TRUCK CONTEMPORARY ART’S 3RD ANNUAL ARTIST CATALOGUE POSTCARD FUNDRAISER EVENT DETAILS

Saturday, February 29th, 2020 7PM - 10PM TRUCK Contemporary Art - 2009 10 Ave SW, , AB

Bidding starts at 7PM and closes at 930PM PROXY BIDDING

If you cannot make it to the fundraiser in person, we will be accepting proxy bids by email at [email protected] prior to the event and by text at 587-439-8706 on the night of the event.

Please include your maximum bid amount. BUY-IT-NOW

Prior to the fundraiser, you may purchase postcards at the BUY-IT-NOW price of $300.00 without bidding. This option is only available until the beginning of the event, which starts at 7PM on February 29th, 2020.

If you would like to BUY-IT-NOW, please email [email protected] Rose W./Ingniq

Mohkinstsis (Calgary) based artist, Ingniq worked her way through college as a cook, then in politics before she obtained her BFA with distinction from the Alberta University of the Arts (formerly ACAD). Of mixed settler/Inuvialuit heritage, Ingniq often creates work that reflects both aspects of her cultural identity as well as broader social issues related to Indigenous people today.

Often working with reclaimed or rescued materials in her art- making, Ingniq takes an intuitive and mindful approach to art. In part, this is a reactionary, conscious choice regarding the amount of rampant waste in this capitalist/consumerist society, as well as a symbolic gesture adding to the reclamation of identity. The need to create work like this is to focus on evolving activism that seeks to generate dialogue and awareness about the current and historical aspects influencing Indigenous people, as well as other groups of marginalized individuals and problems to generate opportunities for more inclusive and supportive societies. Alice Schoenberg

Alice Schoenberg is a female, queer identifying and Canadian born artist. She graduated from the Alberta University of the Arts in 2019, and is pursuing her MFA at the Parsons New School.

Her practice explores the nature of liberation and power as it manifests for marginalized and non-marginalized bodies, especially in relation to how the commodification of affective acts performs an allocation of power and bodily obligation. Alyssa ‘Sikapinakii’ Duck Chief

Alyssa ‘Sikapinakii’ Duck Chief, an emerging artist, is a member of the Siksika First Nation which is apart of the Blackfoot Confederacy in Southern Alberta. In the spring of 2019, Duck Chief graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in drawing with distinction from the Alberta University of the Arts.

Having lived in Mohkinstsis (Calgary) since they were ten years old, they now reside on the reservation of Siksika Nation in hopes of passing on artist knowledge to the younger generation. The work Duck Chief creates deals with their own identity, the Blackfoot Culture, stories told, and Indigenous issues in North America.

Duck Chief’s recent exhibitions include I’m Only Going to Show You Once, Now You Try at Stride Gallery (Calgary, 2020) and Mamanaw Pekiskwewina | Mother Tongues at the Calgary Central Library organized by TRUCK Contemporary Art (Calgary, 2020). Andrew Holloway

Andrew Holloway is a Canadian First Nations student who grew up in the mountains of Alberta. He has a passion for creating metal pieces and describes family, culture and nature as an influential force behind many of his pieces. He has a unique perspective on jewelry and wearable metal and every one of his pieces is handmade with its own unique design and flare. Andy Van Dinh

Andy Van Dinh was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where he earned his BFA in Painting at the . He obtained his MFA in Painting at Hunter College in . Anna Semenoff

Anna Semenoff is a Calgary based artist; she obtained her BFA from the Alberta University for the Arts majoring in Sculpture in 2019. Interested in spaces—her installations consider a phenomenological framework—the relationships between things and people regarding our placements. She has recently exhibited her work at TRUCK Gallery (2019), the Marion Nicoll Gallery (2018) and Stride Gallery (2017). Audie Murray

Audie Murray is a multi-disciplinary artist that works with various materials including beadwork, quillwork, textiles, repurposed objects, drawing, performance and video. She is Métis, raised in Regina, Saskatchewan, Treaty 4 territory.

