The More Elegant and Graceful Plant
Reception: October 9, 2025 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm 
Curated by Dr. Cody Barteet and Natalie Scola, "The More Elegant and Graceful Plant" features works by Jamelie Hassan, Ron Benner, Olivia Mossuto, and archival materials from 深夜福利站 Archives and Special Collections and The Dr. Laurie L. Consaul Herbarium. Bringing together archival materials and contemporary art, this exhibition invites reflection on the intertwined histories of empire and science, and on the role of plants in shaping both past and future environments. Exhibition runs from October 9 - 30, 2025.
October 7, 2025 | 1:00pm - 4:00pm 
"Art Thrive: Elemental Forces"鈥痠s a social and creative space where connection and creativity is paramount. Through video art, moving images, and a unique and fun artistic activity led by local artists, each event celebrates an elemental theme- earth, wind, fire and water. Moving Images is curated by PhD candidate Imogen Clendenning. Artmaking activities are facilitated by recent MFA grad Tia Bates.鈥 All are invited to join the free drop-in artmaking event: Collaborative Weaving.
October 4, 2025 | 1:00pm - 5:00pm 
et鈥檚 Propose! is the latest Media Collab workshop offered by Forest City Gallery. This skill-building workshop will focus on professional best practice for submitting artistic proposals. By the end of this workshop, each participant will have created a proposal tailored to a specific call out or opportunity that they have found and will also serve as a prototype for future proposals. This workshop is facilitated by Steve deBruyn, graduate of the MFA program in the Department of Visual Arts. Free event. Registration is required.
2RO MEDIA Festival 25 | Six Nations
October 3 - 5, 2025 
Taking place in Six Nations (Chiefswood Park and Woodland Cultural Centre), the 2RO MEDIA Festival 25 will feature media arts installations, film and video, audio projects, performance, spoken word and artists panels/ talks (October 3-12) with additional community gatherings, workshops, outreach, and other activities occurring throughout the year. The 2RO MEDIA Festival aspires to be a venue for the sharing, transmission and presentation of cultural knowledge through creative praxis, focusing on Six Nations artists, performers and creators. This event will include artwork by 深夜福利站's OTEKH LAB including their undergraduate and graduate students.
Drop-In Event: Threads that Unite Us | FIMS & Nursing Building
October 2, 2025 | 10am - 4pm and October 3 | 9am - 12pm 
All are welcome to join a collective embroidery gathering led by Salvadoran embroiderer and visiting artist鈥疶eresa Cruz, where each participant will stitch a small piece that will be joined into a larger tapestry of resistance. Through the slow, mindful act of embroidery, They will use craft as a tool of solidarity and defiance against fascism, white supremacy, authoritarianism, the escalating attacks on trans lives and on 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, and the persistence of misogyny. Accompanying artists:鈥疨rofessors Soheila K. Esfahani and Tricia Johnson from the Department of Visual Arts, and鈥疜ayla MacInnes. This is a drop in event. Location: Atrium. FIMS & Nursing Building.
October 1, 2025 | 10:00am - 11:30am | JLVAC 
Join us for a project presentation and reading in the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre at 深夜福利站 on October 1. Dr. Shena Wilson, Professor (University of Alberta) and Speculative Energy Futures Project Lead, will be joined by project participants Prof. Soheila Esfahani and Prof. Emeritus Patrick Mahon (both from Department of Visual Arts). Together, they will present SEF and one of its remarkable outputs, FluxKit for Energy Transition. Speculative Energy Futures is a multi-year research-creating project that brings together artists with a cross-disciplinary team of researchers to investigate the challenges and potentials of energy transition through artistic means. Readings from "We Were In It: Stories About Energy Transition," a fusion of scholarship, literary writing, research, and creativity.
September 11 - November 9, 2025 
MFA candidate Wen Li is currently showing her work in the Ferrie Gallery in Homer Watson House & Gallery in Kitchener. The 鈥淚mpression鈥 series artworks offer an interpretation of landscapes that are recognizable, yet less detail oriented, merely an 鈥渋mpression鈥.鈥 This series includes distinguished embossment prints both blind and tinted with wood burning residues from the laser etching process. The residues are gradually reduced during the process; hence each tinted print is unique and non-repeatable with different colour intensity and contrast.
