In the Show Room Gallery, NAC presents a balanced programme of work by Niagara Peninsula-based artists, artists from across Canada, North America and the world.
The Show Room Gallery programming season runs from March through December. During this time, between 3 and 4 exhibitions and/or installations are shown.
Hours
Wed - Fri 12 pm - 5 pm
Sat 12pm - 4 pm
or often by chance
I am my mother's daughter
Farheen HaQ
Sat 23 May 2026 – Sat 18 July 2026
Opening Reception Sat 23 May 2026 2PM - 5PM
میں اپنی ماں کی بیٹی ہوں | I am my mother’s daughter is a solo exhibition hosted at NAC, featuring the works of acclaimed Canadian artist Farheen Haq. The exhibition celebrates the resilience and knowledge systems of HaQ’s mother who arrived in Canada in the 1970s to live with her partner in an arranged marriage, settling in the Niagara region, Haudenosaunee Territory.
The exhibition is a mixture of video, sculptural, textile and installation art, which weaves together intergenerational relationships, connecting the experience of the artist’s mother with Haq’s experience as a child of that union and subsequently, its impact on her own experience as a mother. The artist’s work of inner housekeeping includes personal journeys through a family’s past as a way of moving forward, and political reconciliations determined by the territories on which she and her family arrived as guests.
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Thur 2 April 2026
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Fri 30 Jan 2026
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Wed 12 Nov 2025
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Sat 9 Aug 2025
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Sat 10 May 2025
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Thurs 3 April 2025
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Thurs 20 Feb 2025
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Wed 22 Jan 2025
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Wed 11 Sept 2024
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Sat 18 May 2024
The Show Room Gallery is available for exhibits or installations by NAC members in good standing. All artists that show at NAC are paid CAR/FAC recommended artist-fees as well as travel and transportation costs.
- Artistic merit as determined by a panel of objective, professional NAC artists familiar with national standards and regional interests
- Community relevance as defined by the ability of the work to resonate within the regional community and inspire grassroots artistic development
- Equitable representation by regional artists, national artists, and cross-cultural artists
Qualities:
- Original and innovative
- Engaging and compelling
- Challenging to the intellect
- Stimulating to the imagination
- Transcending the academic
- Lacking in pretensions and artifice
- Appropriate to the gallery space
- Multi-faceted in its ability to communicate
Niagara Artists Centre is an artist-run centre dedicated to the presentation of contemporary art in all media. Priority is given to submissions that address the specific nature of the NAC space. Submissions from artists and curators for both visual and time based art and new media works are welcome. Artists for all programmed exhibitions and installations are paid above recommended CAR/FAC rates. NAC also pays artist travel and transportation of the work. NAC designs and produces all print material for exhibitions in the Show Room Gallery.
Submissions to NAC are considered by a Selections Committee comprised of members of the Board of Directors and NAC members. Deadline for submissions is on-going.
Submission Requirements
- Ten images (digital), video, or other appropriate documentation
- A description of the proposed show (one page or less)
- A statement about the work (one page or less)
- A resume and/or bio of the artist (three pages or less)
Please email your submission to artists@nac.org with Show Room Gallery in the subject line.