Murray holds a visual arts diploma from Camosun College, 2016, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Regina, 2017.

She is a practicing cultural tattoo practitioner working with hand poke and skin stitching methods. Her tattoo practice is an extension of her visual arts practice through the reclamation and assertion of Indigenous bodies and the intertwining presence of themes like medicine, healing and growth. Bryan Cera

Bryan Cera is an artist, designer, and maker from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. His practice explores the intimate and often dysfunctional relationships between humans and their technologies, while investigating information and data’s reciprocal relationships to matter and ideas.

Cera has shown work across the US and has contributed to international exhibitions in Australia, Canada, China, Great Britain, and Switzerland.

He holds a Bachelor’s in Interdisciplinary Arts, as well as Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts in Art and Technology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Object Making and Emergent Technologies at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, Alberta. Callan Field

Callan Field is a Queer Canadian artist, adventurer and creative professional. As an emerging visual artist, he studied environmental science before completing his BFA at Ryerson University in 2014.

His aerial photography project “Blueprints” has been exhibited widely: internationally in the UK, in SUBURBED at the Harbourfront Centre and as a solo exhibition at the IMA Gallery.

In 2014 he was selected for The Peel; a multi-layered project featuring six Canadian artists as they canoe into the Arctic Circle through the Peel River Watershed. The upcoming documentary and touring exhibition follows the journey of each artist as they express their experience through their unique medium. Carlan Hughes

From the Treaty 7 land of Calgary, Alberta, Carlan Savage- Hughes is currently a visitor in BC where she is studying visual arts and community engagement at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Through interdisciplinary methods of making, she is a painter, writer and sculptor.

Her artistic practice is accompanied by an on-going effort to strengthen independent arts communities as an act of resisting the capital-driven values of the art world. Curation has had a key role in this process of creating opportunities. In her artistic practice, Hughes explores the emotional realm as a place of legitimate embodied knowledge. Cheyenne Bearspaw

Cheyenne Bearspaw, Iyethkabi Nakoda, was raised and currently resides in Mni Thni, (Morley) Alberta. She recently rejoined the Nakoda Audio Visual Club, in order to observe and gets hands on experience through their Member’s film project, and her heart is set on a visual arts practice and experiencing different art mediums along the way.

She has completed a class on reviving Indigenous Tattoos, and became a Cultural Tattoo Practitioner. Bearspaw is proud to be part of the Earthline Tattoo Residency. Cheyenne recently exhibited in Mamanaw Pekiskwewina | Mother Tongues, presented at the Calgary Central Public Library in partnership with TRUCK Contemporary Art in 2019. Chloe Collins

Chloe Collins is a Calgary, AB based artist working with ceramics in a sculptural context. Collins uses clay in combination with other materials—such as fabric, plastic, and foam—to create her sculptural works. Her practice exists somewhere between creation, assemblage and documentation.

Collins has been a practicing artist for the past 5 years and is currently finishing her BFA at the Alberta University of the Arts majoring in ceramics. Her most recent body of work is centered around intuitive exploration and assemblage theory. She uses the immersive nature of installation to explore a variety of interpretations within a constructed landscape. Her process of experimentation, material exploration and physical intuition results in a visual dialogue expressed in the context of a still life. Christopher Savage

Christopher Savage is an artist and designer who grew up in Victoria, BC, Canada. He received his Diploma in Visual Art from Camosun College in 2012 and a Bachelors in Fine Arts from the University of Victoria in 2014.

Recently, he completed a Masters in Fine Arts at the University of Calgary and participated in residencies at the Banff Arts Centre, Medalta Historic Clay District, and the Calgary Allied Arts Foundation. Couzyn van Heuvelen

Couzyn van Heuvelen is a Canadian Inuk sculptor. Born in Iqaluit, Nunavut, but living in Southern Ontario for most of his life, his work explores Inuit culture and identity, new and old technologies, and personal narratives. While rooted in the history and traditions of Inuit art, the work strays from established Inuit art making methods and explores a range of fabrication processes. He holds a BFA from York University and an MFA from NSCAD University. Dana Buzzee

Since graduating in 2012 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Alberta College of Art and Design, Dana Buzzee has maintained a dedicated studio-based practice and sibling- practice of feminist community organizing through arts administration and curatorial work.

