Black Odyssey: Past, Present, and Future
June 8 to August 3, 2024
Presented in collaboration with Hardley Williams and The Unique Get Together Society, Black Odyssey illuminates the past, embraces the present, and envisions the future of the Black community in Kamloops. The Open Gallery features art posters spotlighting local Black community leaders, who attended a free gathering on June 15 in the Kamloops Art Gallery Studios (on the main floor of the TNRD building). With awareness and understanding at its core, this initiative is open to everyone interested in learning and sharing about the Black experience in Kamloops.
DIASPORIST ANCHORS FOR FUTURE MEMORY
Gambletron // Johnny Forever Nawracaj // zev tiefenbach
The Cube
Residency
July 10 to 20, 2024
Exhibition
July 20 to September 21, 2024
This collaborative project by Gambletron, Johnny Forever Nawracaj, and zev tiefenbach represents a potential touchstone for diasporic Eastern European Jewish collective memory as the three artists explore their shared Jewish and Polish ancestry.
ANCESTRAL DREAMS & OTHER PREMONITIONS
Cindy Mochizuki
Central Gallery
April 20 to July 6, 2024
Curated by Charo Neville
Spring Art Camp
April 20 to June 1, 2024
The artworks included in this exhibition were created over the course of two weeks by 40 artists aged 5 to 12 enrolled in the Kamloops Art Gallery’s Spring Art Camp.
Curated by Kristen Gardner and Emily Hope
ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᔪᒻᒪᕆᒃ DOUBLE VISION
Jessie Oonark, Janet Kigusiuq, and Victoria Mamnguqsualuk
Central Gallery
January 20 to April 6, 2024
Curated by Candice Hopkins
SLEEPING IN SKINS: LIFE IN INUIT NUNANGAT
Davidialuk Alasua Amittu // Kenojuak Ashevak // Pitseolak Ashoona // Elizabeth Nutaraluk Aulatjut // Ada Eyetoaq //Vital Makpaaq // Henry Napartuk // Martha Noah // Pudlo Pudlat // Jamasie Teevee
Central Gallery
January 20 to April 6, 2024
BLUTO’S CAVE: ALLEGORY OF THE MAN CAVE
Patrick Lundeen
The Cube
January 13 to April 6, 2024
Curated by Craig Willms
No Boundaries: History and Progress in Microbiology Research
January 20 to April 6, 2024
Naowarat Cheeptham, professor of science, Thompson Rivers University.
As an academic cave microbiology researcher and educator, I have headed the TRU Cave Microbiology laboratory since 2002 with an indelible commitment to be a part of microbiology educators’ communities debunking ungrounded concerns about microorganisms.
RESONANT OBJECTS
December 6, 2023 to January 13, 2024
This community art project was inspired by the idea that the objects we keep in our lives embody some significance to us and hold our stories. Through conversation, self-reflection, and explorations of Deanna Bowen’s exhibition Black Drones in the Hive, participants were invited to consider their relationships with objects. Which objects in our lives hold meaning? What gets saved and why? How do we decide which objects tell our story?
THE COMMUNITY ARCHIVE PROJECT
October 25 to December 2, 2023
Organized by Emily Hope
How people and events are memorialized often offers clues to who is doing the memorializing. While history is often understood as permanent and fixed, what if it were told from another perspective?
BLACK DRONES IN THE HIVE
Deanna Bowen
Central Gallery
September 23 to December 30, 2023
Curated by Crystal Mowry
TOB TOB KIN
Paula Ducharme
The Cube
September 16 to December 30, 2023
Curated by Craig Willms
LUMINOCITY
Cooper Battersby and Emily Vey Duke // Shiraz Bayjoo // Blaine Campbell // Carolina Caycedo // Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman // Luciana Freire D'Anunciação // Marja Helander // Cheyenne Rain LeGrande // Beric Manywounds // Natalie Purschwitz // Ahilapalapa Rands // Genevieve Robertson
Kamloops Art Gallery & Riverside Park
October 14 to 21, 2023
Curated by Emily Dundas Oke and Charo Neville
THE SHAPE OF MEMORY
September 2 to 16, 2023
Curated by Adrian Romeo and Kora Ellison
What is the shape of memory? How can we physically represent something so variable and expansive? How can we express our personal relationship to memory through art making?
Generously sponsored by Watson Engineering Ltd.
PROCESS, PRODUCT, MINDSET
July 15 to August 26, 2023
Curated by Simone Olanski
What inspires creation?
Process, Product, Mindset, portrays the artwork of 10 youth interns who were brought together for two weeks to collaborate on a group exhibition which expresses their identity through art. They chose to showcase their individuality by bringing their personalities to life through different styles and forms of art. The interns chose to ask themselves what inspires them to create.
THE COSMIC SYMPHONY OF INTERGALACTIC CHAOS
April 15 to June 24, 2023
Curated by Chris Bose and Charlie Napoleon
This exhibition shares the work of The Fierce Unicorn Shadow Masterminds Artists Collective. Lead by KAG Youth Programs Coordinator Chris Bose, this program engages a determined and dedicated group of young artists who meet weekly in the Kamloops Art Gallery studios to explore multi-media.
I KNOW ABOUT LOTS OF THINGS I’VE NEVER SEEN. AND SO DO YOU.
Zoe Kreye
Central Gallery
April 22 to June 30, 2023
Curated by Charo Neville