June 2025
Alexandra Bischoff (Long-Term Artist in Residence, 2022–current; Onsite Coordinator, 2023–2025; Residency Manager, 2025-current)
Alexandra Bischoff is a prairie-born artist of settler descent. They hold a Fine-Arts Diploma from MacEwan University (2012), a BFA in Visual Arts Studio from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2015), and an MFA from Concordia University in Intermedia (2021). Bischoff’s artworks manifest as multimedia installations, sculptures, and writing; their art-making processes as a whole are based in durational performance. While in residency at SAR, Bischoff has been researching family archives and Canada’s homesteading histories to investigate what it means to be a housing-insecure settler on stolen Indigenous land.
Justine Langille
Justine Langille (they/them) is a Canadian queer/trans photographic artist.
Informed by a distant rural youth, career experience doing urban outreach work, and social theory, their images observe transforming relations between people and the environment throughout the places known collectively as Canada today.
Inextricable from the places and ecologies where Langille dwells, their photographs offer visions of how people and the fragile lands and waters we depend on for survival shape one another in new, complex ways amidst tightly intertwined social and environmental crises.
In 2023, they mentored with Magnum Photos photographer and president Cristina de Middel.
All of Yesterday's Parties, Langille's 2023 survey of balloon pollution in the southern Ontario territories of the Great Lakes basin, was generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Langille's current project NO SPOONS OUT HERE (2025) documents their gender transition at the intersection of Metro Vancouver's queer sanctuaries and the socially conservative ambivalence of the Fraser Valley in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia.
Natalie Olanick
I am interested in how images that distinguish order, pattern, and form, become intertwined with a sentiment of personal familiarity. How a spark of memory shifts into the production of a work, which can be a painting or a piece of writing, or a curatorial project. I make paintings that sometimes are accompanied by projections or small objects. I have done bookworks, as well as writing and curatorial projects.
In the works I produce or the projects I work on, I am exploring how the narrative quality of the works wanders into an in-between zone, allowing for multiple readings of a work or project. Messages and possible meanings shift from the nature of the materials, my usage of them, and how this mix reflects social codes and possibilities.
In certain works, I am hinting at notions derived from Modernity. How these goals and tools have become derailed. The images of structured types of measurements are represented as hand-made subjectively comprehended forms with poetic latitude. My process of art-making includes an open field of signification in which established associations and potential readings are layered. I work with the materials as tools to illustrate ideas rather than as a skill that must be mastered. I continue to ask questions of myself through object-making as well as writing and curatorial practice.
Sherry Walchuk lives between Montreal, QC and BC, where she is from. Her drawings and installations have been exhibited at artist run centres across Canada and she has received support from BC Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts. She has participated in many residencies, the most recent being “The System and Other Universes” with Shary Boyle and Howie Tsui at the Banff Centre, and she currently teaches drawing at Concordia University. She holds a BFA and BA from Simon Fraser University and an MFA from Concordia University.