Buzzee’s work has been exhibited extensively within Calgary and Canada, and has also been included in several international exhibitions. Buzzee’s recent solo exhibitions include such venues as LEFT Contemporary (Windsor), The Lily Project Space (Calgary), and Stride Gallery (Calgary).

They have also participated in residency programs at the Icelandic Textile Center and NES Artist Residency (Iceland), Arteles Creative Center (Finland), Artscape Gibraltar Point (), and the Roundtable Residency (Toronto), as well as Contemporary Calgary, and the Calgary Allied Arts Foundation. Eden Slabe

Eden Slabe is a Calgary, AB born artist an Alberta University of the Arts graduate focused on video, animation, and how we perceive ourselves and others.

Her work often speaks about social media and how performative our identities and personas are online. Slabe has a passion for bright colors and video because of the unique capabilities they have to create things unseen in the natural, or bodily, world. When she’s not animating or working digitally she loves to use ink and acrylics to make bold, graphic pieces. Erik Benjamins

Adopting textures and languages from visual art, performance, design, and writing, Erik Benjamins’ work champions the sensing body as a savored and necessary perspective with which to flex our relationship to place and its messy frictions.

Benjamins received his MFA in Studio Art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University in 2012 and has exhibited extensively throughout the US and Europe. In 2018 he took part in Critical Art Writing Ensemble III at Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity. Felix A. Tuba

Felix A. Tuba (Calgary, AB) is an emerging visual artist. Their work has been recently exhibited at FemmeWave Festival at Stride Gallery and Untitled Art Society, Calgary. Florence Yee

Florence Yee is a 2.5 generation, Cantonese-struggling visual artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto and Tiohtià:ke/ Montreal. Their interest in Cantonese-Canadian history has informed an art practice examining diasporic subjectivities through the lens of gender, racialization, queerness and language.

Notable exhibitions include Sino(n)-Québécoise? at Centre Never Apart and Le Salon at Articule, as well as exhibitions at the Gardiner Museum (2019), A-Space (2019), Art Mûr (2018), and the Karsh-Masson Gallery (2017). They have participated in residencies at the Gay Archives of Quebec, the John and Maggie Mitchell Art Gallery, La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, and the Ottawa School of Art.

Having graduated with a BFA from Concordia University, they are now pursuing an MFA at OCAD U in Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design as a SSHRC recipient and Delaney Scholar. Francesca Flaskay Rios

Francesca Flaskay Rios is an emerging artist who graduated from the Alberta University of the Arts in 2019.

Flasky Rios’ current practice offers a visual interpretation of autoimmune experiences that revolve around Scleroderma through oil paintings. Each painting represents an individual’s story dealing with their own affliction, whether it’s coup de sabre, atrophy, or reynaud’s disease. Her paintings are used to both increase awareness of the Scleroderma and fund research to find a cure. Glenna Cardinal

Glenna Cardinal continues to explore her bone-deep connection to the reserve land that she grew up on, the land that was her Tsuut’ina Nation grandmothers’ and is now the Southwest Calgary Ring Road.

Her work is a response to her displacement and forced colonial identity while seeking comfort in a new place. Cardinal is a Saddle Lake Cree Nation member who continues to reside on her maternal reserve, Tsuut’ina Nation.

