Upcoming exhibitions

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DIS – displaced, dispersed, dispossessed

Sept 16 – Dec 5, 2026     

Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen Territory

DIS – displaced, dispersed, dispossessed pairs concurrent group exhibits at the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre and the University of Victoria Legacy Art Gallery, bringing together work from contemporary artists exploring the lasting influence of the Second World War on Nikkei communities globally.

Through installation, video, sculpture-informed 2D/3D work, performance, illustration, and text-based practices, participating artists engage inherited memory, cultural continuity, and intergenerational experience.

Artists:

  • Brava Kilo (Brian Kobayakawa)
  • Renay Egami
  • Elysha Rei
  • Nao Uda
  • Michael Prior
  • Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa
  • Justin Seiji Waddell

 

University of Victoria Legacy Gallery, Victoria, BC – Sept 16 – Dec 5, 2026     

Artists from the Past Wrongs Future Choices artists and scholars residency programs at the University of Victoria.

Karasawa Gallery, NNMCC, Burnaby, BC – Sept 19, 2026 – Feb 27, 2027

Japanese Canadian artists reflecting on the enduring impact of the 1940s uprooting and dispossession and its continuing influence on identity, memory, and artistic practice.

 

SAVE THE DATE: Sept 19, 2026 for a virtual opening of both exhibits.  Details TBA.

 

Image: ‘Repatriation’ to Japan, Slocan, British Columbia, c. 1946. Courtesy of the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, Odamura Family Collection (1996.178.1.33.a-b).

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This exhibition is made possible through funding from:

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WARA-WARA

An Exhibition of Street Art and Graffiti from Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Sept 16 – Dec 5, 2026     

Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen Territory

WARA-WARA brings together 21 artists and four collectives from Yogyakarta, Indonesia, whose work has been shaped by the city's vibrant street art, graffiti, mural and comic communities. Taking its title from the Javanese term ‘wara-wara’ – an announcement, warning or public call – the exhibition explores artistic practice as a way of responding collectively to moments of social, political and environmental uncertainty.

Alongside the forthcoming exhibition in downtown Victoria, the project’s history and development may be explored online here.

Developed through a collaboration between Survive! Garage (Yogyakarta), the University of Victoria Art Collections and the participating artists and collectives, WARA-WARA presents paintings, drawings, prints and new site-responsive work alongside photographs and video documentation from the project's origins in Yogyakarta. Rather than treating the street simply as a site of protest, the exhibition highlights the relationships, conversations and shared practices that sustain artistic communities over time. Together, these works invite visitors to consider not only the calls sounded in times of crisis, but also how we choose to respond—with imagination, solidarity and a renewed sense of responsibility toward one another and to the wider world around us.

  

Artists

Adit Doodleman  @aditdoodleman

Anagard  @anagard_stcl  @anagard_artchive

Bayu Widodo  @bayuwdd

BirdPeace  @birdpeace_

Digie Sigit  @digiesigit

Farhan Siki  @farhansiki  @sikipecah

GETLUPS  @getlups

Homepippa  @homepippa

Ismu Ismoyo  @ismuismoyo

LOKA  @me.loka_

Medialegal  @medialegal_ @medialegalstore

Minas  @monicakristianto

Muck  @muckizm

Neusone  @neusneusss

Patub Porx  @patub_porx   @porx_shop

Reas @riskireas

Rolly LoveHateLove  @ykcityking

Rune  @rune_hsk

Samuel Indratma @samuel_indratma

Wimbo Praharso  @wimbopraharso

Zent Prozent  @zentprozent

 

Collectives

ABDW Art Project  @abdwartproject

Graphic Victims  @graphicvictims

Nyalakan!  @nyalakanproject

Wayang Polah  @wayangpolah

 

Image: ABDW Art Project, 2026.

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WARA-WARA has been made possible through the generous support of the University of Victoria Art Collections, the Canadian Southeast Asian Studies Initiative (CSEASI), the Henry Luce Foundation and many partners, collaborators and supporters in both Canada and Indonesia.

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Learning/Unlearning

September 2026 to June 2027

Legacy Maltwood Gallery | Mearns Centre for Learning – McPherson Library

University of Victoria | lək̓ʷəŋən Territory

This exhibition explores how archivists, curators, faculty, and librarians collaborate with collections, students, and communities to create reciprocal teaching and learning experiences. Focusing on teaching across collections and with Indigenous belongings, it brings together objects not typically encountered alongside one another.

The exhibition examines collaboration as both method and subject, highlighting how instructors, students, artists, makers, and communities co-create knowledge. Through multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches, it reimagines collections as active sites of inquiry, dialogue, and exchange, fostering new connections, diverse perspectives, and multiple ways of knowing.

 

Image: Artist once known, Tsilhqot'in (Chilcotin), Imbricated Burden Basket, woven bear grass and cherry bark, U981.2.86. Gift of Commander and Mrs. A.J. Tullis to the University of Victoria Department of Anthropology, transferred to the University Art Collections in 1981. Photograph by Anahita Ranjbar.

 

This exhibition is supported in part by The UVic Libraries and Kula: Library Futures Academy Seed Fund and the BC Arts Council.

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