Gallery Archive

In our contemporary moment, our cultural landscapes are largely dominated by varying forms of capitalist exchange. There exists little to no separation between experience and consumption, sincerity and farce, and authenticity has been distorted into something that can be photographed...

Instigators by Guillermo Trejo will feature a series of posters depicting quotes from Nietzsche, Camus, Sartre, Kerouac, Buda, and others paired with iconic images from protest and social resistance. The result of the combination is an uncannily appropriate protest poster...

Marie’s practice is often driven by her desire to overcome shame through as many facets as possible. Whether she is repurposing discarded industrial materials that denote the artist’s shame, or advertising her Shame Hotline, Marie hopes to communicate a more...

SNAP Gallery invites members and guests to BIMPE IX The Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition. BIMPE IX, the 9th annual international mini-print biennial, is produced by New Leaf Editions in Vancouver BC. BIMPE is held every two years and travels to Edmonton, AB, and Kelowna,...

SNAP invites all to attend the 2016 Member’s Show and Sale. Print Affair, our Annual Fundraising Christmas Gala will open our 2016 Members Show and Sale. We are pleased to present the work of SNAP Members available for sale to the...

Why is our first instinct to polish the concrete and grind off the rust, effectively cleansing a space of its industrial heritage? A Modern Cult of Monuments attempts to grapple with this question by considering planned obsolescence and the nature...

SNAP invites members and guests to Graeme Dearden's exhibition To Do:. The exhibition interrogates his “intrigue with why people, including himself, make objects and how the methods they use convey their personal history.” Dearden’s work is created through the use of written notes...

SNAP invites members and guests to The Garden Of Earthly Delights by Juan Ortiz-apuy. The Garden of Earthly Delights is a sculptural installation exploring advertising and commodity fetishism, specifically how ideas of animism are encoded in the way that objects are...

SNAP invites members and guests to experience Retrograde by Edmonton based artist Jill Ho-you. Through hybrid printmaking and bioart, Retrograde explores the aftermath of the Anthropocene if changes in climate, biodiversity, and sustainability reach their predicted negative climax. Exploring what remains...

SNAP invites members and guests to Connections an exhibition of the combined efforts of two artist run centres: PrintMatters (Houston,TX) and SNAP (Edmonton, AB). Featuring a total of twenty four print-artists (twelve from each print-shop), Connections provides a chance to see a wide...

SNAP invites members and guests to celebrate and experience the 2016 SNAP Members Print Exchange. A perfect chance to see the portfolio in full! This portfolio of twenty eight artists marks the second instalment of the annual SNAP Members Print Exchange. An edition of eight...

SNAP invites members and guests to Carolyn Mount’s ExChanged. In this work the artist visualizes and represents the social experience in material form through creating a moment of trade economy at which her prints play a central role. Mount’s current abstract...

Ashes Over Water is a visual investigation of the imperfect and unpredictable nature of human experience. Through fragmentation and reduction, bodies are imagined as emotional spaces that contain injury, experience, complexity, and meaning—inseparable from the natural cycles of breakdown and...

In this ongoing work, Pestich charts the trajectory of a fictitious artist’s exhibition career, not through the artist’s work, but through the design and display of digital and screen-printed exhibition posters “supposedly” made by several different designers, advertising his shows....

Repeat, reiterate, recite — rehearse, learn by heart. Repeat so as to commit to memory. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. Sergio Serrano is a graphic designer and artist born in Mexico, now...

SNAP is pleased to once again host the University of Alberta Senior Printmaking Exhibition. Fresh Prints is an exhibition of artwork produced by the senior level undergraduate and first year graduate printmaking students in the Department of Art and Design at...

SNAP Gallery invites members and guests to Fractions from Belgian artist, Ingrid Ledent. In this upcoming conceptual exhibition, Ingrid Ledent presents work where she combines mediums to create an interpretation of representation and serendipity of time. Starting with stone lithographic prints,...

In the community gallery SNAP’s 2015 Emerging Artist in Residence, Dara Humniski presents a new body of work titled Nothing but us. In this exhibition the artist looks at the relationship between humans and nature, and considers the implication of the...