Recent exhibitions include mourning home at the Esker Project Space organized by TRUCK Contemporary Art (Calgary, 2019) and Tina guyani | Deer Road at the Art Gallery of Guelph (Guelph, 2019). Cardinal, along with her son seth cardinal dodginhorse, are the Winter 2020 artists- in-residence at the Calgary Central Library. Hannah Doerksen & sopia bartholomew

Hannah Doerksen is a Canadian artist who lives and works in Calgary, AB. Her projects have been presented in exhibitions throughout Canada, including at Untitled Art Society (Calgary), the Art Gallery of Guelph, the Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton), Whippersnapper Gallery (Toronto), the Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff), and the Esker Foundation (Calgary). In 2017, she was nominated for the Sobey Art Award. sophia bartholomew (they/them) is a trans non-binary femme and interdisciplinary artist who uses text and textiles, photographs, and video to explore emotional and ecological reciprocity, physical fragility and decay. they are descended from norwegian immigrants on treaty 3 territory, and english and irish settlers in toronto. since graduating with their BFA from UBC in 2012, their practice has been guided by open- ended conversation, and collaborative work with other artists. Hazel May Eckert

Hazel May Eckert is a St. John’s-based artist and designer from Toronto, ON. Eckert’s work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions across Canada. She has received numerous awards, grants, and residencies from the Ontario Arts Council, ArtsNL, Open Studio, and The Rooms.

Eckert is also the creator of Nothing New, an independent publishing insignia focused on the production of small-scale artist editions and contemporary print-based works. Heather Kai Smith

Heather Kai Smith is a Canadian visual artist and educator currently based in Chicago, IL, USA. She completed her BFA in drawing from the Alberta College of Art and Design (2009) and her MFA at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design (2017).

Her current practice explores the potential embedded within archival images of protest, collectivity, and intentional communities activated through drawing, observation and iteration. Recent exhibitions include: The Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff), studio e gallery (Seattle), and The Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery (Vancouver). Holly Totten

Holly Totten is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist and recent graduate from the Alberta University of the Arts, formerly the Alberta College of Art + Design, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Media Arts.

Her solo show, Family Dinner is on Sunday, and her recent group show pieces, “Conservation”, and “We, Me, Us and You: Relationships and Identity” all featured reactive circuitry as a way of considering the audience within the context of art.

Totten has spoken and exhibited internationally at the Sound Days Festival in Liepaja, Latvia, and created sound installations for exhibit in Graudu Iela in Latvia, and in Koidu Seltsimaja in Estonia. Jacqueline Huskisson

Jacqueline Huskisson is an interdisciplinary artist interested in researching and documenting the human experience. Huskisson holds a B.F.A in Print Media from the Alberta University for the Arts and an M.F.A in Interdisciplinary Studies from the Belfast School of Art.

She has recently had solo exhibitions at Main Space Gallery (Alberta Printmakers, Calgary) and Poolside Gallery (VideoPool, Winnipeg). She has also been involved with various projects, installations, residencies, and performances around Canada, Northern Ireland, and Finland.

Huskisson is the recipient of various local and national grants and was the inaugural receipt of the Scott Leroux Media Arts Exploration Fund. Jamie McDonald

Jaime McDonald is a queer Métis woman working toward her BFA at the Alberta University of the Arts with a major in Media Arts. Her practice is primarily concerned with reclaiming and grasping onto her identity in a non- intersectional society.

Focusing on her Indigenous heritage, her sexuality, and her mental health, McDonald works in a variety of media including documented and live performance, installation, sculpture, video, and sound. She uses feelings of nostalgia, longing, and confrontation to address the binaries she faces. Jane Grace

Jane Grace is based in Calgary, AB and is a mixed-media and installation artist. She collaborated with Lisa Brawn and Angela Inglis to found The Sugar Shack Art Salon, which was an independent gallery and interdisciplinary project space in Calgary, and hosted local and national art exhibitions and residencies. Janet Wang

Janet Wang is a visual artist working within a traditional painting practice, integrated with sculptural installation practices and digital media based in Vancouver, BC. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia and her Master of Arts in Studio Practice from the University of Leeds in England.

Her work has been exhibited internationally and is currently represented through the Art Rental and Sales at the Vancouver Art Gallery. She has been awarded residencies from the Arts Council of England, ArtStarts, the Burnaby Arts Council, and received awards from the Vancouver Foundation and the BC Arts Council.

