University of Lethbridge Faculty of Fine Arts

Art NOW series featuring Jessica Karuhanga

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October 16 | Noon | University Recital Hall
Free admission, everyone welcome

Jessica Karuhanga is a first-generation Canadian artist of British-Ugandan heritage who addresses politics of identity and Black diasporic concerns through lens-based technologies, sculpture, writing, drawing, and performance. Karuhanga’s work has been presented at venues including Warehouse9 (Copenhagen, DK), Sarajevski Otvoreni Centar (Sarajevo, BA), Mitchell Art Gallery (Edmonton), Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa), Nuit Blanche (Toronto), Onsite Gallery (Toronto), Remai Modern (Saskatoon), Pallas Art Projects (Dublin, IE), WNDX Festival (Winnipeg), ROM (Toronto), and Goldsmiths University (London, UK). Her work is also in public collections (Museum London, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery). She holds a BFA (Western University) and an MFA (University of Victoria) and is an Assistant Professor at Western University.

Image: Jessica Karuhanga, Blue as the insides, installation view, single channel video projection on vinyl, 2021. Jessica Karuhanga: Blue as the insides, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, 8 April – 6 August 2023. Image courtesy of artist and KWAG. Photo credit: Toni Hafkenscheid.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

 

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Wednesday, October 16 at 12:00 PM
 

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