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Documenting the Permanent Collection: work/s on view
November 2, 2022 - February 11, 2023
In anticipation of Mount Saint Vincent University’s 150th anniversary, MSVU Art Gallery will be di...
QUIET PARADE
October 15, 2022
As its name suggests, QUIET PARADE is a parade but also a platform to collectively create a vibrant,...
Annual Mount Community Show 2022
February 16, 2022 - April 14, 2022
Mount Saint Vincent University students, staff, faculty, alumnae and their families are invited to d...
Mike MacDonald’s Butterfly Garden Revisited
January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2023
Inspired by his encounters with butterflies and their connection to medicine plants and healing, the...
50 Bits and Pieces: an MSVU Art Gallery Retrospective
November 13, 2021 - December 17, 2021
2021 marks MSVU Art Gallery's 50th Anniversary. Culled from more than 700 exhibitions, 1000 workshop...
Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel H. Dugas: Fundy
November 13, 2021 - December 17, 2021
In the summer of 2017, artists Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel H. Dugas adopted the personae of astronaut...
Identity, Collaboration, Sustainability: an online, international festival of craft
September 27, 2021 - September 30, 2021
The practices and work of international collaborating makers inform the program of this festival foc...
Tactics for Staying Home in Uncertain Times
March 15, 2021 - May 16, 2021
Tactics brings together five emerging Black, Indigenous and racialized artists living across Canada ...
ESCAPE / The Great Indoors
February 20, 2021 - March 28, 2021
Why should comfort imply tedium? ESCAPE / The Great Indoors brings together cozy, bright, and colour...
Paulette Phillips: The Quoddy Fold
January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
The Quoddy Fold is an intimate interaction between a woman and a derelict coastal house. In this one...
Among All These Tundras ᐊᕙᑖᓂᑦ ᑕᒪᐃᓐᓂᑦ ᓄᓇᑐᐃᓐᓇᓂᑦ
April 25, 2020 - June 21, 2020
Featuring contemporary art by Indigenous artists from around the circumpolar world, this exhibition ...
Prospect 19: Megan Kyak-Monteith—Whale Hunt: I Think Everyone is Here
February 1, 2020 - March 29, 2020
Exhibitions in the Prospect series introduce artists in the early phase of their careers. Megan Kyak...
Heather Hart: Northern Oracle
January 18, 2020 - April 5, 2020
Northern Oracle is an ambitious rooftop installation that emerges from the floor of the gallery, and...
Sunetra Ekanayake: Botanical Watercolours
November 9, 2019 - January 26, 2020
In this exhibition of botanical watercolours, Dr. Ekanayake invites us to consider the precious and ...
Letitia Fraser
September 14, 2019 - November 3, 2019
This exhibition showcases a selection of works by Halifax painter and recent NSCAD graduate, Letitia...
Jane Kidd: Curious
June 23, 2018 - August 26, 2018
Kidd’s tapestries connect the repeated gestures of weaving with the repeated patterns defining hum...
Material Remains
May 26, 2018 - September 30, 2018
The works assembled in this exhibition express curiosity, skepticism and disorientation in the face ...
“it just brings me closer”: Reflections on Memorial Tattoos
May 5, 2018 - October 29, 2018
This exhibition of photographs is part of a larger study on the meaning and purpose of commemorative...
Maria Hupfield: The One Who Keeps on Giving
March 17, 2018 - May 20, 2018
Hupfield’s new two-channel video installation, The One Who Keeps On Giving, gathers around an obje...
Melanie Authier: Contrarieties and Counterpoints
January 13, 2018 - March 4, 2018
The spatial effects of Melanie Authier’s abstract paintings show how artists can engage with the a...
Bodies in Translation: Age and Creativity
September 9, 2017 - November 12, 2017
In keeping with the project’s focus on socially engaged creative work by artists who embody differ...
Ian Willms: We Shall See
September 2, 2017 - November 5, 2017
In We Shall See Willms documents his father’s traumatic injuries and the details of daily hospital...
