Past Exhibitions

A Harlem Nocturne

Deanna Bowen
April 15 - July 18, 2021
Walter Phillips Gallery

darkness is as deep as the darkness is

Rita McKeough
February 1 – March 17, 2020; September 26 – November 13, 2020
Walter Phillips Gallery

A materialist history of contagion

Candice Lin
September 21 - December 8, 2019
Walter Phillips Gallery

A distinct aggregation / A dynamic equivalent / A generous ethic of invention: Six writers respond to six sculptures

A project by Aislinn Thomas with Anna Bowen, Angela Marie Schenstead, Crystal Mowry, Laura Burke, Catherine Frazee, Nicole Kelly Westman, and Shannon Finnegan
August 6, 2019 - March 31, 2021
Sound work available from Walter Phillips Gallery front desk and online

Guidelines

Carmen Papalia with Heather Kai Smith
June 15 - August 25, 2019
Walter Phillips Gallery

The Amended Artist's Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement

Shevaun Wright
June 15 - August 25, 2019
Walter Phillips Gallery, Satellite Space

this land is lonely for us

Jaime Black / Meagan Musseau / Anne Riley
June 22 - August 18, 2019
Walter Phillips Gallery, Satellite Space

Becoming Lithocene

Tsēmā Igharas, Suzanne Nacha, Meghan Price, Hannah Rowan
April 20 - June 14, 2019
Walter Phillips Gallery, Satellite Space  

Carry Forward

Maria Thereza Alves, Marjorie Beaucage, Deanna Bowen, Dana Claxton, Brenda Draney, John Hampton, Jamelie Hassan, Mike MacDonald, Nadia Myre, Krista Belle Stewart, and Maika’i Tubbs
Curated by Lisa Myers | Circulated by Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery 
February 2 - April 28, 2019
Walter Phillips Gallery 

Living Dead

Max Almy, Ant Farm, Mona Hatoum, General Idea, and Jane Veeder
December 5, 2018 - February 24, 2019
Walter Phillips Gallery, Satellite Space

THE CAVE

If the river ran upwards

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URBAN NDN Film Night

Like ships in the night

In shadows of the individual

Garden Gossip

for the time being
2017 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art

May 27 – September 10, 2017 
Art Gallery of Alberta

June 24 – September 10, 2017
Walter Phillips Gallery
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

Yesterday was Once Tomorrow (or, A Brick is a Tool)

Impulses

Everything I Say Is True

No Visible Horizon

Improvise Everything

On Cohabitation

Convergent Evolution

Rose, Dear

things you can't unthink

Notes on how to be a human

Amalie Atkins, John Sasaki, Bridget Moser
December 1, 2015 – November 31, 2016
Professional Development Centre

held above our heads in stone

The Calling

Without, within

Counting on People

Neïl Beloufa
November 8, 2014 - March 1, 2015 
Walter Phillips Gallery  

Verlag Notes: An exhibition of artists' books

August 15 - December, 2014
Eric Harvie Theatre, West Lobby 

Be Mysterious

Mark Clintberg, Rebecca Baird, Patrick Jackson, Daniel Jacoby, Joo Choon Lin, Alex Morrison, Brent Wadden
August 2 - October 19, 2014
Walter Phillips Gallery 

You Were In My Dream

Van Sowerwine and Isobel Knowles
July 23 - November 30, 2014
Paul D. Fleck Library, Kinnear Centre

Piano Destructions

Andrea Büttner
April 16 - July 20, 2014
Walter Phillips Gallery

We saw the reflected, inverted image of our own age

Tyler Los-Jones
February 28 ‐ June 1, 2014
Eric Harvie Theatre, West Lobby 

Lost Illusions/Illusions perdues

Sarah Pierce with The Conceptual Art Club and Josef Svoboda
January 18 - March 9, 2014
Walter Phillips Gallery 

TO BECOME WHOLE (THE WHOLE ISSUE)

Curated by Robin Simpson and Danielle St-Amour
November 16, 2013 - January 19, 2014
Eric Harvie Theatre, West Lobby

Skirt the parlour, and shun the zoo

Rebecca Brewer, Ursula Mayer, Josée Aubin Ouellette, Lucy Stein
October 5 ‐ December 15, 2013 
Walter Phillips Gallery

