I am my mother's daughter

Farheen Haq

Sat 23 May 2026 – Sat 18 July 2026

Opening Reception Sat 23 May 2026 2PM - 4PM

میں اپنی ماں کی بیٹی ہوں | I am my mother’s daughter is a solo exhibition hosted at NAC, featuring the works of acclaimed Canadian artist Farheen Haq.  The exhibition celebrates the resilience and knowledge systems of Haq’s mother who arrived in Canada in the 1970s to live with her partner in an arranged marriage, settling in the Niagara region, Haudenosaunee Territory. 

The exhibition is a mixture of video, sculptural, textile and installation art, which weaves together intergenerational relationships, connecting the experience of the artist’s mother with Haq’s experience as a child of that union and subsequently, its impact on her own experience as a mother. The artist’s work of inner housekeeping includes personal journeys through a family’s past as a way of moving forward, and political reconciliations determined by the territories on which she and her family arrived as guests.

Exile on Dain St.

Susan Nicholson + Kevin Richardson

Fri 29 May 2026 – Sat 13 June 2026

RECEPTION
Sat 6 June at 7PM

Rock n' Roll with Attic Daddy at 8PM

Spotted with Pansies

Chris Glabb

Sun 1 Feb 2026 – Sun 3 May 2026

Opening Reception Sun 1 Feb 2026

Spotted with Pansies explores how landscape can be weaponized to enact harm against marginalized communities. A pansy is both a flower and a derogatory term for a feminine gay man, making it simultaneously beautiful and inflammatory. The title of the series refers to a time in the artist’s life when, before coming out, he feared being seen with other homosexual men: afraid that this association would expose him as “one of them.” These works pervert ornamental tradition, embracing fashion and Internet culture as Queer muses. Overwhelming the architectural surface with spots underscores how Queerness is often rendered decorative and claustrophobic, ostentatious to the point of suffocation.

This project was supported by the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.

Select works on loan from de Montigny Contemporary.