Art Installations and Exhibitions

The artwork and research of SIAT faculty is featured in art intallations and exhibitions world-wide. Explore some of the recent art installations and exhibitions.

Diasporic Worldings (2025) screened at the Urban Screen in The Libby Leshgold Gallery at Emily Carr University, Vancouver, from November 2025 to February 2026. Photo by Michael Love.

Diasporic Worldlings

Diasporic Worldlings is an experimental video by Gabriela Aceves-Sepúlveda displayed at The Libby Leshgold Gallery's outdoor screen.

The video explores the experiences of people in the diaspora as they form and imagine relationships with land, place, territories, and ecosystems.

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Drawn by a Thin Black Line (2026)

A haptic installation by Chantal Gibson was displayed as part of the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art's One Hundred Artists Deep exhibition in which eight local artists were invited to create new work in response to artworks from the Artists for Kids Permanent Collection by founders Bill Reid (1920–1998), Jack Shadbolt (1909–1998), and Gordon Smith (1919–2020). Each of these artists left an enduring legacy, not only through their artistic practices but through their deep commitment to arts education.

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"Material Engagement #2" (2026) in Drawn by a Thin Black Line C. Gibson. Photo by Rachel Topham Photography.

SIAT graduate student exhibits work at H.R MacMillan Space Centre

Star-Stuff, a hybrid virtual reality artwork created to remind immersants of their fundamental connection to humanity and the universe, was on display on at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre throughout 2023.

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The Water We Call Home

The Water We Call Home, an exhibition featuring a series of films created by SIAT post-doctoral researcher and filmmaker Dr. Jessica Hallenbeck, Coast Salish and Sahtu Dene artist Rosemary Georgeson, SIAT professor Dr. Kate Hennessy and team was installed at Steveston's Gulf of Georgia Cannery. The exhibition was also previously on display at Galiano Island’s Yellowhouse Art Centre.

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Souvenir by Chantal Gibson

Souvenir, a multi-media installation by Chantal Gibson, was on display at the Down Home: Portraits of Resistance exhibition at the Dalhousie Art Gallery. The multi-media installation has also been displayed on Canada’s west and east coasts at Museum of Anthropology’s Sankofa: African Routes, Canadian Roots exhibit and part of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia's permanent collection and is displayed in the Tyranny exhibit.

Souvenir features a collection of 2000 unique souvenir spoons from countries around the world hanging in rows and spray painted matte black, calling up a history of Black bodies displayed and displaced.

Chantal Gibson artwork on display at two university galleries

Chantal Gibson multi-media installation on display on Canada's east and west coasts

Generative art piece by Professor Philippe Pasquier displayed in Istanbul gallery exhibition

Autolume Mzton, an autonomous live music visualize, was displayed at the Akbank Sanat Gallery in Istanbul, Turkey as part of the Dystopia Sound Art Festival. Autolume Mzton is the result of Pasquier’s research in the creative use of artificial intelligence (AI).