Brenda Francis Pelkey: A Retrospective
April 22, 2017 - July 9, 2017
The exhibition includes nine bodies of work by the nationally recognized photographic artist Brenda ...
Tove Storch: Sculpture
February 25, 2017 - April 9, 2017
Tove Storch’s first solo exhibition in North America follows a three-week production residency in ...
Walking With Our Sisters
January 14, 2017 - February 1, 2017
Walking With Our Sisters is an art memorial that honours missing and murdered Indigenous women, girl...
Home Economics
September 3, 2016 - November 6, 2016
Highlighting how craft and commerce have been deeply entwined, Home Economics sheds light on two cen...
Kids these days
January 16, 2016 - March 13, 2016
Kids these days presents video, photography, and graphic works that draw from the fields of anthropo...
Robert Tombs: Index. Graphic Works 1985-2015
December 3, 2015 - February 21, 2016
Operating within the tradition of the artist/typographer/designer, Robert Tombs' practice incorporat...
“We are continually exposed to the flashbulb of death”: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg (1953-1996)
August 29, 2015
The exhibition comprises over 100 photographs taken by the legendary Beat poet and activist Allen Gi...
Bridget Moser: Is this thing on?
June 3, 2015 - August 16, 2015
Toronto-based performance and video artist Bridget Moser employs strategies associated with experime...
An Intimate Distance
June 3, 2015 - August 16, 2015
An Intimate Distance presents three multi-component works: Andrea Ward’s Hairstories, Glynis Humph...
Here you may see the best portrait that, later, I was able to make of him. Passages to Abstraction. Geneviève Cadieux
March 21, 2015 - May 17, 2015
This exhibition encompasses 27 years of production by Canadian artist Geneviève Cadieux, who works ...
Beautiful Illusions – Melanie Colosimo & Charley Young
January 10, 2015 - March 8, 2015
Beautiful Illusions presents works in graphic media by two young Nova Scotian artists. Colosimo’s ...
Prospect 17: Joanna Close
December 13, 2014 - March 8, 2015
Joanna Close presents a series of hooked rugs depicting buildings from a former family farm in New B...
Making Otherwise: Craft and Material Fluency in Contemporary Art
October 9, 2014 - November 30, 2014
The participating artists in Making Otherwise merge material and conceptual approaches of craft and ...
Ron Shuebrook: Drawings
May 24, 2014 - August 10, 2014
This exhibition acknowledges the centrality of drawing to Ron Shuebrook’s practice. Representing o...
Voices in Longitude and Latitude: video installation by Marnina & Noam Gonick
March 22, 2014 - May 11, 2014
Voices in Longitude and Latitude is a video installation about the aspirations of teen-aged girls in...
Terms of Engagement: Averns, feldman-kiss, Stimson
January 18, 2014 - March 9, 2014
Terms of Engagement includes works by three “embedded” artists: Dick Averns (posted to the Middl...
Chromophilia
March 16, 2013 - May 21, 2013
In this grouping of recent acquisitions, the importance of colour is the quality shared by otherwise...
Steve Higgins: Artist in Residence
March 6, 2013 - April 19, 2013
For nearly four decades, Steve Higgins’ architecturally inspired sculpture and graphic work has ev...
Prospect 16: Declan O’Dowd
December 15, 2012 - March 3, 2013
This is the sixteenth of the Prospect exhibitions, which introduce Nova Scotian artists in the early...
Scott Conarroe: By Rail
June 19, 2010 - August 1, 2010
Conarroe is well known for his social landscapes of familiar places, which evoke romantic pictorial ...
Diane Landry: The Defibrillators
January 16, 2010 - March 14, 2010
Over the past twenty years, Québec artist Diane Landry has produced a body of playful works inspire...
Diane Landry: The Defibrillators
January 16, 2010 - March 14, 2010
Over the past twenty years, Québec artist Diane Landry has produced a body of playful works inspire...
Stock: Stack, Kyle Monchuk
July 2, 2009 - September 23, 2009
Kyle Monchuk carves, slices and folds printed matter to sculpt three-dimensional cityscapes. His wor...
