Rebecca Belmore // Franklin Carmichael // Dana Claxton // Feminist Land Art Retreat // Rodney Graham // Adad Hannah // Andrea Kastner // Ann Kipling // Germaine Koh // Rodney Konopaki and Rhonda Neufeld // Donald Lawrence // Scott Massey // Daphne Odjig // Toni Onley // Gary Pearson // Jerry Pethick // Richard Prince // George Raab // Jack Shadbolt // Gordon Smith // Ted Smith // Tania Willard // Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun

Central Gallery
July 16 to September 17, 2022

Curated by Charo Neville 

Offering a view into the Kamloops Art Gallery’s collection through its acquisitions over the past ten years, Reading the Land: Ten Years of Collecting shares the expanse of artists and artworks that have come into the Gallery’s care over the past decade. The selection of works focusses on a range of approaches to representing the landscape and critically exploring the idea of land. Spanning wide-ranging art-historical epochs and diverse approaches, the exhibition offers a view into artmaking over the past 100 years in the context of shifting worldviews and conversations about land use and cultural implications. The selection of works in Reading the Land: Ten Years of Collecting present a reading of the land that is inseparable from culture.

Kelly Richardson

Central Gallery
January 22 to April 2, 2022

Curated by Charo Neville

Using digital technologies, Kelly Richardson creates hyper-real, sublime, and spectacular landscapes that communicate underlying unsettling narratives. Richardson is a Canadian artist based in Victoria, BC, where she is a Professor in Visual Arts at the University of Victoria. From 2003 to 2017, she lived in North East England, where she was a Lecturer in Fine Arts at Newcastle University. Widely recognized internationally, Richardson has exhibited her work less frequently in Canada. This solo exhibition presents a view into Richardson’s longstanding exploration of our relationship to nature and how this relates to climate change.

Diyan Achjadi // Naoko Fukumaru // Tomoyo Ihaya // Load na Dito // Mark Salvatus // UJINO

Central Gallery
October 2 to December 31, 2021

Curated by Makiko Hara

Reflecting on the experiences and narratives of "others," Whose Stories? shares the work of six artists of Asian descent. Through video installation, photography, animation, print media, drawing, collage, and restored ceramic works, artists Diyan Achjadi, Load na Dito, Naoko Fukumaru, Tomoyo Ihaya, Mark Salvatus, and UJINO convey personal histories told within a community of artists and woven across generations.

Azadeh Elmizadeh // Colleen Heslin // Russna Kaur // Lyse Lemieux // Rajni Perera

Central Gallery
July 17 to September 18, 2021

Curated by Charo Neville

Holding a line in your hand presents the work of five Canadian women painters from different cultural backgrounds, at different stages in their careers, and based at opposite ends of the country. Their work contains divergent methodologies, but also strong affinities. The exhibition includes artwork abundant in colour, line, and texture, embedded with and unencumbered by ideas. The focus on a small group of female painters offers a renewed perspective on an historically male-dominated domain and reflects today’s growing number of female artists working in the medium. Exploring and expropriating the idea of the painting in a myriad of ways, these artists share an expanded approach to painting. Holding a line in your hand speaks to a resurgence of painting in Canada and an active dialogue around historical precedents and contemporary approaches.