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Chromophilia
16 Mar 2013 – 21 May 2013
“Chromophilia” is a neologism meaning “love of colour.” The aesthetic priority given to colour is the quality shared by the recent acquisitions in this exhibition.

New Work by Steve Higgins
20 Apr 2013 – 28 Jul 2013
By transposing his charcoal drawings into a wooden structure, Steve Higgins will create a temporary sculpture on an ambitious scale rarely seen in Halifax.

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Halifax Harbour in War Time by Arthur Lismer
23 May 2013 – 11 Aug 2013
The exhibition contains five paintings and four lithographs completed during Lismer’s tenure as Principal of the Victoria School of Art and Design (now Nova Scotia College of Art and Design) in the period 1916-1919.

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Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980 19 Mar 2011 – 8 May 2011 Organized around urban and regional centres of art production, this exhibition captures the exuberant ‘traffic‘ between them during the inaugural phase of conceptual art, one of the most transformative art movements of the late 20th century.
Reading the Image: Poetics of the Black Diaspora 22 Apr 2007 – 3 Jun 2007 Reading the Image: Poetics of the Black Diaspora brings together the works of artists Deanna Bowen (Toronto), Christopher Cozier (Trinidad and Tobago), Michael Fernandes (Nova Scotia), and Maud Sulter (Scotland). The exhibition includes photography, video, and installation, each work aesthetically distinct yet linked to the others through a shared preoccupation with Black embodiment, subjectivity, and agency.
Paperworks 8 Apr 2006 – 30 Jul 2006 In 2004, Eye Level Gallery commissioned Paperwork30– a limited edition of 25 boxed sets, each containing one original work by each of 20 Halifax-affiliated artists—to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary. MSVU acquired one set for its permanent collection.
Michael Fernandes: Room of Fears and Fixing Room 18 Mar 2006 – 14 May 2006 Room of Fears is an installation consisting of one-sentence expressions of fear submitted by members of the public via e-mail and through “comments” boxes. In an adjacent space, Fixing Room displays items submitted to the gallery in response to an open call, for “things you never got round to fixing, things that are broken.” distributed around Halifax.
Lecture Notes 14 Jan 2004 – 29 Feb 2004 With works in various media by Michael Fernandes, Rainer Ganahl, Mike Hein, Suzy Lake, John Marriott, Lani Maestro and Adrian Piper, this exhibition has plenty to say about the giving and receiving of lectures.
Extended Objects 29 Mar 1997 – 2 Jun 1997 this exhibition staged the residue of artists' performances — once-mobile objects that reveal themselves in the mind of the beholder as other than what they are known empirically to be.