BFA GRADUATE EXHIBITION 2025. Before Tomorrow

Claudia Shen, Jen Kempton, Tia Murray, Jansen Ramos, Kyle Chua, Thomas Chanyungco, Stephy Zhang, Wenda Zhang, Carter Cooke, Dan Zhang, Joselyn Gosling, Kacey Hughes

Connecting The Dots. Student Printmaking Exhibition AHVA Gallery
Connecting the Dots showcases the work of 135 print media students from seven post-secondary schools (UBC, UBCO, Emily Carr University, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Langara College, University of the Fraser Valley, Western Washington University), who produced an edition of ten prints that were randomly collated into portfolios.

EARTH, GLAZE & FIRE CERAMIC EXHIBITION BY JENNIFER RUSSELL, ASTRID CHOW & JOY CHEN

Time & Space. FINA 3100/3200

REFIGURED. An Exhibition of Portraiture by the KPU Art Collective. October 2024

Fine Arts Technician Show. Liminal
KPU Surrey - Spruce Gallery,

Liminal on Instagram

Photos by Wei Chen

Its a small World
An Exhibition of Miniatures by the KPU Student Art Collective
Arts Council of Surrey Gallery at the Newton Cultural Centre, Surrey

2024 Graduation Exhibition QUIXOTIC
The exhibition takes place in the Spruce Building Atrium, Fine Arts Gallery, and Arbutus Gallery.
April 2024
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

Langley School of Fine Arts Photo Exhibition at the FINE ARTS Arbutus Gallery

The GLITCH | FINA 3135/3235 Advanced Digital Media Studio

In these works, the artists make use of the error and the unintended glitches in technology to explore the structure media. The glitch lets us see behind the perfect logical facade of the digital, revealing the innerworkings of technology

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

Beauty and Ugly | 3rd Year Open Studio

KPU Grad Show 2023 Qualia

Wei Chen 4th Year Student @ KPU Fine Arts. Lind Prize Finalist

4th Year Student at KPU Fine Arts is a Finalist for the Prestigious Lind Prize for his photographic series Hide and Seek
The Lind Prize exhibition takes place at the Polygon Gallery Dec10 2022 to Jan 29 2023

About the Exhibition
A showcase of work by the finalists of the Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize. Established in 2016, the Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize is awarded annually to an emerging BC-based artist working in mediums of film, photography, or video. Artists are nominated for the prize by staff and faculty from established arts institutions, organisations, and post-secondary programs from across the province.

This year’s finalists were selected from more than 50 nominations and include: Simranpreet Anand, Wei Chen, Sidney Gordon, Natasha Katedralis, Jake Kimble, Aaron Leon, and Katayoon Yousefbigloo.

Variety Show

A Group Exhibition by the Kwantlen Art Collective | Spruce Atrium

The works featured in this exhibition encompass a wide variety of mediums, processes, and themes. Contributing artists are current members of the Kwantlen Art Collective and include students in all levels of the BFA program, Fine Arts diploma or Fine Arts certificate program.

Krystal Charlston | Pedagogy

Krystal Charlston, a BFA graduate from KPU, is the artist behind the solo exhibition titled Pedagogy. Her fascination with education theory and history is reflected in her art, which challenges established concepts in Canadian education. Charlston employs a range of mediums, such as sculpture, installation, photography, and video, to expose the harm that these concepts can inflict on society. As a former student and current educator in British Columbia, Charlston's unique perspective draws on personal experiences to bring to light the ongoing struggles faced by many students today. May 2023

4th Year Advanced Studio Practice I & II   Spruce Atrium Gallery

Marika Bise, Avery Chace, Maylyn Chan, Wei Chen, Dylan Goguen, Eugene Kang, Murasaki Lau, Yolanda Leung, Gracienne Llavore,Mark Robinson, Carson Selman, Kelly Yorke
Dec2022