September 5 - October 18, 2025 
Congratulations to former MFA student in the Department of Visual Arts, Michelle Paterok, on her solo show at SHRINE in New York City (Pictured with art writer Jerry Saltz at the exhibition). In "Summer鈥檚 Edge," Paterok invites us to step back in time and enjoy the carefree feelings and full-body hug of the last few days of summer.
September 25 - December 6, 2025 
Curated by Rachel Deiterding, "Holding Patterns: the long view"鈥痚xamines the McIntosh Gallery collection through the lens of collection data, the information that is recorded to describe, organize, and preserve knowledge about each artwork. This information underpins everything we know about the collection, framing our understanding of individual artworks and the collection as a whole. This exhibition includes the work of Department of Visual Arts former students, Emeriti and Adjunct Faculty.
Reception: September 27, 2025 | 2:00pm - 4:00pm 
At the midpoint of their academic journey, candidates of the 2026 Master of Fine Arts program come together to explore themes and mediums ranging from the natural and the haunted to painting and video. This exhibition features the work of MFA candidates: Natasha Beaudoin, Eric Cameron, Sebastian Evans, Jennifer Hamilton, Moira Hayes, Cassie Packham, and Emelie Robertson. Exhibition runs from September 4 - 28, 2025
Reception: September 27, 2025 | 2:00pm - 4:00pm 
This exhibition features a selection from the Department of Visual Arts' print collection at 深夜福利站, showcasing work completed over the past 50 years. These alumni artworks highlight the human experience embedded within the technical processes of printmaking. Curated by MFA candidate Jennifer Hamilton. Exhibition runs from September 4 - 28, 2025.
September 17, 2025 | 4:00pm - 6:30pm 
This event is part of 鈥淒iaspora Climate,鈥 organized by Yan Zhou, Curator-in-Residence in Social and Environmental Justice in the Arts at the Department of Visual Arts. In this residency project, we explore the ecology of the diverse cultures and histories of diaspora communities, foregrounding their role as caretakers and warriors, upholding justice and solidarity with both local and home countries in their shared struggles against environmental, social, and political injustice wherever they live and prosper. As part of the community engagement components, the 鈥淒iaspora Kitchen鈥 program organizes events that bring together local and international communities to share food, stories, memories, and works. In the first 鈥淒iaspora Kitchen鈥 event, we will celebrate the Mid-Autumn (Moon) Festival.
Yan Zhou recently joined the Department of Visual Arts as Curator-in-Residence in Social and Environmental Justice in the Arts. Yan Zhou is a cross-disciplinary scholar and cross-cultural curator with 15 years of experience in these fields. For her year-long residency, Yan proposes a research-creation project titled 鈥淒iaspora Climate,鈥 borrowing the concept of 鈥淐limate鈥 from Japanese philosopher Tetsuro Watsuji, who interprets climate phenomena as the ways that humans relate to a particular land and culture.
The Department of Visual Arts is pleased to welcome Jodi Lynn Maracle as this year's Indigenous Artist-in-Residence. Born and raised in what is currently considered Buffalo, NY, Jodi Lynn Maracle is a mixed Tyendinaga Mohawk/settler artist, hide tanner, doula, actor, teacher, parent and Kanien鈥檏茅ha language teacher and learner. Jodi utilizes Haudenosaunee material language and techniques, such as hand tanned deer hides, in conversation with sound scapes, projections, video and performance to interrogate questions of place, power, erasure, story making, and responsibility to the land.
September 13 - December 7, 2025 
In her solo exhibition at Preston Gallery in Cambridge, PhD candidate Behnaz Fatemi's vision is to use the sumac tree as a bridge between cultural memory and present environment, transforming it into a poetic symbol of connection, resilience, and renewal. "Sum芒q / Sumac / 爻賲丕賯" traces a path between places. It reflects on how cultural memory endures and takes root in new soil. Like the tree itself, the work carries the taste of survival鈥攕harp, persistent, and quietly alive. Opening reception: September 19, 2025 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm
September 4 - 28, 2025 
Viewers are invited to peek into the vitrine beside the artLAB Gallery entrance to view a miniature show curated by undergraduate student Parisa Lahooty, featuring work from undergrad Anastasia Yaremchak. In "Summer Reflection," Yaremchak explores the Lawson Site as an active collaborator, creating objects and drawings that weave presence, memory, and reciprocity into a dialogue between land, material, and the living world.
