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Sat. September 17th 2022 - Sun. January 22nd 2023 Art Gallery Of Greater Victoria Victoria BC By Donation

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Start Here: Kiyooka, Nakamura, Takashima, Tanabe

Curated by Bryce Kanbara, Guest Curator, Graham Gallery
Event can be attended in person In-Person Event
Sat. September 17th 2022 - Sun. January 22nd 2023 + Add to Calendar Art Gallery Of Greater Victoria (All Ages)
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10AM – 5PM
Wednesday: 10AM – 5PM
Thursday: 1PM – 9PM
Friday: 10AM – 5:00PM
Saturday: 10AM – 5PM
Sunday: 12PM – 5PM
By Donation

Artists

Roy Kiyooka
Kazuo Nakamura
Shizuye Takashima
Takao Tanabe

Presented by:

Art Gallery Of Greater Victoria
Since its inception over sixty years ago, the Art Gallery of...
Open / Operational
Graham Gallery
Bryce Kanbara

Event Description

“This exhibition is an introduction to the work and importance of four nisei (second generation Japanese Canadian) artists born in the latter half of the 1920s. Despite the challenge of making productive lives and fitting into Canadian society, which faced all Japanese Canadians at that time, Roy Kiyooka, Kazuo Nakamura, Shizuye Takashima and Takao Tanabe, independently found their ways to artmaking. They built practices, careers and reputations which have become significant parts of Canadian art and art history.

These four artists, geographically separated and largely unaware of one another, fostered distinctly different practices. Yet, each of them knew the negative consequences of being of Asian heritage in pre-WWII Canada, as well as the paradoxical, beneficial effects that can accrue from association with the rich cultural legacy of Japan. They seemed to approach their common Japanese Canadian heritage, at turns, with both obliviousness and acknowledgment. They set the bar high for succeeding generations of Japanese Canadians in the arts, and accounts of their lives provide all of us with inspirational examples of what it takes to make a difference.” – Bryce Kanbara, Guest Curator

This exhibition will open in conjunction with the city wide arts symposium Gei organized by the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC), in collaboration with UVic with funding from the Canada Council. One hundred Japanese Canadian artists from across Canada will gather in Victoria for a three day symposium at the newly restored pavilion at Esquimalt Gorge Park Pavillion, the historic site of the original Japanese tea house run by the Takata family. The Takata’s were forced to abandon the tea house in 1941 when Canadians of Japanese ancestry were sent to internment camps.

Educational Resources:
Gei: Japanese Canadian Artists Symposium, September 16-18, 2022
National Association of Japanese Canadians
Japanese Canadian Artists Directory

Image Credit: Roy Kiyooka (Japanese Canadian, 1926 - 1994), Untitled-Geometric Abstract, 1963-1964, acrylic. Gift of Jack Diamond. AGGV 1992.031.001

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Art Gallery Of Greater Victoria
1040 Moss street
Art Gallery
Capacity150
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