned in a ring, facing inward, catching one another in their reflection, creating channels of infinite regress.

Featuring the work of Robert Bourdeau, Edward Burtynsky, Jane Buyers, Annie Dunning, Melissa General, Isabelle Hayeur, Ernest Lindner, Jo Manning, Scott McFarland, Meryl McMaster, Ray Mead, Mary Catherine Newcomb, Jenn E Norton, Reinhard Reitzenstein, and Joyce Wieland