September 24, 2025 | 1:00pm - 4:00pm 
"Art Thrive: Elemental Forces" is a social and creative space where connection and creativity is paramount. Through video art, moving images, and a unique and fun artistic activity led by local artists, each event celebrates an elemental theme- earth, wind, fire and water. "Moving Images" is curated by PhD candidate Imogen Clendenning. Artmaking activities are facilitated by recent MFA grad Tia Bates. All are invited to join the free drop-in artmaking event: Silkscreening t-shirts with Flourish and Grow, and watercolour painting.
September 18, 2025 | 2:30PM 鈥 4:30PM 
This event is in collaboration with McIntosh Gallery and the 深夜福利站 Biodiversity Inventory. Members of the campus community are invited to sharpen their observational and creative skills during this nature walk along the Deshkan Ziibi combined with a 鈥渘o skill required鈥 drawing activity. This is a great opportunity to connect with nature, slow down, and practice mindful observation.
September 20 & 27, 2025 
PhD Candidate Ana Moyer is facilitating a series of events that are part of the Won Lee Community Arts Hub鈥檚 2025 Summer Programs 鈥 a pilot series for Deaf and disabled, 2SLGBTQ+, and BIPOC artists. In this series, presenters share how their practice engages with community and care from a disability perspective. Together they consider disability-centred approaches to care, transforming the ways in which we live, and how art and culture align with them. Free admission. Registration is required.
September 27, 2025 | 1:00pm - 4:00pm 
Facilitated by Mackenzie Browning, "Paper Rain: Exploring Digital Cutting for Installation Art" is a hands-on workshop that introduces participants to digital cutting technology (Cricut and Cameo) as a creative tool for interdisciplinary and installation-based art. This workshop is free and all materials are provided. Beginners and experienced artists are welcome to attend. Registration is required.
"Nuit Blanche" returns to downtown London! Be sure to visit Dundas Place on September 20th between 7:00pm and 7:00am for a night of art and illumination. Selected artists include PhD Candidate Anahi Gonzalez, and the Coves Collective, which includes past Department of Visual Arts graduates Michelle Wilson and Reilly Knowles, and current Assistant Professor Sheri Osden Nault. Congratulations to all participating artists!
Closing Reception: September 5 | 5:00 - 7:00pm 
"Through and From the Looking Apparatus" is the Thesis Exhibition for Tia Bates, MFA candidate in the Department of Visual Arts. Through the looking apparatus, McIntosh Gallery becomes a vivarium where the substance of filmic light inhabits space鈥攁n environment where the viewer is invited to wander and discover cinematic curiosities. Referencing the cinematic experience as a sensorial interaction with light, Through and From the Looking Apparatus is both an installation of light and body and a habitat that cultivates human encounters with cinematic light. Exhibition runs from July 28 - September 5, 2025.
Department of Visual Arts PhD candidate Ronique Gillis is part of a team of researchers working on The Black Londoners Project (BLP), a digital, interactive archive that recovers the histories of formerly enslaved individuals who fled the U.S. and settled in London, Ont. in the mid-19th century.
Opening: September 5 | 6:00pm - 9:00pm 
To celebrate their 10th Anniversary, Good Sport is exhibiting the works of current and former Resident Artists. Exhibition runs from September 5 - 27, 2025.
Exhibition opened July 31, 2025 
'Not/For The Money' is an online exhibition featuring current and former colleagues in the Department of Visual Arts, as well as many of our past students who completed internships at the Embassy Cultural House. Organized by Ron Benner, Jamelie Hassan, Olivia Mossuto, and Mireya Seymour.
Colour by Schubert has been a huge supporter of the artists and arts community and London鈥 general public since the early 1980s and will be greatly missed. They anticipate staying open until October 31. Congratulations Roland and Myra on your retirement!
Reception: July 24 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm 
MFA candidate, Danielle Petti's thesis exhibition, Brought to our knees to feel as a Rock is the culmination of her research-creation practice over two years. It encompasses the (re)connecting with Land through found colour from rock, the mark-making by transformation, the repurposing of found materials to echo geological formations, and the re-enactment of deep time using paper pulp. Exhibition runs from July 24 - August 7, 2025.
Reception: July 24 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm 
"Kawistana路w蕦虂s | it melts" is a joint exhibition of MFA candidates Cassie Packham and Sebastian Evans' recent work. What is submerged reemerges in smoke and mist. Where the tangible fades and the uncertain begins, we surface. This body of work dwells in the liminal 鈥 the space where the visible fractures and the invisible breathes. Through metaphor, material and gesture, we traverse the deep currents of empathy, perception and becoming. Exhibition runs from July 24 鈥 August 7, 2025.
