FCCS ART – UBCO Creative Studies Virtual Gallery

May 8, 2026

Always In The Making: UBCO Student Show

Kelowna’s SOPA gallery is featuring student work from UBCO’s 4th year Arts & Media graduating class. This year’s student exhibition includes: Maya Taki, Stevie Poling, Talia Gagnon, Peony Wong, Sierra Loewen, CJ Ozee, Averi Boerboom, and Carly Johnson. This exhibition brings together their final and most accomplished works. From sculpture and painting to installation, digital media and design.

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March 5, 2026

UBC students are featured in ART @KCT

The lobby of the Kelowna Community Theatre’s art space, ART @KCT is featuring the work of two UBCO students. These two exhibitions showcases the evocative work of Pegah Khor and Carrie Mitchell, artists who guide viewers through deep reflections on heritage, motherhood, and the nuances of the human experience. These two exhibitions, running from February 27 through June 13, 2026, will transform the lobby into...

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February 10, 2026

Wunderkammer

A selection of works by Connor Charlesworth’s painting classes at The University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus.

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December 17, 2025

Preview 2025: emerging artists from school district #23

Preview was a celebration of the creative talent emerging from local high schools in Kelowna. Through a range of mediums and themes, Preview celebrated the innovation and artistic promise of the next generation. Participating schools included George Elliot Secondary, Okanagan Mission Secondary, Kelowna Secondary, Rutland Senior Secondary and Mount Boucherie Secondary. This inaugural annual exhibition was held in the FINA...

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December 10, 2025

Methods II

Methods II is an interim exhibition by fourth-year students in the BFA programme.

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December 10, 2025

Methods I

Methods I is an interim exhibition by fourth-year students in the BFA programme.

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November 27, 2025

Ephemeral Bodies

Ephemeral Bodies VISA-582 & 583 November 20-27, 2025 FINA Gallery, UBCO There’s something unique about the body. It absorbs. It senses. It glows. Although this exhibition wasn’t specifically curated around themes of the body, the idea has naturally emerged through the recent works of UBCO VISA Graduate students. The paintings, video installations, sculpture and digital media works presented in Ephemeral...

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November 15, 2025

Amir Rahsaz – Mess is Beautiful: Small Dams, Big Futures

My drawings grow from tangled lines and chaotic layers. Up close they seem meaningless, but from a distance hidden forms emerge. The beaver, notorious as the god of disruption, creates habitats that appear messy. What seems broken is, in fact, vibrantly alive, a quiet resistance to humans’ need for order. That is where my friendship with the beaver began. This...

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October 27, 2025

Hands For Eyes

A new generation of young artists considers the rich territory of textiles, fibre-art and soft sculpture, reasserting the power of the needle and tangible materials to communicate their ideas and vision. In Hands for Eyes, personal histories, cultural traditions, socio-political, and formal themes serve as reference points for this group of 2nd-year Sculpture students who created work grounded in traditional...

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October 24, 2025

Behind the Door – Huiyu Chen

A thesis exhibition by Huiyu Chen, who is an MFA candidate in Visual Arts. Behind the Door explores the threshold between the inner self and the external world—a space of vulnerability, rediscovery, and transformation. My work reflects the landscape of being, the continuous dialogue between what is seen and unseen, conscious and unconscious, illusion and reality. This body of work...

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