David Dahms Impromtu Residency
May 4, 2009 - May 12, 2009
During his residency, Dahms will be working on a sculpture and drawing installation under the mezzan...
The Disaster Series by Cindy Stelmackowich
April 14, 2009 - June 7, 2009
In her digital collages the Ottawa-based artist Cindy Stelmackowich merges two genres of hand-drawn ...
Susan Feindel: See Below
March 7, 2009 - May 17, 2009
The Nova Scotian artist Susan Feindel is known for her adventurous, experimental approach to landsca...
For Example (Butler, Clark Espinal, Gerken)
February 14, 2009 - April 5, 2009
For Example (Butler, Clark Espinal, Gerken) is the third instalment in a series curated by Micah Lex...
Logotopia: The Library in Architecture, Art and the Imagination
January 17, 2009 - February 22, 2009
Logotopia (from the Ancient Greek “logos”, meaning “word” and “topos”, meaning “place...
Jason W.F. Fitzpatrick: Bite and Burn, encore
January 10, 2009 - February 8, 2009
Bite and Burn, encore sums up the three-part project, Bite and Burn, which took place as follows: Ce...
Annual Mount Community Show 2008
November 27, 2008 - December 14, 2008
Mount Saint Vincent students, staff, faculty and alumnae are invited to enter examples of their crea...
Prospect 13: The Encounter by Suzanne Caines
October 25, 2008 - December 14, 2008
This is the 13th of the Prospect exhibitions, which feature artists in the emergent stages of their ...
Danish Modern: Suzanne Swannie Textil
October 18, 2008 - November 23, 2008
Suzanne Swannie is a Halifax-based designer and weaver who creates functional textiles, tapestries a...
ANTHEM: Perspectives on Home and Native Land
August 25, 2008 - October 5, 2008
In this exhibition the following artists present their responses to forms of Canadian identity, nati...
Donigan Cumming: Ex Votos
June 21, 2008 - August 10, 2008
The internationally renowned, Montreal-based artist Donigan Cumming is known for his staged portrait...
Kyla Mallett: Marginalia
June 8, 2008 - August 10, 2008
Vancouver-based artist Kyla Mallett borrows from the systematized aesthetics of 1960s conceptual art...
Kelly Mark: Stupid Heaven
April 5, 2008 - June 1, 2008
An interest in everyday moments and time-filling activity is mixed in Mark’s work with deadpan hum...
Chemistry
March 29, 2008 - May 25, 2008
Local artists Dan O’Neill and George Steeves recently made substantial donations to the University...
For Example (Andrews, Goldman, Koenig)
January 15, 2008 - March 23, 2008
In the second instalment of the For Example series, single works by three artists reveal stages of t...
Art Metropole: The Top 100 Organized by the National Gallery of Canada
January 12, 2008 - March 22, 2008
Art Metropole began in the 1970s as an informal agency of Torontonian and NSCAD-affiliated artists. ...
Annual Mount Community Show 2007
November 29, 2007 - December 14, 2007
Mount Saint Vincent students, staff, faculty and alumnae are invited to enter examples of their crea...
For Example (Moodie, Thib, Walker)
June 23, 2007 - September 16, 2007
This is the first in a series of four themed micro exhibitions commissioned from the New York-based ...
George Steeves
March 28, 2007 - April 10, 2007
In addition to his mastery of historical techniques and his exquisite printing, the Haligonian photo...
Prospect 11: Doug Taylor
December 15, 2006 - February 18, 2007
Born in Sydney and now living in Halifax, CKDU broadcaster Doug Taylor attended the Nova Scotia Coll...
Annual Mount Community Show 2006
November 30, 2006 - December 17, 2006
Mount Saint Vincent University students, staff, faculty and alumnae are invited to enter examples of...
Connect the Dots
November 29, 2006 - December 10, 2006
Connect the Dots brings together Mark’s mixed-media art with that of two other artists—Gerald Fe...
Pulse: Film & Painting After the Image
October 14, 2006 - November 26, 2006
Pulse brings experimental film into dialogue with contemporary abstract painting by presenting the t...
