Category: MFA Thesis

Mundane Mourning MFA Advanced Studio   A selection of works by MFA candidates featuring poetry on textile, painting, digital media installation, and alternative print processes.   Artists featured: Sara Bursey Pegah Khor Samantha Wigglesworth David Zhen Professor: Samuel Roy-Bois  

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...

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...

In the past few years, my projects have been engaged with themes of feminism, societal norms, and freedoms of expression; “Be in My Chador” is a video installation to explore themes of self- censorship and imposed identity. The installation consists of two videos, each projected onto opposite sides of a room through painted fabrics installed in the gallery’s center. The...

  BEYOND MATERIALS An exhibition showcasing the works of first- and second-year MFA students. The exhibition explores various approach to materiality and pushes the boundaries of traditional materials and media. Featuring: • Second-Year MFA Students: o Tara Yadollahi o Robin Hodgson o Negar Baghlani o Roland Samuel • First-Year MFA Students: o Samantha Wigglesworth o Pegah Khor This exhibition showcases...