Throughout the program, Visual Arts students get lots of opportunity to show their work publicly, culminating in a final gallery show at the end of their second year.
Student work
Our Alumni
Our alumni are working hard!
Student and Alumni Shows and Successes
Hjalmer Wenstob (Faculty) and Audie Murray (Alumni) - 2018 Recipients of the William and Meredith Saunderson Prizes for Emerging Artists - $5,000 each
Jess Willa Wheaton - yours mine & ours Upstairs Art Fair in Amagansett, NY; Skip/Salvage curated by Audrée Anid and Rachel Tretter (RATA PROJECTS), NYC; Layers at Global Committee in Brooklyn, curated by Ian Giles; Sugar Candy Mountain released their newest album Do Right, again enrobed Jess' visuals; currently in production is a beautiful 100 page book of Jess' recent work published by Colpa Press, with writing by Natasha Marie Llorens.
Erin Berry - Pathologia | Xchanges Artists' Gallery | Victoria
Dan Law - Recent commissions: Catch of the Day, a permanent art installation at the National Museum of Nature (in collaboration with artist Pete Clarkson) | Ottawa, ON
Sea Change, permanent public art installation at the Ucluelet Aquarium (a collaborative project with artist Pete Clarkson) | Ucluelet, BC
Caleb Speller - Piecemeal | Relish Food & Coffee | Victoria
Artist in residence exhibtion - AIR - Alan Batey Library & Learning Commons, Camosun | Victoria
Neah Kelly - Problem Finding ≥Problem Solving | 50/50 | Victoria
Angela Teng - shortlisted for prestigious 2017 RBC Painting Award.
Alumni Zoe Kreye - Make Our Own Air | Space Studios | London UK
Jess Willa Wheaton - Archipelago | THE CHIMNEY | New York
Alysha Farling - Daydreaming & the Long Burn Out | ach.hive Gallery | Victoria
Sarah Stein - Freelance Photography | InStyle Magazine - This Beautiful Engagement in Prague Took 2 Years to Plan—And HE Said Yes
Nadia Myre - Koerner Artist in Residence | Queen's University | Kingston, Ontario
Angela Teng, Jess Willa Wheaton, Nate Bomford - It's in the Making | Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Megan K. Quigley - Mother Tongue | Camosun Exhibition | Victoria
Jess Willa Wheaton - Representing Rainbows | Gerald Peters Gallery | New York
Rick Leong (Alumni and Faculty) - The Transformation of Things | Richmond Art Gallery | Richmond
Samantha Radons (Embarrassment Suit) and Kazmear A. Johnston (Reconstructions) - part of annual Vertical Gallery | Open Space | Victoria
Keilah Lukenbill Williams and Audie Murray - Ritual (Un) Natural Showcase and Community Feast | Open Space | Victoria
Zoe Kreye - FutureLoss @ Grunt Gallery | Vancouver
Jess Willa Wheaton - Receptive Fields @ Edward Thorp Gallery | New York
Angela Teng - Pushing Paint @ Equinox Gallery | Vancouver
Nadia Myre wins $50,000 top Canadian art award, the prestigious Sobey Art Award for 2014 | Winnipeg Art Gallery in Winnipeg, Manitoba
Visual Arts blog
The Visual Arts program is the gathering of creative problem solvers, and creative analytical thinking is its language. We give students the fundamental studio and academic skills they need to 'make' art. On our blog, we showcase projects and other events.
