the same name, curated by Nancy Tousley, "explores the theme of post-regionalism in Alberta art," where artists like Cran, Cran was awarded the Doug & Lois Mitchell Outstanding Calgary Artist Award on February 20, 2015, at the Mayor’s Lunch for Arts Champions. The Award honours innovative Calgary-based artists who are acknowledged by their peers, have achieved national and/or international recognition and "have significantly enriched artistic discourse in Canada." Selected exhibitions Chris Cran: Surveying the Damage, 1977–97 In 1999 his retrospective exhibition entitled Chris Cran: Surveying the Damage, 1977–97 with works produced over two decades – including his student years at ACAD – was shown at the Kelowna Art Gallery in British Columbia, in Saskatoon, and in Toronto at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (July 8, 1999 – October, 1999). Patterns of Disappearance was exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada from June 16, 1999, to November 28, 1999. Major Survey – Sincerely Yours, Chris Cran, 2015–2016 A major multi-partner survey of Cran's artistic production spanning over thirty years, was co-curated by Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the NGC and Catherine Crowston, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, of the Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) in Edmonton, Alberta The exhibition entitled Sincerely Yours opened at the AGA on September 12, 2015, in the spring of 2016 at the NGC. The exhibition includes over one hundred works from Cran's own collection, other private collectors, galleries and museums. A painting entitled, Self-Portrait With Large Audience Trying to Remember What Carmelita Pope Looks Like 1988 in which Cran refers to a TV commercial for Pam cooking spray featuring Carmelita Pope. Cran was intrigued by the idea of "a large appreciative audience for the most trivial things." Stephen Hunt of the Calgary Herald described Cran's work as the "rhetoric of the image," in reference to the iconic essay by Roland Barthes. The exhibition Inherent Virtue, at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery (SAAG), Lethbridge, Alberta from September 25, 2015, to November 22, 2015, was part of the major survey of Cran's work. Selected collections Cran's work is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Art Gallery of Windsor, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada Council Art Bank, Edmonton Art Gallery, Glenbow Museum, Landfall Press, New York, New York, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Mendel Art Gallery, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Nickle Arts Museum, North York