February Exhibitions
Check out the new visual art exhibitions around Calgary this February — from outdoor art installations, to photography and more! Each month, we spotlight a new or outgoing visual arts exhibitions in the city, followed by a roundup of others you can catch this month.
Closing in February at VivianeArt is dénouement, a poignant group exhibition marking the gallery’s final show. Featuring works by artists who have defined the gallery’s journey, dénouement celebrates a decade of exhibitions, art fairs and creative collaboration that have made VivianeArt a gem of Calgary’s art scene since opening in 2013.
This exhibition serves as both a farewell and a celebration, showcasing the power of the gallery’s collective voices while honouring the community of artists, collectors and supporters who have shaped its legacy.
You can check out the dénouement group exhibition until February 23, 2025, at VivianeArt located at 1018 9 Ave. SE, in the inner-city community of Inglewood.
More February exhibitions:
Chinook Blast Art Installations
January 31 – February 17, 2025
Stephen Avenue (8 Ave. SW)
Free to explore
Chinook Blast has a brand-new lineup of mesmerizing public art installations for this year’s festival. With many installations being immersive or interactive, you’ll have fun experiencing artistic creations.
chinookblast.ca/installations
Exposure Photography Festival
February 1 – 28, 2025
Various venues
Prices vary
The Exposure Photography Festival is a month-long celebration of photography across Alberta highlighting exceptional contemporary work, creating opportunities for emerging artists and inviting the public to engage with visual storytelling through exhibitions and partner programming.
exposurephotofestival.com
Group Show: Continuum
February 1 – March 1, 2025 | Artist Reception & Talk February 1 from 1 – 4pm
Christine Klassen Gallery (200, 321 50 Ave. SE)
Free to explore
New York | New Work
Steve Speer’s newest series is in collaboration with the Exposure Photography Festival. Well-known throughout the local photographic community, Steve has been a key player in promoting, educating and representing photography as an art form.
christineklassengallery.com
Sacred Mendings: Echoes of Us
Rocio Graham’s exhibition is a photographic exploration of the profound intimacy that emerges when strangers connect within nature’s sacred spaces. This exhibition showcases transformative moments of love and connection, akin to the fleeting green light at sunset, illustrating the invisible threads that intertwine us.
christineklassengallery.com
Perception — Group Exhibition
February 1 – March 1, 2025
Newzones Gallery (730 11 Ave. SW)
Free to explore
Perception is an exciting presentation of Newzones’ artists who work primarily as photographers and those who incorporate photographic elements in their practice. With varying methods, it’s up to the viewer to determine how the photographs are created and, in some cases, where the photographic elements are.
newzones.com
Kristine Zingeler: Portraits of Time and Place
February 1 – March 1, 2025 | Opening Reception February 1, 2 – 5pm
Herringer Kiss Gallery (Suite 101, 1615 10 Ave. SW)
Free to explore
Kristine Zingeler is a Calgary-born artist whose work merges the textures of nature with contemporary perspectives through photography, ceramics and collage. Inspired by her residency at the Kiyooka Ohe Arts Centre and research at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, she explores the intersections of ancient and modern, celebrating curiosity and the imprints of time.
herringerkissgallery.com
Khadijah Morley: We’ve Met Before
February 1 – April 26, 2025 |
Opening Reception: February 1, 6 – 9pm; Artist Talk: February 2, 1 – 2 pm
The Bows (2001b 10 Ave. SW)
Free to explore
Marking the beginning of a new chapter in Khadijah Morley’s artistic practice, this solo exhibition delves into the artist’s evolving relationship with spirituality and the cosmos. Through a series of linocut and woodcut prints, We’ve Met Before ruminates on spiritual practices and her connection to transcendence.
thebows.org
Nickle Galleries Exhibitions
February 6 – April 26, 2025
Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary (410 University Ct. NW)
Free to explore
Leesa Streifler: The Performance of Being
Leesa Streifler: The Performance of Being is a retrospective survey of one of Canada’s leading feminist artists, spanning 40 years of her practice. Through expressive works in drawing, painting, mixed media, and photography, Streifler challenges conventions of body image, gender and identity.
events.ucalgary.ca
Earth and Sky: Carpet Cultures of Asia
Earth and Sky: Carpet Cultures of Asia explores the rich traditions of hand-woven carpets across Asia, highlighting the voices of weavers and their communities. Focusing on craft, trade, and cultural memory— especially within Iran and its diaspora — the exhibition reveals how carpets evoke deep personal and collective connections to home.
events.ucalgary.ca
Richard Brown and Mark Dicey
February 7 – March 15, 2025 | Opening reception February 7, 5 – 7pm
Norberg Hall (333b 36 Ave. SE)
Free to explore
Norberg Hall is pleased to present Richard Brown and Mark Dicey, a two-artist exhibition that brings a remarkable suite of paintings by Richard Brown created between 2010 and 2013, into conversation with major new works by Mark Dicey from 2024.
norberghall.com
Yaiza Lopez Garcia San Roman: Stock Homo
February 8 – March 22, 2025 | Opening Reception February 8, 6 – 9 pm
The Bows Studio Gallery, The Graycon Building (Suite #400, 319 11 Ave. SW)
Free to explore
Stock Homo is a series of photographs by Spanish-Mexican artist Yaiza Lopez Garcia San Roman that illustrate her encounters with homophobia. Although the exhibit surrounds specific memories from growing up in a small town in Mexico — her pieces chronicle shared experiences for members of the LGBTQ+ community.
thebows.org
Megan Feniak: With All Our Vernal Suns
February 10 – June 8, 2025
Esker Foundation (4th floor, 1011 9 Ave. SE)
Free to explore
With All Our Vernal Suns offers a vision of time and space that collapses the distances between the cosmic and the intimate, between the vast and the minute. Through carved and cast elements, Feniak invites us to a meditation on recurrent cycles.
eskerfoundation.com
Valentines Show — The Colour of Love 2025
February 15 – March 30, 2025
Wallace Galleries (500 5 Ave. SW)
Free to explore
A unique and diverse selection of art for the art lover in your life. Featuring works by a number of gallery artists and some rare finds, you won’t want to miss this Valentine-themed group exhibition!
wallacegalleries.com
Lauren Crazybull: Wish you were here
February 20 – November 2, 2025
Contemporary Calgary (701 11 St. SW)
With admission
Lauren Crazybull: Wish you were here reflects on our relationship to the ancestral lands that we inhabit, looking at how these familial and ancient places are transformed into heritage tourism sites that are both an extension and a reflection of the slow violence that is etched into their core.
contemporarycalgary.com
Knowledge Made Concrete
Runs until March 8, 2025
Illingworth Kerr Gallery, AUArts (1407 14 St. NW)
Free to explore
As Alberta’s two oldest cultural institutions, AUArts and the Alberta Gallery of Art’s century-long partnership that has played a key role in shaping Alberta’s artistic landscape. The exhibition Knowledge Made Concrete draws from the AGA’s Permanent Collection, showcasing works by AUArts alumni and faculty, as well as new works by recent alumni, offering a reflection on the past while also looking to the future.
auarts.ca
For more visual arts events and exhibitions, head over to the arts and culture events section of yycwhatson.ca.