Gallery News

UBCO Gallery hosts Smoke Forecast II, an afternoon with visual artist Taylor Baptiste (Okanagan Nation) and UBC Vancouver lecturer in Indigenous Land Stewardship, Russel Myers Ross (Tsilhqot’in Nation). Baptiste and Ross will explore the relationship between artistic practice, cultural burning, and Indigenous wildfire knowledges, concepts echoed in the current UBC Okanagan Gallery exhibition The Structure of Smoke.

UBC Okanagan Gallery, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery in Vancouver share exhibition across campuses

UBCO gallery director wins Sobey Art Award, work is exhibited in the National Gallery of Canada

Join Tania Willard on Tuesday, September 23, 2025 to create and install a series of printed hummingbird flags in honour of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

From May 15 to June 18, 2025, artists, scholars, academics and cultural workers came together once again on Syilx territory for the annual Indigenous Art Intensive at UBC Okanagan. As the summer draws to a close, we reflect on this year’s program which brought together a vibrant cohort of 16 artists in residence, who shared their practices through public talks, studio work, workshops, and community exchanges.

Troubling Times: Traces, Portals and Groundings opens on Monday, May 26, 2025 and features works from The Troublemakers collective of Peter Morin, Justine Woods and Nicole Neidhardt. The exhibition traces out ancestral lines in skin, fabric and light-captured with digital devices to reflect distinct experiences with family, heritage and the passing of time.