SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 Dark Chapters. Curator: Arin Fay. Nelson Museum, Archives, and Gallery, Nelson, BC. March 22- June 28.
2024 David Garneau: Present, Tense. Curator: Mike Patton. BACA space, Art Mur Gallery, Montreal. Dec. 21, 2024-March 1, 2025.
Visual Poetry. Assiniboia Gallery. Regina, SK.
2023 David Garneau: Métissage. Curator: Mary-Beth Laviolette. A major retrospective. Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary.
Intervention in the National Gallery of Canada collection (part of the Governor General’s Award). Curator: Wahsontioo Cross.
Re: Making History. Gallery Gevik, Toronto.
2022 David Garneau: Still Life Paintings. Assiniboia Gallery, Regina.
2009+ Métis/sage. Gould Library, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, USA (2011); The Works Art Festival, Manulife Building, Edmonton (2011); Côté Ouest Gallery. Montreal (2010); Urban Shaman. Winnipeg (2009).
2010 Painting Métis. Curator: Audrey Dreaver. Grand Hall Gallery, Wanuskewin Heritage Park, SK.
2009+ Road Kill. Curator: Jennifer McRorie. Toured nineteen centers in SK: Chapel Gallery, North Battleford; Quill Plains Gallery, Wadena; Biggar Museum and Gallery; Moose Jaw Cultural Centre; Estevan Art Gallery & Museum; Melville Community Works; Allie Griffin Art Gallery, Weyburn; Shurniak Art Gallery, Assiniboia; Grand Coteau Heritage and Cultural Centre, Shaunavon; Kipling Community Centre; Watrous Art & Cultural Centre; Last Mountain Lake Cultural Centre, Regina Beach; Central Park Library/Arts Centre, Nipawin; Mistasinik Place, La Ronge; Prince Albert Arts Centre; Tisdale Community Library.
2009 Close Strangers; Distant Relations. Mackenzie Art Gallery. Curatorial/artistic intervention into the collection; with poetic audio tour.
2008 Along the Carlton Trail. Godfrey Dean Art Gallery, Yorkton, SK.
2008 Road Trip. Mysteria Gallery, Regina, SK.
Beaded Maps. Campus Saint-Jean, Pavilion Lacerte, Grand salon, Edmonton.
Consider the Sacred Wood, Batoche National Historical Site.
2003+ Cowboys and Indians (and Métis?). A self-curated exhibition. However, in Brandon it was curated by Cathy Mattes who paired my work with a local Indigenous artist. A practice I echoed in several subsequent iterations. Ace Art, Winnipeg, and Keyano Art Gallery, Fort McMurray, (2003). Artcite, Windsor, ON, and Art Gallery of South Western Manitoba, Brandon, MB, curator: Cathy Mattes (2004). Esplanade Gallery, Medicine Hat and Harcourt House Gallery, Edmonton (2006); Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery (with Judy Anderson), Art Gallery of Prince Albert; and Estevan Art Gallery, SK. (2005).
2002 Peripheral Pictures, Rosemont Art Gallery, Regina, and Brock University Senate Chambers, St. Catherines, ON.
2000 Sex, Violence and the Death of Heroes, Antechamber Gallery, Regina.
1998 Man Trouble, the Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie.
Diaper Paintings, the New Gallery, Front Space, Calgary.
Recent Paintings, Virginia Christopher Gallery, Calgary.
1989 Metaphorical Pictures, Virginia Christopher Gallery, Calgary.
1988 Paraphrase, Marion Nichol Art Gallery, Calgary.
1987 Drawing on Insomnia, Little Gallery, University of Calgary.
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2014 Apology Dice. With Clement Yeh. Curator: Jonathan Dewar. Art Gallery of Algoma. Sault Ste. Marie, ON.
2011 Another Roadside Abstraction. With Monica Tapp. Curator: Jeff Nye. Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina.
2009 Pop Goes the World. With Sonny Assu. Curator: Felicia Gay. Red Shift Gallery, Saskatoon.
2004 Bush Installation. With Sylvia Ziemann. Flow: a Festival of Art and Ecology. Curator: Alexandra Badzak. Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Formes infinies / Infinite Forms. Curator: Mike Patten. Galerie de l’Université de Montréal (Nov. 15, 2024-March 1, 2025).
In the Light of What We Know. Curator/artist: Céline Condorelli. Remai Modern, Saskatoon (Nov. 19-spring 2025).
How Not to be Seen. Curators: Aileen Burns & Johan Lundh. Remai Modern, Saskatoon.
