What's On in Calgary

This photographic work continues Vivek Shraya’s queering of performance, photography, and storytelling to reflect an ever-evolving notion of herself and the immense value of non-conforming role models. Making is a way to disrupt these hierarchies and break the rules.

Stride Gallery is excited to present an exhibition of artist Farihah Aliyah Shah’s photography and film work, curated by Eva Birhanu. Shah’s new body of work, Without a Leg to Stand On (2021) challenges the technological changes to film and photo production and racial bias throughout the decades.

Founded in 1931, the Alberta Society of Artists is the oldest society of juried professional artists in the province. Celebrate 90 years of excellence in the visual arts and join them for a free group exhibition featuring juried and life members. Everyone is welcome!

VivianeArt presents the 8th edition of their annual invitational exhibition, HAND PIC’D, featuring works by Jasmine MacGregor, Sadia Fakih and Josefina Rodríguez Varela. Each artist explores their cultural heritage through a female lens as a means to instill empowerment, strength and belonging. Drop on by!

Experience the beautiful textile art by Barb Drake! This show consists of two of her bodies of work Nostalgia, a small collection of assemblages created using vintage paint and her second more recent, Explorations with Botanical Dyes. Make sure to check it out!

Alberta Printmakers presents WYSIWYG by Alex Linfield. Materials such as dust are known for their strong connection to the passage of time. However, through the works in this exhibition, many fundamental concepts of being are defamiliarized through subtle digital manipulations of familiar materials and surfaces. Check it out!

This exhibition by Florence Yee contends with anxieties surrounding diaspora, racialization and queerness. Yee seeks to de-romanticize emotions of nostalgia and healing through centring ugly feelings, denying any cathartic and healing release through the hand-embroidered pieces that comprise their work. Make sure to check it out!

As a witness to colonial and sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, Brian Flynn has confronted some of the harshest realities of the human condition. The outcome is a series of paintings based on both the first-hand experience of civil war and extensive research.

Nickle Galleries presents the latest project from artist Sandra Sawatzky. Using a needle and thread, Sawatzky explores our aspirations and their social, political, and environmental consequences. The Age of Uncertainty is a body of 12 embroidered panels that consider the stories that keep us awake at night.

This exhibition highlights animals depicted on currencies and the historical use of animals as money with the aim to raise awareness of our complex bond and dependence on these fantastic creatures, and their place in the modern world.

A sculptural landscape, this immersive installation by Indigenous artist Ludovic Boney invites visitors to embody the concept of passage by walking through and around its formal elements. Boney’s sculpture evokes an experiential field, which offers both inside and outside vantage points and a multiplicity of spaces.