Rochelle Goldberg
Lone
November 20, 2026–January 30, 2027
The opening reception is Thursday, November 19, 6–8pm
There is an incidental detail buried in the name of Mary Magdalene, an almost forgotten note of etymological origin: Magdala, like Magdalene, derives from the Aramaic word for tower—Mary of the tower. Dare we ask how many towers existed throughout Galilee at the time of the Magdalene’s brief hagiographic appearance? In artist Rochelle Goldberg’s work, the invocation of the tower reconstitutes the body as an architectural cipher: body as tower, tower as body. The fallibility of both body and tower, subject to the forces of time and ever-changing perception, brings their eventual collapse into relation with historical plurality, questioning our narrative impulse to favour the singular over the reconstituting many. Mary of the tower is not any one woman, nor is she from any one place.
Rather than reconstructing a monumental whole, Goldberg’s work re-casts the tower through its fallen remnants: deposited artefacts remain where they have landed, each becoming a site of altered continuation, like a dropped seed where future growth unfolds. The motif of the tower functions as a symbolic amplification of an inherited Western figure of excess, accumulation, and the mimetic manufacture of desire, with the promise of happiness for a fee. Yet these scattered figures, gathered in congregation, give rise to a multiplicity of evolving possibilities.
At the centre of this unsettled terrain is a tableau of thirteen fragmented female figures, each a site of altered endurance. The bodily aggregates of the installation, precious stones (2026), strain under the weight of their materiality, set in relief against their imagistic surfaces, which recall the dispersion of debris after a structural collapse. The resulting figures are cast from the artist’s own body and comprised of fragile fibrous matter: tissue paper, napkins, newsprint, and polyester glitter, embedded alongside weightier elements like aluminum, resin binder, plastic powder, and cellulose—the particulate of our contemporary world.
Suspended above the horizontal distribution is a network of wires, pulled taut from opposing walls, reminiscent of a provisional ceiling, a flimsy form of protection. Some of these faces, cast in the likeness of the martyred pop icon Marilyn Monroe, gaze upwards. It becomes unclear whether the wires are delineating an imprisonment of self, or offering a more generative substrate for subsequent creation, like trellises in a garden bed. Zinc-laden silver dispersion paint and aluminium dust envelope the bodies in a celestial halo, highlighting their simultaneously withering yet emergent forms.
Throughout the artist’s practice, multiple Marys reappear, sometimes converging, though often acting in narrative counter-relief to one another. Marilyn Monroe manifests as an archetype of the Penitent Magdalene, another peccatrix claimed by history and knotted within competing narratives. Mary Magdalene is historically bound to representations of devotional and intimate encounter. When recast as the pin-up, the Magdalene enters the visual economy of perpetual exposure: the singular woman endlessly reproduced as a beaming icon. There is perhaps another kind of literal amplification at work here, almost a form of secular resurrection: Marilyn, whose physical presence has long since passed, continues to live through the adoration and infinite reproduction of her image.
Like the tower, Marilyn as Mary, depicted in a state of abject fecundity, brings this tension into high relief: reproduction versus industrial replication. While the former suggests a generative process, bound to the contingencies of biological life, the latter speaks to the technological repetition of an image, its circulation and multiplication independent of the body from which it originates. And yet, in Goldberg’s work, these conditions are not so easily disentangled. The sculptures themselves emerge through casting, a process of replication that places them within, rather than outside, the very logic they might appear to provoke. Yet through their material tension and altered figurations, they introduce the possibility of regeneration. The fragmented figures return the endlessly reproduced image to an embodied register, where replication becomes a condition for elucidating subjective difference.
Mary, or Marilyn, abounds as many. But doesn’t her corporeal contour also speak to the singularity of personal experience? As viewers, we cannot help but locate something of ourselves in their struggles made public and inscribed into history. Perhaps intimacy emerges here not as the opposite of exposure, but as a shared condition: a space of recognition, identification, and collective vulnerability.
Meaning therefore emerges across these works by way of repetition, decomposition, and recomposition, as successive formations depart from and reconstitute what came before. In their defiance of finitude, each work, and each Mary, stands alone, refusing the cessation of being through a continuously unfolding symbolic terrain, where the cultural contingencies that frame how we see ourselves, and one another, may grow.
