05/27/2026
📣 Plug In ICA is delighted to announce Live Chat, a conversation with Sarah Anne Johnson, David Moos, Meeka Walsh, moderated by Robert Enright.
Join us on June 5 from 5 - 7PM at the University of Winnipeg Manitoba Hall Boardroom, room 2M70 located at 515 Portage Ave. for a conversation about the work of Sarah Anne Johnson and her exhibition, 'House on Fire'. 🏚️
Sarah Anne Johnson is a Winnipeg-born multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans photography, painting, sculpture, video, and performance. She holds a BFA from the University of Manitoba and an MFA from the Yale School of Art. Sarah is the recipient of numerous grants and awards and her work is held in several major permanent collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum. Sarah is best known for her photo-based practice in which she physically and digitally alters large-format prints with oil paint, gold leaf, stickers, and other materials.
David Moos is the president and founder of David Moos Art Advisory, a bespoke firm placing museum-calibre works in private and public collections in Canada and the United States. Prior to founding DMAA in 2011, Moos was the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2004–2011) and the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama (1998–2004). While at the AGO, Moos acquired Sarah Ann Johnson’s “House on Fire” for the permanent collection, through the generous support of Michael Nesbitt. Moos received a BA from McGill University, Montreal, and a PhD in Art History from Columbia University, New York. In 2020 he co-founded Museum Exchange, the first digital platform for art donations, allowing museums to access works of art being offered by collectors outside their established donor base.
Meeka Walsh, C.M., is the Editor of Border Crossings magazine. She has published a collection of short stories and most recently Malleable Forms: Selected Essays for which she received the 2023 Alexander Isbister Kennedy Award for Non-Fiction. She has served on a number of Boards nationally and locally, including Plug In ICA and The National Gallery of Canada. She lives in Winnipeg.
Robert Enright, C.M. is a writer and professor who lives in Winnipeg and teaches in the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph. As a contributing editor he has conducted the artist’s interviews in Border Crossings magazine. He has written for Artforum, frieze, ArtReview and The Globe and Mail and has contributed essays, introductions and interviews to over 300 books and catalogues.
Check out our website to learn more about this event & the exhibition!
