The New Gallery

The New Gallery (TNG), a not-for-profit centre for contemporary art in Calgary’s Chinatown, is seeking applications for a Gallery Assistant. This is a temporary summer position (May-August) funded by Canada Summer Jobs. At TNG, we strive to provide opportunities and venues for artists that foster social and political creative practices, while engaging and educating local communities through artist-run culture and contemporary art.

The role of the Gallery Assistant is to support the Gallery staff in the various facets of the Gallery’s operations. The Gallery Assistant will be working under the direction of TNG’s Co-Directors. Training specific to the role and Gallery will be provided.

For more information and to apply: https://thenewgallery.org/Job-Call-Gallery-Assistant
The deadline for applications is May 2nd.

Call for Public Art / Current

The New Gallery is searching for public artwork. Artists will contribute their ideas and projects on-site throughout early June, with public workshops and demonstrations taking place during that period. The festival culminates in an outdoor exhibition from June 22nd to June 30th . Activation locations span the Bow River pathway from 10th Street SW to the confluence of the Bow and Elbow Rivers, with exact locations to be confirmed.

An example of eligible media and approaches include: photo-methods including cyanotype, photograms, light installations, sculpture, performance, multimedia, projection and sound.

Artists are encouraged to submit their proposals via google form, more info available here: https://thenewgallery.org/Call-for-Public-Art-Current

Works proposed can be existing and physical works can be reproductions. Artist collectives are encouraged to apply. This is a paid opportunity.

Join Ahreum Lee and the New Gallery for our Fragmentation — Data Poetry Workshop, in correspondence with Lee’s exhibition “My Mother is Data,” currently on view at TNG’s Mainspace! 🦋

This workshop will include a short presentation by Lee on their practice and examples of other artists that have informed their work. Following, participants will be invited to work in a shared digital space creating their own poetry from fragmented online materials. The workshop will wrap-up with an opportunity for participants to share their work, along with a casual artist Q&A. 🌀💻

🗓️ Date: April 25th, 2026
🕑 Time: Noon - 1:30pm MST
🛜 Location: Virtual (Zoom Link to be sent to participants before the workshop)

Early registration is encouraged as there is limited capacity for the workshop. Participants from outside the MST timezone are welcome to attend.

Installation Documentation by Danny Luong (.lu)

Opening tomorrow!⁠
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Please join us for the opening reception of “My Mother is Data”, an immersive installation by Ahreum Lee, that utilizes moving images, 3D animation, live-streamed text, and an interactive web interface to explore human relationships. The artist will be in attendance for our 7-9pm reception 🦋💗
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As an interdisciplinary media artist, musician, game maker, and educator, Ahreum Lee navigates the complexities of technology, data, and socio-political narratives. Fascinated by the ritualistic use of everyday technologies, she explores their impact on socio-political dynamics and interactions with human and more-than-human entities. Her work spans games, 3D animation, web art, sound, and performance. ⁠
Originally from Seoul, South Korea, Ahreum is currently based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. She was a finalist for the Emerging Digital Artist Award by EQ Bank and Trinity Square Video (2019), and has participated in residencies at the Banff Art and Creativity Centre, Eastern Bloc, and Musée des beaux-arts à Montréal.⁠
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[Image caption:⁠
Image 1: A large room is filled with bright pink light. The walls and floor are completely pink. Artificial trees and rock-like shapes line the back wall. Several layered heart-shaped sculptures are mounted on the wall and display moving video images. In the center of the room is a low sculptural platform shaped like a stone, with a screen on top showing moving blue water. On the floor in the foreground, a smartphone sits beneath a clear glass sphere. Projectors are visible on the ceiling. ⁠
Image 2: My Mother is Data, 3D animation still shot, 2022, courtesy of artist⁠
Material: One channel video (12m 11s) with stereo ⁠
Image Description : A close-up of a 3D-rendered human face fills the image. The face looks forward with a neutral expression and slightly open mouth. Yellow abstract shapes are projected across one side of the face. The background is dark.]

♠️ Call for Casino Volunteers! ♠️⁠
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The New Gallery is looking for casino volunteers for June 4th and 5th at the Cowboys Casino 🤠🎰⁠
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This important event only happens once every 20 months and each volunteer shift raises close to $2000 for our organization with each casino fundraiser raising around $60,000 to $70,000 for our organization’s operating costs and TNG’s long-term sustainability 💰️⁠
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No experience is necessary to volunteer, our casino managers will be on site to support you and answer any questions you may have.⁠
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Day shifts (11AM to 7:30PM), night shifts (6:45PM to 3:30AM), and late-night count room shifts (11:15PM to 3:30AM) are available 🎲✨️⁠
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A meal, snacks, beverages, and taxi vouchers are provided during your shift.⁠
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TO SIGN UP: visit the link in our bio!⁠
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♥️ The New Gallery deeply appreciates all of your support. All volunteers receive a free 1 year TNG membership - which includes an enamel pin by Marigold Santos. As a member, you can vote at our Annual General Meeting, sit on a committee, or run for a position on the Board of Directors ♥️

We are now closed for installation, and will be opening on March 20th with “My Mother is Data” featuring the works of Ahreum Lee ( )! 🦋 Want to get involved? Check out the volunteer opportunities linked in our bio 🔗

“My Mother is Data is an immersive installation examining what remains of a relationship when it exists entirely through digital communication. Since childhood, I have known my estranged birth mother only through emails and very few phone calls; a connection maintained across distance and silence by data alone.⁠
In 2014, I received news of my mother’s death, which later turned out to be false. In that moment, the grief it produced was real. This rupture became the catalyst for an ongoing body of work exploring how decontextualized information shapes emotional truth.”
- Ahreum Lee⁠

Image Credit: My Mother is Data, 3D animation still shot, 2022, courtesy of artist

[Image Description: The image is filled with dark blue water. In the center, a smartphone floats on the surface of water. A monarch butterfly with orange and black wings sits on the glowing phone screen. Both the phone and butterfly reflect in the water below.]

New show announcement!⁠
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We are excited to welcome Ahreum Lee ( ) to our mainspace with the exhibition “My Mother is Data” opening March 20th!⁠ 🦋👾
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“My Mother is Data” is an immersive installation exploring how relationships materialize when they are solely practiced in digital realms. Drawing from her own experience, artist Ahreum Lee entwines moving images, 3D animation, live-streamed text, and interactive web interface, noting her estrangement from her birth mother. After receiving false notification of her mother’s death in 2014, Lee considered the instability between reality and perception, and how they mirror contemporary digital life, where unrelated data can exist within the same scroll. In opposition to treating digital systems and their content as neutral materials, Lee intentionally considers data as emotional frameworks that construct intimacy, and supersede certainty. This work asks how emotional attachment and memory is restructured, especially when placed alongside global events within the digital realm.
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My Mother is Data, Close-up image of installation, 2022, Clark

Photo credit: Paul Litherland

[Image Description: A smartphone lies face-up on an irregularly shaped gray faux-stone placed on a bright pink rug. On top of the phone sits a clear crystal sphere, magnifying and distorting the screen beneath it. The phone displays text and an image partially visible through the lens.]

It’s the final week of “Wildfire”, our mainspace exhibition curated by Lara Felsing ( ) and David McGregor ( ) 🔥⁠
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It has been such an honour to host these detailed works—come see them for yourself while you still can!⁠
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We are open now through Saturday (10am - 6pm on weekdays; and noon-6pm on Saturdays) at 208 Centre Street South.⁠
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Documentation courtesy of Danny Luong ( .lu )