The end result of Emily Hermant’s work is so refined, the intended meaning so sophisticated, and the artistic details so perfectly executed, that the rough-and-ready process is hard to believe. Hermant has been working with salvaged Ethernet cables and telecom wires for around a decade, collecting them and repurposing them into 2D and 3D sculptures …
Emily Hermant Longlisted for the 2026 Sobey Art Award We are thrilled to share that Emily Hermant has been longlisted for the 2026 Sobey Art Award. Organized by the National Gallery of Canada and funded the Sobey Art Foundation, the Sobey Art Award recognizes Canadian artists who are at a critical juncture in their …
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Vancouver Art Gallery presents: Vancouver Now! Emily Hermant August 7–November 22, 2026 Emily Hermant is the inaugural artist in our new Vancouver Now! exhibition series, highlighting artists whose work is both timely and closely tied to this city. Since arriving in Vancouver in 2016, Hermant has steadily built a reputation as an …
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The five featured artists of Dear Plastic straddle the divide between what is considered artificial versus natural in their engagement with this plastic. They clearly delight in the potential of plastics as artistic material, which they reuse, repurpose, or reimagine to fashion visually arresting works. The thought-provoking pieces in this exhibition avoid a simple environmentalist stance or …
The Richmond Art Gallery will soon unveil two new environmentally themed exhibitions. Zoë Chan curated Dear Plastic, which is a group exhibition featuring works by Ari Bayuaji, Emily Hermant, Caroline Monnet, Alex Tedlie-Stursberg, and Cheryl Wong. Chan is the curator at the Richmond Art Gallery. Read more
Dear Plastic is a group exhibition focusing on how plastics have become an inescapable part of our everyday reality. The featured artists — Ari Bayuaji, Emily Hermant, Caroline Monnet, Alex Tedlie-Stursberg, and Cheryl Wong — use various found or ready-made plastics in their artworks. Read more
Dear Plastic, curated by Zoë Chan, showcases works by Ari Bayuaji, Emily Hermant, Caroline Monnet, Alex Tedlie-Stursberg, and Cheryl Wong. Artists used found or ready-made plastics to examine their pervasive role in modern life. Highlights include Bayuaji’s tapestries made from plastic ropes found on Bali’s shores, Monnet’s woven works exploring Indigenous aesthetics, and Wong’s exploration …
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Artist and Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECU) faculty member Emily Hermant has been awarded a $72,000 Social Sciences and Humanities Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant for her project Core Memories: Retracing the Fabric of Computing Technology. The project will explore ‘magnetic core memory,’ an early computer memory system widely used from the 1950s to 1970s. The technology …
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May 13 – July 23 2023 Within the spun fibres of yarn, the warp and weft of a weaving, the blocks of a quilt and the bond of indigo dye to fabric, textiles hold boundless knowledge, transmitted over generations. The exhibited artists draw on complex histories and rich cultural and personal practices connected to textiles to build sculptural works that move away from the gallery …
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LVL3 proudly presents Dial Tone, a three-person exhibition featuring Kevin Umaña, Cathy Hsaio, and Emily Hermant. In Dial Tone, Like a visual telegraph, the artists use their disparate iconographies to flag us down in hopes of a conversation.