Bottles Under the Influence

Julia Feyrer and Tamara Henderson
May 4 - June 23, 2013 
Walter Phillips Gallery

Pleinairism

July 13 - September 15, 2013
Walter Phillips Gallery

Les Choses

Celia Perrin Sidarous
February 15 - June 16, 2013
Eric Harvie Theatre, West Lobby 

An Ever Changing Meaning

Aurélien Froment, Alexis Guillier, Louise Hervé & Chloé Maillet, Benjamin Seror
February 2 - April 7, 2013
Walter Phillips Gallery

Modest Livelihood

 Brian Jungen and Duane Linklater
August 3 - November 18, 2012
Walter Phillips Gallery

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Mark Leckey
April 28 - July 15, 2012
Walter Phillips Gallery

Kill the Workers!

Janice Kerbel
January 21 - April 8, 2012
Walter Phillips Gallery

My Best Thing

Frances Stark
September 24 – December 11, 2011 
Walter Phillips Gallery  

The Serving Library

Dexter Sinister
July 10 – September 4, 2011
Walter Phillips Gallery 

A Journey That Wasn’t 

Pierre Huyghe
April 16 – June 19, 2011
Walter Phillips Gallery 

Even Space Does Not Repeat

Anthony Burnham
January 15 – March 27, 2011
Walter Phillips Gallery

God's Dice

Geoffrey Farmer
November 13 – December 12, 2010
Walter Phillips Gallery

Popular Unrest

Melanie Gilligan
August 14 – October 24, 2010 
Walter Phillips Gallery 

The Promotion of a Holiday At School

Collection of historical promotional photos from Banff Centre's archive 
April 21 – August 29, 2010 
RBC Lobby West, Eric Harvie Theatre  

Who I Think I Am

Ron Terada
May 15 – July 25, 2010 
Walter Phillips Gallery 

The End

Ragnar Kjartansson
January 30 – April 18, 2010
Walter Phillips Gallery 

From Head to Toe
Nina Raginsky's Portraits 1972–1977

September 24, 2009 – February 28, 2010
RBC Lobby West, Eric Harvie Theatre  

The Singles 1999 – Now

Aïda Ruilova
January 24 – March 15, 2009
Walter Phillips Gallery

Where Separate Parts Join

February 20 – June 21, 2009
RBC Lobby, Eric Harvie Theatre

Once Upon a Time

Steve McQueen
April 25 – July 5, 2009 
Walter Phillips Gallery

Post-mortem

July 9 – September 20, 2009
RBC Lobby West, Eric Harvie Theatre

Standing anywhere in the space in a relaxed position

Silke Otto-Knapp
July 25 – September 27
Walter Phillips Gallery

Laid Over to Cover 

Photography and Weaving in the Salishan Landscape
October 17 – December 13, 2009 
Walter Phillips Gallery

Simple Functionalism

Garry Neill Kennedy
November 29 – December 21, 2008
Walter Phillips Gallery 

Screamers and Bangers:The Wallpaper Project

Dagmara Genda
October 25 – November 16, 2008
Walter Phillips Gallery

Touch Paper Once

Selected Documents from the Walter Phillips Gallery Archive 1976-2007
July 12 – September 28, 2008
Walter Phillips Gallery

strangely familiar 

Barbara Spohr
February 23 – September 7, 2008
RBC Lobby, Eric Harvie Theatre

ANTHEM: Perspectives on Home and Native Land

February 16 – May 11, 2008
Walter Phillips Gallery

Lily of the Valley: Attila Richard Lukacs, Still Life Paintings / Helen Lukacs, Garden

February 16 – May 11, 2008
Walter Phillips Gallery

2007 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art: Living Utopia and Disaster

October 27, 2007 – January 6, 2008
Walter Phillips Gallery

Heroes and Amateurs 

September 26 – October 25, 2007
Walter Phillips Gallery Lobby

Informal Architectures

June 22 – September 23, 2007
Walter Phillips Gallery

Stand Out 

July 19 – September 17, 2007
RBC Lobby, Eric Harvie Theatre

18:Beckett

Explores the legacy of the work of Irish writer Samuel Beckett as it appears in the contemporary visual arts.
March 31 – May 27, 2007
Walter Phillips Gallery

Light, Sky & Land

Takao Tanabe 
August 10 - November 2, 2006
Walter Phillips Gallery and Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Foyer

Comic Craze

May 4 to September 3, 2006 
Walter Phillips Gallery – Plan B Curatorial Space