October 8th - 30th 2022
A celebration of the art, life and legacy of Kira Wu

Fine Arts Gallery Gallery Spruce Building Room 140 Surrey Campus

October 2022
Dirty Girls

A duo exhibition featuring ceramic work by Kwantlen Polytechnic University fine arts students Kacey Hughes and Kelly Yorke. October 2022 Spruce Building Ceramics Showcase

September 2022

"Upstream/Downriver Walking the stɑl̓əw̓ Watershed is a collaborative research-creation project that addresses climate change at the local, granular scale of the lower Fraser River watershed. Artists walked with experts from a wide range of backgrounds–Indigenous knowledge holders, scientists, philosophers and poets–inviting their observations on climate impacts along the lower Fraser Valley watershed. In this iteration of the project, along with the previously made work about the stɑl̓əw̓ watershed, artist Tracie Stewart is working with students from FINA 3202 to create a spatial drawing installation in the gallery which responds to the closest tributary of the stɑl̓əw̓ -- Cougar Creek, a short distance from KPU's Surrey Campus."

Covid in the House of Old

April 2022 at the Arbutus Gallery | Surrey Campus Library

https://covidinthehouseofold.ca/the-chairs/

One of the first public commemorations of the pandemic, COVID in the House of Old brings stories from a national humanitarian crisis to Canadians and asks them to take action. Seven storytelling chairs present powerful narratives of grief, frustration, care and love.

The exhibit was created by Megan J. Davies (curator, writer, interviewer) with Hiroki Tanaka (artist, musician, digital creator) and Kohen Hammond (audio editor, podcast producer).

17/21 ONLINE GRADUATION EXHIBITION 2021
Online | https://www.kpugradshow1721.com
Instagram | @kpufinearts

EXPOSED | BFA Grad Show 2020

EXPOSED is an Online Experience on Instagram

Instagram #kpuexposed2020 and #kpufinearts

The artists of the 2020 Grad Show will always hold a very special place in our department’s history, and we thank and congratulate Japneet, Carly, Leah, Celesta, Sara, Reggie, Roselina, Amanda, Amiee, James, and Winnie for all of their hard work and perseverance.

The Sculpting Rockfish Habitat project. 2019.

Merging art, science and conservation, students from Kwantlen Polytechnic University 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.

More about the Project Oceanwise. https://research.ocean.org/project/sculpting-rockfish-habitat-restoration-project

Summer 2019

Arbutus Gallery
A collection of photographs by Photography 2270 Students

Fine Arts Gallery
Art/Science a collaboration FINA and Chemistry Students

Graduation Exhibition 2019 Arbutus Gallery, Fine Arts Gallery and at the Atrium Gallery

Spruce Building Art gallery

3rd Year Advanced Studio and Seminar. | March 2019

Spruce Atrium Gallery. Advanced Print Media | March 2019

3rd Year Advance Studio and Seminar | Feb 2019

2018

FINA 3110: Curatorial Studies student programmed events, three exciting art events :
Skewing the Familiar –Art Film/Video Screening: A selection of artist-made videos that use cinematic conventions, found footage, and sometime riotous imagery to take us someplace unexpected. 5:00pm-7:00pm, Fir 128
Inevitable Cessation –Art Exhibition: a juried art exhibition based on the concept of mortality. 7:00pm-9:00pm, Spruce Art Gallery (Spruce 140)
Illuminating Spaces is a pop-up exhibition exploring the transition of a fraught relationship between public and private space. Using reflective qualities to provide insight of how intimate the public space can become through human/social interaction (or lack of), and through the changes in self-awareness and perspectives. Featured student works will include photography, painting, and multimedia works. Spruce Gallery Hallway

FOTOFILMIC//SOLO
Launched a year ago in the fall of 2017, FOTOFILMIC//SOLO is a unique mentoring program designed for emerging & mid-career photographers working on film & other analogue media. Each artist presented here received a 2-month solo exhibition this past year & met with their respective juror(s) on Bowen island as guests to their weekend master workshop. The program encourages in-person networking and aims at fostering intergenerational dialogues on contemporary issues reshaping material photographic practices in the digital age.
https://fotofilmic.com/solos-retrospective-exhibition-2017-2018/ 

Sept 2018
Arbutus Gallery pulp Artwork by Fine Arts Students - Organized by Pulp | the KPU student publication
Fine Arts Gallery Welcome Works by 3rd year students

BFA Graduate Exhibition 2018   
Congratulations to all our grads!

