The Orion
Lecture Series in Fine Arts

Through the generous support of the Orion Fund in Fine Arts, the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Victoria, is pleased to present:

Don Kwan 

Visiting Artist 

“(Un)covering the Art of Don Kwan”

7:30 pm Wednesday, February 26

Room A162, UVic’s Visual Arts Building

Free & open to all

Presented by UVic’s Department of Visual Arts.

For more information, please email visualarts@uvic.ca

Through the generous support of the Orion Fund in Fine Arts, UVic’s Faculty of Fine Arts is pleased to present Don Kwan, Visiting Artist. All are welcome to attend this free event.

ABOUT THE TALK

Explore how Don Kwan’s art connects historical and contemporary experiences by reflecting on Chinese Canadian history. Through his creative process, Kwan weaves together cultural heritage and personal identity, offering new perspectives and enriching conversations about the Chinese diasporic experience in Canada.

A third-generation Chinese Canadian, Don Kwan 关日安 turns to his own experiences and challenges of being a gay, East Asian artist as a way to ground in broader conversations about identity, representations, and intergenerational memory-making in the diaspora. Kwan regularly draws from common and powerfully symbolic found objects and forms. He redeploys them in provocative, and playful ways; delivering complex, and nuanced concepts in an open framework for interpretation that evokes both familiarity and wonder. 

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For more information on this lecture, please email visualarts@uvic.ca

About the Orion Fund

Established through the generous gift of an anonymous donor, the Orion Fund in Fine Arts is designed to bring distinguished visitors from other parts of Canada—and the world—to the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Fine Arts, and to make their talents and achievements available to faculty, students, staff and the wider Greater Victoria community who might otherwise not be able to experience their work.

The Orion Fund also exists to encourage institutions outside Canada to invite regular faculty members from our Faculty of Fine Arts to be visiting  artists/scholars at their institutions; and to make it possible for Fine Arts faculty members to travel outside Canada to participate in the academic life of foreign institutions and establish connections and relationships with them in order to encourage and foster future exchanges.

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