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Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art

Name: Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art
Address: 460 Portage Avenue Unit 1, Winnipeg, MB, R3C0E8, CA
Telephone: +12049421043

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Established in 1972, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is Canada’s oldest accredited ICA with a holistic mandate to support all aspects of art-making by presenting, producing and circulating contemporary art.

10/16/2026

Join us as we go into the studio with Laura Lewis! 🎨

With ‘One eye filled with night’ opening soon, make sure to mark your calendars! 📅 Plug In ICA will be hosting numerous events in conjunction with the exhibition.

🥂 Opening Reception | Friday, October 23, 2026, 6 – 8PM

🎙️Artist Talk & Cinq à sept | Thursday, November 12, 2026, 5 – 7PM

🖼️Curatorial Talk & Tour | Saturday, November 28, 2026, 2 – 3PM

Inspired by Sarah Ahmed’s ‘Q***r Phenomenology’, Lewis locates her interest in how domestic spaces, and objects shape q***r identities. The compositions depict 2SLGBTQIA+ friends in their personal and familiar spaces layered with heady references to film noir, photography, and historical paintings. Often working at an experiential scale, these works solicit viewers to project themselves into the tableaux and join in the dramatic, intimate scenescapes. Lewis creates an affective vision of environment and objecthood, where she explores dualities like desire/disgust and bliss/anguish through various painterly strategies. Borrowing narrative devices from filmic traditions, non-figurative works or “object scenes,” as Lewis refers to them, are companion to the portraits, revelatory clues to understanding this environment and its constituents.

This exhibition was initiated by Allison Yearwood, with contributions from Gilles Hébert.

Laura Lewis is a q***r visual artist from Halifax, Nova Scotia, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her practice explores representation and relationships through an affective, psychosexual lens. Lewis holds a BFA Honours degree from the University of Manitoba. She has exhibited across Canada and participated in various international artist residencies.

10/13/2026

Mark your calendars for upcoming events in November! With a little over a week left before 'One eye filled with night' opens on October 23 at 6PM, plan ahead for our next Cinq à sept 🍷

🗓️ Come on down to the galleries on Thursday, November 12 at 5PM for our second Cinq à sept (five to seven)! Laura Lewis will be giving an artist talk at 6PM, discussing her practice and works featured in 'One eye filled with night'. Arrive at 5PM for refreshments and mingling, stay for the talk, and leave knowing the artist and her process behind our latest exhibition better!

Laura Lewis is a q***r visual artist from Halifax, Nova Scotia, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her practice explores representation and relationships through an affective, psychosexual lens. Lewis holds a BFA Honours degree from the University of Manitoba. She has exhibited across Canada and participated in various international artist residencies.

📸 : Laura Lewis, 2023, image courtesy of the artist

10/10/2026

🍂 A reminder that our offices will be closed on Monday, October 12 for Thanksgiving Day. We will be back to our regular hours on Tuesday. Wishing everyone a restful long weekend!

10/05/2026

🌃 Plug In ICA is excited to announce the upcoming exhibition featuring new works from artist Laura Lewis, 'One eye filled with night', on display from October 23, 2026 to January 9, 2027!

Please join us in the galleries on Friday, October 23 at 6PM for the opening reception 🥂

Inspired by Sarah Ahmed’s 'Q***r Phenomenology', Lewis locates her interest in how domestic spaces, and objects shape q***r identities. The compositions depict 2SLGBTQIA+ friends in their personal and familiar spaces layered with heady references to film noir, photography, and historical paintings. Often working at an experiential scale, these works solicit viewers to project themselves into the tableaux and join in the dramatic, intimate scenescapes. Lewis creates an affective vision of environment and objecthood, where she explores dualities like desire/disgust and bliss/anguish through various painterly strategies. Borrowing narrative devices from filmic traditions, non-figurative works or “object scenes,” as Lewis refers to them, are companion to the portraits, revelatory clues to understanding this environment and its constituents.

This exhibition was initiated by Allison Yearwood, with contributions from Gilles Hébert.

Laura Lewis is a q***r visual artist from Halifax, Nova Scotia, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her practice explores representation and relationships through an affective, psychosexual lens. Lewis holds a BFA Honours degree from the University of Manitoba. She has exhibited across Canada and participated in various international artist residencies.

📸 : Laura Lewis, 'Fade Into Blue', 2025, oil on canvas, image courtesy of the artist

09/29/2026

🧡 The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada falls on Wednesday, September 30, this year. This day recognizes and commemorates the intergenerational harm that residential schools have caused to Indigenous families, communities, and survivors.

It is a call to action for our collective responsibility to question and dismantle the colonial systems that perpetuate harm and social injustice.

In recognition of this day, Plug In ICA will be closed, giving space to remember the lost children and survivors of residential schools. We acknowledge the strength and resiliency of the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples.

