Exhibitions

Haptic Voices

David Bobier, Jim Ruxton
January 5 – April 4, 2026

David Bobier and Jim Ruxton are interdisciplinary artists whose collaborative practice bridges art, technology, and accessibility. In Haptic Voices, the artists present interactive, multi-sensory installations that transform sound, such as voice and music, into vibration, allowing audiences to experience audio through physical touch. Developed through VibraFusionLab, the exhibition foregrounds inclusive design and haptic technology, inviting visitors of all abilities to engage with sound as a tactile and embodied experience. Read More

Nîkânitisaham ᓃᑳᓂᑎᓴᐦᐊᒼ (S/he Sends it Ahead)

Jason Baerg
September 2 – November 21, 2025

Jason Baerg is a Red River Métis interdisciplinary artist, curator, and educator whose practice integrates digital interventions with drawing, painting, and new media installation. In Nîkânitisaham ᓃᑳᓂᑎᓴᐦᐊᒼ (S/he Sends it Ahead), Baerg explores Métis perspectives that intertwine natural, celestial, and human realms, emphasizing collective relationships to land, environment, and cultural continuity. The exhibition reflects on resilience, connection, and the ways ancestral knowledge guides present and future generations. Read More

Near Yet Far

Shellie Zhang
January 3 – May 23, 2025

Shellie Zhang is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores how histories of translation, migration, and memory leave traces across time and place. In Near Yet Far, Zhang brings together recent works that examine proximity and distance; physical, emotional, and cultural, through historical references, language, and symbolic imagery. Drawing on local and oral histories, the exhibition reflects on processes of assimilation, hybridity, and the evolving meanings of cultural symbols as they move across geographies. Read More

Shifting Energy

Vicky Talwar
September 3 – November 22, 2024

Vicky Talwar is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice draws on her experiences as a South Asian Canadian, exploring themes of identity, memory, movement, and emotional energy. In Shifting Energy, Talwar presents paintings and site-specific installations that incorporate vibrant colour, rich texture, and spiritual motifs such as mandalas, floral garlands, and mala beads. The exhibition invites viewers to reflect on purification, healing, and the space between lived experience and distant memory through meditative and immersive visual forms. Read More

Hunt, Gather, Remix

Adeyemi Adegbesan
January 8 – April 14, 2024

Hunt, Gather, Remix features the work of Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist Adeyemi Adegbesan, whose practice spans photography, illustration, mixed media collage, murals and assemblage. Drawing inspiration from fashion, music, science fiction, sports and traditional folklore of the African diaspora, Adegbesan creates Afro-futurist and Afro-surrealist portraits that examine the intersections of past, present and speculative futures within Black culture. Read More

#hopeandhealingcanada

Tracey-Mae Chmabers

September 5 - November 6, 2023

Tracey-Mae Chambers is a Métis artist whose installation-based practice explores identity, decolonization, truth and reconciliation, and collective healing. In #hopeandhealingcanada, Chambers creates large-scale installations using red yarn at sites connected to colonial history, including museums, galleries and former residential school locations. The work invites dialogue between settlers and Indigenous, Métis and Inuit communities through an approachable, non-confrontational visual language rooted in storytelling, resilience and remembrance. Read More

Thinking Like the Rain

Z’otz* Collective
January 9 – April 9, 2023

Z’otz* Collective is comprised of Nahúm Flores (Honduras), Erik Jerezano (Mexico), and Ilyana Martínez (Mexico/Canada). In Thinking Like the Rain, the Z’otz* Collective have invited members of Laurier’s Faculty of Music to join them as active participants in a drawing performance. The site-specific installation will reflect the inspiration and guidance instilled by the musical performances. | Read more

Take Only What You Need

Christi Belcourt
September 6 – December 6, 2022

In Take Only What You Need, Belcourt invites viewers to self-reflect on nature’s symbolic properties and the earthly connections that intertwines human existence with the natural world. Her vibrate use of colour and meticulous attention to detail create a visual landscape of wonder. She challenges her audience to acknowledge their dependency and responsibility for the survival of Mother Earth. | Read more

Sankofa Dias: Visions of the Afrotopia

Quentin VerCetty
January 10 – April 10, 2022

Sankofa Dias: Visions of the Afrotopia speaks to the idea of the utopia where Blackness can exist and be celebrated. Artist Quentin VerCetty envisions a future through Afrofuturism where public art and spaces are reflective of inclusivity and diversity. Evoking ideas for new platforms for equity and solidarity. | Read More

Reconnection

Kai Reimer-Watts & Richard Watts
mixed media online exhibition
January 6th - February 14th, 2021

