Fine Arts | Our Galleries

The Kwantlen Polytechnic University Fine Arts Department exhibits student artwork, and presents shows by Canadian and International contemporary artists on the KPU Surrey Campus.
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Spruce Fine Arts Gallery | Spruce Building Room 140 The Fine Arts Gallery exhibits Fine Arts students works, Exhibitions organized by Curatorial Studies students, Artists Talks, and shows by visiting artists.
Spruce Atrium Gallery | Spruce Building Atrium Exhibitions of artworks by students in Fine Arts classes
The Arbutus Gallery | Coast Capital Savings Library at the Surrey Campus
The gallery is dedicated to exhibiting works produced by fine art students, alumni, faculty and professional visiting artists.

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2024 Grad show

Please join the Fine Arts Department in celebrating accomplishments of our 2024 graduating class in the opening of the 2024 Graduation Exhibition QUIXOTIC
The exhibition takes place in the Spruce Building Atrium, Fine Arts Gallery, and Arbutus Gallery.

Opening reception Friday April 5th 2024 6-9PM
Spruce Building Atrium, Surrey Campus.

Congratulations to all our graduating students
ANDRES SALAZ
ASHLEIGH ELSTONE
CHANGZE LI
EMMA CAMPBELL
JOVI LAM
KIM TRAN
MISHEL ARRIETA
MYREL OFIANA
NICOLE AVANRENREN
SANDY SUN
TANE GLENDENNING

KPU FINE ARTS Featured

Amy Huestis
Fine Arts Instructor at KPU

walk quietly performance and exhibition at the Richmond Art Gallery
ts'ekw'unshun kws qututhun

A guided walk at Hwlh'its'um
(Canoe Pass / Brunswick Point)
Ladner, British Columbia

Curated by Amy-Claire Huestis and Kim Trainor
walk quietly / ts'ekw'unshun kws qututhun is a community-guided walk located at the end of River Road West in Ladner, British Columbia. It tells the story of Hwlhits'um (Brunswick Point / Canoe Pass) from the diverse and complex perspectives of scientists, artists, and Indigenous Peoples.

We humbly acknowledge this project takes place on the ancestral and present-day lands of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the Hul'qumi'num Mustimuhw (Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group of seven Coast Salish Nations), scəw̓aθən (Tsawwassen), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam). This project is in participation and consultation with the Hwlitsum First Nation, and works to build ties with all whose lands it touches.

Please Visit the Project Website to find out more. https://walkquietly.ca

Book Canadian Culinary Imaginations.
Edited by Shelley Boyd and  Dorothy Barenscott
Published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. Read more about the book here

An exploration of food-focused art, literature, and culture and how they generate and disrupt discourses around Canadian nationhood and politics.

In the twenty-first century, food is media - it is not just on plates, but in literature and on screens, displayed in galleries, studios, and public places. Canadian Culinary Imaginations provokes new conversations about the food-related concepts, memories, emotions, cultures, practices, and tastes that make Canada unique.

This collection brings together academics, writers, artists, journalists, and curators to discuss how food mediates our experiences of the nation and the world. Together, the contributors reveal that culinary imaginations reflect and produce the diverse bodies, contexts, places, communities, traditions, and environments that Canadians inhabit, as well as their personal and artistic sensibilities. Arranged in four thematic sections - Indigeneity and foodways; urban, suburban, and rural environments; cultural and national lineages; and subversions of categories - the essays in this collection indulge a growing appetite for conversations about creative engagements with food and the world at large.

As the essays and images in Canadian Culinary Imaginations demonstrate, food is more than sustenance - as language and as visual and material culture, it holds the power to represent and remake the world in unexpected ways.
c McGill-Queen’s University Press

The Sculpting Rockfish Habitat project.

Merging art, science and conservation, students from Kwantlen Polytechnic University Ceramics partnered with Ocean Wise to create sculptures that will serve as habitat for Rockfish in an ongoing research project in Porteau Cove. Instructor Ying-Yueh Chuang.

https://research.ocean.org/project/sculpting-rockfish-habitat-restoration-project