Trépanier Baer Gallery

10/15/2026

TrépanierBaer Announces Representation
of Faye HeavySheild

Coyote Calls

Every so often, the coyote calls. If you listen closely, its voice can feel like an epiphany or the
revelation of something neglected. TrépanierBaer is honoured to announce its representation of Faye HeavyShield, one of Canada’s most important contemporary artists. A member of the Kainai Nation and Blackfoot Confederacy, HeavyShield lives and works on the Blood Reserve in southern Alberta.

For more than four decades, her practice has encompassed sculpture, installation, drawing,
photography, sound, and text. Grounded in Kainai land, language, cultural knowledge, family
history, and her experience as a Blackfoot woman, her work explores memory, ancestry, belonging,
community, and the continuity of generations. As HeavyShield has said, Blackfoot is her first
language; “Art is my second.”

Her work has been presented and collected nationally and internationally. Recent projects include a forty-year retrospective that toured Canada from 2022 to 2024, her first solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the 2025 Sharjah Biennial. In 2027, Glenbow will unveil a monumental four-storey installation by HeavyShield.

TrépanierBaer looks forward to supporting her work for years to come.



TrepanierBaer

10/09/2026

10/08/2026

//NOT TO BE MISSED//

Vanishing Fields: The Memory of a Changing Earth

An intimate evening in the gallery, shining light on the work of Han Sungpil and a recent project
conceptualized in residence at the winery La Rioja Alta, Spain. These works are currently on view in the gallery, and the photogravures are exceptional and not to be missed.

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Photogravure is an old printmaking process developed in the 1800s that uses photography to
make fine, richly toned prints. The technique grew from Henry Fox Talbot’s experiments with
photographic engraving and was later refined by Karel Klíč in the 1870s. It is still practiced today by fine art printmakers and contemporary artists who value its distinctive, archival quality. The image is transferred onto a plate coated with a light-sensitive polymer. Light hardens the polymer in some areas, while the softer, unexposed areas are washed away in water, leaving tiny recesses in the plate’s surface. These hold ink, much like the lines of an engraving. A fine dot pattern, exposed separately, gives the plate its texture and allows it to reproduce the soft greys and subtle tones of a photograph. The plate is then inked and run through a press, transferring the image onto paper.

“At La Riajo Alta I found the specific material language I had been searching for. Inside the winery’s centuries-old cellars, time has left its mark not in words but in substance: in the dark, wine-stained surfaces of oak barrels that have absorbed decades of fermentation, in the rust-coloured traces that bleed down cellar walls like geological strata, in the slow oxidation of
wood that has held and shaped some of the most exceptional vintages in Spanish history. These are not merely aesthetic details. They are a form of archive, a record of accumulation, of seasons survived, of a winemaking tradition that has persisted across drought and abundance alike. To photograph these surfaces was to photograph time itself, compressed and made visible.” Han Sungpil

Han Sungpil
Grupo La Rioja Alta, S.A.

09/30/2026

//AN OFFERING

To our Indigenous friends, colleagues, artists, and communities, TrépanierBaer offers our wishes
for a day of reflection, peace, hope.

On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we acknowledge that as First Nations, Inuit,
and Métis peoples, you are the original peoples of this country and, as a self-determining people,
have constitutional and human rights that must be recognized and respected.

We acknowledge the reality and horror of our colonial past and offer our sincere apologies. We
acknowledge that we must redress these past harms.

We recognize that reconciliation requires more than acknowledgement: it asks us to listen, to
learn, and to accept our shared responsibility for building a more just relationship.

Our hope is that we can do so with a willful spirit, with trust, understanding, and forgiveness,
and most importantly, with hope as we move together in these uncertain times.

09/24/2026

CANADIAN ART WALK
September 24–27, 2026

A Nationwide Celebration of Canadian Art
TrépanierBaer invites Calgarians, visitors to our city, and art enthusiasts from near and far
to take part in the Art Dealers Association of Canada’s Canadian Art Hop, a nationwide event from Halifax to Victoria. The Canadian Art Hop brings together participating galleries, dealers, artists, and cultural organizations to create a shared national moment of discovery.

Whether you are a seasoned collector, an emerging collector, an art enthusiast, or simply
curious to see what is happening in Canada’s and Calgary’s art communities, the next three or four days will offer many engaging ways to experience art.

Beginning today and continuing through Saturday at TrépanierBaer, visitors are invited to engage with works by internationally and nationally acclaimed artists Vikky Alexander, Han Sungpil, Jen Aitken, and Alicia Henry in four solo exhibitions featuring photography, sculpture, drawing, and textile works.

TrépanierBaer Canadian Art Hop Hours Thursday, September 24 through Saturday, September 26, 10:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Find out more Canadian Art Hop

Vikky Alexander
Jen Aitken
Han Sungpil

09/16/2026

The Coyote Calls

Faye HeavyShield receives Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts

Congratulations to artist Faye HeavyShield, recipient of the 2026 Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts.

A member of the Kainai Nation and the Blackfoot Confederacy Faye HeavyShield was born in 1953 at Standoff on the Blood reserve in Southern Alberta where she continues to live. For more than four decades she has developed a highly distinctive practice encompassing sculpture, installation, drawing, photography, sound, and text.

HeavyShield’s work is grounded in the land, language, cultural knowledge of the Kainai Nation, and her lived experience as a Blackfoot woman. The rivers, coulees, prairie grasses, foothills, southern winds, and evening calls of the coyotes are among her inspirations. Her work is an expression of memory, ancestry and belonging. Blackfoot is Faye Heavyshield’s first language, and as she has stated, “art is my second.”

Congratulations to Faye for this well-deserved recognition.

Iiksoka’pii! Ika’kimaat!

Faye HeavyShield, 2025. Photo: Craig Boyko © AGO.

Faye HeavyShield, work in progress, Glenbow commision, 2026

Faye HeavyShield
Pierce, 2026
Acrylic on paper, porcupine quill
TrépanierBaer, Calgary, AB