MSVU Art Gallery

06/19/2026

Coming to the opening reception for Light & Legacy tomorrow? We are located on the main and second floors of the Seton Academic Centre, visible from the Bedford Highway.
Parking is free on the weekend! There are two accessible parking stalls in front of Seton, and lots to the left and right of the main campus entrance. If you park to the right, you will be closest to the Upper Gallery entrance, which will take you directly to the exhibition and reception. If you park to the left, you will be closest to the Seton main entrance; the Lower Gallery doors will be to your right, and you may access the Upper Gallery by stairs (to your right, or in the Gallery itself) or via an elevator down the hall.

More information on how to find and access our spaces can be found on our website: https://www.msvuart.ca/about/plan-your-visit/

06/17/2026

MSVU Art Gallery is honoured to present 'Light & Legacy' - a collection of documentary and portrait photographs, paintings and drawings, and print materials by George 'Sonny' Bernard Jr. (1947-2025), the first professional photographer in the African Nova Scotian community. This exhibition attests to George Bernard Jr.'s deep commitment to family, community, and place, and celebrates his tremendous contributions to the African Nova Scotian collective archive.

Please join us on Saturday, June 20th, 1:00-3:00 pm to celebrate the opening of this important exhibition. During the reception, Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard will share some of the stories behind her husband's work. All are welcome to attend; light refreshments will be served.

Pictured:
Peace and Justice March, 1991, digitized analog c-print
Delmore 'Buddy' Daye, 1991, digitized black and white analog photograph
Self-Portrait, 1987, c-print
Black Business Consortium Society Director, 1982, print publication

All works courtesy of the artist's estate

06/12/2026

TOMORROW! Join us at CFAT for an artist talk and screening by Allyson Mitchell - Saturday, June 13 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm.
Then be sure to check out Allyson's work at MSVU Art Gallery - Brain Child opens tomorrow. 🩷🩷🩷

06/04/2026

We are pleased to be partnering with The Centre for Art Tapes to welcome Allyson Mitchell to Halifax next week!
In conjunction with the presentation of Mitchell's large-scale mixed media installation 'Brain Child' at MSVU Art Gallery from June 13 to August 9, CFAT and MSVU Art Gallery are co-presenting 'Secret Caves, Blanket Forts and Dream Scores,' an artist talk and curated screening by Allyson Michell, at CFAT, on Saturday, June 13, from 1:00-3:00 pm.

The screening and talk look will address how artists use installation/sculpture, drawing, music, and animation to build strange worlds, emotional landscapes, and intimate visual languages.

Featuring short films and videos by Mitchell alongside Daniel Barrow, Karma Clarke-Davis, Theo Cuthand, Andrea Dorfman, Jesi Jordan, Annapurna Kumar, Christine Latham, Anita Lebeau, Amy Lockhart, James MacSwain, Amanda Strong, Leslie Supnet, and Theoretical Puppets, the program wanders through dreamscapes, private caves, hand-drawn rhythms, and animated forms of graphic narration and tale spinning that move between feeling, memory, and imagination.

Allyson Mitchell’s individual and collaborative practice spans sculpture, performance, installation, film, and comics engaging feminist and q***r politics through humour, excess, and critique. Her work has generated projects such as the fat activist collective Pretty Porky and Pi**ed Off, a coven of le***an feminist Sasquatch monsters, a room-sized Va**na Dentata, and Killjoy’s Kastle: A Le***an Feminist Haunted House, presented internationally with collaborator Deirdre Logue. Together, Mitchell and Logue run FAR Feminist Artist Residency in rural Ontario. Mitchell is a Professor in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at York University and publishes graphic memoir comics you can find on Substack @ I May Never Answer Your Email and This Is Why.

Follow Allyson Mitchell at:
allysonmitchell.com
killjoyskastle.com
substack.com/

and on Instagram

05/22/2026

MSVU Art Gallery is currently closed for install - we have two great exhibitions opening soon: Allyson Mitchell's Brain Child on June 13, and George Bernard Jr.'s Light & Legacy on June 20. See you then!

05/06/2026

Exhibition Ending Soon! "Hannah Epstein: Plato's Goon Cave". Only a few days left to visit this exhibition before it is gone.

The Art Gallery is open to visit this exhibition Wednesday -Sunday 12:00 pm - 5:00pm, but only until May 17.

image: installation detail, MSVU Art Gallery, 2026
photo: Wiebke Schroeder

05/04/2026

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If you're passionate about the topic of AI slop, come check out From Slop to Broth to hear from NS artist Hannah Epstein and our panelists!

Wednesday, May 6, 11am-12pm, Faculty Lounge (Seton 407)

04/29/2026

Hannah Epstein combines textiles and digital media to create characters, immersive environments, and stories that explore contemporary desires and anxieties through a folkloric lens. In her dizzying installation, Plato’s Goon Cave, she stages a slippery allegory of epistemic uncertainty in a media-saturated present.

Hannah Epstein: Plato's Goon Cave
Curated by Blair Fornwald

Visit this exhibition until May 17.
Open Wednesdays through Sundays from 12:00pm – 5:00pm

Images: Hannah Epstein: Plato’s Goon Cave, installation details, MSVU Art Gallery, 2026
Photos: Wiebke Schroeder

04/23/2026