The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory is pleased to present in/finite: inside of us is the universe, the 2023 UBC Bachelor of Fine Arts / Bachelor of Arts Visual Art graduating exhibition.
Join us for the opening reception at the AHVA Gallery and in the undergraduate artist studios on the third floor of the Audain Art Centre on Friday, April 21, 2023, from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.
The annual graduating exhibition celebrates the diverse artistic practices of graduating students from across the visual art major, minor, and honours programs. This year, forty-one emerging artists present works ranging from drawing, painting, and printmaking to installation, digital animation, performance and photography.
in/finite: inside of us is the universe is organized by this year’s cohort in VISA 475: Exhibition Theory and Practice, an experiential learning course dedicated to both a critical exploration of exhibition making and a practical project of mounting a complex arts and culture event.
Reflecting on their experiences in the visual art program over the course of their degrees, and speaking to the theme of this year’s show, the student artist-curators note: “We’ve been time travelling these past few years in our becoming as artists, even though we didn’t always realize it. We have re-membered our past, present, and future selves as the living, breathing beings we are now becoming in every moment. Entangling ourselves in the simultaneity of these lineages and trajectories, we’ve discovered an everyday kind of time travel. Doing the inner work of being an artist has brought us to a humble understanding of our smallness within an ecosystem of many relations—cultural, intellectual, familial, cosmological, ecological—relations that sustain and uphold us, and yet, are inextricably ‘us’ all the same.”
Nika Afsahi
Jasmine Almeida
Rae Anderson
Jade Balogh-Callow
Michelle Chang
Christine Youngeun Cho
Lauren Chu
Jules Church
Kim English
Naomi Etukudo
Ysabel Gana
Yilan Ji
Kayt
Hailey SeoYoung Kim
Emily Lee
Emily Liao
Marvis Mao
Sunny Park
Suyeon Amy Park
Winifred Peng
Yi Qian
Chuyu Qiao
Farnaz Ravari
Kayla Ren
Linden Royea
Roselynn Sadaghiani
Armita Shahmirza
Kiana Shahnia
Tizha Shi
Joshua Steinhauer
Riko Tanaka
Jo Taylor
Bianca Thomson
Suchitra van Riel Barrett
Larraine Vasquez
Maggie Wong
Hailey Woo
Audray Wenqing Xie
Bofei Zhang
Hazel Yuhang Zhang
Astra Zheng
Admission to the exhibition is free and open to the public.
Exhibition: April 22 to April 28, 2023
Opening reception: Friday, April 21, 2023, 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Artist talks: Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 2:00 p.m.
Gallery hours: 12:00 to 5:00 p.m. daily
Audain Art Centre
6398 University Boulevard
ahva.ubc.ca
We acknowledge that the UBC Vancouver campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).
