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:

  • 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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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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