Wang recently exhibited Peep Show at the Calgary Central Public Library in partnership with TRUCK Contemporary Art in 2019. Jessie Rose Vala

Jessie Rose Vala (born 1977, Madison, Wisconsin) is a multimedia artist working in ceramics, video, installation, and print. Vala received an MFA from University of Oregon and a BFA in painting and ceramic sculpture from California College of the Arts in Oakland, California.

Her work has been exhibited at Ever Gold Gallery (San Francisco, CA), V1 Gallery (Copenhagen, Denmark), Present Company (Brooklyn, NY), Torrance Art Museum (California); and has been featured in art fairs in New York and Miami, FL. Vala was an artist in residency at Fjuk residency (Húsavík, Iceland), Playa at Summer Lake (OR), Jentel (WY), Can Serrat (Spain) amongst others.

She recently exhibited The Yellow Forest in collaboration with Stephen Nachtigall at TRUCK Contemporary Art in 2019. Kevin Xu

Kevin Xu is a concept designer, illustrator. and 3D Modeler. Born in Beijing, China, he Graduated from the Alberta University of the Arts, formerly the Alberta College of Design, in 2018.

He currently lives and works in Burnaby, BC in the video game industry. His works focus on visual storytelling, entertainment world-building and humour in character design. Laura Hansen

Laura Hansen is a Canadian artist based in Calgary, Alberta. She received her BFA in drawing from the Alberta University of the Arts in 2017.

Hansen creates art that is a visual representation of herself, her body and her beliefs. She is interested in the communication of her beliefs and questioning of the Primordial Self—the­ bare rooted essence of the human being. With thoughts of how our consciousness as a human being affects the way we interact and live in the world, she addresses ideas of existence and presence within inanimate objects. Laura Vickerson

Laura Vickerson is a Calgary-based installation artist and educator. She is presently a Professor at Alberta University of the Arts (formerly ACAD).

She has exhibited extensively in Canada as well as the US, Britian, Turkey, Poland, and China. Vickerson has participated in several artist residencies including The Banff Centre for the Arts (Banff, Alberta) and the “Sympo-Fibres International” in Ste-Hyacinth, Quebec. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards through the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, The Canada Council for the Arts, Foreign Affairs and International Trade, and the Arts Council of England. 1. make a circle in the dark long, long, long short, short, short, short Lou Sheppard 2. shoulder to shoulder around two dancers long, long long, short, short long, short, short short, long, short short short, long long, Lou Sheppard is a Canadian artist 3. who are moving around the circle long short, short, short long, long, short, working in interdisciplinary audio, short, long, long long, short short short, 4. do not let them fall short, short, long short short, long, short performance, and installation 5. someone flashes a flashlight long, long, short, long short, short, long based practice. Of Irish, English short, short, long short short, long, and Scottish settler ancestry, 6.it is a message in morse code long short, short, short, short short, long long long short, short, short, short short Sheppard was raised on unceded 7. eventually the dancers find each other Mi’Kmaq territory, and is based in long, short, long, long short, short, short short 8. in the flashes of light short long, long long, long, short, short, long, Halifax/K’jipuktuk. long long, short short short, short, short, 9. from the heat of their bodies long short short, long, short long, long, Sheppard graduated from the short, long short, short, long short, short 10. from the sound of their steps Nova Scotia College of Art and long short short, long, long short, short, Design in 2006 and then studied 11. they hold each other short, short short, long long long short, English and Education at Mount short, short, short, short long, short, long, 12. they begin to dance long short, short, short short short long, long Saint Vincent University. Sheppard has exhibited work both in Canada and internationally, and was included in the first Antarctic Biennale and the Antarctic Pavilion in Venice.

In 2017, they received the i am made in language i am betrayed by language Emerging Atlantic Artist Award and in 2018, they were long-listed for the Sobey Art Award. Sheppard is currently Artist in Residence in the Faculty of Education at McGill University. Luke Maddaford

Luke Maddaford is an interdisciplinary Canadian artist and curator whose practice explores the intersection of identity and place.

