Exhibition

Emily Chu: Preserving Fragments

Information

  • Date

    March 29, 2025 - March 15, 2026
  • Location

    Main Hall

This exhibition is a story of immigration on the prairies. Drawing upon her own experience moving to Alberta in the early 1990s, Edmonton-based artist Emily Chu uses illustration to reflect upon her upbringing and the time spent with her grandmother as they each got to know their new home and community. The mural touches upon themes relevant to all diasporic peoples including language, assimilation, grief, cultural erasure and how one’s identity is shaped by their surroundings and community.

Organized by the Art Gallery of Alberta and curated by Danielle Siemens.

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Meet the Artist

Emily Chu

Emily Chu is a Chinese illustrator and visual artist based on Treaty 6 (Edmonton). Her practice includes commercial illustration, murals, storytelling, sketching, and community-arts initiatives.

Chu’s murals can be found at the Edmonton Chinatown Multi-Cultural Centre, Alberta Craft Gallery & Shop, Loblaws Ice District, ATB Edmonton/Red Deer, and Millenium Place, to name a few. She is also currently working on a graphic novel about “the last house in Chinatown” funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Chu is also a co-organizer of Chinatown Greetings, and the founder and lead organizer of Chinatown's newest LNY Market: Togather Chinatown Art Fair.