DIS – Displaced, Dispersed, Dispossessed

Louise Noguchi, The Shape of Loss, a documentary, 2026, video still. Artwork/installation image courtesy of Neill Sturgess.

DIS – Displaced, Dispersed, Dispossessed

Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, Burnaby, BC - To Feb 28, 2027

by Michael Turner

DIS is a paired exhibition mounted concurrently at two galleries—in Burnaby and Victoria. Employing a range of media, artists explore themes of inherited memory, cultural continuity and intergenerational experience. Artists showing in Burnaby are Kellen Hatanaka, Cindy Mochizuki, Mitchell Akiyama + Emma Nishimura, Judy Nakagawa, Louise Noguchi, A.S.M. Kobayashi and Jon Sasaki. At the UVic Legacy Art Gallery (to Dec 5), see works by Renay Egami, Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, Brava Kilo (Brian Kobayakawa), Michael Prior, Elysha Rei, Nao Uda and Justin Seiji Waddell.
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