Elizabeth McIntosh
CANADA
The Shape of Shape
October 15, 2026–January 10, 2027
Art Gallery of Grande Prairie
Geoffrey Farmer
VANCOUVER
Highlights from the Collection
April 1, 2026–January 6, 2030
Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
*PRESS*
The Tyee
Brian Jungen
USA
Into the Time Horizon
November 15, 2025–January 3, 2027
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
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CANADA
Always In Fashion
May 1, 2026–January 3, 2027
Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto
The Shape of Shape
October 15, 2026–January 10, 2027
Art Gallery of Grande Prairie
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VANCOUVER
Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change
May 14, 2026–January 10, 2027
Vancouver Art Gallery
Found in Translation: The Michael and Inna O’Brian Collection
September 12–December 13, 2026
Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver
*PRESS*
The Creative Independent
The Globe and Mail
Vancouver Sun
Nation Talk
Artforum
The Art Newspaper
CBC Arts
The Georgia Straight
Vancouver Magazine
Raymond Boisjoly
VANCOUVER
Here to Play: Variation for Sixteen Hands
October 3, 2026–February 14, 2027
Gibson Art Museum, Burnaby
Duane Linklater
USA
We Are This Land: Meditations on the Great American Experiment
August 22, 2026–March 14, 2027
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing
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CZECH REPUBLIC
Crested/mâcistan: Tanya Lukin Linklater and Duane Linklater
October 1, 2026–January 10, 2027
Rudolfinum, Prague
*PRESS*
Hyperallergic
Arts.Columbia.edu
Forbes
Windspeaker
Screen Slate
MOMUS
Monopol
Sleek Magazine
Tanya Lukin Linklater
CANADA
Storm song
August 28–December 3, 2026
Remai Modern, Saskatoon
When Is Future? When Is Now?
September 25–December 11, 2026
PAVED Arts, Saskatoon
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USA
States of Erosion: Reshaping and Reclaiming
August 14, 2026–January 3, 2027
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Sante Fe
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CZECH REPUBLIC
Crested/mâcistan: Tanya Lukin Linklater and Duane Linklater
October 1, 2026–January 10, 2027
Rudolfinum, Prague
*PRESS*
Arts.Columbia.edu
IndigiNews
Artforum
roots§roots
Pasatiempo
Frieze
Inuit Art Quarterly
Monopol
Sleek Magazine
Movement Research Performance Journal
Janice Kerbel
GERMANY
Janice Kerbel
September 4–November 7, 2026
Karin Guenther, Hamburg
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ICELAND
Janice Kerbel
September 17–November 7, 2026
i8 Gallery, Reykjavik
*PRESS*
Frieze
Devon Knowles
CANADA
Haunting the Undermined Zone
October 31, 2026–January 16, 2026
Nanaimo Art Gallery
Abbas Akhavan
CANADA
May 19, 2023–
Dazibao Satellite, Montreal
Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change
May 14, 2026–January 10, 2027
Vancouver Art Gallery
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ITALY
61st International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia 2026
May 9–November 22, 2026
Venice Biennale, Venice
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USA
Variations on a Garden
November 12, 2026–April 18, 2027
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
*PRESS*
Frieze
MOMUS
CBC Arts
National Gallery of Canada Magazine
Frieze
National Gallery of Canada Magazine
Art News
The Globe and Mail
La Scena Musicale
Juliet
The New York Times
Rochelle Goldberg
VANCOUVER
Lone
November 20, 2026–January 30, 2027
Catriona Jeffries
Exhibition History
Ian Wallace
Surface / Structure / Street: Works 1986–2014
September 17–November 7, 2026
Elizabeth McIntosh
LEGGS
May 22–July 4, 2026
Chukwudubem Ukaigwe
Another Octave Higher
March 27–May 9, 2026
Brian Jungen, Janice Kerbel, Jeremy Borsos, Liz Magor, Steven Cottingham
Arrows
January 30–March 14, 2026
Eli Bornowsky, Jessica Stockholder
is a knot helpful
October 31–December 13, 2025
Ceal Floyer, Adam Shiu-Yang Shaw, Ron Terada, Ian Wallace
Still
September 6–October 18, 2025
Rebecca Brewer and Veit Laurent Kurz
Locus Amoenus: Extinct Flame
July 9–30, 2025
Ron Terada
You Have Left the American Sector
May 1–June 14, 2025
Liz Magor
Arrange Your Face
April 26–June 28, 2025
