Gordon Snelgrove Gallery

Gordon Snelgrove Gallery The Gordon Snelgrove Gallery is located in the Murray Building with the Department of Art + Art Hist
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The Gordon Snelgrove Gallery is a crucial venue for new work by artists and curators both within the Department of Art and Art History and the wider community. Frequent public presentations by visiting artists, panels and screenings position it as an important hub in the arts ecology of Saskatoon. Additionally, the gallery curates The Department of Art and Art History Collection, consisting of sel

ect works from graduating students. Art from the collection is displayed throughout the Murray Building, the university library, a number of sites on campus and the gallery website. The gallery is located at 191 Murray Building on the University of Saskatchewan campus. It is typically open Monday to Friday, 9:30am to 4:30pm and closed weekends and holidays, but right now is closed to the public in deference to public health in response to the COVID 19 Pandemic.

Xiao Han is a Saskatoon-based artist and curator originally from Wuhan, China. Han’s creative practice focuses on photog...
05/29/2026

Xiao Han is a Saskatoon-based artist and curator originally from Wuhan, China. Han’s creative practice focuses on photography, lens-based performance, and visualising emotion. Han’s research explores diasporic identity, the relationship between immigrants and Indigenous land, and contemporary gender issues through a decolonial lens. Han has produced numerous projects investigating Chinese-Canadian restaurant history, the identity of home, and the aesthetics of community relationships.

Xiao curated “Threads of Time: An Asian Heritage Month Exhibition” which was on view at Gordon Snelgrove Gallery May 4 - 22.

On this year’s exhibition, Xiao remarked, “As we move through a period of transformation in the contemporary moment, artists are visualising their feelings, thoughts, and visions for the future. The third year of USask Asian Heritage Month offers an important opportunity to amplify the voices of younger generations of Asian heritage students and alumni.

Through the presentation of their visual artworks, these artists articulate futures shaped by their own lived experiences and aspirations. This exhibition, centred on narratives of Asian heritage in May, holds particular significance within the Prairie context and contributes meaningfully to the broader fabric of Canadian cultural history.”

Please join us for a public reception and awards night on Friday, May 29th from 6-8PM for our 2026 Senior Art Show curat...
05/28/2026

Please join us for a public reception and awards night on Friday, May 29th from 6-8PM for our 2026 Senior Art Show curated by Jessica Morgun.

This annual exhibition open to artwork submissions from all Grade 12 students in Saskatoon is currently on view at Gordon Snelgrove Gallery May 25-June 5.

Thank you to Art Placement, BlackFlash Magazine, SK Printmakers, SK Craft Council, T&T Pottery Supply, Hues Art Supply, Saskatoon Makerspace, Jillian Ross Print, Remai Modern, and Zach and Iris Hauser for your generous sponsorship and adjudication of student awards and prizes!

Atrayee Basu is an Indian-born Canadian interdisciplinary artist based in Treaty 6 and the home of many ancestors. She i...
05/27/2026

Atrayee Basu is an Indian-born Canadian interdisciplinary artist based in Treaty 6 and the home of many ancestors. She is completing her Masters in Fine Arts at the University of Saskatchewan in association with Anthropology. Her research examines the relationships among materials, land, and human relationships to cultural heritage through the process of making, repurposing, reimagining, and renewing.

Atrayee’s work was included in “Threads of Time: An Asian Heritage Exhibition” curated by Xiao Han at Gordon Snelgrove Gallery from May 4 - 22.

Namya Jain is a Delhi-born photographic artist and a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan. Her work explores the p...
05/22/2026

Namya Jain is a Delhi-born photographic artist and a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan. Her work explores the profound cycle of Jeevan and Mrityu—Life and Death—capturing the resilient beauty found within decay and and the natural world. Through a vintage aesthetic, she challenges viewers to find elegance in the grotesque and to recognize every end as a “new bloom”.

Namya’s works were included in “Threads of Time: An Asian Heritage Month Exhibition” curated by Xiao Han May 4-22 at Gordon Snelgrove Gallery.

Abraham Galman is an interdisciplinary artist and designer based in Saskatoon, SK. As a q***r Filipino-Canadian, his pra...
05/19/2026

Abraham Galman is an interdisciplinary artist and designer based in Saskatoon, SK. As a q***r Filipino-Canadian, his practice centers the intersection of Filipino cultural heritage and q***r identity. He is currently completing his BFA in Design in Drama at the University of Saskatchewan, where his background in set and costume design continues to inform his work.