2023+ “My language has no word for ‘artist’.” Curator: Brianna La Plante. Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina.
“21st Century Métis: Art, Identity, and Innovation.” Curator: Liz Barron. Piano Nobile Gallery, Centennial Concert Hall, Winnipeg.
Walking Death. Curator Annie Martin. Casa Gallery, Lethbridge, AB.
Devotion: Louis Riel Writes Home. Curator: Annie Murray. Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary. May 29-Sept. 1.
2022 Storied Objects: Métis Art in Relation. Curator: Tarah Hogue. Remai Modern, Saskatoon.
Award for Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators.
Voies-Voix Résilientes (Resilient Voices-Pathways). Festival Art Souterrain. Curator: Eddy Firmin. Montreal.
2020 “Heart Band.” David Garneau and Garnet Willis. Sensory Entanglements. Online Exhibition. International Symposium on Electronic Art: ISEA 2020. Montreal.
2018 The Tawatinâ Bridge Project. Sâkêwêwak First Nations Artists’ Collective Inc./Lobby Gallery, Regina.
Earth Tones. Chapel Gallery, North Battleford, SK.
2018+ Conflicting Heroes. The Biennale d’art contemporain autochtone /Contemporary Native Art Biennial. Curator: Mike Patten. Art Mûr,Berlin, Germany (2018); Le Quai, Verdun, QC (2019); Centre culturel, Dorval, Maison de la culture Marie-Uguay, Montréal, Maison de la culture Villeray, and Saint-Michel, Montréal, QC (2020).
2017 In Dialogue. Curator: John G. Hampton. University of Toronto Art Centre and the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon.
2017 Our Masterpieces, Our Stories. National Gallery of Canada.
Raise a Flag. Curator: Ryan Rice. Onsite Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto.
Felled Trees. Curator: Lindsey Sharman. Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London, UK.
La Revente (8th Edition). Curator: Mike Patten. Art Mûr, Montréal.
Rubaboo. Curator: Dawn Saunders-Dahl. Galerie Cite, Edmonton.
2016 10/10: an Exhibition Celebrating 10 Years of the Two Story Café. Curator: Michel Boutin (Indigenous People’s Collective). Mann Art Gallery. Prince Albert.
Open Books: International Artists Explore the Chinese Folding Book. Library and Archives Canada. Ottawa, and numerous international locations (2016-22).
2015 Canadian Indigenous Contemporary Art from Saskatchewan. Curator: Adrian Stimson. Darren Baker Gallery, London, UK.
The Rebel Yells: Dress and Political Re-dress in Contemporary Indigenous Art. Curators: Lori Beavis & Rhonda L. Meier. FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal.
Bird is the Word. Curator: Marsha Kennedy. Mata Art Gallery. Regina.
Saskatchewan. Curator: Belinda Harrow. Scottsdale, Arizona.
2014 306’ers a Wave from Saskatchewan. Curator: David Candler. Dc3 Art Projects, Edmonton.
Indigenous Ingenuity: Saskatchewan – kiSiSkāciwani-Sīpiy. Curator: Adrian Stimson.
Blackall Studios, London and Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain.
Contemporary Native Art Biennial. Curator: Mike Patten. Art Mûr. Montréal.
Made in Calgary: The 1990s. Curator: Nancy Tousley. Glenbow Museum, Calgary.
Fabuleux Dédoublements. Curator: Guy Sioui Durand. Maison de la Culture Frontenac, Montréal.
2013 Reconsidering Reconciliation. Curator: Ashok Mathur. Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, and UBCO FINA Gallery, Kelowna.
River/Water. Esplanade Art Gallery, Medicine Hat.
Attesting Resistance. Curator: Logan Macdonald. Aboriginal Curatorial Collective online.
2012 Where it’s at. Curator: Sandra Fraser. Mendel Art Gallery. Saskatoon.
Métissage: First Nations, Métis and Fransaskois Artists Coming Together. Institute Française La Rotonde and the Faculty Club, University of Regina.
The West. Glenbow Museum, Calgary.
Critical Faculties. University of Regina faculty exhibition. First Nations University of Canada Gallery, Regina.
2011 Resilience/Resistance: Métis Art, 1880-2011. Curator: Sherry Farrell Racette. Batoche National Historic Site of Canada, Batoche, SK.
2009+ Diabolique. Curator: Amanda Cachia. Dunlop Art Gallery (2009); Galerie de l’UQAM, University of Montréal, QC, Kenderdine Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, and Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON (2010); Military Museums, Calgary (2011).