July 17 - September 21, 2025 
Professor Soheila Esfahani's solo exhibition at Art Windsor-Essex, ARE WE T[HERE] YET?, asks whether stories can ever truly be finished, or if they are always in a process of retelling, reinventing, and reinterpretation. This exhibition doesn鈥檛 ask the viewer to identify what is 鈥渞eal,鈥 but instead invites reflection: How does meaning form? Is it in the object? The touch? The story? Or simply the gaze?
Two recently graduated Practicum students in the Department of Visual Arts have had their artwork accepted for the London Arts Council's Traffic Signal Box Wraps program. Congratulations to Jadhen Pangilinian and Amythly Itzel Reyes-Murray on this accomplishment! We will be watching for your art as we traverse the city.
Media Collab: Performance & Technology Workshop | Forest City Gallery
August 2, 2025 | 1:00 - 4:00pm 
Forest City Gallery invites you to join them on Saturday, August 2nd for a free workshop, 'Sensing Sound: Performance, Technology & Time-Based Practices,' facilitated by Alex Raja Ven. This workshop offers an in-depth exploration of performance and technology within the realm of contemporary sound art. Participants will gain hands-on experience with field recorders and microphones, learning how to use sound as a medium for artistic expression. Registration is required.
In the final series of the Season 1 of the Ecologies in Practice Podcast, host and PhD candidate Ashar Mobeen explores the Atmosphere - the invisible world all around us. In the first episode on atmosphere, Ashar speaks with artist Christina Battle, who discusses her work and focus on the climate crisis, the intersection of art and science, and more. Season 1 is Supported by the Sustainability Impact Fund at 深夜福利站, and based out of the Centre for Sustainable Curating, in the Department of Visual Arts.
June 26, 2025 | Hybrid Panel Discussion: 4:30pm - 5:30pm | Reception: 5:30pm - 7:00pm 
'Becoming Otherwise' brings together the voices of six artists鈥擲oheila Esfahani, Jessica Karuhanga, Imogen Clendinning, Behnaz Fatemi, Xi Jin, and Racquel Rowe鈥攚hose works trace ruptures and gestures of resistance woven through the fabric of the everyday. This group exhibition is curated by Yijing Li and features works by Faculty and PhD candidates in the Department of Visual Arts. Exhibition runs from June 26 - July 10, 2025.
Reception: June 26 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm 
"The Digital Fourth Wall鈥 combines the work of MFA candidates Natasha Beaudoin and Moira Hayes. Each artist studies the evolving Gen Z culture that emerges online and penetrates into the real, offline, world. Beaudoin and Hayes鈥 work meets at the intersection of reality and a generational view through a screen. Exhibition runs from June 26 鈥 July 10, 2025.
We were thrilled to celebrate the accomplishments of our graduates at the spring Convocation ceremony and the Graduation Awards Ceremony in Arts and Humanities. Congratulations to all of our graduates on this milestone and special recognition to the award winners!
July 3 - 26, 2025 
'The Place Between A Feeling' is a solo show opening soon at Michael Gibson Gallery featuring works by MFA candidate, Emelie Robertson. As a native of northern Ontario whose art reflects the familiarity of those landscapes, Robertson shares new paintings that are a joyful expression of her recent discovery of the local southwestern Ontario landscape.
June 12 - July 11, 2025 
PhD candidate Aryen Hoekstra draws from his experience as a gallerist (founder of Franz Kaka in Toronto) with his exhibition 'In storage', which brings questions around how art objects are handled and traded to the fore, through transplanting Franz Kaka鈥檚 crate storage into McIntosh Gallery鈥檚 West gallery for the duration of the exhibition. Hoekstra is a PhD candidate in the Department of Visual Arts. In storage is his thesis exhibition and draws on research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
"SATELLiTE: In Orbit" presents its inaugural digital publication. "The Digital Fourth Wall: Natasha Beaudoin and Moira Hayes in conversation," features the artists discussing their current exhibition, which is on display in the Cohen Commons gallery in the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre. While SATELLiTE's in-person programming remains on pause, their partnership continues in the form of the publishing outlet, "SATELLiTE: In Orbit." This project is intended to help students connect with one another, gain valuable publication experience, and broaden awareness about local arts and culture in London.
