Esker Foundation

Visit Esker Foundation and explore our just opened Spring/Summer Exhibitions.

Find two major exhibitions, both premiere's in Alberta by Shirley Moorhouse and Zadie Xa, with Benito Mayor Vallejo.

Exhibitions continue until 23 August.

Don't miss in the Project Space the exhibition K-DIALECTIC by Bomi Yook.

Enjoy these fab photos 📸 by Elyse Bouvier.

Thanks ❤️ to all who joined us to celebrate the launch.

Spring and Summer Free Programs are launched!

Find May and June artist talks, tours, family programs, workshops, and more.

HURRY!!! REGISTER NOW via our bio or website at www.eskerfoundation.com/program/

Join us for the opening on Friday 22 May, 6-9pm.

ᐃᔨ - Eyes - Shirley Moorhouse

Realized as a collaboration between the artist and Rose Bouthillier, Guest Curator.

Zadie Xa and Benito Mayor Vallejo

"Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything"

Until 23 August

Bomi Yook: K-DIALECTIC
In the Project Space

We are pleased to share lovely photographs by Stoo Metz of a special event at the Halifax Central Library on Thursday 16 April, a conversation between artist Hangama Amiri and Elizabeth Diggon, curator at Esker Foundation.

This program was presented by the National Gallery of Canada, the Sobey Art Foundation, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, and Halifax Public Library.

Hangama Amiri works predominantly in textiles, examining notions of home and how gender, social norms and geopolitical conflict affect the daily lives of women in Afghanistan and the diaspora. Amiri holds an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Amiri was shortlisted for the 2025 Sobey Art Award.

Elizabeth Diggon is a curator at Esker Foundation, Calgary. Recent curatorial projects have included Anthony Cudahy: metronome yawned (with Shauna Thompson), Leonard Suryajaya: Parting Gift for Quarantine Blues, Farah Al Qasimi: Letters for Occasions, and Hangama Amiri: PARTING/فراق, which recently toured to the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Her writing has been published in catalogues including Veronika Pausova: Fast Moving Sun and Rebellious: Alberta Women Artists in the 1980s, as well as in exhibition texts for galleries across Canada. Diggon holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies and an M.A. in Art History from Queen’s University, Kingston.