Current Exhibitions
WINTER 2026
The artLAB and Cohen Commons are CLOSED for installation. Our next exhibitions open on Thursday, April 23 from 5-7PM.
TBA
Jodi Lynn Maracle, Indigenous Artist-in-Residence
Exhibition: April 23 to May 14, 2026
Reception: Thursday, April 23 from 5-7PM
artLAB Gallery
EXOPHONY
Exhibition: April 23 to May 14, 2026
Reception: Thursday, April 23 from 5-7PM
Cohen Commons
Curated by Aaron Ambroso and Rojina Sabetiashraf
Work by: Maria Awaraji, Maia Cochrane, Behnaz Fatemi, Jessica Joyce, Masha Kouznetsov, Wen Li, Sasha Parmasad, Xi Jin
Exophony brings together artists whose practices engage migration, diaspora, and cultural displacement. Working across painting, video, performance, and installation, the exhibition approaches culture not as fixed, but as something shaped through tension between origin and arrival, memory and present, belonging and estrangement. This tension is the condition of making. It emerges where translation breaks down, where meaning resists equivalence, and where cultural forms change as they move across borders. It is carried in objects and gestures that arrive altered, and in bodies moving through spaces not made for them, where the distance between perception and self-understanding lingers. Borrowed from linguistics, exophony refers to expression outside one’s mother tongue. Here, it extends beyond language to include visual and embodied forms of articulation. To work exophonically is to produce from inside displacement. The artists in this exhibition work in that space of dislocation. Their works trace how meaning is (re)configured through movement, misalignment, and encounter, where continuity is interrupted, and new forms take shape.
What does it mean to speak and to make from elsewhere?