 Katie Belcher   "to go to/ to seek"   Feb 15 to March 15  2018      http://katiebelcher.com

 Amy Huestis and Suzanne Dery   Rainbow walks with you     January 15 to February 5, 2018

Rainbow walks with you is an exhibition of selected artists' books, poems, and drawings that connect with both the library setting of the gallery and the local landscape. 

Please join the artist for a closing reception in the gallery on Thursday, February 1st, 12:30 - 1:30 pm.  

AREA 51   Arbutus Gallery | Dec 2017 to Jan 2018  
FEATURING
Kim Ateah, Eric Berg, Jude Campbell, Stephane Dufault, Alanna Edwards, Sara Ellen, Cameron Palfreyman, Gurleen Virk, Kenneth Yuen

Art/Mamas   Oct 2 to 27

Jennifer Tiles  UNTOUCHED  - Photographs of Iceland 

The Space Between  | Graduation Show  2017
April 7 to 12  2017  Surrey Campus  - MAIN Building - ArbutusGallery and Fine Arts Gallery

The Artists
Durrah Alsaif - www.durrahalsaif.com
Leah Barter
Alan Canning
Amy Duval
Keith Harris
Kate Akshentseva
Nicole Kwit - www.nkwitart.ca
Hailey Logan - www.haileyclogan.com
Angelle Wu

Richard ColePortraits   Jan 17 to Feb 14     Artist's Site  

The Collective Unconscious   |   4th year Open Studio

2016

Fine Arts Gallery - Fir Building
Earthworks   Third Year Exhibition

Reception Fri Oct28 12:30-1pm  Artists in attendance

Elaine Samwald | Palimpsest
Arbutus Gallery - October 2016

Susanna Blunt | Selected Works   Arbutus Gallery   
Sept 5 to Oct 7,  2016  |  Reception Sept 29 12-1PM  Artist in attendance
 Artist Web Site

Exhibition by our KPU fine Arts Students Held in the Newton Area in Surrey,
the perfect way to launch the Fall 2016 semester
Private Inquiries |  Aug 30 to Sept 16 2016  
 Pop Up Newton Gallery   108- 137 St. Surrey BC

DisJointed Narratives  2016 Graduating Show

CANADIAN CULINARY IMAGINATIONS SYMPOSIUM | FEBRUARY 19-20, 2016

The Canadian Culinary Imaginations Symposium is a two-day interdisciplinary event at KPU Richmond Melville Centre for Dialogue with over 25 invited speakers, ranging from local and international academics, to artists, curators, and writers, who will explore how Canadian writers and/or visual artists use food to articulate larger historical and cultural contexts. Full schedule and list of participants can be found HERE

The symposium will coincide with the launch of the public art exhibition "Artful Fare: Conversations About Food" featuring the collaborative art projects of KPU Fine Arts and English students as they engage in creative-critical dialogues about Canadian poetry. We are pleased to feature our creative keynote speaker Vancouver Poet Laureate Rachel Rose presenting a talk on the topic of poems inspired by food. Our other featured speaker is internationally recognized Visual Artist Sylvia Grace Borda who will do a presentation on her art projects and their relationship to sustainable food systems and economies. Attendance is FREE for KPU Students and Faculty. 

Thinking Through Process
Work by Students in Ceramics and Sculpture

Telling Lies Again
Making Narrative Art
This exhibition is a selection of works produced in the Fine Arts course Telling Lies Again – Making Narrative Art that ran in the spring of 2015.  This is a third year painting course in which students explore various approaches to creating narrative imagery. Students examine the gap between text and visual imagery through the creation of work in both single-scene and serial formats. The exhibition continues in the Art Gallery in Fir 126 and in the Arbutus Gallery, Surrey Library Atrium.