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Established in 1983, the Or Gallery is a non-profit gallery with a mandate to foster the development of contemporary art with an emphasis on work that is conceptual, critical, and issue based.

10/02/2026

One hundred more: Virtual Artist Panel Conversation

Saturday, October 3 | 2pm

Please join us for a virtual panel discussion with artist Justine A. Chambers and her collaborators Laurie Young, Emese Csornai, Neda Sanai, Sarah Doucet, and Victoria Cheong. This conversation is presented in conjunction with the exhibition One hundred more, on view at Or Gallery from September 24 to December 12, 2026.

This program is free and open to all.

Link in bio.

Image Courtesy of the Artists

Cover photo by Rachel Topham Photography

09/26/2026

One hundred more: Movement Sessions  
with Justine A. Chambers 

Join artist in residence Justine A. Chambers for a series of movement sessions presented in conjunction with One hundred more. 
Grounded in Chambers’ ongoing research into individual and collective embodied archives and everyday social choreographies, these sessions explore strategies for presence and spatial negotiation. Participants will be invited to consider how seemingly minor gestures can carry meaning and create connection.  

Movement Sessions with Justine A. Chambers

Tuesday, September 29, 2026, 10:00am-11:00am
Tuesday, October 6, 2026, 10:00am-11:00am
Tuesday, December 1, 2026, 10:00am-11:00am
Tuesday, December 8, 2026, 10:00am-11:00am

These sessions are open to everyone, and participants are welcome to join at their own pace. No previous dance or movement experience is required. Registration is recommended as space is limited. Please contact Or Gallery for accessibility accommodations.     

🔗 Link in bio. 

📸 Rachel Topham Photography Rachel Topham Photography Ltd.
Courtesy of Ballet Vancouver

09/10/2026

Coming Soon—Justine A. Chambers: One hundred more

24 September—12 December, 2026

Or Gallery presents One hundred more, an exhibition and residency with dancer and visual artist Justine A. Chambers, curated by Jenn Jackson.

Featuring the west coast premiere of One hundred more (2024), a video-based installation exploring gestures of resistance. The work centres minor gestures as modes of resistance, examining how subtle, embodied actions can shift dominant systems of value by engaging the body as a site of political, social, and physical meaning.

Alongside the exhibition, Chambers will undertake a creative research residency and develop a series of public programs, workshops, and community gatherings.

Join us for the opening celebration at 5:00pm on Thursday, September 24.

🔗 Link in bio.

Image: Justine A. Chambers, One hundred more, 2024. Exhibition view at the Toronto Biennial of Art, 2024. Photography: Toni Hafkenscheid.

08/06/2026

Last days to visit Boring Earth’s a sliver is a seed on view at Or Gallery until Sunday, August 9, 2026.

Thank you to everyone who has visited the gallery and joined us for our public programs through the exhibition.

We look forward to welcoming you back soon.

📷 Dani Costelo

07/31/2026

Boring Earth: a sliver is a seed
Light Up Chinatown Festival

In celebration of the Light Up Chinatown Festival, Or Gallery Contemporary Art Space + Bookstore will be open with extended hours:

Saturday, August 8 | 11:00 AM–7:00 PM
Sunday, August 9 | 11:00 AM–5:00 PM

Plan your visit to see a sliver is a seed before the exhibition closes and enjoy 10% off all bookstore titles throughout the festival.

Link in bio.

📷 Blaine Campbell

07/23/2026

Boring Earth: a sliver is a seed
Danica Pinteric—Poetry Commission

Now available in print and online: an artist book bringing together collaborative image-based work by Boring Earth and poems by Danica Pinteric, commissioned on the occasion of the exhibition a sliver is a seed, on view at Or Gallery from May 21–August 9, 2026.

Danica Pinteric is a Toronto-based curator and writer, and the founder of Joys 𝙅𝙤𝙮𝙨 (est. 2022), an independent gallery interested in the politics of vulnerability and the poetic possibilities of exhibition-making. She has curated projects in Toronto, Montreal, New York, Amsterdam, Knoxville, and Vancouver.

