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April 1–30, 2025

Speaker Series 3 | Lucy Raven

Thursday, April 17, 6 – 7 pm

Selected Exhibition | Blooming While Withering at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden.

Opening Reception
Thursday, April 17, 5–7 pm

Selected Exhibition | The Failed Life of a Cowboy at Zebraclub

Opening Reception
Friday, April 25, 6 – 8 pm

Selected Exhibition | Concealed/Revealed by Barbara Astman at the Paul Kyle Gallery

Opening Reception
Saturday, April 26, 1 – 5:30 PM

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📸 April 1 - 30, 2025

📣 Selected Exhibition Opening Soon | 'Sit Still

📣 Selected Exhibition Opening Soon | 'Sit Still' featuring the works of Arshi Chadha (@arshi_chadha) and Collin Patrick (@collemo.art) at The Black Arts Centre (@theblackartscentre)⁠
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📅 On view from April 24 – July 26⁠
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🎉 Opening Reception on Thursday, April 24, 6 – 7 pm⁠
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Spiritually speaking, Blackness is not still. Despite this, the movement and motion of Black people have been intensely restricted and policed, resulting in the displacement afflicted upon Black people across the diaspora throughout time. Reflecting on the ineffable nature of the Black spirit, in this series of works, curator Arshi Chadha and artist Collin Patrick confront the juxtapositions of being held still. Considering movement as an act of autonomy that transcends stillness, their work concerns the capturing of the continuously shifting and resisting, while contending with the nature of power imbalances that pertain to acts of voyeurism.⁠
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Curated by Arshi Chadha (@arshi_chadha)⁠
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🔗 Read more via the ⁠2025 Selected Exhibitions link in bio⁠
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Image: Collin Patrick, 'Untitled (the scent of fossil fuels on ancestral lands)', 2024, inkjet print, 121.9 x 121.9 cm. Courtesy of Artist and Yutaro Fukuhara, Vancouver.

Selected Exhibition Opening Soon | 'Concealed/Reve

Selected Exhibition Opening Soon | 'Concealed/Revealed' featuring work by Barbara Astman (@astmanba) at Paul Kyle Gallery (@paulkylegallery)⁠
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📅 On view from April 23 – June 7⁠
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🎉 Opening Reception on Saturday, April 26, 1 – 5:30 pm⁠
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'Concealed/Revealed' offers a comprehensive exploration of the artist’s career, spanning her formative works in the 1980s to her most recent projects. Astman, a Governor General’s Award recipient and pioneer in Canadian photography, has long been captivated by the expressive potential of imagery, often blending traditional photographic techniques with experimental approaches to reflect on societal issues, identity, and memory. Her work traverses the boundaries of self-representation, using images as both personal and cultural investigations that resonate with the viewer on a profound level. Each piece in this exhibition encapsulates Astman’s ability to manipulate the medium to produce intimate yet universally relevant narratives, showcasing her sensitivity to the emotional depth within everyday objects and scenes.⁠
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🔗 Read more via the ⁠2025 Selected Exhibitions link in bio⁠
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Image: Barbara Astman, 'Collage #1', from the 'Daily Collage' series, 2009-10, archival inkjet print, 109.22 x 85.36 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Paul Kyle Gallery.

📣 Selected Exhibition Opening Soon | 'Blooming

📣 Selected Exhibition Opening Soon | 'Blooming While Withering' featuring work by Rebecca Wang 王晨釔 (@chenyi_rebecca) at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden (@vancouverchinesegarden)⁠
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📅 On view from April 16 – June 8⁠
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🎉 Opening Reception on Thursday, April 17, 5–7 pm⁠
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This exhibition brings together photographic works that delve into the construction and negotiation of selfhood within a contemporary diasporic context through partly autobiographical narratives. The presentation features a mix of film, digital, and phone images taken since 2016, incorporating texts dating back to the artist’s first arrival in Canada in 2004. Accompanied by olfactory and audio elements tied to personal memories, 'Blooming While Withering' creates a multi-sensory experience.⁠
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🔗 Read more via the ⁠2025 Selected Exhibitions link in bio⁠
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Image: Rebecca Wang 王晨釔, '⽆⽤功 Futile Effort #7', 2022, archival pigment print on Alupanel, 50.8 x 76.2 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.

📣 Selected Exhibition Opening Soon | 'Unsavoury

📣 Selected Exhibition Opening Soon | 'Unsavoury Witness' featuring work by Alejandro A. Barbosa (@a.a.barbosa) at SUM gallery (@queerarts)⁠
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📅 On view from April 16 – June 6⁠
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🎉 Opening Reception on Wednesday, April 16, 6 – 9 pm⁠
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'Unsavoury Witness' is a photo-based installation that includes laser-engraved photographs, photographic murals, intermedia, print media, and court transcripts from the Supreme Court of British Columbia on the 2001 murder of Aaron Webster in Stanley Park. This immersive exhibition foregrounds homophobia’s intimate connections with public spaces, institutionalized systems, societal responses, queer bodies, and desire.⁠
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Curated by Patryk Stasieczek (@cleopatryk)⁠
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🔗 Read more via the ⁠2025 Selected Exhibitions link in bio⁠
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Image: Alejandro A. Barbosa, 'Knowledge of Weapon', 2024, inkjet print, 142.24 x 106.68 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.

📣 Selected Exhibition Opening Soon | 'Piggyback

📣 Selected Exhibition Opening Soon | 'Piggybacks through the Living Room' featuring works by Geoffrey Lok-Fay Cheung (@geoffrey.l.cheung), Claudia Goulet-Blais (@c.gouletblais), Andrew Ina (@andrew__ina), Tannaz Saatchi (@photosbytannaz), Eknoor Thind (@eknoor_thind), and Parumveer Walia (@parumveerwalia) at Unit 302 (@unit__302)⁠
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📅 On view from April 15 – May 1⁠
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🎉 Opening Reception on Tuesday, April 15, 7 – 9 pm⁠
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'Piggybacks Through the Living Room' reaches across memories, objects, and images toward kin and culture, near and far. Emphasizing immigrant memory, artists Geoffrey Lok-Fay Cheung, Claudia Goulet-Blais, Andrew Ina, Tannaz Saatchi, Eknoor Thind, and Parumveer Walia each activate the archival to stipulate its possibilities, while prodding at its slippages and illegibilities. These gestures reveal the complexities of (be)longing and study the most urgent unit of the social: the family.⁠
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Curated by Parumveer Walia (@parumveerwalia)⁠
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🔗 Read more via the ⁠2025 Selected Exhibitions link in bio⁠
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Image: Tannaz Saatchi, 'Around The Kitchen Table', 2024, inkjet print, 50 x 40 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.

Selected Exhibition Opening Soon | 'The Failed Lif

Selected Exhibition Opening Soon | 'The Failed Life of a Cowboy' featuring work by Charlie Mahoney-Volk (@renownedcharliebrown) at Zebraclub (@zebraclubvan)⁠
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📅 On view from April 13 – May 31⁠
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🎉 Opening Reception on Saturday, April 25, 6 – 8 pm⁠
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The Failed Life of a Cowboy explores Westernized masculine archetypes in relation to queer identity. Through variations of the cowboy and the farmer, Charlie Mahoney-Volk interrogates the harsh and repressive cultural invention of the cowboy through a genderqueer parody.⁠
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Printing sponsored by Signmaster Signs Ltd.⁠
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🔗 Read more via the ⁠2025 Selected Exhibitions link in bio⁠
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Image: Charlie Mahoney-Volk, 'Cowboys! #4', 2023, vinyl, 106.68 x 63.80 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.

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