Meet our 2026 Road Works Cohort

Tuesday April 28, 2026

Meet the new group of artists transforming Calgary’s streets into something stranger and more playful.

Across this year’s barriers, you’ll find artists whose worlds move between the surreal and the familiar, who discover new forms of wildlife through their art, create mysterious and eccentric figures, and form environments where the built and natural collapse into each other. These 17 local artists speak in visual languages that oscillate between precision and instinct, bringing to BUMP dreamlike landscapes, cartoon logics, fragmented narratives, and bold systems of pattern and colour that feel both intuitive and meticulously constructed. The 2026 Road Works cohort are:

WÂPOSHPYII / Ling Ho / Jiwoo Kim / Kip Monaghan / Sasha Terway / Claire Coutts / Rylie Landry / Sylvia Arthur / Emma Guido / Mike Kerr / Katherin Leivikov / Aly Tucker / Strom / Chris Lukas Maier / Maya Corona / Ann Fu / Justin Beamish

Now in its 6th year with the City of Calgary, Road Works continues to platform emerging and established artists across the city through a medium that is functional, temporary, and for the public. In 2021 this began as a response to our shifting urban space and now has grown into a living archive where over 100 artists and 300+ barriers have been reimagined as sites of experimentation and possibility.

We’re excited to jump into these small portals created on jersey barriers that will soon be scattered across the city.

You can read more about our 2026 Road Works artists here.