Past Exhibitions

Stand before an artwork: observe and engage in a search for meaning. An unspoken conversation follows, revealing as much about the viewer as it does about the artist.

Featuring a diverse range of ninety works, Making Shade celebrates the rarely-seen sketches, studies and drawings found in KWAG’s Permanent Collection.

Representing three distinct photographic series – Vantage Point, Glance, and Echo – these works convey Hickox’s interest in the aperture as both a mechanical and symbolic device.

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.

Equal parts activist and artist, Ron Benner combines photography and installation, often in the form of site-specific installation. Through these means, Benner reflects on the histories of oppression that intersect with the corporatization of our food sources.

Expressions 42: Spin, Twist, Shift is all about changing our perspectives and re-thinking how to interpret what we see.

Groat's exhibition includes site-specific interventions that function as gestures of reclamation. Using salvaged paint from previous exhibitions, Groat has created murals informed by the windows that line the perimeter of the museum, thus proposing sunlight where it is typically unwelcome.

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 and self-preservation are entangled within our national history.