The Creative Recipes for Food Justice project is a curated publication series that pairs artists and research-creation practitioners with food studies scholars, food policy makers, and grassroots organizers to create 鈥渞ecipes鈥 to address the most pressing issues related to food justice and policy. The Collaboratory editorial team for this series includes Dr. Amanda White and Dr. Zo毛 Heyn-Jones, with PhD candidates Anah铆 Gonz谩lez and Katie Lawson, and design by Tetyana Herych.
The Centre for Sustainable Curating recently released their first video tutorial designed to dive deeper into their material research and strategies for exhibition: Sustainable Gallery Signage: Charcoal and Nori Paste. Learn how curators Kirsty Robertson and Sarah E.K. Smith created sustainable and creative gallery signage for "The Air of the Now and Gone" exhibition at Carleton University Art Gallery.
The London Society of Architects has announced the selected artists for the return of Nuit Blanche to downtown London on September 20. Among those selected were PhD Candidate, Anahi Gonzalez, and the Coves Collective, which includes past Department of Visual Arts graduates Michelle Wilson and Reilly Knowles, and current Assistant Professor Sheri Osden Nault. Congratulations to all participating artists!
July 19, 2025 | 12-5pm 
Forest City Gallery is organizing a new event, Forest City Print & Zine Fair, to celebrate local and regional artists working in print and zine making. Are you an artist and/or collective working in printmaking, illustration, zines, or independent publishing? Apply today to be a vendor!
Opening: May 29, 2025 | 5:00 - 7:00pm 
In their first duo exhibition, MFA Candidate Tia Bates and PhD Candidate Brittany/Andrew Forrest present to you a tomogram of experience and a measurement of projection lux. "Hive Head" is an examination of the head, how experiences are visualized and inform interpretations and interactions with the external world. Exhibition runs from May 29 - June 12.
Opening: May 29, 2025 | 5:00 - 7:00pm 
Cedar is a group exhibition curated by Parisa Lahooty featuring works by undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of Visual Arts: Cait Enys, Parisa Lahooty, David Monture, Emelie Robertson, Maria Soliman, Anastasia Yaremchak. The artworks in this exhibit display nature or history, or both, also considering how the present moment will be viewed in the future. Exhibition runs from May 29 - June 12, 2025.
May 24 - June 14, 2025 
Professor Soheila Esfahani's recent works are featured in a solo exhibit, "Are You Buying These With Loonies Or Toonies?," at The Red Head Gallery in Toronto. In this exhibition, Esfahani is particularly exploring stereotype as otherness and Bhabha鈥檚 notion of ambivalence, which manifests as a split between appearance of an original and its expression as different and repetitive.
May, 2025 
Professor Kirsty Robertson is currently on a month-long fellowship at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. As the senior global fellow at its Centre for Energy Ethics (CEE), Robertson is looking at ways in which museums can reduce their environmental impact. Robertson is director of 深夜福利站鈥檚 Centre for Sustainable Curating (CSC) and Canada Research Chair in Museums, Art and Sustainability.
May 31, 2025 | 1:00pm - 4:00pm 
Forest City Gallery is offering a workshop 'OUT OF THE BLUE: How to set up a cyanotype practice on any budget workshop,' facilitated by Will Maclean a.k.a Blueboy. Travel back in time with us to learn the 180-year-old photographic process of cyanotype!
June 5, 2025 | 4:30pm - 6:30pm 
The Department of English and Writing Studies is honoured to host Dr. David Collings for the鈥痵econd lecture in the Ross and Marion Woodman Speaker Series in Romanticism. This in-person event takes place in Conron Hall, University College and will be recorded to view on demand after the event.
PhD Candidate Ashar Mobeen recently published 鈥淲onders of the Ancestral Puebloans: Astronomers, Engineers, and Magicians of the Four Corners鈥 in 'Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas, Volume 16, Issue 1.'
Karen Huo, a third-year student in Museum and Curatorial Studies and Medicine shares her passion for medicine, museums as Banting House volunteer with 深夜福利站 News.
First Thursday of each month | 5:00pm - 9:00pm 
Explore a variety of exciting arts, culture and performance programming on the first Thursday of each month along Dundas Place in Downtown London. Participating sites vary each month, including activations at Good Foundation Theatre, Good Sport, London Public Library - Central Branch, Market Lane, Michael Gibson Gallery, Museum London, Seven Socials, TAP Centre for Creativity.
