The MacKenzie Art Gallery presents All That We Need is in This Room, curated by Nicolle Nugent and Canadian Singer/Songwriter Amy Millan, on view from April 24 to August 30, 2026, in Regina, Saskatchewan. Featuring work by six

All That We Need is in This Room is inspired by Skeena Reece’s Touch Me (2013), a video in which the artist bathes fellow artist Sandra Semchuk in a tender act of care grounded in compassion, forgiveness, and empathy.

Co-curator Nicolle Nugent reflects: “I was struck by how moved I was by this work, and by the fact that neither artist would be able to communicate such powerful ideas alone—both needed each other to complete this tender and masterful gesture.” The exhibition considers how meaning is created through collaboration, acts of care, shared authorship, and relational exchange.

Across the exhibition, collaboration expands beyond conventional understandings. Artists engage in relationships that move between the living and the remembered, the human, and non-human. From Skeena Reece’s intimate act of care with Sandra Semchuk, to Sylvia Ziemann and Yuji Szero Lee’s collaborative drawings that explore cultural and generational exchange, to Damian Rogers’ dialogue with her mother’s memory, Ava Roth’s interspecies collaboration with honeybees, and Moira Williams’ collective creation with disabled communities; collaboration becomes a practice of care, reciprocity, and shared authorship. In this context, collaboration is not only about making together, but also about listening, responding, and creating in relation to others.

Skeena Reece
Skeena Reece’s Touch Me (2013) presents an intimate act of care as the artist bathes fellow artist Sandra Semchuk. The work foregrounds collaboration as a deeply relational gesture, one grounded in vulnerability, trust, and shared presence

moira williams
moira williams’ Blood Songs + Oracles Crip Careoke Lounge transforms karaoke into “careoke,” a space of collective expression shaped through collaboration with disabled communities. Co-created through songwriting and sound, the installation invites visitors to sing, listen, rest, and move together within an accessibility-centered environment.

Damian Rogers
Damian Rogers’ installation brings together print, text, and sound in response to her mother Joanna’s experience with frontal-lobe dementia. The prints are based on long lists of animal names that Joanna repeatedly copied, while two sound pieces—created with musician Mike Belitsky (The Sadies)—are presented in a bedroom setting inspired by her hospice room. Together, these elements create an intimate space that reflects memory, care, and the experience of being present with a loved one.

Ava Roth
Ava Roth’s work emerges through an interspecies collaboration with local honeybees. This project, like all of Ava’s work, explores the boundaries where humans collide with the natural environment and imagine a more beautiful outcome for our encounter.

Sylvia Ziemann and Yuji Szero Lee
Sylvia Ziemann and Yuji Szero Lee present collaborative drawings that explore cultural and generational relationships. Their hybrid figures invite , creating an imaginative space shaped through shared authorship.

All That We Need is in This Room invites visitors to consider how collaboration shapes the ways we create, connect, and care for one another. Through works grounded in shared experience, accessibility, and reciprocity, the exhibition offers a space to reflect on what it means to be in relation, and what becomes possible when we come together.

 

ABOUT THE MACKENZIE

The MacKenzie Art Gallery envisions a world where art inspires and heals across generations. Located in Treaty 4 / oskana kâ-asastêki / Regina, the MacKenzie is Saskatchewan’s oldest public art gallery, with a 50-year history of championing Indigenous art from Indigenous perspectives. The MacKenzie embraces its unique position within the Canadian and international art landscape, celebrating the diverse perspectives of all artists within the Plains region and Canada. It focuses on Indigenous and contemporary art, contextualized through select historical and international works.

 

MEDIA CONTACT

Hooria Rajabzadeh
Communications Coordinator
MacKenzie Art Gallery
hrajabzadeh@mackenzie.art
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