Exhibitions

MIND THE GAP

April 20, 2017 – May 19, 2017

MIND THE GAP is the 2017 Department of Art graduating exhibition organized and curated by students participating in the Honors Program. It presents a variety of artistic works that these students have produced over the course of the year. The curricular programme places a great focus on the studio experience where academic theory is applied along w…

John Hall: Travelling Light A forty-five-year survey of paintings

January 26, 2017 – April 29, 2017

John Hall is renowned as a painter of detailed, highly realistic works that reflect his travel, relationships and stuff of life. Born in Edmonton in 1943, Hall spent much of his career in Calgary, moving to Kelowna in 1999. He studied at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary in the early 1960s and the Instituto Allende, in San Miguel de…

HOME ECONOMICS 150 years of Canadian Hooked Rugs

January 26, 2017 – April 8, 2017

HOME ECONOMICS: 150 years of Canadian Hooked Rugs explores the evolution, creative and social dimensions of hooked rugs, a uniquely Canadian folk art. For over 150 years, as long as Canada is old, the craft and commerce of rug hooking has been an intimate part of the lives of many Canadians. A form of personal artistic expression, reuse and recyc…

GENERATIONS: 50 YEARS OF ART AT THE UNIVERSITY AND BEYOND

September 23, 2016 – December 17, 2016

It was a radical idea – but more than fifty years ago when it was proposed that Calgary’s new university train and graduate artists, the reaction was disbelief. Nevertheless, the city’s creative life was about to get a lot more interesting. In 1966-67, the University of Calgary Art Department was established. With the Department’s presence, Calgary…

DaveandJenn: A Natural History of Islands

October 14, 2016 – December 17, 2016

DaveandJenn: A Natural History of Islands presents recent sculpture, a way of working that departs from their earlier landscape paintings. Their sculpture mixes fact with fiction, mythology with history, science with speculation just as readily as they mix media. They are presented within a gallery space designed to animate them, designed to give…

Robin Arseneault: ONLOOKERS

October 14, 2016 – December 17, 2016

Robin Arseneault’s visual language takes many forms. With ONLOOKERS, she explores found material, fabricates objects and constructs images. She pays close attention to material qualities and formal aspects, with drawing always at the heart of the process. A sense of myth, magic and loss seeps into this recent work. Archeological findings, shells a…

Money Through the Ages

August 26, 2016 – November 22, 2016

Money has a long history. Its development took thousands of years across the world. It has taken many different forms, from natural objects, to scarce metals and paper to virtual money. This exhibition explores the origins of money, cultural interactions and political messages conveyed in money, and numismatic art and design.

2016 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibitions

August 8, 2016 – August 26, 2016

MFA Thesis Exhibitions of Marzieh Mosavarzadeh, Anne Procter, Vince Allen Kogut, Blake Chorley.

Dan Hudson: 360 and Other Journeys

January 29, 2016 – August 12, 2016

The Nickle Galleries presents recent video installations and media works by Dan Hudson. Hudson creates contemplative art projects that position the socio-political context of everyday life within the depth of time and the vastness of the cosmos. Ordinary routines and deceivingly simple observations are used as triggers to pose big questions. Hudson…

Being There: Mentors and Memories

June 24, 2016 – July 29, 2016

One of the earliest art works to be donated to the University of Calgary is a delicate wood cut print by Walter J. Phillips, Venus and the Priest (1930). It was accessioned in 1968—eleven years before The Nickle Arts Museum existed. Since opening in 1979, the Nickle has built a substantial collection of artists’ prints with examples of different t…