His early interest in drawing, theatre, and craft was shaped by an attraction to elaborate stage worlds and costuming, which he frequently recreated through sketching and model-making. Initially working in painting and drawing, his practice has since expanded to include more experimental approaches, integrating set and costume design methodologies into two-dimensional work.

Abraham’s works are currently included in “Threads of Time: An Asian Heritage Month Exhibition” curated by Xiao Han, on view at Gordon Snelgrove Gallery May 4 - May 22.

Please join us for a public closing reception this Thursday, May 21 from 5-8PM.

Qiming Sezava Sun is a Canadian visual artist/witch based in Saskatoon (Treaty 6). Working across the disciplines of pai...
05/15/2026

Qiming Sezava Sun is a Canadian visual artist/witch based in Saskatoon (Treaty 6). Working across the disciplines of painting, sculpture, art installation, and performance art, Sun’s work navigates enigmatic occult traditions and explores his pagan heritage. Sun received his MFA and BFA with High Honours from the University of Saskatchewan.

Qiming’s works are currently included in “Threads of Time: An Asian Heritage Month Exhibition” curated by Xiao Han, on view at Gordon Snelgrove Gallery from May 4-May 22.

Please join us for a public closing reception on Thursday, May 21 from 5-8PM



📷 Figure 1, Photo credit: All My Relations Photography

Beni Chen Shen is a multidisciplinary artist based in Saskatoon, Canada, working across painting and ceramics. Born in S...
05/14/2026

Beni Chen Shen is a multidisciplinary artist based in Saskatoon, Canada, working across painting and ceramics. Born in Shanghai, China, her practice inhabits the fragile space between body and memory. Through softened anatomies and shifting forms, she traces care, rupture, and transformation, questioning how we remain present as certainty begins to dissolve.

Beni’s works are currently included in “Threads of Time: An Asian Heritage Month Exhibition” curated by Xiao Han, on view at Gordon Snelgrove Gallery from May 4 - May 22.

Please join us for a public closing reception on Thursday, May 21 from 5-8PM

Aldeneil Española Jr. is a q***r, first-generation Canadian-Filipinx artist living and working on Treaty 6 Territory in ...
05/13/2026

Aldeneil Española Jr. is a q***r, first-generation Canadian-Filipinx artist living and working on Treaty 6 Territory in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. A graduate of the Bachelor of Fine Arts — Studio Arts (Honours) program at University of Saskatchewan. Aldeneil’s practice examines identity as a living, accumulative process that is shaped by the ongoing negotiations of place, gender, and time.

Aldeneil’s works are currently included in “Threads of Time: An Asian Heritage Month Exhibition” curated by Xiao Han, on view at Gordon Snelgrove Gallery from May 4 - May 22.

Please join us for a public closing reception on Thursday, May 21 from 5-8PM.

05/11/2026

Curated by Xiao Han, Threads of Time—on view in Gordon Snelgrove Gallery from May 4 - 22, 2026–brings together six Saskatoon-based artists connected to the UofS whose practices span painting, sculpture, photography, textiles, and performance.

Through works shaped by cultural memory and everyday prairie life as Asian Canadians, the exhibition explores themes of life and death, otherworldly connections, and hidden languages across time and space.

Featuring MFA alumni and current MFA and BFA students, the exhibition highlights distinct visual languages rooted in heritage, identity, and contemporary experience.

Atrayee Basu | Aldeneil Española Jr. | Abraham Galman | Chen (Beni) Shen | Namya Jain | Qiming Sezava Sun

Please join us for a public reception Thursday, May 21 at 5:00PM

Open today: “Threads of Time: An Asian Heritage Month Exhibition” curated by Xiao Han featuring works from Atrayee Basu,...
05/04/2026

Open today: “Threads of Time: An Asian Heritage Month Exhibition” curated by Xiao Han featuring works from Atrayee Basu, Aldeneil Española Jr., Abraham Galman, Chen (Beni) Shen, Namya Jain, and Qiming Sezava Sun.

The exhibition runs for three weeks, May 4 - May 22 at Gordon Snelgrove Gallery. Monday-Friday, 10am - 4pm.

Please join us for the Closing Reception on Thursday, May 21 from 5 - 8pm.

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