Plug In ICA is on Treaty 1 Territory. We are on the territories of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation. We are grateful that we obtain our water from Shoal Lake Band 40.

🔗 More information and resources are linked in our bio.

09/27/2026

Currently in our bookstore: Staff Picks Edition! ✨

We’re back with a selection from our executive director, Nadja Pelkey! 🛒

Love Songs to End Colonization: Jimmie Kilpatrick and Peter Morin

“Limited Pressing Vinyl

Side A: The First Cut Is The Deepest, in the style of Cat Stevens/What’s Love Got To Do With It, in the style of Tina Turner/Not The Lovin Kind, in the style of Buffy Sainte-Marie/Hello Darlin’, in the style of Songs Ohia/Turn Out My Lights, in the style of Justin Townes Earle

Side B: Sweet Nothing in the style of Calvin Harris/High Flyin’ Bird in the style of Richie Havens/Black River in style of Amos Lee/Who Made Who in the style of ACDC

Side C (Karaoke Instrumental versions): The First Cut is the Deepest/What’s Love Got to Do With It/Not The Lovin Kind/Hello Darlin’/Turn Out My Lights

Side D (Karaoke instrumental versions): Sweet Nothing/High Flyin’ Bird/Black River/Who Made Who”
Find this vinyl in our bookstore through the link in our bio

09/18/2026

With that, the first week of our 2026 Fall Institute comes to a close.🍁🍂

Enjoy this small snippet into what our cohort has been up to for the past few days.

🗓️To see more, join us at the open studio event highlighting the participants' activities over the course of the Fall Institute on September 24 at 6PM.

🔗 For more information, visit the link in our bio.

See works by:
David Michael Peters
Ela Wasney
Harley Morman
Heather Rule
Joshua Arthur Stasik Prince
Kira Meyer
Mackenzie Martens
Maegan Harbridge
Meagan Williams
Meganelizabeth Diamond
Mercedes E-Maduka
Natalie Baird & Toby Gillies
Sabba Rezai
Soledad Fatima Munoz
Sylvia Matas
Vince Rozario

The 2026 Fall Institute will concern the idea of interreference in considering art not as a practice of representation, but as a practice of citation. To cite is to establish a relation between varied phenomena. Forms of knowledge do not emerge in isolation from one another. They develop through encounters with things which already exist. This program explores interreference by staging encounters between distinct bodies of knowledge that generate new forms of understanding. When a distinct practice frames an encounter with the material world, what is being cited is both the world itself and the work which provides access to it. Moving beyond questions of representation, it considers how art establishes correspondences between disparate histories, materials, concepts, disciplines, and traditions. Rather than asking what an artwork stands for, the program asks how it connects, translates, transforms, and reconfigures existing forms of knowledge.

Plug In ICA’s Fall Institute is part of its educational programs open to artists, writers, thinkers and various cultural workers from all backgrounds. It is a critical pedagogical context for communal learning, collaboration, and exchange.

The 2026 Fall Institute was made possible through a generous contribution from Heritage Canada’s Canada Arts Training Fund and the Johnston Group.

09/17/2026

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🗓️ Join us tonight, September 17, at 6PM where faculty Raymond Boisjoly will give an artist talk referencing his work in photography which engages diverse forms of production including writing and craft-based approaches, as part of the theme of this year’s Fall Institute.

🗓️An open studio event highlighting the participants activities over the course of the Fall Institute will take place on September 24 at 6PM.

The 2026 Fall Institute will concern the idea of interreference in considering art not as a practice of representation, but as a practice of citation. To cite is to establish a relation between varied phenomena. Forms of knowledge do not emerge in isolation from one another. They develop through encounters with things which already exist. This program explores interreference by staging encounters between distinct bodies of knowledge that generate new forms of understanding. When a distinct practice frames an encounter with the material world, what is being cited is both the world itself and the work which provides access to it. Moving beyond questions of representation, it considers how art establishes correspondences between disparate histories, materials, concepts, disciplines, and traditions. Rather than asking what an artwork stands for, the program asks how it connects, translates, transforms, and reconfigures existing forms of knowledge.

Plug In ICA’s Fall Institute is part of its educational programs open to artists, writers, thinkers and various cultural workers from all backgrounds. It is a critical pedagogical context for communal learning, collaboration, and exchange.

The 2026 Fall Institute was made possible through a generous contribution from Heritage Canada’s Canada Arts Training Fund and the Johnston Group.

Address

460 Portage Avenue Unit 1
Winnipeg, MB
R3C0E8

Opening Hours

Tuesday	12pm - 6pm
Wednesday	12pm - 6pm
Thursday	12pm - 8pm
Friday	12pm - 6pm
Saturday	12pm - 5pm
Sunday	12pm - 5pm

Telephone

+12049421043

Website

http://www.plugin.org/

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