Past Exhibitions

Explore our archive of past exhibitions.

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  Brendan Fernandes: Lost Bodies

  November 9, 2016 - March 19, 2017

  Lost Bodies brings a world-renowned Canadian artist’s work into dialogue with two of the country’s most distinctive collections of African art: The Justin and Elisabeth Lang Collection of African Art at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario and the collection of the Textile Museum of Canada. Brendan Fernandes offers multiple points of connection that draw upon traditional African textiles, costume and masks, gestures of Western ballet, and elegant, poetic dance choreographies within the museum vault, filmed in the archive of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.

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  Community Voices

  January 25–March 15, 2017

  Organized by Susan Fohr, Education Programs Coordinator

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  Home Economics: 150 years of Canadian Hooked Rugs

  September 3 – November 6, 2016 in Halifax, Nova Scotia

  Home Economics explores the unique stories and histories that have informed hooked rugs in Canada, the highly recognizable forms of folk art with roots in 19th--‐century North America. Featuring over 100 hooked rugs from the Museum's rich archive of international material culture, the exhibition represents generations of artisanal entrepreneurship, women’s domestic and collective work, as well as rural development in Canada.

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  Sheila Hicks: Material Voices

  October 6, 2016 - February 5, 2017

  Drawing on global weaving traditions as well as the history of painting and sculpture, graphic design, and architecture, American artist Sheila Hicks has redefined the role of fibre in art and influenced a generation of contemporary artists with her interdisciplinary visual language. From monumental architectural interventions to her more intimate textile works, Hicks' singular approach to materials exemplifies her masterful articulation of colour, texture, space and scale. The first of its kind in Canada, 'Material Voices' places older work in conversation with the new, evoking Sheila Hicks' understanding of her own practice as a continuous, open field that allows for innovation, appropriation and constant reinvention.

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  Worlds on a String: Beads • Journeys • Inspirations

  June 15 - October 23, 2016

  Universal materials of communication, ornamentation and ritual, glass beads offer extraordinary insight into worlds and world views – microcosms of meaning and symbolism. Cherished around the world, the shared passion for these luminous, kaleidoscopic treasures has sparked global trade, drawing ships across oceans.

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