Micah Lexier: To Be Sorted
August 5, 2006 - October 2, 2006
To Be Sorted includes three vitrine displays of objects from the collection of Micah Lexier, with ea...
Roots & Shoots
July 15, 2006 - October 1, 2006
This exhibition draws out tendencies that circulate among the artists of Halifax Regional Municipali...
Nancy Nisbet: Exchange 2006
June 19, 2006 - June 22, 2006
Canadian artist Nancy Nisbet will be parking her 18-wheeler on the MSVU campus, within view of Bedfo...
Through Alberta Eyes – The Photographs of Orest Semchishen
May 25, 2006 - July 30, 2006
Orest Semchishen was born in Mundare, Alberta, the grandson of Ukranian immigrants. As a retired rad...
Wall Painting by Stephen Fisher
May 17, 2006 - May 20, 2006
In dialogue with landscape painting traditions and the current mediascape, Fisher appropriates place...
Libby Hague and Yael Brotman – Open Images, Open Text
May 13, 2006 - July 2, 2006
A chandelier motif, layered colour and an affinity for Japanese graphics–such as woodblock prints,...
Paperworks
April 8, 2006 - July 30, 2006
In 2004, Eye Level Gallery commissioned Paperwork30– a limited edition of 25 boxed sets, each cont...
Glynis Humphrey: Breathing Under Water
March 21, 2006 - April 30, 2006
Breathing Under Water is a multi-media installation by the Haligonian artist Glynis Humphrey. It pro...
Michael Fernandes: Room of Fears and Fixing Room
March 18, 2006 - May 14, 2006
Room of Fears is an installation consisting of one-sentence expressions of fear submitted by members...
Alice Egan Hagen (1872-1972), Nova Scotian China Painter – Window Box Series
January 15, 2006 - January 31, 2006
This exhibition presents china wares painted by Alice Egan Hagen around the turn of the nineteenth c...
Sarindar Dhaliwal: Record Keeping
January 14, 2006 - March 4, 2006
Born in the Punjab and raised in England, Sarindar Dhaliwal now lives in Toronto. In Record Keeping,...
Annual Mount Community Show 2004
November 25, 2004 - December 12, 2004
From quilts to baking and from photographs to embroidery: practically anything made by Mount Saint V...
Shifting Ground: Woven Works by Suzanne Swannie
October 23, 2004 - December 12, 2004
For several years the Haligonian textile artist Suzanne Swannie has been weaving functional floor co...
Godless at the Workbench
October 14, 2004 - November 21, 2004
Canadian art historian Annie Gérin selected the Soviet journals, posters, photographs and film (191...
Tracking: Bombings, Wars & Genocide – a Six Months Journey from New York to China, Vietnam, Cambodia & Indonesia–by Denyse Thomasos
August 28, 2004 - October 3, 2004
After the 9-11 bombing, artist Denyse Thomasos travelled to photograph jails and burial sites in Asi...
Elspeth Pratt: Hang-ups
August 7, 2004 - October 17, 2004
Elspeth Pratt is known for her inventive use of building supplies and her interest in leisure as it ...
Frances Dorsey: Rice Paddies / Vîet Nam
August 4, 2004 - August 8, 2004
Rice Paddies / Vîet Nam is a textile work-in-progress by Frances Dorsey. It is being exhibited at M...
Peter Walker: Last Supper Dance
June 12, 2004 - June 27, 2004
Nova Scotian artist Peter Walker is known for his mastery of trompe-l’oeil (fool-the-eye) illusion...
too small too big
May 29, 2004 - June 27, 2004
This exhibition is composed of works on paper by Canadian artists who make strategic use of textured...
The Found and Familiar – Snapshots in Contemporary Canadian Art
April 10, 2004 - June 5, 2004
In the midst of a technological revolution, this exhibition acknowledges the power of the snapshot a...
Work Work Work
March 27, 2004 - May 23, 2004
Taken from the university collection, these works, which use materials such as plywood, acoustic til...
Above Ground: Mining Stories
March 6, 2004 - April 4, 2004
Art-and-industry historian Rosemary Donegan presents life on Canada’s industrialized frontiers by ...