He has exhibited throughout Canada and holds a Diploma in Visual Art and Design from Keyano College, a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Drawing from the Alberta College of Art + Design, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Visual Art from the University of Windsor. He currently lives in Windsor, ON, where he operates a contemporary art space out of his garage. Maria Hupfield

Maria Hupfield is a member of Wasauksing First Nation, Ontario, currently based in Toronto, ON. Selected for SITELINES, SITE Santa Fe 2016, she received national recognition in the USA from the prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation for her hand- sewn industrial felt sculptures.

Recent projects include free play, Trestle Gallery Brooklyn with Jason Lujan, and Chez BKLYN, an exhibition highlighting the fluidity of individual and group dynamics of collective art practices across native, non-native, and immigrant experience; conceived by artists in Brooklyn and relayed at Galerie SE Konst, Sweden.

Hupfield also co-organized#callresponse with Tara Hogue and Tania Willard, which was exhibited at grunt galler (Vancouver, 2016); Blackwood Gallery (2018); EFA Project Space (NYC), 2018); AKA-Artist Run and Wanuskewin Galleries (Saskatoon, 2018); Eyelevel (Halifax, 2018); and finally at Stride Gallery and TRUCK Contemporary Art (Calgary, 2019). Matthew O’Reilley

Matthew O’Reilley an emerging artist and educator currently centered in Calgary, Alberta where he is currently working towards an MFA in ceramics at Alberta University of the Arts (AUarts). His art practice is multi-media but is focused on craft, acrylic painting, figurative ceramics, and pottery. Meagan Musseau

Meagan Musseau is an interdisciplinary artist of Mi’kmaq and French ancestry from Elmastukwek, Ktaqmkuk territory (Bay of Islands, Newfoundland). She works with customary art practices and new media, such as beadwork, basketry, performance, and installation to explore memory, language, and the relationship between land and body, object, and narrative.

Her work has been exhibited nationally, in venues such as FLUX Media Art Gallery, Victoria; Open Space, Victoria; Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton; MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina; Ace Art Inc., Winnipeg; Connexion artist-run centre, Fredericton; and Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s.

Musseau performed the third iteration of Interrelation in Mohkinstsís, presented by TRUCK Contemporary Art in partnership with the University of Calgary in 2019. Megan Dyck

Megan Dyck is an artist and educator living and working in Calgary, AB. Originally from Lethbridge, AB, she received her MFA from the University of Victoria (2014) and holds a BFA from the Alberta University of hte Arts, formerly theAlberta College of Art and Design (2010).

Engaging a range of media, Dyck has participated in residencies in Canada and internationally (Textîlsetur Îslands, Blönduós, Iceland, 2017). In addition to her studio practice, she teaches drawing, painting, and design courses at the Alberta University of the Arts and the University of Calgary. Megan Stein

Megan Stein is a visual artist based in Montreal, QC whose practice encompasses print media, installation, animation, sewing, and sometimes pancakes.

Through repetition, she plays with assumptions and metaphor to search for meaning in circumstance, everyday situations, misunderstandings, and complications. Stein uses an autoethnographic lens to consider the (written and visual) language of inclusion, exclusion, empathy, desire, and personal agency. Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber

Michael Dumontier is based in Winnipeg, MB and his work is marked by a process of reduction, material experimentation and minimal intervention. He has had solo exhibitions in Winnipeg, Toronto, New York, Boston, and Padua, Italy. Dumontier’s work is part of numerous international private and public collections such as The National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), The Winnipeg Art Gallery, The Vancouver Art Gallery, Folkwang Museum (Essen, Germany), FRAC Picardie (Amiens, France), Fondation Antoine de Galbert (Paris, France), and Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos (Burgos, Spain).

