{"title":"Exhibitions","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\" class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal outline-none keyboard-focused:focus-ring [.text-message+\u0026amp;]:mt-1\" tabindex=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert wrap-break-word w-full light markdown-new-styling\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eAtheana’s work has been featured in exhibitions and cultural institutions both locally and internationally, offering opportunities to share art and perspectives with diverse audiences. This collection highlights a selection of exhibitions that have been part of her artistic journey and evolving practice.\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"t-as-in-time-e-as-in-ever","title":"T, AS IN TIME, E AS IN EVER","description":"\u003cp\u003eFebruary 9 - April 14, 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLibby Leshgold Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwo Person Exhibition at the Libby Leshgold Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Curated by Vanessa Kwan.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe below statement is available on the Libby Leshgold Gallery's website on the exhibition, available \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/libby.ecuad.ca\/exhibition\/t-as-in-time-e-as-in-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"T, AS IN TIME E, AS IN EVER brings together the work of Hazel Meyer and Atheana Picha. Divergent in media, but aligned in method and approach, their pairing is a proposition to consider our relationship with time differently —to draw from it and reshape it to find what we need. Through performance, installation and drawings, the exhibition illustrates a gathering of knowledge, subjectivities and affinities across time and between generations; the works acknowledge the containers we collectively construct and assemble to hold us. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHazel Meyer’s WEEPING CONCRETE is a 17-foot scaffold that is both a sculptural installation and a stage. WEEPING CONCRETE addresses subcultural and queer histories, dalliances, resistances and protests that underlie and adorn the built environment. Meyer’s prose-poem, handwritten on Tyvek banners, portrays a people’s history in many leaky and desiring parts, drawing references from archives, image banks and the present day. The exhibition will include two public performances on Thursday, February 15 and Wednesday, February 28. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAtheana Picha presents a series of nine pencil drawings created between 2018 and 2023. Picha works across materials, including weaving, painting, printmaking and carving, and the drawings occupy a unique space in her production. The series brings together depictions of relatives from river to sea–eagle, sturgeon, rockfish, sculpin and frog–and this chorus of voices mirrors Picha’s specific way of traversing time in the absorption of knowledge. Enriched by relationships with mentors, elders and belongings, Picha’s work exemplifies an integrated practice of gathering, learning and making.\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atheana Picha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51450298204406,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0806\/6164\/3510\/files\/IMG_7638-atheana4242.jpg?v=1786302287"},{"product_id":"ghostly-makers-and-tending-otherworlds-new-acquisitions","title":"Ghostly Makers and Tending Otherworlds: New Acquisitions","description":"\u003cp\u003eJuly 14 - September 24, 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBurnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC, Canada\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe below statement is available on the Burnaby Art Gallery's collections website on the exhibition, available \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/collections.burnabyartgallery.ca\/link\/exhibit276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This exhibition looks to generate discussion surrounding the prevalence of diasporic, displaced and disrupted hauntings in craft and textile practices. Drawing from Avery Gordon’s definition of haunting as 'an animated state in which repressed or unresolved social violence is making itself known,' Ghostly Makers utilizes haunting as an alternative lens that materializes and uplifts narratives of resistance. Including the artists Samar Hejazi, Jacqueline Morrisseau-Addison, Keysha Rivera, Arezu Salamzadeh, and Lan 'Florence' Yee, each work critically examines contemporary constructions of visibility while re-imagining ways for thinking about identity and the commemoration of time. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn a time defined by our widespread access to information—individuals are today, more than ever, filling in and interrogating the gaps that western historical documentation leaves behind. Through highlighting these haunting narratives that oppressive structures have sought to suppress, Ghostly Makers does not attempt to seek resolutions to or contain these discourses, but rather, looks to unravel violent and colonial legacies while weaving threads of resistance into narratives of absence, time and memory.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atheana Picha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51450301382902,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0806\/6164\/3510\/files\/BAG_TendingOtherworlds_10-atheana4242.jpg?v=1786302718"},{"product_id":"fault-lines","title":"Fault Lines","description":"\u003cp\u003eDecember 6, 2024 - December 21, 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuseum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFault Lines was a group exhibition in 2025 at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK. The exhibition was curated by Dr Leah Lui-Chivizhe, Taloi Havini, Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu, and Jordan Wilson.