Nairy Baghramian, Matt Browning, James Carl, Devon Knowles, Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Liz Larner, Christina Mackie, Liz Magor, Ellen Neel, Jessica Stockholder
Slow Looking
February 15–April 5, 2025
Abbas Akhavan, Rochelle Goldberg
Disembody
November 30, 2024–January 25, 2025
Valérie Blass
When I feel shy
September 19–November 16, 2024
Sonya Kelliher-Combs
remnant
September 19–November 16, 2024
Brian Jungen
Flagpole
April 17, 2024–2025
Duane Linklater
cache
April 6–June 28, 2024
Andrea Carlson, Chukwudubem Ukaigwe, Eli Bornowsky
No Exit
February 1–March 16, 2024
Elizabeth McIntosh
Real Relationships
December 1, 2023–January 20, 2024
Ron Terada
BBQ Beer Freedom
September 28–November 18, 2023
Judy Radul, Andrew Yong Hoon Lee, Steven Cottingham
Where the echoes cannot end
September 15, 2023
Steven Cottingham
Chain–link
July 21, 2023
Brenda Draney
Unfinished Business
May 26–July 8, 2023
Damian Moppett
Half Life
March 24–May 6, 2023
Rebecca Brewer
Eidetic Cloud
January 27–March 11, 2023
Tanya Lukin Linklater
breath ,’ echo
November 12, 2022–January 7, 2023
Jerry Pethick
‘How specialized are our interpretations of the world?’
September 16–October 29, 2022
Janice Kerbel
Speech! Fight!
Speech! Fight!
May 28–June 25, 2022
Valérie Blass, Laurie Kang, Christina Mackie, Liz Magor
Do Redo Repeat
March 19–May 7, 2022
Brenda Draney, Tanya Lukin Linklater
The best stories I know come from late night car rides or kitchen tables.
January 29–March 5, 2022
Raymond Boisjoly
🕸Some Number of Things🕸
November 6–December 18, 2021
Abbas Akhavan, Geoffrey Farmer, Rochelle Goldberg, Kapwani Kiwanga, Duane Linklater
Unseeable
Sept 18–Oct 23, 2021
Charmian Johnson
May 29–July 3, 2021
Ian Wallace
In the Museum
April 10–May 22, 2021
Damian Moppett
Vignettes
February 13–March 27, 2021
Liz Magor
Downer
December 5, 2020–January 30, 2021
Duane Linklater
primaryuse
October 24–November 21, 2020
Elizabeth McIntosh
Mom or Mother
September 12–October 10, 2020
Valérie Blass
La poudre aux yeux: Of smoke in mirrors
May 23–June 27, 2020
Ashes Withyman
Some kind of doctor receiving thunder
February 8–March 14, 2020
Abbas Akhavan
They asked the fox, “Who is your witness?”
He said, “My tail.”
November 23, 2019–January 18, 2020
Christina Mackie
September 21–November 2, 2019
Rochelle Goldberg
May 25–July 20, 2019
gatekeepers
Abbas Akhavan, Valérie Blass, Raymond Boisjoly, Rebecca Brewer, Trisha Brown and Trisha Brown Dance Company, Chris Burden, Raven Chacon, Geoffrey Farmer, Hanne Darboven, Marcel Duchamp, Kasper Feyrer, Alex Frost, Cynthia Girard-Renard, Rochelle Goldberg, Dan Graham, Brian Jungen, On Kawara, Janice Kerbel, Christine Sun Kim, Duane Linklater, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Christina Mackie, Myfanwy MacLeod, Liz Magor, Elizabeth McIntosh, Damian Moppett, Stephen Murray, Kate Newby, Jerry Pethick, Eileen Quinlan, Judy Radul, Aurie Ramirez, Rob Renpenning, Marina Roy, Kevin Schmidt, Nick Sikkuark, Michael Snow, Ron Terada, Calder Tsuyuki Tomlinson, Ian Wallace, Nicole Wermers, and Ashes Withyman
Unexplained Parade
February 9–May 11, 2019
Judy Radul
Words No Pictures Pictures No Words
May 11–June 16, 2018
Kasper Feyrer
Background Actors
March 16–April 21, 2018
Rebecca Brewer, Rochelle Goldberg, Charmian Johnson, Christina Mackie
Nature
January 26–March 3, 2018
Elizabeth McIntosh
ISLANDS
November 17–December 22, 2017
Ron Terada
TL; DR
September 15–October 28, 2017
Elizabeth McIntosh, Monique Mouton, Silke Otto-Knapp
May 26–July 8, 2017
Ian Wallace
Street Floor Table Page Wall Canvas, 1969–2017
March 31–May 13, 2017
Ashes Withyman
Bullae
March 10–18, 2017
Geoffrey Farmer
The Big Kitchen
January 14–February 25, 2017
Rebecca Brewer
The Holding Sky
November 12–December 17, 2016
Raymond Boisjoly
September 16–October 29, 2016
Damian Moppett
May 6–June 25, 2016
Liz Magor
March 5–April 23, 2016
Brian Jungen
January 22–February 27, 2016
Valérie Blass
To only ever say one thing forever the same thing
November 21, 2015–January 9, 2016
Janice Kerbel
Score
September 12–October 24, 2015
Liz Magor, Jerry Pethick, Ron Tran
A view believed to be yours
May 15–June 27, 2015
Myfanwy MacLeod
TELL HER NOTHING SHE TELLS ALL
March 21–May 2, 2015
Ian Wallace
The Construction Site
January 17–February 28, 2015
Duane Linklater
But the sun is up and you're going?