For the past few years, Neil Farber has been making paintings comprised of multiple thin layers of clear acrylic pouring medium. Farber’s work is in the permanent collections of: MOMA, New York; MOCA, Los Angeles; LACMA, Los Angeles; West Collection, Pennsylvania; Olbricht Collection, Essen and Berlin; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg. Farber is based in Winnipeg, MB. Nahed Mansour

Nahed Mansour is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist working between video, installation, drawing, and performance to explore the relationship between entertainment, labour, and processes of racialization.

Mansour has held the positions of Constituent Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Toronto), Artistic Director at the South Asian Visual Arts Centre (Toronto), as well as Director of Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts (Toronto). In addition, working as an independent curator, her programs have been exhibited at La Centrale Gallery, Critical Distance, VTape’s Curatorial Incubator, SAVAC’s Monitor, Toronto Free Gallery, and Pleasuredome’s New Toronto Works. Reza Reza ï

Reza Rezaï is a Winnipeg born artist and writer of Iranian descent. His work as a curator was the subject of a recent VICE Canada documentary.

Rezaï’s recent exhibitions include Always Seeing Something, a group exhibition at Platform ICA (Winnipeg, 2019) and a solo exhibition Mehmoon at TRUCK Contemporary Art (Calgary, 2019.) Richelle Bear Hat

Richelle Bear Hat is a Calgary based, Blackfoot/Dane-Zaa Cree artist. She graduated from the Alberta College of Art + Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing in 2011 and has since gone on to work with the Banff Centre as a Collections Work Study, TRUCK Contemporary Art (Calgary) as Engagement Coordinator and is currently a Studio Instructor at Indefinite Arts Centre (Calgary).

Bear Hat’s artistic practice investigates ideas surrounding familial relationships and the types of knowledge that are capable of being passed through them. Through the use of video, text, sound, and paper-based works, she employs materials and means of production to support transferences of memory and provide a platform for storytelling.

Her work has recently been exhibited in Taskosh pipon kona kah nipa muskoseya, nepin pesim eti pimachichew at TRUCK Contemporary Art (Calgary, 2019) and Planetary at Contemporary Calgary (Calgary, 2020) Rita McKeough

Rita McKeough is an installation and performance artist based in Calgary. Her work incorporates audio, electronics and mechanical performing objects. Since the late 70s, McKeough has been committed to creating chaotic and immersive installations that reconfigure contradictions and tensions in our everyday lives. She uses interactive technologies to represent complex interspecies relationships and to create links between her installations and sound and music practices. McKeough consistently works from a feminist perspective, and her recent work focuses on the environmental impacts of land development and the industrial extraction of natural resources. This recent work demonstrates her desire to use sound to create a rhythmic voice of agency and empathy to articulate forces of resistance in the natural world.

McKeough’s work has been featured in Radio Rethink: Art Sound and Transmission (Banff Centre for the Arts, 1994), Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women (YYZ Books, 2004), and Oh Canada (Esker Foundation, 2015). McKeough feels fortunate to have the support and assistance of her friends and community to produce her work. Samuel de Lange

Samuel de Lange is a Dutch-Canadian artist who works with combinations of photographic material, moving image, cast objects, and furniture. de Lange is the recipient of grants and awards from the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, and the Bank of Montreal and has participated in residencies, solo, and group exhibitions in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Europe.

He studied Studio Art and Art History at the University of Guelph, and received his Master of Fine Art from the Glasgow School of Art in 2019. He currently lives and works between Toronto, ON and Glasgow, UK. de Lange recently exhibited Between the Salt of the Sun and the Light of the Sea at TRUCK Contemporary Art in 2020. Sanja Lukac

Sanja Lukac is an artist and curator who exclusively works with traditional analogue processes utilizing paper, plate, polaroid, and film negatives in her contemporary photography practice.

Lukac is one of the founders and the Executive Director of SEITIES a traditional photography publication and gallery that is dedicated to international artists who work with traditional methods of production in contemporary photography. She co- authored The Stimulant, an Environmental Developer catalyzed to lessen the toxic effect of the Traditional Darkroom on the Environment and the Photographers Health. seth cardinal dodinghorse seth cardinal dodginghorse is a multidisciplinary artist, experimental musician, and recent graduate of the Alberta University of the Arts (2019).

