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Bio

Wanru Kemp is a Chinese-born artist based in Okotoks, Canada. With formal training in painting in China and a university education in commercial photography, she creates contemporary landscape works across painting, drawing, and sound, with close attention to light, structure, and composition.

Shaped by cultural inheritance and migration, landscape becomes a passageway connecting her inner life of memory and thought to the outer world of places and people. Her work is held in private collections worldwide and has been exhibited in Canada, the United States, and China.

Statement

Wanru’s work often brings subtle surreal elements into natural scenes, opening small moments of pause, where looking slows down and the mind can drift. Across her paintings, one senses a love of nature and a quiet search for balance between order and unpredictability in her surroundings.

Exhibitions

Jul- Aug 2025, 'When the sea whispering' Group. Shanghai, China.
Jun- Aug 2025, 'The Path' Solo. Canopy Studios, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Apr- Jun 2025, 'Flow and stillness' Solo. Leighton Art Centre, Millarville, AB, Canada.
Sep 2024 - Jan 2025 Art in Hall , Foothills Centennial Centre.
Jun- July 2024 ‘Day& night’. Solo. Nahcotta Gallery. Portsmouth, NH, US.
Sep 2023 - Jan 2024 Window Galleries. Group. Arts Commons Galleries. Calgary AB. Canada.
Nov 2023 Featuring artist of Breadmaker, The Pioneer, Calgary AB. Canada..
Sep 2023 Enormous Tiny Art 34th. Group. Nahcotta Gallery. Portsmouth, NH, US.
Jan 2023 ‘PB15’. Solo. Nahcotta Gallery. Portsmouth, NH, US.
Sep 2022 Enormous Tiny Art 32th. Group. Nahcotta Gallery. Portsmouth, NH, US.
Mar- May 2022 ‘White Cube’. Group. BLAH. West Vancouver, BC, Canada
Jan 2022 ‘Under’ Solo. Nahcotta Gallery. Portsmouth, NH, US.
Sep- Nov 2021 ‘Moon Gate’. Solo. Okotoks Art Gallery. Okotoks, AB, Canada.
Sep 2020 Enormous Tiny Art 30th. Group. Nahcotta. Gallery. Portsmouth, NH, US.
Jul- Nov 2018 Art in the Hall ‘ Moon Gate: 365 Days’. Solo. Ferry Building Gallery Presents. West Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Grant, residency & program
Jan 2025 Received grant from Calgary Arts Development
Sep 2024 Okotoks Sheep River Artist in Residence.
2023 -2024 RBC Emerging Visual Artists Program.

Representation

Chichi Isles Studios
Nahcotta Gallery

Contact

For inquiries, commissions, or collaboration , please get in touch.
wanrukemp.art@gmail.com or