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Travelling Exhibitions, Through the Years

Archive of Past TREX Southwest Exhibitions & Education Guides

2023-2024

Land Eater

Jude Griebel’s solo exhibition Land Eater prompts reflection on human interactions with land and our impacts on the natural ecologies of the world. While the artworks conceptually explore consumption and degradation, they invite a whimsical and open-ended curiosity into how we define land and our relationships with it.  This exhibition is currently touring in TREX partner regions until August 2026.

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ReconciliACTIONS

The exhibition ReconciliACTIONS reminds us that reconciliation is an ongoing process, a chain of care and repair, not a one-and-done event. Decolonizing our relationships with one another and drawing new pathways of understanding based on mutual respect is empowering for all of us. This exhibition is currently touring in TREX partner regions until August 2026.

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The Nature of Ornament

The Nature of Ornament highlights parallels between patterns that exist naturally in the wild alongside humanity’s timeless inclinations towards adornment and visual motifs. Patterns are everywhere, and humans are pattern-seeking creatures. This exhibition explores the intersection of nature and human ornamentation. This exhibition is currently touring in TREX partner regions until August 2026.

2022-2023

Alone Together

This solo exhibition of work by Kelly Isaak features a hyper realism series comprised of portraits made based on photos taken of individuals during some of Alberta’s isolating COVID-19 lockdowns – the artist intended to highlight the times when we may have felt quite alone, but were able to navigate it together. This exhibition remains on tour until August 2026.

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MARY SHANNON WILL dot.dot.dot

This exhibition looked at well-known Albertan artist Mary Shannon Will’s playful use of the dot, line, pixel or grid. Each of the artworks are bright gems imbued with concentrated energy drawn from the artist’s experience of the world.

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Montageries

This exhibition features artworks that pay homage to “montages” and “memories” celebrating the 50th anniversary of the AFA collection – Multi-layered and complex, the artworks in this exhibition are each made up of an entanglement of compositional elements. It remains on tour until August 2026.

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WE ARE IMMIGRANTS

The exhibition celebrates early 19th century Chinese immigrants in Canada, and their resilience in overcoming immense adversity. The artworks highlight important contributions made by Chinese immigrants towards solidifying Canada’s confederacy, and shares vulnerable archival family stories. This exhibition remains on tour until August 2026.

2021-2022

Fields of Vision, Lines of Sight

The exhibition Fields of Vision, Lines of Sight highlights Alberta’s vast prairie landscapes rendered two-dimensionally by twelve artists from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts collection. Each artist uses varied techniques to portray Alberta’s flat prairies, rolling hills, and long highways with rich depth and clear lines of sight. 

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Niitsitapi Pi'kssíí (Blackfoot Fancy Beings)

Niitsitapi Pi’kssíí (Blackfoot Fancy Beings) is an exhibition featuring artworks that depict animals, or fancy beings, significant to Blackfoot culture by two contemporary Blackfoot artists, Ryan Jason Allen Willert and Kalum Teke Dan.

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The Nameless Boy who gave his name to Sunday

The Nameless Boy who gave his name to Sunday was an exhibition comprised of a collection of photographs and sculptures by artist Joel Matthew Warkentin. The photo series explored concepts that have traversed human history: ritual, spirituality, and symbolism, through abstract compositions of sensory observations and relationships to objects of sanctity.

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Urban Soul

The exhibition Urban Soul contemplated living creativity pumping vibrancy and culture into the veins of a city, a park, or anywhere that humans share space. Whether their art was on a skateboard, a T-shirt, a road sign, or a large mural-like panel, the six artists in this show expressed their individual identities and contributed to an evolving cultural conversation.

2020-2021

Between the Cosmos

This solo exhibition of artwork by Rocio Graham featured the natural magic of native-Alberta seeds made into cyanotype compositions that resemble galaxies and star systems. The exhibition explored the mysteries of the cosmos and encouraged an acceptance of the unknown.

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Habituate, Acclimate

Habituate, Acclimate featured the works of two emerging Alberta photographers, Nahanni McKay and Liam Kavanagh-Bradette. Both artists created photo-series that explore emerging survival dependencies necessitated by the effects that humans have on the environment

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In Good Company

The solo exhibition In Good Company reflected well-known artist John Snow’s lasting impression on printmaking in Alberta by featuring many of his prints from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. These prints highlighted his innovative use of the lithography printmaking process and his affinity for compositions that captured scenes and individuals in Alberta’s communities.

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Through those trees

Through those trees was a solo exhibition by artist Halie Finney featuring layered compositions exploring generations of her Métis family’s narratives within the Lesser Slave Lake region where Finney grew up. It explored what and how it means to live, work, grow up in and be connected to a rural landscape in Alberta.

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