This two-person online exhibition shares work that centres around the urgent need for facing our deepest compounding human-made crises, including climate change, inequality and a global pandemic, through Reconnection. These intersections are explored in Earth Etching sculptures which honour the earth, poetry, and video stories. People emerge to share stories and catalyze action, while the voice of the earth grounds us in the reminder that we are inseparable, calling us home to action. | Read More

Something Cold and Hard Like Winter

Shelley Niro
Feb. 24 – April 3, 2020

This exhibition showcases the movement of time through images of rocks, tryptychs and a video creating time immemorial. There is history as in history books and then there is evidence of looking at the surface of the earth and taking what is there for granted. We are part of the earth and will remain so. | Read More

Book Room

Rochelle Rubinstein
Jan. 6 – Feb. 15, 2020

The two rooms in Rochelle Rubinstein’s Book Room are not ordinary rooms. Unlike a library, they don’t house books; books are, rather, their very masonry. Much as a room symbolically represents the workings of the traumatic mind, a book is a figure of trauma, and it tells us how to read it. Reading a book is linear; meaning is revealed cover to cover, over time. Like trauma we can never take in all of a book’s meaning in one sitting. | Read More

Written Upon Leaves

Lana Filippone
Oct. 14 – Nov. 22, 2019

Written Upon Leaves follows mythological, spiritual and ecological narratives set off by a single leaf or petal and its complex tale; whereby we find meaning and create relationships with their symbols and archetypes. May we be reminded of deep interconnection of organisms and adaptations through darkness and light, seasonal and planetary rhythms, one another and of the proliferation and decrement of life. | Read More

And I Live On: The Enduring Stories of Rwanda's Survivors

Samer Muscati
Aug. 26 – Oct. 4, 2019

Twenty-five years ago, an estimated 250,000 to 500,000 women and girls were raped during the Rwandan genocide. Across a 10-year span, Canadian human rights advocate Samer Muscati has photographed the journeys of the survivors who have endured in the face of trauma, loss, illness and poverty. | Read More

In) Formation

Alice Teichert
June 10 – July 5, 2019

In) Formation unveils a new model for the Gallery. This model intersects two worlds that historically have been separate, the not-for-profit and the commercial. In) Formation will tantalize viewers with the possibilities of memory, language, sound and moments of understanding. | Read More

Coalesce

Barry Ace
Feb. 25 – April 5, 2019

Coalesce is a fusion of distinct Anishinaabeg aesthetics of the Great Lakes’ region with the refuse from western society’s technological and digital age – to intentionally shift an object’s materiality and its accepted paradigm within the physical world. | Read More

Heaven and Earth

Xiaojing Yan
Jan. 7 – Feb. 8, 2019

My art practice focuses on intricate sculptural installations that explore the intersection of cultural and natural worlds. Classical Chinese mythology, folklore and symbolism act as the catalyst for my re-examination and reinterpretation of these century old references. | Read More

Slide Library

Susan Dobson
Oct. 15 – Nov. 23, 2018

Over the past few years I have photographed a number of university slide libraries that were in the process of being dismantled. As these collections were being replaced with digital archives, they had not been updated or even maintained in a long time. | Read More

Crepuscule

Douglas R. Ewart
Aug. 27 – Oct. 5, 2018

Crepuscule events are large-scale, organized community improvisations that build connections across boundaries of culture, class, gender, and ethnicity. Through sound and story, a crepuscule provides space for all people to participate in multiple forms of art-making, building a sense of community cohesion and creative energy. | Read More

Zaagi’idiwin: Silent, Unquestionable Act of Love

Leanna Marshall
February 26 – April 6, 2018

Leanna Marshall is a member of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug whose practice centres storytelling, healing, and relationships to land and family. In Zaagi’idiwin: Silent, Unquestionable Act of Love, Marshall presents a mixed media installation built around the creation and documentation of eight jingle dresses, each carrying personal and ancestral narratives. The work reflects on colonial histories, loss, and resistance while inviting viewers to consider compassion, forgiveness, and the ongoing process of healing. | Read more

Thicket

Penelope Stewart
January 3 – February 9, 2018

Penelope Stewart is a multidisciplinary artist whose installation-based practice creates immersive sensory environments that explore space, memory, and perception. In Thicket, Stewart constructs haptic garden-like spaces using sculpture, photography, video, and beeswax forms to evoke imagined landscapes shaped by loss, refuge, and transformation. The exhibition invites viewers into a contemplative encounter with cycles of nature, architecture, and the passage of time. | Read more

Orasyon (Vespers)

