Contemporary Calgary

Jun 23-Sep 18 Robert Houle: Red is Beautiful. One of the most influential Indigenous artists to break into the contemporary art world, Robert Houle’s work blends abstraction, modernism and conceptualism with First Nations aesthetics and histories. Houle went from residential school to art school to museum boardrooms and on to become an artist, curator, educator and writer. Red is Beautiful journeys through 50 years of what matters to First Nations and Settler relations today. Chris Curreri: That, There, It. Canadian artist Chris Curreri’s work often addresses the nature of relationships between people, ideas, society and even with ourselves. Through visceral photographs, life size mannequins and dramatic installations That, There, It features more than 30 works Curreri has produced over the last decade.