April 24 - May 15, 2025 
"Video Frames and Video Games" by Theo Jean Cuthand puts a personal lens on issues of colonization, repatriation, reconciliation, fertility, Queer, Indigiqueer, and 2 Spirit Identity, and transgender narratives. Cuthand is the Indigenous Artist-in-Residence for 2024-25 in the Department of Visual Arts. Reception: Thursday, May 8 from 5-7PM
April 24 - May 15, 2025 
Eliza Gallaiford's solo exhibition, "Noodling Around," opens on April 24 in the Cohen Commons in the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre. Gallaiford is a second-year Bachelor of Fine Art student, who is continuing the legacy of those who challenge what art can be through material, process, and joyful experimentation. Reception: Thursday, May 8 from 5 - 7PM
Deadline May 15, 2025 
The Department of Visual Arts is seeking applications from emerging and established curators for a one-year position as Curator-in-Residence in Social and Environmental Justice in the Arts. The Curator-in-Residence will collaborate with faculty and staff, mentor students, and develop a curatorial project focused on social and environmental justice.
April 5 - July 11, 2025 
Professor Soheila Esfahani has works included in a group show, "Holding Patterns: the short view - Recent Acquisitions from the McIntosh Gallery," alongside Angela Grauerholz and Meryl McMaster. "Holding Patterns: the short view" marks the beginning of a comprehensive inquiry into the McIntosh Gallery collection to makes sense of how more than 4,000 artworks have come together to create this valuable resource. Opening reception is April 5 from 2:00 - 4:00pm. Remarks at 2:30pm.
深夜福利站 Graduate Longlisted for 2025 Sobey Art Award
Congratulations to Christina Battle on being longlisted for the 2025 Sobey Art Award! Christina is a PhD graduate in Art & Visual Culture from 深夜福利站鈥檚 Department of Visual Arts and continues to make an impact through her collaboration with 深夜福利站鈥檚 Centre for Sustainable Curating.
April 5 鈥 May 30, 2025 
Alize Zorlutuna is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator whose work explores relationships to land, culture and the more-than-human, while thinking through history, ancestral wisdom and healing. "Above Borders, Beneath Words" is curated by Helen Gregory.
By Meghan Stacey, 深夜福利站 News, April 4, 2025 
From their Reading Week trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, students brought home their memories in a physical way. Photographs from their journey were used to build an exhibition, "Querid@ Oaxaca / Dear Oaxaca," which was on display in the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre鈥檚 Cohen Commons in April, 2025.
深夜福利站 International News 
深夜福利站 International recently covered the Reading Week study trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, in which students from a combined Art History and Photography course explored the rich cultural heritage of that city.
April 12 - May 10, 2025 
Recent graduate of the Department of Visual Arts' MFA program Steve deBruyn's recent work is being featured in a solo exhibition at Strand Fine Art Services in London. Strand Fine Art Services, 1161 Florence St., London
Congratulations to undergraduate student Amira Haider on her interview in the Visual Arts Journal in which she discusses her art practice. Amira recently completed a Minor in Studio Art in the Department of Visual Arts.
April 5, 2025 
Graduate students in the Department of Visual Arts are hosting Graduate Symposium and Open Studios on Saturday, April 5. They invite you to join them at the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre starting at 10am for presentations, followed by a reception at the McIntosh Gallery at 2pm, open studios from 4 - 6pm, and tba graduate journal launch party at 7pm.
Spring 2025 
Three of Professor Sky Glabush's works have been placed in the collection of Arsenal Contemporary Art in Montreal and are being showcased in their gallery beginning April 1.
Opening: March 21, 2025 | 6:00 - 8:00PM 
The artLAB Gallery is proud to present "To Here Knows When," the final exhibition by the 4th year Studio Arts Practicum class of 2025. This exhibition marks the culmination of their time in the program鈥攁 reflection of years spent experimenting, refining, and discovering their artistic voices. The exhibition runs from March 21 - April 10, 2025.
Opening: March 21, 2025 | 6:00PM 
Over the spring reading week, 深夜福利站 students and faculty immersed themselves in the heart of Oaxaca, a city and state of Mexico rich in people, culture, art, and food. They invite you to immerse yourself in the variety of Oaxaca鈥檚 landscapes and culture through their art and photography, capturing an ounce of the magic they experienced during their stay. The exhibition runs from March 21 - April 10, 2025 in the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre.