2010 Restoration. Curators: Adrian Stimson and Elizabeth Matheson. Prince Albert Art Gallery (2010) and Estevan Art Gallery (2013).
The Métis Ten. Vancouver Olympics. Vancouver Convention Centre and Whistler site. Curator: Liz Barron.
Naturally: The Way We See Things Now. Screen 2010, Exhibition 11, Vancouver 2010
Cultural Olympiad. Curator: Donna Wawzonek, 2010.
m∂ntu’c ─ little spirits, little powers. Curator: Runa Heidrun. Nordamerika Native Museum (NONAM). Zurich, Switzerland.
To Be Reconkoned With…. Curator: Michelle LaVallee. Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina.
Narrative Quest. Indigenous art from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts collection: Capital Arts Building, Edmonton (2009); Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery
(2011); Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, Museum of Contemporary Art, Calgary, and Art Gallery of Grande Prairie (2012); Canadian Embassy, Prince Takamado Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2015).
Cherished Things, Love. Curators: Carmen Robertson and Sherry Farrell Racette.
Harbour Front, Toronto, and Saskatoon Exhibition Grounds.
Reclaiming Space and Spirit: Stolen Sisters Art Installation Honouring Missing and Murdered Women. CBC building, Regina.
2009 Gallery Without Walls. Curators: Daniel Lindeley and Colleen Sharpe. Art Gallery of Calgary.
2008 Contemporaneous. Curator: Viviane Gray. Indian and Inuit Art Centre, Ottawa.
Reframing Native Art. Curator: Quyen Hoang. Glenbow Museum, Calgary.
Vanish. Curator: Jack Anderson. Art Gallery of Regina.
Pale Blue Dot. Curator: Wendy Peart. Art Gallery of Regina.
Real Estate: Ceremonies of Possession. Curator: Carmen Robertson. Art Gallery of Regina.
Turning the Tap: Reflections on Water. Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Regina.
2007 Au fil des mes Jours/In My Lifetime. Curator: Lee-Ann Martin. Canadian Museum of Civilization. Hull; Le Musee National Des Beau Arts Du Quebec, Quebec City.
Look Two, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
The Two Roads Join Here. Curator: Marsha Kennedy. Mysteria Gallery, Regina.
Road Kill. Public drawing project. Moose Jaw Arts Festival.
Tooth + Nail. Mysteria Gallery, Regina.
Shakespeare Made in Canada: Contemporary Canadian Adaptations in Theatre, Pop Media and Visual Arts. Curators: Daniel Fischlin and Judith Nasby. Macdonald Stewart Art Centre. Guelph, ON.
2007+ Wahwa Neechi Funk! Curator: Neal McLeod. Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina. Toured Saskatchewan (2007-9).
2005 Blame Canada. Levine Gallery. Culver City, California, USA.
Site Reading: Faculty Exhibition. Curator: Seema Goel. Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina.
Chasing Amnesia. Curator: Helen Marzoff. Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina.
Legacy: Frederic Remington and Charles Russell. Glenbow Museum, Calgary.
2004 Kiskih:tamowiwin. Curator: Leanne L’Hirondelle. A.K.A./Tribe Galleries, Saskatoon.
2003 Wildfire on the Plains. Curator: Morgan Wood. Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon.
Lodestar. Royal Canadian Artists Society, Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon.
Looking Left. Curators: Alain Martin and Vince Tinguely. Articule Gallery, Montreal.
2001 Dialogue. Curator: Karen Schoonover. Rosemont Art Gallery, Regina.
A Thousand Words Exactly. The New Gallery, Calgary.
Extra-Necessities, 01. Curator: Dean Drever. Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton.
Appropriations: Alchemy or Commodification? The New Gallery, Calgary.
Changing Times: Faculty Exhibition, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina.
1998 Alberta Biennial. Curators: Catherine Crowston and Cathy Mastin. Edmonton Art Gallery (1998) and Glenbow Museum, Calgary (1999).
1996 Three Chapters in Continuing Stories. Triangle Art Gallery, Calgary.
Les Grande Salons. Curator: Kamil Krulis. Modern Art Gallery, Calgary.
Clay as Canvas, collaboration with Ed Bamling (Banff), Canada Olympic Park, Calgary.
1991 New Artists/New Works. Curator: Richard White. Muttart Art Gallery, Calgary.
1989 Aspects of Realism. Triangle Art Gallery, Calgary.