Matthew Ballantyne\, Undesirable Moral Spillover\, 2018-present.
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present an exh ibition of work by the 2020 graduates of the University of British Columbia ’s two-year Master of Fine Arts program: Matthew Ballantyne\, Aleja ndro A. Barbosa\, Rosamunde Bordo\, Sam Kinsley\, Nazanin Oghanian and Jay Pahre. This program in the Department of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory is limited each year to a small group of four to six artists\, w ho over the two years foster different sensibilities developed within an in timate and discursive working environment.
Matthew Ballantyne (Canadian\, b. 1984) is an artist\, poet and lapsed ironist. His work is preoccupied with birds despite their disinterest in him.
Alejandro A. Barbosa (Argentinia n\, b. 1986) is a queer Latino photographer and artist. His current practic e revolves around questions on queerness\, the politics of passing and visi bility\, the distribution of effort in institutional contexts\, performance \, modes of consumption of difference and exhaustion. His work has been sho wn in festivals\, galleries\, museums and other art spaces in Argentina\, P eru\, the US and Canada. He is a recipient of the BC Binning Memorial Fello wship. Barbosa lives and works on the traditional\, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples – Squamish\, Stó:lō\, Tsleil- Waututh and Musqueam Nations\, also known as Vancouver.
Sam Kin sley (Canadian\, b. 1982) is an interdisciplinary artist of settle r ancestry currently living and learning on the unceded territory of the Mu squeam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Kinsley uses attentive repeti tion of chosen actions to investigate the implications of the habits and te ndencies that her body takes up. The practice of repetition and re-acting allows her openings to question what is considered “natural” or “given\,” a nd opportunities to re-orient. Kinsley is cofounder of an experimental pod cast series everydaystollen.She has participated in artist residen cies and has exhibited in galleries across Canada.
Na zanin Oghanian (Iranian\, b. 1990) is a multidisciplinary artist w hose practice unfolds from critical reflection around notions of the body\, identity\, gender\, memory\, politics and the establishment of a constant dialectic between the individual and the social. She earned a BFA in Sculpt ure from the University of Tehran in 2013 with her graduation project F ingerprint\, a body of work that was awarded the first prize of Th e 7th Selection of New Generation by Homa Gallery. Oghanian ’s work has been shown in several galleries in different cities in Iran\, a nd since arriving in Canada she has shown her work at the AHVA Gallery and Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden.
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br />Jay Pahre\, Piebald Undercoat (detail)\, 2020.Jay Pahre (American\, b. 1991) is a queer and trans settler artis t writer\, and cultural worker currently based on the unceded territories o f the of Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Weaving between dr awing\, sculpture and writing\, his work queries trans and queer nonhuman e cologies at points of intersection with the human. He received his BFA in P ainting and BA in East Asian Studies from the University of Illinois in 201 4\, and went on to complete his MA in East Asian Studies in 2017. His work has been exhibited across the US and Canada. He has received multiple teach ing awards alongside research and community-activism recognition for the su pport and advocacy work he has done for and with LGBTQ2S+ communities since 2009.
This exhibition is presented with support from the Department of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory at the University of Bri tish Columbia.
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