Elizabeth MacKenzie: Reunion
January 17, 2004 - March 21, 2004
This work is an ongoing series of hundreds of powdered graphite drawings on translucent vellum.
Lecture Notes
January 14, 2004 - February 29, 2004
With works in various media by Michael Fernandes, Rainer Ganahl, Mike Hein, Suzy Lake, John Marriott...
Hair in Hand
October 30, 2003 - December 14, 2003
The works in this exhibition frame women’s bodily experiences in the context of handwork and hair...
Beyond Words
October 28, 2003 - November 23, 2003
The art in this exhibition encourages viewers to think of language as something more than a transpar...
Illuminations: Homemade
October 22, 2003 - November 30, 2003
Haligonian Tonia Di Risio has been invited to contribute a Duratrans image derived from her existing...
Mean Feet (Window Box)
September 10, 2003 - October 26, 2003
The logic of the commodity is fetishist. The logic of shoe collecting is — what logic? Do you have...
General Idea Editions
August 30, 2003 - October 12, 2003
MSVU Art Gallery was the sole Atlantic Canadian venue on the North American tour of this long-awaite...
Placing Spaces, Spacing Places – Canadian Experimental Films & Videos since 1990
July 17, 2003 - July 31, 2003
For this sequel of Changing Times, the video and experimental film series presented by MSVU Art Gall...
Blind Stairs
March 15, 2003 - May 4, 2003
Including works dating from the early 1980s to the present, each artist in this exhibition incorpora...
Like a Candle (Window Box)
February 8, 2003 - April 27, 2003
This exhibition features an edition of wax figures (with wicks) of Princess Diana, fabricated by Hal...
Optical Illusions
January 25, 2003 - March 8, 2003
Assembled by Curatorial Assistant Renato Vitic, the art in this exhibition points to the instability...
Shui-Buo Wang – Sunrise Over Tianamen Square
January 11, 2003 - March 2, 2003
In June 1989, people around the world watched in horror as news footage showed Chinese government tr...
In Another Place, Part II Prospect 9: Lucie Chan
September 14, 2002 - October 27, 2002
In the art of Lucie Chan, the implication of displacement and dispersal extends diasporic themes int...
In Another Place, Part I Lily Markiewicz: Promise II
July 6, 2002 - August 18, 2002
This work incorporates photographs on light-sensitive paper, recorded sound, and video installed in ...
Laurel Woodcock: Take Me I’m Yours
March 2, 2002 - April 12, 2002
Sometimes described as "sentimental conceptualism," Woodcock's new media installations integrate tec...
Janice Wright Cheney: Disorderly Creatures
January 2, 2002 - March 3, 2002
Fredericton artist Janice Wright Cheney embroiders life-like insects on handkerchiefs, books and clo...
What is Church? Rural Churches of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
November 3, 2001 - December 16, 2001
The convergence of multi-channel video with music and the scanned and digitally manipulated images i...
Brenda Pelkey: Haunts
October 20, 2001 - November 21, 2001
The exhibition is composed of large-format Ilfochrome prints, some grouped in panoramic assemblages,...
Cape Breton Modern: Terrence Syverson
September 1, 2001 - October 14, 2001
The monumental shaped paintings of the 1980s and ’90s are luminous, monochromatic fields, often pi...
Cape Breton Modern: June Leaf
September 1, 2001 - October 28, 2001
The exhibition includes recent small sculpture, paintings and a drawing clustered around the suspend...
Charmaine
June 24, 2001 - July 22, 2001
Charmaine Wheatley is known for teasingly erotic subject matter. The exhibition includes documentati...
Portraits: Unsettled Subjects
June 24, 2001 - July 22, 2001
Realized in painting, photography, sculpture, print media and video, these mostly contemporary works...
Do Try This At Home
April 24, 2001 - June 17, 2001
In this exhibition, most works have been assembled from scraps, discards and inexpensive household s...
