Ernie Kroeger

MFA (Calgary),  BFA (Manitoba)

Ernie Kroeger teaches photography. He is an artist and educator and his photographs have been widely shown in solo and group exhibitions across Canada and in Europe. His work is included in several public collections such as the Alberta Art Foundation, Photographers Gallery in Saskatoon, Edmonton Art Gallery, Canada Council and Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. Most recently his work has been shown in solo exhibitions at The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies in Banff and Gallery 44 in Toronto as well as in a group exhibition at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. In 2001 his first book, The Great Divide, a collaboration with Alberto Manguel, was published. Kroeger has been the recipient of a number of awards and grants, most notably The Banff Centre’s Barbara Spohr Award for Photography. He holds an MFA from the University of Calgary and a BFA from the University of Manitoba. As an educator he has taught at the University of Manitoba, the Alberta College of Art & Design and the University of Calgary. He is currently on a one-year leave of absence from his role as Photography Facilitator at The Banff Centre for the Arts.

 Currently he is working on a project investigating the relationship between image and text. This has included research into legendary accounts about the invention of language, study of pictographs, petroglyphs, signs and symbols. This research led him to the discovery of beetle engravings, calligraphic-like markings on trees, which have inspired a new series of photographs. This subject and natural phenomenon, indigenous to the Rocky Mountains, has allowed him to re-imagine his own version of the invention of language.

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Last updated May 2005