Alena Robin recently published an article entitled 鈥淭he Painter and the New World: celebrating the centennial of the Canadian Confederation through a hemispheric approach鈥 in a special issue of the Colnaghi Studies Journal on New Perspectives on the Art of Viceregal America.
Part-time lecturer Kim Neudorf reviews PhD candidate Raquel Rowe's recent solo exhibition "The Centre of the World Was the Beach," which concluded at Forest City Gallery on March 8.
March 20, 2025 | 6:00PM 
PhD Candidate Behnaz Fatemi invites you to attend her artist talk on March 20 from 6:00pm - 6:30pm at the AWE (Art Windsor Essex). She will be discussing her current exhibition, "Rhythm of Remembering," which is curated by Niku Koochak. The exhibition runs from March 20 - June 29, 2025.
March 19, 2025 | 12:00pm 
Join the Faculty of Information & Media Studies for a conversation about disability art activism and institutional critique featuring Dr. Amanda Cachia and Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware. Dr. Cachia is an art historian and curator who works as Assistant Professor at the University of Houston. Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware is a visual artist, activist, curator, and educator who works as Assistant Professor at McMaster University.
April 13, 2025 
"Tim Whiten: Life & Work," is a new book by author and PhD Candidate Carolyn Bell Farrell, published by the Art Canada Institute. The book traces the distinguished fifty-year career of Toronto-based artist Tim Whiten (b. 1941) and his lifelong commitment to investigating the human condition. Bell Farrell joins Tim Whiten in a conversation, moderated by Julian Cox, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of Ontario, on Sunday, April 13 at 2 pm at the AGO鈥檚 Baillie Court. This public talk is scheduled in conjunction with the exhibition, Tim Whiten: A Little Bit of Light, curated by Julian Cox, which opens at the AGO on March 26.
March 6, 2025 6:00pm 
Join The Department of Visual Arts on Thursday, March 6 at 6:00 pm ET for an artist talk by Sandra Brewster in Conron Hall at 深夜福利站. Sandra Brewster is a Canadian artist based in Toronto. Her practice is grounded in people of the Caribbean diaspora, who maintain a relationship with "back home". This is a public, free, and hybrid event.
March 4, 2025 5:00pm 
The Faculty of Arts & Humanities is honoured to host Wanda Nanibush for the鈥痵econd Robert and Patricia Duncanson Lecture of 2025, held on鈥疢arch 4, 2025. Wanda Nanibush is an Anishinaabe-kwe image and word warrior, curator and community organizer from Beausoleil First Nation, Canada. This hybrid event can be attended in person at Conron Hall or online via Zoom. There is no cost for this event.
March 23, 2025 12pm - 5pm 
Join Indigenous Artist-in-Residence, Theo Cuthand (Plains Cree, Little Pine First Nation), for a hands-on workshop where you'll learn acting exercises for the screen and how to record a top-notch audition tape using your phone (and some simple accessories!).
January 11 - March 8, 2025 
Be sure to see PhD candidate Racquel Rowe's solo exhibition "The Centre of the World Was the Beach" in its final weeks at Forest City Gallery. Rowe is an interdisciplinary artist from the island of Barbados currently residing in Canada. Her practice is continuously influenced by many aspects of history, matrilineal family structures, diasporic communities, and her upbringing in Barbados.
Hosted by PhD candidate Ashar Mobeen, Season 1 of the podcast brings together artists, scholars, and community members engaging with pressing environmental issues through art, science, and practice. Over the coming months, they will explore topics like soil regeneration, Indigenous land stewardship, water, air, and the challenges of textiles and plastics. Season 1 is Supported by the Sustainability Impact Fund at 深夜福利站, and based out of the Centre for Sustainable Curating, in the Department of Visual Arts.
March 29, 2025 
Artist Theo Jean Cuthand and curator Wanda Nanibush will provide insight into the development of the current Doris McCarthy Gallery exhibition Love + Numbers, exploring Cuthand鈥檚 groundbreaking thirty-year artistic practice.