November 15–December 20, 2014
Ron Terada
Jack
September 19–October 25, 2014
Jerry Pethick
Where sidewalks leap upon the table: works on paper 1966–2000
May 24–June 28, 2014
Rebecca Brewer
The Written Face
March 29–May 10, 2014
Geoffrey Farmer
The Grass and the Banana go for a walk
February 8-March 15, 2014
Ashes Withyman
Household Temple Yard
November 26, 2013–January 11, 2014
Damian Moppett
Salute
September 20–November 2, 2013
Brian Jungen, Duane Linklater
Modest Livelihood
June 7–July 20, 2013
Andrea Büttner, Joëlle de La Casinière, Ashes Withyman
April 26–June 1, 2013
Raymond Boisjoly
March 1–April 13, 2013
Liz Magor
I is being This
November 16–December 22, 2012
Christina Mackie, Jerry Pethick
Bigger than a book, wilder than a tree
September 14–October 27, 2012
Judy Radul
April 27–June 9, 2012
Kasper Feyrer
Alternatives and Opportunities
March 2–April 14, 2012
Ian Wallace
Masculin/Féminin
January 13–February 18, 2012
Ulla von Brandenburg, Guy de Cointet, Geoffrey Farmer, Janice Kerbel, Daria Martin, Judy Radul
People Things Enter Exit
October 28–December 10, 2011
Ron Terada
Jack
September 3–October 8, 2011
Robert Kleyn
Works 1969–1983
May 20–June 25, 2011
Arabella Campbell
March 25–April 30, 2011
Alex Morrison
February 3–March 12, 2011
Brian Jungen
November 19, 2010–January 15, 2011
Kevin Schmidt
September 17–October 23, 2010
Damian Moppett
The Sculptor’s Studio is a Painting
May 21–June 26, 2010
Geoffrey Farmer
The Surgeon and the Photographer
January 29-March 6, 2010
Myfanwy MacLeod
Gold
November 6–December 12, 2009
Ian Wallace
Works 1970–1979
September 18–October 24, 2009
Brian Jungen, Rebecca Belmore, Myfanwy MacLeod, Kevin Schmidt, Alex Morrison, Sam Durant, Ron Terada, Geoffrey Farmer, Jin-me Yoon
Loaded
May 15–June 20, 2009
Christos Dikeakos
March 26–April 25, 2009
Ashes Withyman
Uncertain Pilgrimage
January 15–February 14, 2009
Jin-me Yoon
October 30–November 29, 2008
Jerry Pethick
September 12–October 11, 2008
Ron Terada
May 23–June 28, 2008
Germaine Koh
April 11–May 10, 2008
Roy Kiyooka, Damian Moppett, Jerry Pethick, Ian Wallace
Process as Work
February 29–March 29, 2008
Kelly Wood, Monika Grzymala
January 18–February 16, 2008
Alex Morrison
November 23–December 22, 2007
Ian Wallace
October 18–November 17, 2007
Judy Radul
September 7–October 6, 2007
Arabella Campbell
June 8–July 7, 2007
Brian Jungen
April 27–May 26, 2007
Sam Durant
Scenes from the Pilgrim Story: Natural History
March 16–April 14, 2007
Damian Moppett
Progress in Advance of the Fall
January 19–February 24, 2007
Isabelle Pauwels
November 25–December 22, 2006
Geoffrey Farmer
Airliner Open Studio
October 21–November 18, 2006
Kevin Schmidt
September 9–October 7, 2006
Ashes Withyman, Jacob Gleeson
St. George Marsh
August 24–September 1, 2006
Christos Dikeakos, Geoffrey Farmer, Arni Haraldsson, Brian Jungen, Roy Kiyooka, Germaine Koh, Myfanwy MacLeod, Damian Moppett, Isabelle Pauwels, Jerry Pethick, Judy Radul, Kevin Schmidt, Ron Terada, Ian Wallace, Jin-me Yoon
