Mary Whale: Between the Lines is a solo exhibition that showcases expressive portraits of older adults and celebrates the beauty of ageing.

Curated by Ash Slemming. TREX Southwest

A book publication and exhibition exploring pressing questions as we imagine solutions to climate change and global energy transitions.

Curated by Eveline Kolijn, lead Energy Futures artist. TREX Southwest

A group exhibition alluding to the mystery and aliveness of land and sky in the prairies, inviting viewers to listen, feel, and to connect with the land along the Great Plains in Alberta and beyond.

Curated by Ash Slemming. TREX Southwest

Speculative Fictions draws upon themes present in the literary genre of the same name, where artworks prompt viewers to envision our collective futures.

Curated by Ash Slemming. TREX Southwest

In Palimpsest, David Harrison’s vibrant series of graffiti palimpsests offer an abstract and lively exploration of hidden histories within the cracks and crevices of our urban environments.

Curated by Ash Slemming. TREX Southwest

Santosh Korthiwada’s solo exhibition offers a window into the complexity of change and  growth, with reflection upon distant homelands and quiet moments of introspection in a new land.

Curated by Ash Slemming. TREX Southwest

Jude Griebel’s solo exhibition prompts reflection on human impacts on the natural ecologies of the world, inviting a whimsical and open-ended curiosity into how we define land and our relationships with it.

Curated by Ash Slemming. TREX Southwest

ReconciliACTIONS invites viewers to contemplate how they can show up with care both individually and collectively in actively carrying reconciliation forward.

Curated by Ash Slemming and Colouring it Forward. TREX Southwest

Featuring work from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts collection as well as artists’ personal collections, this exhibition highlights parallels between patterns and visual motifs that exist naturally in the wild with humanity’s timeless inclinations towards adornment.

Curated by Ash Slemming. TREX Southwest

The exhibition Fields of Vision, Lines of Sight highlights Alberta’s vast prairie landscapes rendered by twelve artists from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts collection, portraying Alberta’s flat prairies, rolling hills, and long highways with rich depth and clear lines of sight.

Curated by Ash Slemming. TREX Southwest

An exhibition featuring artworks by Ryan Jason Allen Willert and Kalum Teke Dan that depict animals, or fancy beings, significant to Blackfoot culture. 

Curated by Ash Slemming. TREX Southwest

Comprised of a collection of photographs and sculptures by artist Joel Matthew Warkentin, this photo series explored concepts of ritual, spirituality, and symbolism, through abstract compositions of sensory observations and relationships to objects of sanctity.

Curated by Ash Slemming. TREX Southwest

This exhibition of artwork by Rocio Graham featured the natural magic of native-Alberta seeds made into cyanotype compositions resembling galaxies and star systems.

Curated by Ash Slemming. TREX Southwest

Alberta photographers, Nahanni McKay and Liam Kavanagh-Bradette, explore survival tactics necessitated by the effects that humans have on the environment.

Curated by Shannon Bingeman. In partnership with EXPOSURE Photography Festival.

The 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.

Curated by Shannon Bingeman. TREX Southwest

From bicycle rides to campfires to bucking horses, the scenes in Around the Block draw from artist Ted Rinkel’s observations on the road and in his neighbourhood, illustrating familiar narratives and bringing levity and joy to their audience.

Curated by Shannon Bingeman. TREX Southwest

The exhibition Creatures featured artworks of fantastical beings primarily from the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Amongst the elongated ears, discombobulated limbs and topsy-turvy environments are open narratives that we can illuminate and make our own.

Curated by Shannon Bingeman. TREX Southwest

Curated by Shannon Bingeman. TREX Southwest

From the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, these images offer a diverse range of subjects captured throughout Alberta and abroad over the course of four decades.

Curated by Shannon Bingeman. TREX Southwest