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DIS – displaced, dispersed, dispossessed
Sept 16 – Dec 5, 2026
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen Territory
DIS – displaced, dispersed, dispossessed pairs concurrent group exhibits at the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre and the University of Victoria Legacy Art Gallery, bringing together work from contemporary artists exploring the lasting influence of the Second World War on Nikkei communities globally.
Through installation, video, sculpture-informed 2D/3D work, performance, illustration, and text-based practices, participating artists engage inherited memory, cultural continuity, and intergenerational experience.
Artists:
- Brava Kilo (Brian Kobayakawa)
- Renay Egami
- Elysha Rei
- Nao Uda
- Michael Prior
- Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa
- Justin Seiji Waddell
TWO EXHIBITIONS:
University of Victoria Legacy Gallery, Victoria, BC – Sept 16 – Dec 5, 2026
Artists from the Past Wrongs Future Choices artists and scholars residency programs at the University of Victoria.
Karasawa Gallery, NNMCC, Burnaby, BC – Sept 19, 2026 – Feb 28, 2027
Japanese Canadian artists reflecting on the enduring impact of the 1940s uprooting and dispossession and its continuing influence on identity, memory, and artistic practice.
SAVE THE DATE:
Opening Reception - DIS – displaced, dispersed, dispossessed
Date: Sat., Sept 19, 2026
Time: 3:00 pm | Virtual Opening - 4 pm (Pacific Time)
Location: Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen Territory
Join us as we celebrate the opening of two concurrent group exhibits at the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre and the University of Victoria Legacy Art Gallery!
Image: ‘Repatriation’ to Japan, Slocan, British Columbia, c. 1946. Courtesy of the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, Odamura Family Collection (1996.178.1.33.a-b).
This exhibition is made possible through funding from:
Howard Green Foundation | Lloyd Howard | Martin Bonham | Deux Mille Foundation
WARA-WARA
An Exhibition of Street Art and Graffiti from Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Sept 16 – Dec 5, 2026
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen Territory
WARA-WARA brings together 21 artists and four collectives from Yogyakarta, Indonesia, whose work has been shaped by the city's vibrant street art, graffiti, mural and comic communities. Taking its title from the Javanese term ‘wara-wara’ – an announcement, warning or public call – the exhibition explores artistic practice as a way of responding collectively to moments of social, political and environmental uncertainty.
Alongside the forthcoming exhibition in downtown Victoria, the project’s history and development may be explored online here.
Developed through a collaboration between Survive! Garage (Yogyakarta), the University of Victoria Art Collections and the participating artists and collectives, WARA-WARA presents paintings, drawings, prints and new site-responsive work alongside photographs and video documentation from the project's origins in Yogyakarta. Rather than treating the street simply as a site of protest, the exhibition highlights the relationships, conversations and shared practices that sustain artistic communities over time. Together, these works invite visitors to consider not only the calls sounded in times of crisis, but also how we choose to respond—with imagination, solidarity and a renewed sense of responsibility toward one another and to the wider world around us.
As one of WARA-WARA's organizers, Richard Fox (UVic, Pacific & Asian Studies) has worked closely with Patub Porx and Bayu Widodo, alongside the participating artists, collectives and wider community, to develop this project from its origins in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, to the current exhibition here in Victoria. His contribution has spanned conceptual and curatorial work, writing, editing, translation, and the collaborative coordination of the exhibition, catalogue, videos and public programs. Throughout, WARA-WARA has been a thoroughly collective undertaking, with Widodo, Porx and Fox working to connect its many parts while keeping the artists' practices, relationships and perspectives at its centre.
Artists
Adit Doodleman @aditdoodleman
Anagard @anagard_stcl @anagard_artchive
Bayu Widodo @bayuwdd
BirdPeace @birdpeace_
Digie Sigit @digiesigit
Farhan Siki @farhansiki @sikipecah
GETLUPS @getlups
Homepippa @homepippa
Ismu Ismoyo @ismuismoyo
LOKA @me.loka_
Medialegal @medialegal_ @medialegalstore
Minas @monicakristianto
Muck @muckizm
Neusone @neusneusss
Patub Porx @patub_porx @porx_shop
Reas @riskireas
Rolly LoveHateLove @ykcityking
Rune @rune_hsk
Samuel Indratma @samuel_indratma
Wimbo Praharso @wimbopraharso
Zent Prozent @zentprozent
Collectives
ABDW Art Project @abdwartproject
Graphic Victims @graphicvictims
Nyalakan! @nyalakanproject
Wayang Polah @wayangpolah
Image: ABDW Art Project, 2026.
WARA-WARA has been made possible through the generous support of the University of Victoria Art Collections, the Canadian Southeast Asian Studies Initiative (CSEASI), the Henry Luce Foundation and many partners, collaborators and supporters in both Canada and Indonesia.
This exhibition is made possible through funding from:
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The Legacy Maltwood Gallery is being renovated!
In the meantime, we are working on a new exhibition in located in the Special Collections and University Archives, Room A005 | Mearns Centre for Learning – McPherson Library, University of Victoria | lək̓ʷəŋən Territory.
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Located on campus, First Peoples House displays artwork from the university's collection through rotating exhibitions.
Walking in Spirit: Francis and Beau Dick
March 1, 2024 — early 2026
First People’s House | UVic Campus
Lekwungen Territory
Before his passing in 2017, cousins Beau and Francis Dick frequently talked about exhibiting their work together. This exhibition seeks to honour that wish and to foster a deeper connection to their relationship as parallel artists and family.
Walking in Spirit is an intimate display of serigraphs by Beau and Francis from the late 1970s to early 2000s, that explore the incredible cultural teachings of their artworks.
Curated by Teresa Sammut with Lorilee Wastasecoot.
Image: Francis Dick, Spiritual Truth, serigraph, 1998.
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