Quick Pick — Séamus Gallagher at Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
“A welcome provocation to draw our gaze closer into queerly uncanny worlds unburdened by traditional boundaries”
Séamus Gallagher, OH BABY, 2025 (photo courtesy of Art Gallery of Nova Scotia)
“Séamus Gallagher’s brilliant and beguiling art is a visual incitation — a welcome provocation to draw our gaze closer into queerly uncanny worlds unburdened by traditional boundaries of gender, sexuality and societal expectations,” noted the National Gallery of Canada, when Gallagher was named a finalist for the 2023 Sobey Art Award.
Visitors to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia have a chance to see Gallagher's latest exhibition, OH BABY, on view now through May 11. The new show was inspired by a forest fire in 2017 that was sparked after a gender reveal explosion; it combines photography, video, drag, speculative fiction, sculpture and costuming.
Born in Moncton, Gallagher's list of accomplishments includes the 2018 Starfish Student Award, the 2018 Roloff Beny Foundation Scholarship and the 2017 Aimia/AGO Photography Prize Scholarship. Gallagher was also the regional winner for the 2019 BMO 1st Art! Award and was longlisted for the Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award in 2019 and 2021. In 2023, Gallagher was one of the Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award winners. ■
Séamus Gallagher, OH BABY, is on view now through May 11 at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
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