Get your copy via the link in our bio.

📷 Blaine Campbell

07/09/2026

This summer, artworks first commissioned and presented at Or Gallery continue their journey to Syilx territory in the Okanagan:

The Structure of Smoke
May 21— August 18, 2026
Fina Gallery, UBC Okanagan

Fireline Kinship
May 29—July29, 2026
Vernon Public Art Gallery

Both exhibitions feature sculptural regalia and the newly commissioned film from Taylor Baptiste’s ‘Fireline Kinship’, originally presented at Or Gallery October 2—December 3, 2025.

Mark your calendar for upcoming programs at UBC Okanagan including a conversation between Taylor Baptiste and Russell Myers Ross, moderated by curator Tania Willard:

Smoke Forecast II: Artist Talks and Panel Discussion
Friday, July 10, 2026 | 3–4 PM
University Theatre (ADM026), UBC Okanagan

🔗 Link in bio.

Cover Image: Taylor Baptiste, Fireline Kinship, 2025, Film still. Courtesy of the artist.

06/10/2026

Ba’oya Hubuk’esi (I Love Them By The Edge):
An Afternoon of Q***r Indigenous Poetry

📅 Saturday, June 20, 2026
🕑 2:00-3:00pm
📍 Or Gallery 236 East Pender Street

Join us for an intimate poetry reading featuring artist Vance Wright and writers brandi brid and Justin Ducharme. Together the readers will explore Q***r Indigenous expression, relating to oneself, to others, to land, and to desire.

Ba’oya Hubuk’esi (I Love Them By the Edge): An Afternoon of Q***r Indigenous Poetry is presented as part of the Q***r Arts Festival.

This free public program is co-presented by Or Gallery in partnership with SUM Gallery. All are welcome.

Cover Image: Vance Wright, Fringing; Finding The Edges, 2026, Film still, Courtesy of the artist.

🔗Link in bio.

05/27/2026

a sliver is a seed: Boring Earth Artist Talk + Tour

Friday, May 29, 2026 | 5:00pm-6:00pm

Please join us for a guided exhibition tour of sliver is a seed with Boring Earth.

The artist talk and tour will give a unique insight into inspirations behind the exhibition with a chance to ask questions and generate discussion.

This public program is presented in conjunction with a sliver is a seed, on view at Or Gallery from May 21 to August 9, 2026.

For a sliver is a seed, Boring Earth refigures the pipeline as a portal between possible socio-ecologies: those shaped by extractivism and uneven consumption, and those grounded in collective, spiritual, and more-than-human practices of life-making. The exhibition brings together material compositions emerging from a yearlong reciprocal exchange between the territories of the Tagbanua Tandulanen peoples—colonially known as El Nido; the territories of Mazina’iga-ziibing Misi-zaagiwininiwag (Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation), the Chippewa, and other ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒃ (Anishinaabeg) peoples, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples—colonially known as Toronto; and the territories of the xʷməθkʷəyəm, Sḵwxw̱ú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ nations—colonially known as Vancouver.

Link in bio.

📷 .costelo

05/21/2026

Boring Earth: Artist Panel

Saturday, May 23, 2:00pm

x̱aw̓s shew̓áy̓—271 Union Street

Join Boring Earth alongside multi-disciplinary artists Deborah Edmeades and Woojae Kim for a conversation exploring supernatural ecologies, spirituality, ritual, superstition, and belief as they intersect with artistic practice and everyday life.

Presented in conjunction with a sliver is a seed, on view at Or Gallery from May 21–August 9, 2026.

Participants are invited to visit Or Gallery in advance of the panel and walk to the garden together with Boring Earth. In the event of rain, the conversation will take place at Or Gallery.

This program is free and open to all in collaboration with x̱aw̓s shew̓áy̓ garden and 221A. We extend our gratitude to T’uy’tanat Cease Wyss for stewarding x̱aw̓s shew̓áy̓ garden as a place of community gathering and reflection.

🔗 Link in bio.

Image courtesy of Boring Earth.

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