Eastern Edge’s Main Gallery is our primary exhibition space, featuring contemporary work from provincial, national, and international artists. Our Main Gallery programming seeks to facilitate critical dialogue concerning issues in contemporary art and society, actively encouraging emerging and established artists whose work speaks to feminist, multicultural, queer, and other diverse perspectives.
The space is programmed through an annual call for submissions, with the exception of two exhibition slots; each year, we present an Annual Members’ Exhibition in the Summer, and an exhibition in partnership with First Light NL for Spirit Song Festival in the Fall.
Current Exhibition
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Upcoming Exhibitions
Stéphane Alexis, Chains & Crowns
March 28 – May 10, 2025
Chains & Crowns explores Afro hairstyles as both cultural heritage and socio-political expression, tracing their origins from Africa and the Caribbean through historical cycles of oppression and celebration. These styles have evolved as symbols of survival, adaptability, and creativity within Black communities, representing a resilient aesthetic deeply rooted in style, communal identity, and the triumphs of self-expression. The exhibit illuminates how Black hair has not only been a personal statement but also a collective narrative, shaping and influencing
character in Western culture while carrying a legacy of beauty, resilience, and joy.
This exhibition also addresses the commodification of Black hair, examining the objectification of Black individuals through their hair and the inequities in the beauty industry. Despite Black consumers driving a significant portion of beauty sales, Black-owned brands represent only a fraction of the revenue, highlighting systemic barriers to economic inclusion. These works are a call for reclaiming autonomy and promoting equity, urging a reexamination of how Black hair and its cultural significance are valued and respected in contemporary society.
Snack Witch Joni Cheung, filling in the gaps
May 23 – July 5, 2025
filling in the gaps is a gathering of participatory and collaborative projects exploring how physical objects and digital platforms are adapted to meet the needs of diasporic communities.
In 2019, Snack Witch Joni Cheung moved to Tiohtiá:ke | Mooniyang | Montréal to become a Certified Sculpture Witch. Already struggling to find community in a new place, COVID-19’s arrival made things even more difficult as Anti-Asian sentiment and violence proliferated across the globe.
During a time of pandemic amnesia, Snack Witch’s practice reflects on the ways communities can build, nurture, and sustain relationships over geographic, temporal, and sociocultural distances. Through installation, video, sound, and printed ephemera, Cheung brings together stories collected from the past, future, and present. In her attempts to navigate and mend their own physical, emotional, spiritual, and ancestral recesses, these projects simultaneously become love notes: Sent out to those within and outside of Eastern Edge, in the hopes of finding others also seeking connection during strenuous times.
Eastern Edge Annual Members’ Exhibition
July 18 – August 30, 2025
EE’s Annual Members’ Exhibition is open to our membership and will feature over 40 talented artists across the province.
Spirit Song Exhibition
October 17 – November 29, 2025
Lucas Morneau, Queer Newfoundland Hockey League (QNHL)
February 6 – March 21, 2026
Queer Newfoundland Hockey League (QNHL) is a fictional hockey league made up of 14 teams, all with team names that include pejoratives used against the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. The artist’s reclamation of these terms not only critiques existing hegemonic masculinity in sports culture, it also aims to create a new, positive, and accepting masculinity for sports enthusiasts.
Miya Turnbull
April 10 – May 23, 2026
Miya Turnbull’s upcoming exhibit will be delving into self-representation through a diverse array of mediums, presented as masks, sculptures, origami, photographs, and video. This self-portrait exploration aims to navigate themes of masking, authenticity, bi-racial identity, as well as the intricate facets of multiplicity and the fragmented self.
At the heart of this exhibition is her collection of over 100 hand-crafted masks. These three-dimensional self-portraits blend sculpture and wearability, offering a realistic yet uncanny and often distorted depiction of herself, each stemming from a plaster cast of her face. These masks are further portrayed within portraiture, video performances and traces of Miya’s body on the gallery walls. The benign gazes and expressions of the self-portraits invite viewers to engage and reflect, fostering a dialogue with the multifaceted ‘self’ represented in various forms.
Jongwook Park
June 12 – July 25, 2026
Through still, flat, and dimensional images and forms, I use visual symbolism and intuitively generated drawing compositions. The use of multiple mediums and structures suggests a translation and slippage between expression and meaning. I attempt to visualize my emotional and psychological negotiation of expressing myself between my mother tongue and newly adopted languages.
Eastern Edge Annual Members’ Exhibition
August 14 – September 26
EE’s Annual Members’ Exhibition is open to our membership and will feature over 40 talented artists across the province.
Past Exhibitions
2025
Rachelle Wunderink: Your Comfort, My Silence
2024
Spirit Song Festival: AtaKatigejut (Intertwined)
Z’otz* Collective: Bartering Futures
Eastern Edge Members’ Exhibition: LOOT BAG
Daze Jefferies + B. G-Osborne: Transient Maternal
Par Nair: the stories we don’t tell
2023
Megan Samms & Kristin Pope: this is how we can visit
Boil-up: Annual Members’ Exhibition
Jason Urban & Leslie Mutchler: Speculative Geologies
2022
Daniel Barrow, Paige Gratland & Glenn Gear: Three Way Mirror
Potluck: Annual Members’ Exhibition
Late for Life Chapter II – Previously Loved: Xenia Lucie Laffely
2021
Under New Management: Video Rental Store: Su-Ying Lee & Suzanne Carte
100 Mini Houses: A Downtown Exploration: Molly Margaret