Current exhibitions
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Still Standing: Ancient Forest Futures
June 25 - Sept 17, 2022
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory
Curated by Jessie Demers
Still Standing: Ancient Forest Futures brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists to reflect on our relationship with old-growth forests in B.C. from a range of cultural and philosophical perspectives. The exhibition explores the relationships between art, ecology and activism in order to envision futures which honour reciprocal relationships with nature.
Artists:
Carey Newman, Connie Morey, Gord Hill, Heather Kai Smith, Jeremy Herndl, Jordan Hill, Kelly Richardson, Kyle Scheurmann, Mike Andrew McLean, Paul Walde, Rande Cook, Valerie Salez.
Image: Jeremy Herndl, The Black Cedar, 2021.
Out of Place
Solo exhibition by Connie Morey
July 2 - Sept 17, 2022
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory
Out of Place delves into the relationships between the ground beneath our feet and the roofs over our heads. Through sculpture, photography and stop-motion projection, artist Connie Michele Morey explores ecological displacement (a colonial separation from the earth as home) and its impact on labour and housing dislocation. The exhibition grows out of tensions embodied in the artist’s mixed settler and Indigenous identity, alongside her personal experiences with housing insecurity. Emerging from travel to over fifty former village and industry sites on the east and west coasts of Canada, Out of Place questions what it means to be at home with the body, community, and earth.
Image: Connie Morey, Roof Over My Head, Slag Heap, Coal Mine #1, K'omoks Traditional Territory (Comox Valley, BC), 2019
Art of Reconciliation
April 30 - Sept 10 2022
Legacy Downtown Sidewalk Gallery | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory
The Sidewalk Gallery is located outside Legacy Downtown in our Broad Street windows.
Art of Reconciliation invites viewers to witness and participate in a dialogue with youth about what reconciliation means for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people working together to form friendships and take action. The artwork in this show is the result of weeks of reflection, group discussion and deep learning about reconciliation, Indigenous culture, and colonization.
Learn more about the Art of Reconciliation project
Image: Dahlila Charlie, Matriarch's Dream, 2021.
Legacy Maltwood is located on campus at the Mearns Centre – McPherson Library
Eric Metcalfe: Pop Anthropology
Oct 23, 2021 - Oct 2, 2022
Legacy Maltwood Gallery | On campus in the Mearns Centre – McPherson Library
Lekwungen territory
Curated by Dorian Jesse Fraser, Doctoral Candidate, Concordia University (UVic MA, 2013).
Watch: Pop Goes the Art! Curator Talk
Read: West Coast Modernism and the Pop Sauvage of Eric Metcalfe, essay by Dorian Jesse Fraser
Pop Anthropology is an exhibition of multimedia artist Eric Metcalfe’s oeuvre, spanning over sixty years, in celebration of the artist’s honorary doctorate from UVic (UVic DFA 2021, BFA 1970). This exhibition continues the playful and charged work of Metcalfe’s life: reimagining images, tropes and stereotypes as poignant and plentiful scraps from which to pull meaning. It honours his early development as a student in Visual Arts at the University of Victoria in the early 1970s, as well as his lifetime achievements as a pioneer in performance art in western Canada and co-founder of the Western Front, one of Canada’s leading and longest running artist run centres.
Image credit: Eric Metcalfe, Untitled, 1967, gouache and watercolour on paper.
Located on campus, First Peoples House displays artwork from the university's collection through rotating exhibitions.
Qw'an Qw'anakwal -
To Come Together
Artist Portraits
Jan 22, 2022 - ongoing
First Peoples House | UVic Campus
Lekwungen territory
8:30 am to 4:30 pm Monday to Friday
Visitors are permitted to view the exhibition but must follow COVID-19 protocols.
Visit the exhibition website
Curated by Andrea Walsh, Smyth Chair in Arts and Engagement
Amanda LaLiberte's photo portraits showcase 12 Coast Salish artists who participated in the Visiting Artist Program hosted by the UVic Department of Anthropology.
Image credit: Amanda Laliberte, 2021.