"The Post-Colonial Landscape exhibition was conceived in the fall of 1990 as a ‘500 Years’ project that would critically challenge the government-sponsored events surrounding the ‘celebration’ of first contact by European explorers. It was envisaged as a group exhibition for the summer of 1993, to be organized by a team of curators and to feature site-specific works by local, national and international artists. Now, as the project draws to a close seven years later, the outcome has proven substantially different. The Post-Colonial Landscape presented the works of more than fifty-four artists in a series of exhibitions, special events and the publications. It involved the collaboration of thirteen curators, five exhibitions and more than fifteen public and private sponsors, most notably the Canada Council for the Arts. The project was inaugurated in the summer of 1993 with a billboard exhibition in a downtown Saskatoon parking lot and concluded in 1998 with the co-publication of this book by the Edmonton Art Gallery and the Mendel Art Gallery" (quote taken from the catalogue).

Texts by Bruce Grenville, Lee-Ann Martin, Marjorie Beaucage, Jean Fisher, Lisa Steele, and Kim Tomczak.