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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.

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.

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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.

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Image courtesy of Boring Earth.

05/16/2026

Country Mouse City Mouse Hamster in Paris!

Kitten Healer Litter
April 29–June 6, 2026
Galerie Anne Barrault

Featuring works from Tiziana La Melia’s fabled drama series, including The Simple Life (2025) and Cat and Mouse (2024), Kitten Healer Litter is the latest iteration of Country Mouse City Mouse Hamster, presented at Or Gallery from February 6–May 10, 2025.

Glint—the experimental artist book created by Natasha Katedralis and Tiziana La Melia—and limited-edition posters produced in conjunction with Country Mouse City Mouse Hamster are now available at Galerie Anne Barrault, as well as the Or Gallery bookstore booth during the 2026 Vancouver Art Book Fair.

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📷 Image courtesy of Tiziana La Melia and Galerie Anne Barrault.

05/14/2026

Coming Soon—Boring Earth: a sliver is a seed

May 21–August 9, 2026

Boring Earth is an artist collective concerned with building more-than-human mutualisms and relations among living environments. It is a collaboration between artists Patrick Cruz and Laila Fox, alongside a gathering of material and immaterial beings. Their practice limns thresholds of intimacy between what is seen and perceived, conjuring elemental ontologies to jamb alternative worldings.

Join us for the opening celebration at 5:00pm on Thursday, May 21.

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Image Courtesy of the Artists.

05/13/2026

Or Gallery at the Vancouver Art Book Fair

📚 May 15–17, 2026
📍 Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
🎟 Free admission

Visit the Or Bookstore booth for artists’ books, editions, monographs, criticism and theory, journals, magazines, and independent publishing from local and international presses.

Featuring limited-edition prints by artists Vance Wright and Tiziana La Melia, alongside a selection of Or Gallery special editions and publications.

See you at the fair.

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05/02/2026

Last day to visit Vance Wright’s Ba’oya Hubuk’esi (I Love Them By the Edge) at Or Gallery.

As a registered reconnecting two-spirit member of the Tl’azt’en Nation, Wright engages plurality on multiple fronts, exploring what it means to cultivate relationships with territories that are beyond what is known as one’s home or homeland, and the expanding bounds of q***ring land-based Indigenous art.

Please join us for a closing celebration this afternoon from 3:00pm-5:00pm. Refreshments will be served.

Free and open to all.

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04/29/2026

Final week to visit Vance Wright’s Ba’oya Hubuk’esi (I Love Them By the Edge) on view at Or Gallery until Saturday, May 2, 2026.

Please join us for the Ba’oya Hubuk’esi (I Love Them By the Edge) closing celebration on Saturday, May 2, from 3:00pm to 6:00pm.

Artist Vance Wright will be in attendance, and refreshments will be served.

Free and open to all.

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04/15/2026

Ba’oya Hubuk’esi (I Love Them By the Edge): Vance Wright Artist Talk + Tour

Saturday, April 18, 2026 | 2:00pm-3:00pm

Please join us for a guided exhibition tour of Ba’oya Hubuk’esi (I Love Them By the Edge) with artist Vance Wright.

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 the exhibition Ba’oya Hubuk’esi (I Love
Them By the Edge), on view at Or Gallery from January 22 to May 2, 2026.

Ba’oya Hubuk’esi (I Love Them By the Edge) is an exhibition that explores the plurality of q***r Indigenous intimacy and erotics alongside connections to family, community, and
territory.

Ba’oya Hubuk’esi (I Love Them By the Edge) is presented as part of the Capture Photography Festival 2026 Selected Exhibitions.

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04/02/2026

On view – Vance Wright: Ba’oya Hubuk’esi (I Love Them By the Edge)

“By using cruising as a methodology for creation, I aimed to not spend excessive time analyzing each subject or action, but to center proliferation and creation rather than forethought, allowing new erotic ways of being with materials and subjects, and allowing meditations to emerge.”—Vance Wright

‘Ba’oya Hubuk’esi (I Love Them By the Edge)’ is presented as part of the Capture Photography Festival 2026 Selected Exhibitions.

Plan your visit through to May 2, 2026.

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03/20/2026

Ba’oya Hubuk’eksi (I Love Them By the Edge): Capture Photography Festival

In partnership with the 2026 Capture Photography Festival, Vance Wright’s Ba’oya Hubuk’eksi (I Love Them By the Edge) is on view until May 2, 2026.

Ba’oya Hubuk’esi (I Love Them By the Edge) is an exhibition that explores the plurality of q***r Indigenous intimacy and erotics alongside connections to family, community, and territory. The exhibition features four interrelated filmworks and a series of photographs that document multiple activations of place through co-authored performances with the artist‘s collaborative partners.

This exhibition is presented as part of the Capture Photography Festival 2026 Selected Exhibitions.

Head to the link in bio to plan your visit.

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236 Pender Street E
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Wednesday	12pm - 5pm
Thursday	12pm - 5pm
Friday	12pm - 5pm
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