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Glory, Blood and Power: Money and War through the Ages
An exhibition examining the interplay between money, power, and the capacity to wage war, starting in the ancient era and progressing through to the present, it shows the crucial importance of economic power, as the basic underpinning of all strategic considerations and strategies.
Harry Mitsuo Kiyooka: Artist. Educator. Activist (1926 – 2022).
Kiyooka’s hard-edge abstract period is his best known nationally and is a major feature of this retrospective. Nearly 70 years of art are celebrated and will cover other lesser-known subjects such as his portraiture, earlier work and his life-long preoccupation with Italy and especially La Serenissima: Venice.
BUMP Mural Tours
Planning a trip to Calgary or looking to rediscover the city? Explore Calgary’s open air street art gallery with an official guided mural tour led by the BUMP Festival. Learn insights from the artists and stories behind their works! Every Saturday and Sunday.
Cathy Daley: Gestures
Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art presents Gestures, a solo exhibition of work created by acclaimed Canadian figurative artist, Cathy Daley, marking the two-year anniversary of her passing. The exhibition showcases iconic images of billowing black dresses, tutus, and high-heels. Check it out!
Urban Nature
Urban Nature can be understood as areas in urban environments that are home to plants and non-human animals. The Alberta Society of Artists presents the group exhibition Urban Nature featuring the work of Contextural, a community of textile artists.
SpEATchless
The Alberta Society of Artists presents the exhibition SpEATchless featuring the work of Alberta artist Kimberly Jones. SpEATchlessis combines diorama and miniature artistry with food themes to create surreal scenes and vignettes to provoke introspection about scale and size as well as our relationship with food and waste.
Through this window is a home
In an assemblage of images, colours and scents, Harvey Nichol and Michaela Bridgemohan examine the Peacock Chair as a source of conceptual inspiration. “Through this window is a home” takes notice of the ways in which colonialism shrouds non-European cultures as mythic and/or non-existent.
Pilot Astronauts
Between the 1970s and 1990s, the term astronaut families referred to family arrangements in Asia where the fathers remained in their home country to work while the mothers migrated to the west. Pilot Astronauts by Raeann Kit-Yee Cheung celebrates the early astronaut mothers, their strength, and their humanity.
Anton Ginzburg: Surface
Anton Ginzburg: Surface is a reflection on the use of technology as it relates to cultural labour, data aesthetics and machine learning. The three bodies of work deliberate on surfaces that range from the architectural to the digital screen and beyond, and are relevant to conversations around AI.
Shibboleth
In Shibboleth, Pedro Barbáchano reframes the collections of institutional museums in order to question the absence of nonconformist bodies and histories within them. Through his use of sculpture and photographic mediation, Barbáchano imagines how communities that have been historically persecuted can emerge and maintain their voices.
22nd Annual Members Exhibition
Leighton Art Centre celebrates the incredible talent and creativity of their member artists. This year’s exhibition is a virtual ‘square foot show’, featuring over 100 works that are small in size and big on artistry! Most works featured in this exhibition are available for online purchase.
Patrick Dunford: Branch Lines
Norberg Hall is delighted to present Branch Lines, a new exhibition of paintings by Canadian artist Patrick Dunford. Through landscape painting the Winnipeg-born artist investigates human influences on the land and the industries that greatly alter it.
Dark Paint Night (Neon painting)
This weekly event by Y Not Today promises to be a fun time in an environment where you can unleash your creativity and share laughs with new connections. Be sure to sign up!
Spotlight: Linda Duthie
Join the Alberta Craft Calgary Gallery for their newest Spotlight exhibition by Linda Duthie. Through form and function Linda Duthie creates a pottery driven by the tactile experience. Feel the weight of the cup, the grip of the unglazed clay. Her earthy designs reveal her deep love of the natural world.
Process: Presence and Resurgence
This multidisciplinary group exhibition that bolsters the visibility of artists from Two Spirit, transgender, and non-binary communities. With the rise of transphobic rhetoric, Process: Presence, and Resurgence gestures to the need for unabashed, meaningful support for trans artists in contemporary art.
PDD Fiber Art Collective Show
The show is a collaborative group exhibition that combines the work of the embroidery and rug hooking programs run within Prospect’s Persons with Development Disabilities (PDD) services. This body of work represents the spirit of collective fiber skill building and making brought together by two amazing groups of artists.
CANstruction
Experience the incredible fusion of creativity, compassion, and community at CANstruction Calgary, hosted. This unique event brings together teams of talented engineers, designers, architects, and builders to compete in designing and constructing extraordinary structures made entirely out of non-perishable food items.
Hope and Love for Humanity
Join Immigrant Council for Arts Innovation for the exhibition Hope and Love for Humanity’. Experience a display of beautiful sculptures that inspire hope and love for humanity. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet and greet with artist Fadi Alkhouri and to be a part of something truly special!
Nonsuch
Nonsuch by Morgan Melenka employs commercially printed materials — mesh banners and Formica — to discuss the logic of North American built environments, history and imagined histories. Check it out at Leighton Art Centre! Exhibition Reception on April 13, 2024, 1 – 4pm.
Kewanee Street
This exhibition explores the affinities and connections between the hilltop artistic communities of Kewanee Street and Leighton Art Centre. It is a two person show featuring Malcolm Mooney and Doyle Lane who were neighbours in the ’80s and both lived on Kewanee Street in Los Angeles.
April Exhibitions
April is full of new exhibitions! Each month, we spotlight a new visual arts exhibition in the city, followed by... Read More
March Exhibitions
Make the most of March by exploring an array of visual art exhibitions in Calgary. This month's roundup will get... Read More
February Exhibitions
Fill up your February with any number of art exhibitions taking place in Calgary this month. Our February visual arts... Read More
January Exhibitions
Stave off the cold and take in some art this January by exploring an exhibition at a new or favourite... Read More
Questions?
Contact Calgary Arts Development’s communications team at 403.264.5330 ext. 118 or by email at events@calgaryartsdevelopment.com.