274 East 1st
June 3–July 8, 2006
Christos Dikeakos
November 25, 2005–January 16, 2006
Alex Morrison, Isabelle Pauwels, Frances Stark, Johannes Wohnseifer
And to stop you interfering, I shall have to dematerialize you again
October 13–November 19, 2005
Geoffrey Farmer, Brian Jungen, Germaine Koh, Myfanwy MacLeod, Damian Moppett, Alex Morrison, Ron Terada, Ian Wallace, Kelly Wood
Mix with care
July 5–September 24, 2005
Ron Terada
May 20–June 25, 2005
Arabella Campbell, Neil Campbell, Ron Terada, Ian Wallace
Painting After Poverty
April 8–May 14, 2005
Sam Durant
Color Pictures
February 25–March 2, 2005
Germaine Koh
Shell
January 14–February 19, 2005
Roy Kiyooka
Open Window on a Slow Train
December 2004
Jin-me Yoon
Fugitive
October 22–November 27, 2004
Myfanwy MacLeod
Don’t Stop Dreaming
September 10–October 16, 2004
Artist Curating Artists:
Damian Moppett curates Allison Hrabluik and Zin Taylor
May 28–June 26, 2004
Geoffrey Farmer
Every Surface In Some Way Decorated, Altered or Changed Forever (Except the Float)
April 7–May 15, 2004
Artist Curating Artists:
Myfanwy MacLeod curates Kyla Mallett
February 11–March 13, 2004
Damian Moppett
1815/1962
October 30–December 6, 2003
Carsten Höller, Cameron Jamie, Jakob Kolding, Myfanwy MacLeod, Kyla Mallett, Valérie Mréjen, Isabelle Pauwels, Raymond Pettibon, Ron Terada, Lawrence Weiner, Erwin Wurm
Seethe
September 10–October 25, 2003
Iain Baxter, Geoffrey Farmer, Roy Kiyooka, Germaine Koh, Myfanwy MacLeod, Ron Terada
I Sell Security
May 29–August 16, 2003
Kelly Wood
Black Plastic
April 11–May 17, 2003
Ian Wallace
February 28–April 5, 2003
Alex Morrison
Housewrecker
January 17–February 22, 2003
Allyson Clay
November 29–December 21, 2002
Ron Terada
September 6–October 12, 2002
Germaine Koh, Alex Morrison, N.E. Thing Co., Ron Terada, Ian Wallace
Signage
June 8–August 31, 2002
Christos Dikeakos
March 21–April 20, 2002
Germaine Koh
March 8–April 13, 2002
Brian Jungen
February 1–March 2, 2002
Geoffrey Farmer
Catriona Jeffries Catriona
September 9–October 9, 2001
Myfanwy MacLeod
Miss Moonshine
September 7–October 6, 2001
Geoffrey Farmer, Germaine Koh, Myfanwy MacLeod, Damian Moppett, Ron Terada, Jin-me Yoon, Kelly Wood
Supernatural Fairytales (Pink Island)
June 8–August 25, 2001
Ian Wallace
My Heroes in the Street
March 9–April 14, 2001
Jerry Pethick
Traverse
February 19–March 3, 2001
Roy Kiyooka
Filmic Works 1978–1980
November 30–December 21, 2000
Arni Haraldsson
Jerusalem
September 8–October 14, 2000
Iain Baxter
Vacuum Forms
April 27–June 3, 2000
Damian Moppett
Impure Systems
February 4–March 11, 2000
Ron Terada
Jeopardy Paintings
November 1999
Ian Wallace
Street Works 1969–1995
Part I: 1980–1982, March 1999. Part II: 1969–1999, April–May 1999
Ian Wallace
Chopaka
April 1997
Jerry Pethick
Gobi Clone
March 1997
