John Will: Born in the UFO

This major retrospective exhibition traces the over 60-year artistic career of the boldly irreverent and equally influential Alberta artist John Will. Featuring prints, paintings, photography, video and works on paper, John Will: Born in the U.F.O. will be the largest and most complete exhibition of John Will’s work to date. Will is known for his humour, play with notions of truth, and a fascination into his own place in the world as an individual and an artist. His satirical and insightful paintings and works on paper are created through a process of collecting fragments of language from a wide variety of sources: news, popular media, adages, slang as well as found and taken photographs to re-work them into insightful, often hysterical and sometimes uncomfortable new interpretations.

This exhibition is organized by the Art Gallery of Alberta and curated by Catherine Crowston.