Exhibitions
UPCOMING! Inside-Out: Portraits from Nickle Galleries’ Permanent Collection
May 29, 2023 – September 1, 2023
Drawing on Nickle Galleries’ collections of art, textiles and numismatics, this exhibition examines portraiture. Curated by Marina Fischer Further details, TBC
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UPCOMING! Gwen MacGregor: Treelines – Here and There
May 11, 2023 – July 21, 2023
Artist Statement Treelines -Here and there is a new body of work that explores the connections between logging, alienation from the land and representations of the land. The source of the project is an intersection between two interests. The first, m…
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UPCOMING! False Promises: BFA Honours Degree Student Exhibition
April 6, 2023 – April 29, 2023
Justine Bui is a half-Chinese and half-Vietnamese female born in Calgary, Alberta, who focuses her art on colourism in Asian communities. Graduating with a BFA Honours in Visual Studies from the University of Calgary in April 2023, Justine is a multi…
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David Garneau: Métissage
February 2, 2023 – April 22, 2023
In this survey exhibition of more than 50 artworks, Edmonton-born artist David Garneau documents his Métis heritage and his struggle to shape a contemporary Indigenous identity. Many of his paintings explore how the Métis Resistances of 1869 and 1885…
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After Holbein – Turkish Carpets and the Tudors
February 2, 2023 – April 22, 2023
The 16th century artist, Hans Holbein the Younger famously painted portraits of Henry VIII and other nobles with richly patterned Turkish carpets. Drawing on the Nickle’s textile collections, curator Michele Hardy, offers a selection of these distinc…
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The Birth of Portraiture: Alexander The Great and His Successors
February 2, 2023 – April 30, 2023
Drawing on the rich holdings of the Nickle Numismatic collection, curator Marina Fischer explores the life of Alexander the Great and his successors through their portraits on ancient coins. Tiny masterpieces of Hellenistic art, these ancient coins…
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Adrian Stimson: ANTHRO-OBSCENE (and Other Works)
September 29, 2022 – December 17, 2022
Adrian Stimson: Anthro-Obscene (and other works) gives viewers an introduction to the artist’s large and diverse practice, providing a glimpse into his process and ways of working. Stimson is not easily introduced – his art practice is built f…
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Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000
September 9, 2022 – December 17, 2022
Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame, 1960 – 2000 is an ambitious touring exhibition that opens September 9 at Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary. It examines the explosion of innovative textile-based art on the C…
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There’s Nothing Strange Here: 2022 MFA Graduating Students’ Exhibition
August 8, 2022 – September 10, 2022
There’s Nothing Strange Here is the 2022 MFA Thesis Exhibition presenting the work of four artists from the University of Calgary’s Graduating Master of Fine Arts class. Organized by the Department of Art and Art History, hosted by Nickle Galleries….
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Kyle Beal – Spectator Sports
June 6, 2022 – July 15, 2022
In SPECTATOR SPORTS, Kyle Beal uses objects and languages bound to the vernacular of contemporary life – mirrors and “selfies”, screens and platforms, along with ubiquitous flashing “open” signs – to reveal our own cultural obsessions in ways that ar…
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