Flagmen of the Apocalypse – New Sculpture by Peter Walker
April 24, 2001 - June 17, 2001
The Flagmen, a series of freestanding welded and assembled sculptures (1998-2000), are Peter Walker'...
ad/vice (Window Box)
March 8, 2001 - June 30, 2001
Created by the MSVU Art Gallery and the Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies, this exhibition explod...
Julie Duschenes: Stories That Own Me
March 3, 2001 - April 11, 2001
This painting series portrays the artist and her partner in domestic situations reminiscent of paint...
Gather Beneath the Banner – Political & Religious Banners of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union 1877-1932
March 3, 2001 - April 11, 2001
The 21 embroidered and painted banners in this exhibition proclaim the conservative beliefs and radi...
e-textiles
January 13, 2001 - February 25, 2001
This exhibition includes works as large as 14 feet square that have been jacquard-woven at the speci...
Fugit Hora: Rubbings from Puritan Gravestones (Window Box)
November 15, 2000 - February 25, 2001
These rubbings were done in the 1970s by Dr. Nancy Chesworth (Mount Saint Vincent University Tourism...
Susan Feindel: Figura
October 22, 2000 - November 9, 2000
This show includes paintings and drawings produced since 1983, which re-enact nature's creativity ra...
Prospect 8: Rebecca Roberts Paintings
October 22, 2000 - December 17, 2000
Working from photographs, Roberts makes small, lusciously executed paintings in which the nude femal...
Indian Princesses & Cowgirls Stereotypes from the Frontier
September 9, 2000 - October 15, 2000
In this exhibition, popular images of specific female types from the "Wild West" reveal the structur...
Adrian Piper: A Retrospective 1965-2000
July 8, 2000 - August 30, 2000
This exhibition appeared at MSVU Art Gallery in connection with HX, a city-wide festival of internat...
Twisted
April 26, 2000 - June 25, 2000
This exhibition included works by three Haligonians who deploy spirals from cosmological, mathematic...
taboos, titillations & thrills
March 18, 2000 - May 25, 2019
Together, by means of direct address and selective disclosure, these works reconfigured the gallery ...
Little Scratchings (Window Box)
March 4, 2000 - May 28, 2000
This exhibition juxtoposes two representations of the Mount Saint Vincent University student body: a...
Jim Shirley Returns – The Art of James R. Shirley
February 19, 2000 - April 16, 2000
This retrospective, Shirley’s first major exhibition since his MSVU solo in 1977, includes approxi...
The Archaeology of Origin – Transnational Visions of Africa in a Borderless Cinema
February 3, 2000 - February 24, 2000
This film series brought together seven works by black film and video makers from Britain, Canada, F...
True Patriot Love: The Films of Joyce Wieland
January 20, 2000 - January 30, 2000
Wieland’s passionate nationalism arose from her concern about the American takeover of Canadian na...
Imagining [an]Other Canada – Reconsidering images of nationalism in the Canadian landscape
January 8, 2000 - February 13, 2000
This exhibition offers a contemporary critique of the proprietary nationalisms supported by 19th-cen...
Joyce Wieland: A Vignette
January 8, 2000 - March 12, 2000
At the turn of the millennium, while the flag waves over a disgruntled and divided nation, Joyce Wie...
From the Background to the Foreground – The Photo Backdrop & Cultural Expression
October 16, 1999 - November 21, 1999
Besides generating discussion around photographic portraiture, the vast exhibition, which was co-hos...
Skinjobs
August 13, 1999 - October 3, 1999
Skinjobs included works in various media by Canadian artists who confront societal norms by means of...
Flaming Creatures: New Tendencies in Canadian Video
August 13, 1999 - October 3, 1999
A program of 17 tapes by American and Canadian artists, the exhibition links contemporary critical p...
Confrontations – Unquiet Images from the University Collection
June 5, 1999 - July 18, 1999
The exhibition in the mezzanine gallery includes two further works: Margaret Clarke's "Mother Irelan...
Camera Obscured – Photographic Documentation & the Public Museum
May 15, 1999 - July 18, 1999
This exhibition is composed of 89 "behind-the-scenes" photographs selected from the archives of prom...