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Fault Lines: Imagining Indigenous futures for colonial collections presents a series of curatorial responses to current debates regarding colonialism, collections, and custodianship. By bringing together Indigenous curators and contemporary artists, this exciting new exhibition reflects on museums as sites of both historic fracture and future possibility. Through interventions with historic objects, artistic responses, and new research, Fault Lines asks how we might cultivate relationships between Indigenous communities and museums around the care of colonial-era collections.\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe exhibition's program is available through the Museum of \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eArchaeology and Anthropology's website, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/maa.cam.ac.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/Fault%20Lines%20catalogue.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atheana Picha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51450304102646,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0806\/6164\/3510\/files\/IMG_2870-atheana4242.heic?v=1786303025"},{"product_id":"honouring-our-grandmothers-downstream-where-waters-mix","title":"Honouring Our Grandmothers: Downstream Where Waters Mix","description":"\u003cp\u003e2024\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew Westminster Museum and Archives, New Westminster, BC, Canada\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDownstream Where the Waters Mix is part of a series of select group exhibitions curated by Nadine Spence, part of a larger journey, Honouring Our Grandmother's Healing Journey. This exhibition was at the New Westminster Museum and Archives at the Anvil Centre in New Westminster, BC. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This project is meant to honour Grandmothers, babies and youth, their families, the lands, waters, and the wild salmon cycle. A presentation of bentwood cedar chests made by Peter Wayne Gong and Son Matthew Gong, that are designed by other artists, chest carrier platforms, regalia, woven blankets, bentwood boxes, stands and other original artworks by Indigenous and community artists from a variety of Nations will depict their own individual histories, stories and healing journeys.\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMore information is available on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sacredrock.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eSacred Rock\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atheana Picha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51450304790774,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0806\/6164\/3510\/files\/IMG_2833-atheana4242.heic?v=1786303353"},{"product_id":"xwii-xwa","title":"XWII XWA","description":"\u003cp\u003e2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMayne Island Library, Mayne Island, BC, Canada\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn June 2025, the Mayne Island Library hosted the work of multi-disciplinary artist Atheana Picha for the third annual Salish art exhibit on SḴŦAḴ. This show highlighted Picha’s work in serigraph, intaglio print, digital drawing, weaving, and painting on hide and on wood. On June 22nd we held a public opening event, with an artist talk, opening words from Elder J,SIṈTEN Dr John Elliott, and refreshments for all. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCuratorial intern Rylee Tage offered some words on the exhibit, shared below:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Good afternoon, my name is Rylee Taje, and I am the curatorial intern helping out with this wonderful exhibition. It has been an amazing opportunity to work with Rose, Tina, Sandra, David, and Jennifer while handling the work of Athena Picha. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe work we are lovingly surrounded by today commemorates an annual Salish artists exhibition in this library. Looking at the current life of Mayne Island, we must recognize and honor the lives that came before, as Picha does in her work. The history of Mayne Island, and the coast, is largely indigenous, and it continues to be, in an altered manner due to Western expansion, development to further build colonies and settlements, and differing ways of people migrating to these lands, and also being expelled from these lands. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eWithin the library, those who come in are surrounded by that which always surrounds us, nature, our animal relations, and the long histories and stories they gift us with. Picha’s work is enveloped in her Salish cultural background, and as we look at this work, we recognize teachings that have been blessed in these lands that have been growing from the first sunrise. In the mediums Picha uses, we see more of that drive of learning, as the works span painting, weaving, digital drawing, and two forms of printmaking: etching and silk screen. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen I look at this work, I see an attention to detail, both in the sense of mark making and attention to the subject. As I have recently worked my way through a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Pichas’ expansive toolkit is a commendable thing, as well as a support for her exploration of icons within the West Coast. There is a play with how to place pigment, many works in the exhibition have opaque and flat colour blockings that speak to a sublime boldness that instantly draws in the audience, in conversation with these bold works we see Picha’s sense of shading as well. I find these works incredibly atmospheric as their backgrounds consider what is brought forth and what is pushed within the frame. Within the weaving that greets us right as we enter the library, the use of white and off-whites beckons us closer to look at the patterns created and imagine the labour and effort it takes to make a blanket, and all the care that is put into it. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo be wrapped by the artworks and the environment they create within the library this Indigenous Peoples Month, I am reminded of not just the past and present of our peoples and relatives, but also the future of Indigenous peoples everywhere. We stand on the shoulders of giants, who have not just survived, but continued to live and create. We too must remember that there are those who will stand on our shoulders, if they are not already. We are all in relation, and as we honour the past we honour the future. Our stories will never stop being contemporary, as every year there will be the joy of someone tasting the juice of a salmonberry, a person having a run- in with a raven that is too mischievous, and another who sits by the seashore taking in the sight of an eagle’s wings as it glides through the air. Ish nish, thank you for this experience.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMore information on the exhibit is available on the \u003cem\u003eŚTEṈIST ȻENTOL EȻSIÁ TĆÁNȻE \/ Walking Forward With The Past\u003c\/em\u003e website, available \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingforwardwiththepast.com\/jun-22-2025\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhotos provided by the \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eŚTEṈIST ȻENTOL EȻSIÁ TĆÁNȻE \/ Walking Forward With The Past\u003c\/em\u003e website.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atheana Picha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51450308559094,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0806\/6164\/3510\/files\/storyteller.jpg-atheana4242.webp?v=1786304848"},{"product_id":"grounded-by-our-roots","title":"Grounded by Our Roots","description":"\u003cp\u003eApril 3, 2024 - Spring 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAmerican Museum of Natural History, New York City, New York, USA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Grounded by Our Roots features 13 pieces—including paintings, prints, clothing, and sculptures—that showcase contemporary Indigenous art inspired by rich visual arts traditions of the Northwest Coast. The exhibition is produced with guest curator Aliya Boubard, the curator of the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art in Vancouver, who is Anishinaabe and a member of Sagkeeng First Nation in Manitoba.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMore information on the exhibit is available on the American Museum of Natural History website, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amnh.org\/exhibitions\/grounded-by-our-roots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atheana Picha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51450310459638,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0806\/6164\/3510\/files\/IMG_7108-atheana4242.heic?v=1786305209"},{"product_id":"rooted-here-woven-from-the-land","title":"Rooted Here: Woven from the Land","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"align wp-block-acf-exhibition-dates\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"dates\"\u003eDecember 16, 2023 - May 12, 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Rooted Here: Woven from the Land celebrates the work of four prominent local Salish weavers: qʷənat, Angela George (səlilwətaɬ\/Tsleil-Waututh); Chepximiya Siyam’ Chief Janice George (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh\/Squamish); Skwetsimeltxw Willard “Buddy” Joseph (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh\/Squamish); and Qwasen, Debra Sparrow (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm\/Musqueam). The exhibition establishes important contexts for understanding each artist’s career, including the long history of Salish weaving, the rootedness of these traditions in the land and its resources, the interruption of Salish weaving by colonialism and the artists’ significant roles in its contemporary revival and renewal. It also creates an opportunity to better understand the crucial role these artists have played in designing the Vancouver Art Gallery’s new building and the rich significance of its woven surface.\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore information on the exhibit is available of the Vancouver Art Gallery website, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.vanartgallery.bc.ca\/exhibitions\/rootedhere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe photo of \u003cem\u003eBlue Weaving\u003c\/em\u003e is provided by \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlanna Edwards.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atheana Picha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51450313277686,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0806\/6164\/3510\/files\/IMG_3812-atheana4242.heic?v=1786305317"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0806\/6164\/3510\/collections\/BAG_TendingOtherworlds_05_-_atheana4242.jpg?v=1786300886","url":"https:\/\/atheanapicha.ca\/collections\/exhibitions.oembed","provider":"Atheana Picha","version":"1.0","type":"link"}