Learn more about Oxygen’s Exhibition & Residency program, facilities, and community, here.

2024

Summer Residency
Chris Dufour
1 July – 18 August 2024

Open Studio Workshops: July 13, July 20, and August 10, 2024, from 1:00 – 4:00 PM
WKRAC Culture Tour: August 10 + 11, 2024, from 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Closing Event: August 17, 2024, at 1:00 PM

The Hungry Mist (A Névoa Faminta)
Curated by Rodrigo D’Alcântara

Residency: 13 – 30 November 2023
Artists: Bento Leite, Dyó Potyguara, Simon(e) Jakiriuma Paetau w/ guest artist Cecilia Vilca
Public Workshop: Friday, November 17, 2023, from 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (In-person & Zoom)
Open Studio: Saturday, November 25, 2023, from 1:00 – 3:00 PM (Zoom)
Opening Reception: Friday, December 1, 2023, from 5:00 – 7:00 PM (In-person & Zoom)

Exhibition: 1 December 2023 – 3 February 2024
Artists: Bento Leite, Dyó Potyguara, Simon(e) Jakiriuma Paetau
Artist (Online): Cecilia Vilca

2023

Vance Wright
Residency: 26 April – 20 May 2023
Open Studio: Sat. May 6 + 13 2023, 1:00 – 3:00 PM
Exhibition: 27 May – 17 June 2023
Artist Talk: Saturday, June 10, 2023 @ 1:00 PM
Closing Reception: Saturday, June 17, 2023 @ 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Exhibition Statement

2022

Lucie Chan
Residency:  3 August – 27 August 2022
How to Be 57
Exhibition: 3 September – 1 October 2022
Open Studio:  12 – 13 August 2022 from 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Participant Interviews: 15 – 19 August 2022, scheduled
Artist Talk: 8 September 2022 @ 12:00 PM PST (Zoom)

Shannon Garden-Smith + T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss
dig a hole in the garden
11 June – 16 July 2022
+ online reading group

Angela Glanzmann + Stephanie Yee
EAT IT UP!
Residency: April 10 – 23, 2022
Open Kitchen: Friday April 22 + Saturday April 23 from 1:00 – 3:00 PM
Exhibition: 4 – 28 May 2022
Artist Talk (Zoom): Saturday, April 30 at 1:00 PM (PST)

Bessie Wapp
Pandora’s Jukebox
Exhibition 14 – 30 January 2022
Hosted Events:  Fridays – Saturdays, 5:00 – 6:30 PM & Sunday Matinees, 2:00 – 3:30 PM

2021

Bessie Wapp
Residency
1 – 31 December 2021

Body and Water
Paxsi, Jaime Black, Hannah Claus, Lindsay Dobbin
Curated by Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective
3 September – 2 October 2021
Artist panel discussion: 11 September 2021 (Zoom) @ 1:00 PM PST

Anna Daedalus + Kerry Davis
Remote Residency
Palus, artist monograph + blog
2 – 28 August 2021

Overburden: Geology, Extraction, and Metamorphosis in a Chaotic Age
Group Exhibition + Symposium
www.overburden.ca
Oxygen Art Centre: 1 June – 10 July 2021
Kootenay Gallery of Art: 18 June – 21 August 2021
Symposium: 19 + 20 June 2021 (online)
Artists: Gabriela Escobar Ari, Asinnajaq, Patti Bailey, qʷn̓qʷin̓x̌n̓, Randy Lee Cutler, Darren Fleet, Jim Holyoak, Tsema Igharas, Keith Langergraber, Sarah Nance, Tara Nicholson, Carol Wallace
Co-curated by Genevieve Robertson + Maggie Shirley
Co-presented by Oxygen Art Centre + Kootenay Gallery of Art

Brian Lye
Residency: 1 December 2020 – 30 January 2021
ABOVE ABOVE BELOW BELOW
Exhibition: 20 February – 20 March 2021
Artist Talk (Online): Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 12:00 PM NOON (PST), Recording here

2020

Z’otz* Collective
Remote Residency (Toronto, ON): 22 – 28 August 2020
Paradoxes of a Soft Spoken Tree
Exhibition: 29 August – 26 September 2020

Virtual Juried Youth Exhibition
If I Can’t Dance To It, It’s Not My Revolution
Meadow Kroeger, Spencer Legebokoff, Josh Franklin, Katherine Victoria MacKay, Bethany Pardoe, with poetry + prose by Nelson Aiken, Spencer Legebokoff, Suki Simington, Hailey Viers
Website designed by Cristian Hernandez
Spring – Summer 2020
Link: here

Mary Babcock, with Susan Andrews Grace
Oh, Columbia
Residency: 7 – 21 December 2019
Open Studio and Artist Talk: 21 December 2019, 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Exhibition: 8 January – 1 February 2020
Closing Reception: 31 January 2020, 7:00 – 9:00 PM

2019

prOphecy sun and Darren Fleet
Nostalgic Geography: Mama and Papa have Trains, Orchards and Mountains in their Backyards
Residency: 19 August – 5 September 2019
Artist Talk: Saturday, September 7 at 4pm
Exhibition: 6 – 28 September 2019

Evan Locke
Immediacy Protracted
Residency: 4 – 13 June 2019
Exhibition: 15 June – 12 July 2019
Artist Talk: Saturday, June 15 at 4pm

Matthew Talbot Kelly
…concerning the inept and yes, foolhardy barricading of wayward denizens…”
Residency/Exhibition: 15 April – 18 May 2019

Hildur Jonasson
Ephemeral Existence
Exhibition: 1 January – 5 February 2019

2018

Hildur Jonasson
Ephemeral Existence
Residency: 30 November – 22 December 2018

Justin Langois
Conflict Studies
24 August – 30 September 2018

Annika Dixon-Reusz, Danan Lake, Spencer Legebokoff, Eija Loponen-Stephenson, Lydia Miller, Vance Wright, Bethany Pardoe and “The Shoe Project”
Jurors: Stephanie Kellet and Brian Kalbfleisch
Wayfinding: Identity in the Kootenays
Juried Youth Art Exhibition
7 June – 9 July 2018

Stephanie Kellett
Re-Wilding: Fire Starter
6 January – 2 February 2018

2017

Sylvia Grace Borda
Kissing Project
9 June – 8 July 2017

Nicola Harwood and Collaborators
Summoning (No Words)
26 August – 30 September 2017

Contact Oxygen for archival exhibition and residency information prior to 2017