He grew up eating dirt and exploring the forest on his family’s ancestral land on the Tsuu’tina nation. In 2014 he and his family were forcibly removed from their homes and land for the construction of the South West Calgary Ring Road. His work explores his own experiences of displacement and family history. cardinal dodginhorse’s work has recently been exhibited in Of Surroundings at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge, AB, 2019) and Tina Guyani | Deer Road at the Art Gallery of Guelph (Guelph, ON, 2019). cardinal dodginghorse and his mother, Glenna Cardinal, are the Winter 2020 artists-in-residece at the Calgary Central Library. Stephen Nachtigall

Stephen Nachtigall is a Canadian visual artist working in Arcata, California. He has exhibited throughout Canada, the United States, Scotland, and Germany. He received a BFA in Sculpture from the Alberta University of the Arts and an MFA in studio art from the University of Oregon.

His work considers the way in which we relate to things like plants from a mediated perspective, utilizing video, animation, sculptural installation, and 2D work to ultimately seek an equitable relationship between human and non-human.

Nachtigall currently serves as Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Humboldt State University. Nachtigall recently exhibited The Yellow Forest in collaboration with Jessie Rose Vala at TRUCK Contemporary Art in 2019. Tania Willard

Tania Willard, Secwe̓pemc Nation, works within the shifting ideas around contemporary and traditional, often working with bodies of knowledge and skills that are conceptually linked to her interest in intersections between Indigneous and other cultures.

Willard has worked as an artist in residence with Gallery Gachet in Vancouver, Banff Centre’s Visual Arts Residency, and as a Curator-in-Residence with grunt gallery (Vancouver) and Kamloops Art Gallery.

Willard’s work is in the collections of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Kamloops Art Gallery, and Thompson Rivers University.

Willard also co-organized #callresponse with Tara Hogue and Maria Hupfield, which was exhibited at grunt galler (Vancouver, 2016); Blackwood Gallery (2018); EFA Project Space (NYC), 2018); AKA-Artist Run and Wanuskewin Galleries (Saskatoon, 2018); Eyelevel (Halifax, 2018); and finally at Stride Gallery and TRUCK Contemporary Art (Calgary, 2019). Teresa Tam

Teresa Tam is an artist from Calgary, AB and her practice utilizes spaces and experiences that are familiar and then alters them into something a bit foreign through re- interpreting and re-creating.

Tam’s projects are developed to include and emphasize visitor interactions as integral components to the themes of the work. These themes touch upon alienation, identity, belonging, and the position of an individual within a community­­—particularly in the perspective of a 2nd generation Chinese Canadian.

Recent exhibitions in Calgary, AB have been presented at Contemporary Calgry, Stride Gallery, EMMEDIA’s Particle + Wave Festival, M:ST 9, WRECK CITY, IKG LIVE 2, and The New Gallery. Tyler Loeffler

Tyler Loeffler is a ceramic and mixed media artist who has lived throughout the Canadian Prairies and Northern United States. In 2017, he completed his BFA at Minot State University and is currently an MFA candidate at the Alberta University of the Arts where his practice is ever expanding and maturing. His practice currently explores the social and political connections of physical and perceived space. Loeffler lives and works in Calgary, Alberta. Zack Aboulazm

Zack Aboulazm self identifies as a mixed race, masculine/non- binary queer and is a graphic designer, illustrator, and artist working in Calgary, Alberta.

Zack currently works at Calgary Public Library where they have helped to open the New Central Library. Working largely in non-profit sectors Zack’s has done work for Wired (The Tom Agency), Sled Island, Springboard Performances, CMLC, and the Calgary queer community at large.

In their art practice, Aboulazm explores the relationships of personal and corporate identities through the act of production. By repeated acts of making—both handmade and industrial— and using subversive themes and materials, they explore the relations of the objects around us both new and old. PHOTOS COURTESY OF CHELSEA YANG-SMITH