The Alberta Society of Artists

The ASA is a registered society under the regulations of the Province of Alberta. Its members include professional artists in all media as well as visual arts supporters.

Current Members

Linda Carney

Residence
Medicine Hat, Alberta

Selected Awards

  • Second Place, Category: Painting Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede, 1997
  • Senior Advanced Category A.C.A.C.A., Alberta-Wide Exhibit, Red Deer & District Museum, Red Deer, 1994
  • Honourable Mention A.C.A.C.A., Southern Zone, Brooks, Alberta, 1993
  • First Place, Category: Painting Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede, 1993
  • Juror's Choice A.C.A.C.A., Southern Zone, Medicine Hat, Alberta, 1992
  • 2nd Place, Category : Other 1st Place, Category: Landscape Southern Alberta Summer Games, Medicine Hat, Alberta, 1991
  • Honourable Mention, Category: Painting Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede, 1988
  • Honourable Mention, Category: Graphic Design Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede, 1983
  • Honourable Mention, Category: Painting Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede, 1982
  • 3rd Place, Category: Painting Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede, 1981
  • Honourable Mention, Category: Watercolour Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery & Museum of Fine Art, 1978

Public Collections

  • The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton, Alberta
    1987&1993
  • City of Medicine Hat, Alberta
    1982-87-95
  • Medicine Hat Regional Hospital, Alberta
  • Temiskaming Art Gallery, Haileybury, Ontario
  • Open Range Art Association, Medicine Hat, Alberta
  • New Country CHAT, Medicine Hat, Alberta

Bibliography

  • Alberta Society of Artists, The First Seventy Years by Kathy E. Zimon University of Calgary Press, 2000

Solo Exhibitions

  • From Prairie to Mountain to Sea; a visual travelogue by Linda Carney
    Dixon Entrance Maritime Museum, Masset, Q.C.I.
    2004
  • From Prairie to Mountains to Sea
    Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, Alberta
    2001
  • Linda Carney, B.F.A., A.S.A., an Exhibition
    The Framing Corner, Medicine Hat, Alberta
    2001
  • Windows on Nature
    Haida Gwaii Museum, Skidegate, British Columbia
    1999
  • Groundwork: The Prairie at my Feet
    Wood Nature Centre, Red Deer, Alberta
    1997-1998
  • Explorations on Paper
    Medicine Hat Cultural Centre, Medicine Hat, Alberta
    1985

Group Exhibitions

  • Small Arts Expo
    Hat Art Club Studio, Medicine Hat, Alberta
    2003
  • Capture the Beauty of the South Country
    Frame & Art Centre, Medicine Hat, Alberta
    2003
  • Spirit of the Shortgrass
    Alberta Winter Games, Medicine Hat, Alberta
    2002
  • Calgary Art Walk
    A.S.A., Masters Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    2002
  • Food Bank Benefit Art Show
    A.S.A., High River, Alberta
    2002
  • Into the Garden, Again!
    Red Deer and District Museum, Red Deer, Alberta
    2000
  • Arts 2000
    Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Gallery Stratford, Ontario
    2000
  • Intimate Space: Celebrating the Tlell River and Watershed
    Haida Gwaii Museum, Skidegate, British Columbia
    1999
  • Women for the Earth
    Haida Gwaii Museum, Skidegate, British Columbia
    1999
  • B.C. Festival of the Arts
    Victoria, British Columbia
    1999
  • Graduation Show
    B.F.A., University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta
    1998
  • Miniatures from Medicine Hat
    Bowman Arts Centre, Lethbridge, Alberta
    1998
  • Northern Dwellings
    Temiskaming Art Gallery, Haileybury, Ontario
    1998
  • Islands '98
    Arts Council, Haida Gwaii Museum, Skidegate, British Columbia
    1998
  • Awakening Souls to Art - ASA Juried Exhibition and Sale
    Special-T-Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
    1998
  • Groundwork: The Prairie at my Feet
    Bowman Arts Centre Galleries, Lethbridge, Alberta
    1997
  • Groundwork: The Prairie at my Feet
    Medicine Hat Cultural Centre, Medicine Hat, Alberta
    1997
  • Trees and Flowers,
    Bowman Art Centre, Lethbridge, Alberta
    1996/92/90
  • Oppertshauser Gallery, Stony Plain, Alberta
    1996
  • Glyde Show
    Medicine Hat Public Library, Medicine Hat, Alberta
    1996
  • Alberta Wide,
    A.C.A.C.A., Red Deer & District Museum, Red Deer, Alberta
    1995-91
  • FEESA Calendar, Environmental Educational Society
    1994-1995
  • Southern Alberta Zone Show
    A.C.A.C.A., Bowman Arts Centre, Lethbridge, Alberta
    1994
  • The Alberta Society of Artists Exhibition at the Leighton Foundation
    1994
  • North of 49
    University of Missoula, Montana, U.S.A.
    1994
  • The Bow Valley Calligraphy Guild's 12th Annual Exhibition,
    Devonian Gardens, Calgary, Alberta
    1994
  • Into the Garden,
    Red Deer & District Museum, Red Deer, Alberta
    1993
  • Heritage Auction, Stockmen Memorial Foundation, Cochrane, Alberta
    1992
  • Southern Alberta Summer Games Visual Art Show, Margaret Wooding School, Redcliff, Alberta
    1991
  • Open Water,
    Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolours, Montreal, Quebec
    1991
  • Small Stuff
    Crescent Heights High School, Medicine Hat, Alberta
    1990-1992
  • Celebrating Together,
    Medicine Hat Public Library, Medicine Hat, Alberta
    1990
  • Southern Points of View,
    Medicine Hat Cultural Centre, Medicine Hat, Alberta
    1990
  • Trees and Flowers,
    Bowman Art Centre, Lethbridge, Alberta
    1988/87
  • International Exhibit of Miniature Art
    Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
    1987
  • Small Stuff
    Crescent Heights High School, Medicine Hat, Alberta
    1986-87
  • Southern Alberta Creates,
    Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Alberta
    1985
  • New Alberta Artists,
    Muttart Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1983

Traveling Exhibitions

  • Memory & Identity
    A.S.A. 75th Anniversay Travelling Exhibition, Lethbridge, Crowsnest Pass, Calgary, Edmonton & Grande Prairie
    2005-06
  • Blooming Prairie
    Edmonton Art Gallery's Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program, Alberta
    2001-03
  • Bridging A New Century
    Red Deer, Stony Plain, Lethbridge, Edmonton, Blairmore, Grande Prairie, and Calgary, Alberta
    2000-02
  • Prairie Grass to Mountain Pass
    Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Muttary Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1998
  • Writing-on-Stone
    Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, Alberta
    1998
  • Symbols of Civilization
    Alberta Society of Artists, Edmonton, Alberta
    1996
  • Animal Spirits,
    Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program
    1993
  • South by Southeast,
    Alberta, Yukon and N.W.T.
    1987