The Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) is an art museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Its permanent collection includes over 24,000 works from Canadian, Indigenous Canadian, and international artists. The museum also holds the world's largest collection of Inuit art. In addition to exhibits for its collection, the museum has organized and hosted a number of travelling arts exhibitions. Its building complex consists of a main building that includes 11,000 square metres (120,000 sq ft) of indoor space and the adjacent 3,700-square-metre (40,000 sq ft) Qaumajuq building.
Leonid Molodozhanyn, known as Leo Mol, was a Ukrainian Canadian stained glass artist, painter and sculptor.
Ivan Kenneth Eyre was a Canadian artist best known for his prairie landscapes and compositionally abstract, figurative paintings. In addition, Eyre was a Professor Emeritus of painting and drawing at the University of Manitoba where he taught for 33 years, from 1959 until his retirement in 1992. He has been described as a "visual philosopher" and "a true outsider and visionary".
KC Adams is a Cree, Ojibway, and British artist and educator based in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Grace Nickel is a Canadian ceramic artist and art instructor in post-secondary education.
Phyllis Green is an artist whose practice involves sculpture, video and installation art. Based in Santa Monica, she has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as grants from the City of Santa Monica, California Community Foundation, Durfee Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, California Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, Canada Council and British Columbia Cultural Fund. In 1996, she was among the first to be awarded a C.O.L.A. grant by the City of Los Angeles. In 2000, she was appointed to the Santa Monica Arts Commission, serving, as its chair from 2004 to 2006. She is married to the photographer Ave Pildas.
Sarah Anne Johnson is a Canadian photo-based, multidisciplinary artist working in installation, bronze sculpture, oil paint, video, performance, and dance.
Reva Stone is a Canadian artist known for her digital artworks. Stone's work explores how technology changes the relationship between humans and our surroundings, and how those relationships have the potential to shape our future. She fuses the concepts of performance art, made popular in the 1960s, with digital imaging and other modern forms of expression. As one of the first women to be involved in the new media arts in Canada, her large-scale projects influenced many artists she mentored.
Lita Fontaine is an interdisciplinary artist based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Often, her work explores the role of women in past and present Indigenous societies. She describes herself as tri-cultural: Dakota, Anishinaabe and Metis.
Aganetha Dyck is a Canadian sculptor residing in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Dyck is best known for her work with live honeybees, that build honeycomb on objects that she introduces to honeybee hives. In 2007 Dyck was awarded both Manitoba's Arts Award of Distinction and Canada's Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.
Irene Kataq Angutitok was an Inuit sculptor. Her name also appears as Katak Angutitaq.
Divya Mehra is a Canadian artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Mehra's work deals with her diasporic experiences and historical narratives. As reminders of the realities of displacement, loss, and oppression, she incorporates found artifacts and readymade objects.
Diana Thorneycroft is a Canadian artist based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, whose work has exhibited nationally and internationally. She works primarily in photography, drawing, and sculpture/installation and makes photographs of staged dioramas to explore sexuality and national identity, and even, national icons such as the Group of Seven. Her work blurs the lines between gendered bodies by employing phalluses. She is also an educator: she worked as a sessional instructor at the University of Manitoba's School of Art for 25 years.
Colleen Cutschall, also known as Sister Wolf, is an Oglala-Sicangu Lakota artist from Pine Ridge, South Dakota, who works in Manitoba.
Erica Eyres is a Canadian artist who lives and works in Glasgow.
Jaimie Isaac is a Winnipeg-based Anishinaabe artist and curator.
Wendy Geller (1957–1996) was a Canadian video artist, graphic artist, and educator.
Katherine Boyer is a Métis artist, whose multidisciplinary practice focuses primarily on the mediums of sculpture, printmaking and beadwork. She was born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan, but currently resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba—a location that has had a direct influence on her current artistic practice.
Joanne Jackson Johnson is a Canadian photographer.
Don Proch DCL is a multimedia artist known for complex installations, masks, and silkscreen prints. His work is centered in his imaginings of the Canadian Praries combined with references to the Asessippi Valley, his life there and with global concerns of climate change.