Prospect 7: Amanda Schoppel — Corporeal
April 17, 1999 - May 30, 1999
For me the rubber band provides abundant possibilities, involving tension or potential tension, inte...
Lunch Money
March 31, 1999 - May 2, 1999
To demonstrate how artmaking counteracts the effects of privation, the Toronto-based curators Kim Fu...
Fixations
March 6, 1999 - April 11, 1999
Curatorial Assistant Robert Zingone curated this pairing of a video by David Askevold and a photo-te...
The Convent Series
February 13, 1999 - March 21, 1999
Clara Gutsche's austerely beautiful photographs document an aspect of Québec society that is rapidl...
Style Council
January 15, 1999 - February 7, 1999
The term "style" has been displaced in the art lexicon by phrases such as "signifying practice." Yet...
Winter Gardens
January 9, 1999 - February 21, 1999
The exhibition presented 30 of the colour photographs resulting from Charlotte Lindgren's Winter 199...
Possessed (Window Box)
December 18, 1998 - February 22, 1999
This exhibition included personally representative objects from the private collections of four MSVU...
Grid Works (Window Box)
November 9, 1998 - December 18, 1998
This exhibition was conceived as a miniature, "satellite" pendant to two concurrent shows in the mai...
1,000,000 Grapes
October 24, 1998 - November 22, 1998
Ferguson's work is composed of 100 square, stretched canvases stencilled in black with an irregular,...
Notification 1
October 24, 1998 - December 13, 1998
Ninety-six colour photographs of the backs of envelopes used for the mailing of death notices in Fra...
Aprons Away (and Comments Book) (Window Box)
October 2, 1998 - November 9, 1998
As a feminist intervention in public space, Collyer's apron installation made jarring reference to t...
Language & Land Use, Newfoundland 1994
September 13, 1998 - October 11, 1998
A series of 13 photo-assemblages combining text, photographs and natural objects by the St. John’s...
Field Notes
June 13, 1998 - August 2, 1998
Field Notes consists of pieced fabric constructions which combine stitched, dyed and painted cloth, ...
Prospect 6: Painting by Sarra McNie
May 23, 1998 - August 2, 1998
Like her predecessors in the Prospect series, Sarra McNie has constructed a version of herself — a...
Margins of Memory / Trames de mémoire
March 14, 1998 - April 26, 1998
Although sculpture predominated this exhibition organized around themes of memory and corporeality, ...
In Absentia
March 7, 1998 - May 17, 1998
Composed of loans and works from the MSVU collection, this exhibition surveyed feminist approaches t...
Imaginary Places
January 10, 1998 - March 1, 1998
The exhibition, which included a series of brooches, earrings and pendants begun in 1992, emphasized...
Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Pictures
January 10, 1998 - March 8, 1998
This exhibition comprised hand-rendered images derived from photographs, whose cumulative effect of ...
Letters from the Edge: Zapatista Embroideries (Window Box)
October 16, 1997 - December 14, 1997
This selection of cloths embroidered by Maya women from Chiapas, Mexico, provoked strong viewer resp...
Queer Looking, Queer Acting – Lesbian and Gay Vernacular
October 11, 1997 - November 16, 1997
An examination of Halifax's lesbian and gay cultural production, which has had a vernacular characte...
The Painted Sounds of Romare Bearden
August 30, 1997 - September 28, 1997
The art of African-American artist Romare Bearden affirms black cultural heritage and its place in N...
Prospect 5: Proximities
June 14, 1997 - July 27, 1997
Halifax painter Alisa Snyder’s suite of paintings depicts marginal landscapes: the scrubby growth ...
Digital Garden
May 24, 1997 - July 27, 1997
An installation composed of a video projection and laser-printed photographs depicting Eastern Canad...
Animal Magnetism
May 2, 1997 - June 7, 1997
Chris Woods enjoys a reputation as an accomplished draughtsman and producer of experimental audio an...
Image Rites
April 5, 1997 - May 11, 1997
This exhibition was composed of works by artists whose ritualized production processes and presentat...
