EXHIBITIONS
2026

CLANDESTINA

Libbie Farrell - Mishel Torres - Nadia Zamora Hernandez - Solana Morante

Curated by Jamie Leer

10.04.2026-09.05.2026

Reception April 10th 7 PM-9 PM

CLANDESTINA explores alternative means of expression in times of repression. While the term “clandestine” is often associated with secrecy, the covert, and illegal, it takes on new significance within an artistic practice. This exhibition highlights the influence of underground press, zines, collage, and painting as vital tools for cultural communication. Across histories artists have developed subtle and inventive strategies to share knowledge, preserve memory, and express dissent. Obscured messages in collage, text, and painting allow these works to operate both visibly and discreetly, all while bringing together the communities in which they represent.

The selected works share stories of gender, heritage, and cultural identity. Together, they form CLANDESTINA: a community of solidarity and resilience.

CLANDESTINA, Marketing Materials, 2026. Design Credit: Lailey Newton

This Is Not The Opera

20.03.2026-22.03.2026

Reception March 20th 6 PM-9 PM

Noor K - Nelson Penner - Tima Pishbin - Riley Warren - Alicia-Cecilia Zaldivar

This Is Not The Opera, Marketing Materials, 2026. Design Credit: Nelson Penner and Alicia-Cecilia Zaldivar

Exposing the Darkroom YYC - 2026 Exposure Photography Festival Partner Exhibition

06.02.2026-01.03.2026

Reception February 13th 7 PM-9 PM

Students from SAIT’s Darkroom come together for a second year participating in the Exposure Photography Festival, displaying their talent, commitment to photographic excellence and their dedication to black & white analog photography. Working in the darkroom is where the magic happens for analog photographers.

Photographers:

Dave Albers, Larry Benke, Julieanne Berting, April Bishop, Curtis Collin, Griffin Cornwall,Kathryn Coulter, Christine de Vries, Jeffery Ellis, Ian Gregory, Keith Guinn, Gail Hinchliffe,Ryan HK, Linda Josue, Suzanne Lacoste, Petra Lange, Dennis Lee, Tina Lucas, Brenda Mansfield,Teghan Mendes, Sam Meybodi, Raffaele Mosca, Emma Palm, Anita Patterson, Cheryl Powers,Ward Sanderson, May Shi, Jane Situ, Zoe Smith, George Webber, Frances Williams, Anna Young,Oliver Yu and William Zhon.

Students from SAIT’s Darkroom, Marketing Materials, 2026. Design Credit: Lailey Newton

Chelsey Rice
Curated by Yaiza Lopez Garcia San Roman

2026 Exposure Photography Festival Partner Exhibition

09.01.2026-01.02.2026

Reception January 9th 7 PM-9 PM

Liminal Sunday explores themes of childhood nostalgia, memory, and undertones of a North American religious upbringing through liminal early 2000s digicam photography.

Chelsey Rice
I am an artist who has been practicing photography for over 18 years. As I enter a stage of life where I’m often thinking of the “good old days,” I set aside the professional camera that has shot many weddings and families to shoot imperfect, nostalgic photos with a digicam. The defects of the point and shoot perfectly reflect the blurry photographs in my head of the church classrooms I taught in as a devout Mormon, my in-laws’ apartment frozen in the 90s, and other scenes from my life. The low pixel count matches the fading memories as I’ve grown older. Currently my photographic practice chases the feeling of life before reality and adulthood took over.

Yaiza Lopez Garcia San Roman
is a chronically online artist and curator who loves the vernacular, daily life, and seeing the Jesus in the toast - finding artistic intent in the ordinary. Her practice revolves around memory and personal history, working with stock photos, writing, film, aluminum, wood, ham, cheese, bread (etc).