Patrick Cruz
October 16 – November 24, 2017

Patrick Cruz’s video installation Orasyon (Vespers) explores immigrant identity, memory, and translation through a nonlinear diaristic video essay. Using a two-channel projection layered with overlapping voiceovers, the work rearticulates personal narratives of encountering the Canadian landscape while navigating tensions between cultures, traditions, and belonging. The installation invites viewers to reflect on the complexities of displacement and the shifting nature of identity. | Read more

Surface Tension

Eve Egoyan, David Rokeby
October 5 – November 26, 2017

Surface Tension is an interactive performance and video installation by pianist Eve Egoyan and media artist David Rokeby. Combining a computer-enhanced Disklavier piano with custom software projections, the work transforms live musical performance into responsive visual imagery shaped by pitch, rhythm, and duration. The installation invites audiences to experience sound and image as equal partners, creating an immersive environment where music becomes a visual and participatory encounter. | Read more

Transend: Meeting Room

Ron Benner
September 4 – October 26, 2017

Ron Benner is an artist, gardener, and social activist whose installation practice examines the ecology and political histories of plants and agriculture. In Transend: Meeting Room, Benner presents a mixed media installation combining photographs, maps, research materials, and found objects to trace the global movement of economic plants and the cultural systems tied to food production. The exhibition reflects on colonial exchange, farming histories, and the interconnected relationships between land, knowledge, and power. | Read more

A Casual Reconstruction

Nadia Myre
February 27 – April 8, 2017

Nadia Myre is an Algonquin/Québécois artist whose collaborative practice engages questions of identity, belonging, and cultural memory. In A Casual Reconstruction, Myre presents a video installation built from recorded conversations reflecting on mixed Indigenous identity and personal cultural history. The work invites viewers into an intimate dialogue about language, heritage, and the active process of shaping identity across intersecting communities. | Read more

Down the Rabbit Hole

Amy Swartz
January 3 – February 11, 2017

Amy Swartz is a Toronto-based artist whose mixed media installations explore obsession, control, and humanity’s relationship with the natural world. In Down the Rabbit Hole, Swartz combines organic and artificial materials to create intricate sculptural environments that reflect on consumer culture, biological systems, and the fragile interdependence between species. The work invites viewers to consider nature’s resilience alongside human attempts to reshape and dominate it. | Read more

Nostalgia

Mary Catherine Newcomb
January 7 – February 14, 2015

Mary Catherine Newcomb is an installation artist whose practice explores narrative, perception, and the relationship between memory and place. In Nostalgia, Newcomb reflects on revisiting remembered landscapes, examining how bodily experience and environment shape identity and personal mythology. The installation invites viewers to consider belonging, loss, and the evolving connection between humans and the natural world. | Read more

Nightwalk

Larry Towell
October 29 – December 6, 2014

Larry Towell is a documentary photographer and multimedia artist whose work addresses conflict, displacement, and human rights. In Nightwalk, Towell presents an experimental video installation filmed during a night raid in Afghanistan, capturing the tension and uncertainty of military presence and civilian life. The work invites viewers to reflect on the human realities of war beyond conventional reportage. | Read more

Expanded Listening

Darren Copeland
September 17 – October 25, 2014

Darren Copeland is a Canadian sound artist whose work explores spatial sound and acoustic perception. In Expanded Listening, Copeland presents a sound installation that uses ultrasonic vibrations recorded from everyday environments, inviting visitors to experience dimensions of sound normally beyond human hearing. The installation encourages audiences to reconsider familiar spaces through embodied listening and sensory awareness. | Read more

Erratum Addendum

Gordon Monahan
January 8 – February 15, 2014

Gordon Monahan is a composer and sound artist whose work explores the spatial and physical properties of sound. In Erratum Addendum, Monahan presents an eight-channel sound installation based on Marcel Duchamp’s Erratum Musical, generating new sonic variations through chance operations and electronic processing. The installation invites listeners to experience sound as a sculptural, architectural, and perceptual phenomenon shaped by space and technology. | Read more

Water & Tower Allegory

Patrick Mahon
October 30 – December 7, 2013

Patrick Mahon is an artist and printmaker whose work investigates architectural form and environmental relationships. In Water & Tower Allegory, Mahon presents printed sculptures that combine references to water, towers, and industrial structures to explore the intersection of natural systems and human intervention. The exhibition invites reflection on shifting environmental conditions through abstract arrangements of structure and flow. | Read more

Could we ever know each other...?

Jamelie Hassan
September 19 – October 26, 2013

Jamelie Hassan is a visual artist, writer, and curator whose work addresses human rights, cultural displacement, and global politics. In Could we ever know each other...?, Hassan presents mixed media works that examine cultural values, militarism, and civic responsibility, inviting viewers to reconsider the role of art in understanding identity, history, and social relationships within contemporary society. | Read more