Extended Objects
March 20, 1997 - June 2, 2019
this exhibition staged the residue of artists' performances — once-mobile objects that reveal them...
The Osaka Exchange Nova Scotia & Osaka Schools
February 13, 1997 - March 23, 1997
An overwhelmingly popular show featuring paintings and drawings by Nova Scotian and Japanese student...
Kim Dawn: Legitimizing Pink (Window Box)
January 31, 1997 - April 6, 1997
Kim Dawn's installation in the library vitrines combined soft sculpture and make-up to produce an ef...
My Friend Told Me That I Had Carried Too Many Stones
January 18, 1997 - March 16, 1997
Suzy Lake's small constructions in plaster and photo-collage incorporated photographs of herself per...
Action/Performance & the Photograph
January 11, 1997 - February 9, 1997
The images resulting of conceptual and body art events of the 1960s and 1970s were often orchestrate...
Paintings by Peter Walker
November 15, 1996 - January 5, 1997
Provoking a decidedly mixed response, this exhibition surveyed three bodies of work completed by Pet...
Barbara Albert: Armour and Ornament (Window Box)
October 25, 1996 - December 15, 1996
Dawn Jaya organized a thematic statement around and exquisite chain-mail jacket made by Halifax arti...
Comme les jours précédents, les géographies du transitoire
September 21, 1996 - November 3, 1996
By accentuating MSVU Art Gallery's resemblance to a port shed, this installation by sisters Suzanne ...
Andrea Ward: Hairstories
July 18, 1996 - September 16, 1996
Andrea Ward's 41-piece series gives voice to women's concerns about this one aspect of their appeara...
Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge – Non Sera Nada Por Ninguen
May 29, 1996 - September 7, 1996
Using actors, props and painted sets, the staged photography by these two artists projects labour is...
Prospect 4: Glynis Humphrey — Gorge
May 19, 1996 - July 7, 1996
Including video and installation elements that implied the bodily presence of a monstrously large wo...
Ann Newdigate: Ciphers from the Muniments Room
March 29, 1996 - May 26, 1996
Newdigate’s digitized printout of a tapestry-woven shorthand letter brings textile media even furt...
Meta Textiles: Sewing the Second Skin
March 29, 1996 - May 26, 1996
The artists in htis exhibition engaged the notion of "second skin" from disparate perspectives, thou...
Prospect 3: Mongrel Moods – Video by Dorain Henderson
February 17, 1996 - March 24, 1996
A 21-minute tape that confronts the intimate illusion of home video with a poetically controlled vis...
Necessity: 21 Years of Collecting at the Mount
February 17, 1996 - March 24, 1996
A selection of works reflecting the varieties of necessity that have shaped MSVU Art Gallery's acqui...
After Perestroika: Kitchenmaids or Stateswomen
November 11, 1995 - January 7, 1996
This exhibition included more than 30 works completed since 1988 by leading "unofficial" Russian art...
Contingent
September 19, 1995 - October 29, 1995
This exhibition placed the work of two contemporary Canadian women in the context of American postmi...
Carolee Schneemann: Composition with Interior Scrolls
September 16, 1995 - October 29, 1995
Scheduled on the 20th anniversary of International Women’s Year, the lecture by this legendary pio...
Alex Colville: Selected Drawings
July 15, 1995 - August 20, 1995
The exhibition afforded insights into Alex Colville's process of planning his paintings, revealing u...
Prospect 2: Kelly Mark Works
July 15, 1995 - September 3, 1995
This exhibition recreated the utilitarian space of the artist’s live-in studio, suggesting referen...
Prospect 1: Knit Like a Sweater
March 25, 1995 - May 7, 1995
Cheralyn Ryan's paintings, which combine shallow pictorial space, intertwined imagery and uniformly ...
Living Evidence
October 15, 1994 - December 4, 1994
Rosalie Favell's project, which consists of a suite of inscribed and altered Polaroid enlargements, ...
Marsden Hartley and Nova Scotia
October 23, 1987 - November 22, 1987
Hartley was perhaps the most important North American modernist of the first half of the 20th centur...
