New Art Now: Recent Acquisitions
Sally Frater
Like so many other cultural organizations throughout the world this year, the Art Gallery of Guelph had to temporarily suspend its regular artistic programming. At a time when we could not open our doors to visitors, we were still committed to ensuring that the general public would be able to continue to engage with our installations and collection.
New Art Now: Recent Acquisitions is the physical iteration of two online exhibitions featuring works that the AGG has acquired over the past five years. The pieces shown here span a variety of media that include painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, and video. As most institutions only display close to 10 percent of the works within their collections, New Art Now: Recent Acquisitions offers a glimpse of some of the recent contemporary works acquired by the gallery, insight into the scope of the AGG’s collecting activities, as well as a sampling of some of the compelling work that is being produced by Canadian artists.
Image detail: William Eakin, Bottlecap 3321 (Orange Coloured Winnipeg), 2001, 33 × 33 cm. Gift of Leo Kamen, 2016, Art Gallery of Guelph Collection
Artists
Don Bonham
Katherine Boyer
Shary Boyle
William Eakin
Monika Hauck
April Hickox
Mark Igloliorte
Stephen Lack
Laura Millard
Meagan Musseau
Diana Thorneycroft
Catherine Widgery
Nico Williams
Akira Yoshikawa
Robert Youds
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May 22.2025 / August 29.2025
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May 22.2025 / August 29.2025
Curated through an open call, artists from across Guelph were invited to share their work in a collective reflection of the city’s creative landscape.
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May 3.2025 / May 8.2025
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April 24.2025 / April 29.2025
Through photography, Bahar Enshaeian unravels the intricate layers of memory, identity, and belonging. Rooted in personal experience, her work speaks to the complexities of migration, displacement, and the search for home.
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April 10.2025 / April 15.2025
What utility can we find in vestiges of the past? This question shapes Hal Fortin’s interdisciplinary practice and its distinct sculptural language, punctuated by humour, dream logic, and the rhythms of domestic labour.
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April 2.2025 / April 6.2025
At the heart of Stephanie Fortin’s practice is an ethical inquiry: is it necessary—or responsible—to aestheticize waste in the context of global exploitation and climate change?
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Contemporary Indigenous Artists at AGG
January 16.2025 / May 4.2025
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September 12.2024 / January 5.2025
Eternal Transcendent highlights a selection of photographic works by Robert Flack that convey his reverence for the more-than-corporeal and a yearning for healing in light of the AIDS epidemic.
