Sandra Semchuk: A Generational Retrospective

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Sandra Semchuk, "Co-operative self-portrait, hand play, Rowenna and I, RR6, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan," 1979

After careful consideration, and following further updates from our provincial Minister of Health, Nanaimo Art Gallery, the Gallery Store, and Art Lab are closed to the public as of today, March 17, 2020. All of our upcoming programs are postponed until further notice. 

In A Generational Retrospective, artist Sandra Semchuk shares stories that look beyond her own perspective and her own lifetime. The exhibition includes work made across almost fifty years of practice including early cooperative photographs made with elders and children in Semchuk’s Ukranian-Canadian family, collaborations with her late husband, Rock Cree actor, orator and artist, James Nicholas, and recent video portraits dedicated to future generations that are made in collaboration with Port Alberni based Cree, Tsimshian, Gitksan, and Métis artist Skeena Reece. Also featured are photo and video installations that consider human generations in relation to the ocean and the forest. 

Sandra Semchuk has exhibited widely across Canada and internationally, and her works reside in the collections of the Vancouver Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Canada, and many others. She was a co-founder of the Photographers Gallery in Saskatoon, and was Associate Professor at Emily Carr University in Vancouver from 1987 until her recent retirement. In 2018 she was awarded the Governor General’s Award in Visual Arts.