Exhibitions
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 pro…
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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 interact…
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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.
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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. Ordi…
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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…
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Trans Trans
May 27, 2016 – June 10, 2016
Trans Trans: Transgender Histories Between Germany and the United States, 1882-1966 Trans Trans explores a network of individuals in Germany and the United States from the turn of the twentieth century into the 1950s who profoundly shaped transgender…
Read MoreGames for Life: Canadian Inuit Prints and Carvings from the Collection of Nickle Galleries
December 18, 2015 – May 1, 2016
This exhibition invites viewers to reconsider the balance of work and play in our lives, and reminds us that it’s okay, even necessary, to have fun.
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Laura Vickerson: The Between
January 29, 2016 – April 2, 2016
Laura Vickerson’s practice has long been drawn from the stuff of life – discarded objects and materials that were at one time a part of everyday experiences. Through changing trends, a general desire to consume, or the vagaries of fashion, things com…
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Eric + Mia: New Maps of Paradise
January 29, 2016 – April 2, 2016
New Maps of Paradise will chart, in an intentionally ambiguous fashion, the creative practices of Calgary artists Eric Moschopedis and Mia Rushton. Eric + Mia as they are more commonly known, have worked in the Calgary arts community, singularly sinc…
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