February 13 鈥 March 6, 2025 
Celebrating twenty-three years the "Annual Juried Exhibition" continues to be one of the Department of Visual Arts most highly anticipated undergraduate exhibitions. This diverse show supports the production of new work made in a variety of mediums including painting, sculpture, print, video, and photography. Exhibited works were selected by a professional jury who consider creativity, concept, materiality and technique. This year鈥檚 show is indicative of the resilience and dedication our students continue to demonstrate. Join us to celebrate our amazing students! Opening Reception: Thursday, February 13 from 6鈥8PM
February 28, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm 
In partnership with Forest City Gallery, and to celebrate Racquel Rowe's current solo exhibition, "The Centre of the World was the Beach," SASAH hosts a conversation between Rowe and artist Jessica Karuhanga. The artists will be discussing their multi-faceted practices in a discussion moderated by SASAH student Kira McCallum-Schmidt. Rowe is a PhD candidate in Art & Visual Culture in the Department of Visual Arts, and Karuhanga is a Professor in the Department of Visual Arts. This hybrid talk will be available in person at 深夜福利站, Digital Creativity Lab, and online (Zoom link will be posted).
March 14 - 16, 2025 
"Decolonial Conversations" is a conference accompanied by creative projects that will take place at the forks of the Deshkan Ziibi on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, L奴naap茅ewak, and Attawandaron. The conference includes panels on transnational Intimacies; historical and contemporary partitions; the politics of dress, bodies, and activism; racialized histories in national and international contexts; Canadian and global indigenous networks, and global theatre and performance. Conference registration is open now.
Sky Glabush: Flowers - Flora in Contemporary Art & Culture | Saatchi Gallery
February 12 - May 15, 2025 
Professor Sky Glabush will have his artwork included in an upcoming group exhibition at Saatchi Gallery in London, England. "Flowers - Flora in Contemporary Art & Culture" features large-scale installations, original art, photography, fashion, archival objects and graphic design exploring the ongoing influence of flowers on creativity and human expression. The exhibition runs from February 12 - May 15, 2025
Border Crossings Magazine January 2025, Issue #166 Professor Sky Glabush is featured in an article in the January 2025 issue (#166) of Border Crossings magazine titled "Sky Glabush: Painting's Alphabet." Art critic Robert Enright interviewed Glabush in response to his recent exhibition, 鈥淭he letters of this alphabet were trees,鈥 which took place at the Stephen Friedman Gallery in New York from September 5 to October 16, 2024.
Professor Kirsty Robertson, Director of Centre for Sustainable Curating, and FIMS Associate Professor, Sarah E.K. Smith, were recently interview by CBC Radio. Robertson and Smith co-curated "The Air of Now and Gone," a new exhibition showing at Carleton University Art Gallery in Ottawa from January 26 - May 5, 2025.
January 18 - March 29, 2025 
The work of 深夜福利站's Indigenous Artist-in-Residence, Theo Jean Cuthand, is currently on display at the Doris McCarthy Gallery in Scarborough. Curated by Wanda Nanibush, "Love + Numbers" covers a selection of Cuthand鈥檚 experimental narrative videos and performances from the 1990s to the present. Cuthand will give an artist talk at the gallery on January 29, 2025.
Congratulations to PhD candidate Katie Lawson, whose article "With gardens and garbage, artists are reimagining the life and death of their work" was recently featured by CBC Arts. Lawson works with the Centre for Sustainable Curating in the Department of Visual Arts.
Professor Kirsty Robertson, Director of Centre for Sustainable Curating, is featured alongside fellow Arts and Humanities Professor Joshua Schuster in an article that discusses the role of art and literature in spurring action on climate change.
January 9 - 31, 2025 
Curated by Dhra Patel, International Aisle invites undergraduate students Genevieve Buchanan, Cheyne Ferguson, Jadhen Pangilinan, Dhra Patel and Amythly to tell untold food stories. Artworks exploring themes such as disability, stereotype, colonialism and depictions of the international grocery aisle are 鈥渟helved鈥 together in this exhibition to mimic the international aisle.
Cody Barteet publishes "The Making of the Historic Heraldic Window for St. Paul's Cathedral, London (Ontario): Christopher Wallis, Stained Glass, and the Heraldic Arts鈥" in "Journal of History", issue 59, no. 3 (2024): 292-324.
Christopher Wallis: In Balance of Light | ArtLAB Gallery
January 9 - 30, 2025 
Curated by Dr. Cody Barteet and Natalie Scolia, "Christopher Wallis: In The Balance of Light" is showing in the artLAB Gallery until January 30, 2025. This exhibition showcases the brilliant career of Christopher Wallis (1930鈥2021), one of the most celebrated stained-glass artists of his generation. This exhibition draws from sketches, coloured designs, full-scale cartoons, and completed windows, offering an unprecedented look into his creative process and the breadth of his artistic legacy.
