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A non-profit, public art gallery for contemporary Asian and Asian-diasporic art.
Wednesday–Saturday, 12–6 PM
205–268 Keefer St, Vancouver, BC
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Hello Vancouver! I'm hosting a dance party, hustle social, and opening for my exhibition at @centre_a! The show is inspired by my grandparents, who ran a social dance club with their friends for 4 decades. Join us for music by DJ @ajjjli and movement with local co-hosts @midnighthour.dance OCT 24, 6-9pm @ Centre A, 268 Keefer street #205 I'll be in town from the 17th-25th for installation and catching up over fish and chips. Msg me to get together! by @centre_a
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Centre A is delighted to announce our last exhibition of the year, Window, Wallpaper, and Emergency Exit, featuring artworks by Toronto-based artist Lan Florence Yee. This solo exhibition will present a new body of interdisciplinary work that examines the legacies and contradictions of utopian thought through installation, textile, painting, and light-based media. Grounded in research into the architectural history of glass brick, the project reflects on how modernist aspirations towards transparency and social progress persist and fracture within contemporary experiences of migration, queerness, and collective life. Opening Reception: October 24, 2026, 6 – 9 PM Exhibition Duration: October 24, 2026 - January 23, 2027 Location: #205-268 Keefer St. (2nd floor of the Sun Wah Centre) Gallery Hours: Wed–Sat, 12–6 PM Artist Bio: Lan “Florence” Yee 余承佳 is a visual artist and cultural worker based in Tkaronto/Toronto & Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. They collect text in underappreciated places and ferment it until it is too suspicious to ignore. Lan’s work has been exhibited at the Art Museum at The University of Toronto (2024), the Textile Museum of Canada (2023-24), the Darling Foundry (2022), the Toronto Museum of Contemporary Art (2021), and the Gardiner Museum (2019), among others. They obtained a BFA from Concordia University and an MFA from OCAD U as a Joseph-Armand Bombardier SSHRC scholar. They are a recipient of the William and Meredith Saunderson Prizes for Emerging Artists (2023). Lan is a member of Collective Collective, a project between eight visual arts collectives with majority-racialized members as a response to the systemic racism and exploitative labour conditions in the arts. Lan writes and organizes as a member of JIA Foundation, fostering Chinatown’s sustainability as a living neighbourhood with a deeply-rooted cultural heritage. Find out more about the exhibition via the link in our bio. by @centre_a
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Thank you everyone who stopped by to view Rituals for Unstable Ground and joined us for the exhibition’s public programming! Here are a few of our favourite photos from the exhibition and public programs! Rituals for Unstable Ground is the culminating exhibition of our biennial emerging artist residency, a Blessing & a Curse & a Practice, featuring new works by Ghinwa Yassine, Romi Kim, and Xinwei Che. Across the three practices, impression becomes a way of thinking about how bodies, histories, and places leave marks on one another. Fragments, fractures, traces, and absences become sites for considering memory, precarity, resilience, and the labour of making and remembering. The exhibition asks what it means to return: to a material, a story, a place, a history that has not yet been laid to rest. Here, repetition becomes a practice of staying with what remains unresolved. Workshop, Tracing lines on unstable ground with Xinwei Che: Xinwei Che’s guided tour of the Fault Lines installation, moves between geological and lived forms of tension. Which looked at basic fault-line types as ways of understanding pressure, slippage, and rupture in both land and daily creative life. Participants traced cracks on surfaces in Sun Wah building, then returned to read these marks together and share reflections. Artist Talk with Q&A with Ghinwa Yassine: Ghinwa Yassine discusses her process of working with fragments of her grandfather’s destroyed home in South Lebanon, and how clay impressions become a way of attending to memory, absence, and loss. The conversation considers her ongoing return to materials and histories shaped by destruction, and how repetition can become a practice of remembrance and repair without restoring what has been lost. Images 3, 5, 7, 11 by @dennisha.photo , Image 13 by Samson Tam by @centre_a
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Centre A will be closed from October 12–23 to prepare for our upcoming exhibition! During this time we will be installing Window, Wallpaper, and Emergency Exit, a solo exhibition featuring work by Toronto-based artist Lan Florence Yee. Come to the opening on October 24, 2026! by @centre_a
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Its the last week to see my new work at @centre_a “Rituals on unstable grounds” 바리데기의 가능성 - Year 1, video still, courtesy of artist, 10 mins, dual channel installation Videography @contibreakfast Sound @vndng by @centre_a
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Last week to see Fault Lines, my new immersive installation created from rubbings of fracture lines found around Vancouver city! Rituals for Unstable Ground runs till October 10th @centre_a . I’ve really appreciated the many conversations I’ve had with friends, colleagues, visitors about topographical maps, tectonic plate movements, pop-up performance and what it means to engage with audience in public spaces. Thank you for coming for the opening / artist tour / rubbing workshops / walkthroughs 💙 taken in Centre A by @centre_a
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Centre A will be closed tomorrow, Wednesday, September 30, for the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. On this day, we honour the Survivors, families, and communities impacted by the Residential School system. As immigrant settlers, many of us in this space have come to be here through complex paths of displacement and diaspora, but our presence also exists within structures of settler colonialism on stolen Indigenous land. It is our responsibility to reflect and engage in solidarity movements that support Indigenous sovereignty and resist all forms of dispossession. We encourage you to learn more about the lasting effects of Residential Schools and Canada’s colonial history, respectfully honour Survivors, and commit to reconciliation and decolonization beyond tomorrow. by @centre_a
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Thank you for joining us at Centre A for the sold out launch of Accumulations on September 19! Accumulations is a collective zine launch and reading event organized by participants in Centre A’s 2026 Art Writing Mentorship Program. Thank you to the summer mentorship cohort for participating and collaborating with us to develop their practice. A special thank you to Dr. Yani Kong for mentoring the 2026 summer cohort; Adam Arca, Aretha Pereira, Chimgee Mendee, kathy feng, and Maximilliano Chi Leung Alserda. This program leads with the intention to develop art writing and criticism, while working with a small cohort of Vancouver-based Asian-identified youth through weekly writing, peer reviews, talks and workshops with visiting professionals, one-on-one consultations, and visits to local galleries. Mentees developed and refined skills for writing critically about the arts. These skills were cultivated by reading, researching, and analyzing a selection of readings that operates across the disciplines; and by workshopping our own writing and creative projects. Participants also worked on the production of two high-quality, peer reviewed pieces of critical and/or creative writing along with their zine. Did you miss the launch but still want a copy of the Accumulations zine? You can still purchase them in our boutique! taken in Vancouver, British Columbia by @centre_a
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Join Ghinwa Yassine for an artist talk and Q&A exploring her multimedia installation Experiments in a Failed Repair Yassine will discuss her process of working with fragments of her grandfather’s destroyed home in South Lebanon, and how clay impressions become a way of attending to memory, absence, and loss. The conversation will consider her ongoing return to materials and histories shaped by destruction, and how repetition can become a practice of remembrance and repair without restoring what has been lost. #205-268 Keefer Street Thursday, October 8, 2026 6 - 7:30 pm Free to attend, no registration required. Exhibition Duration: September 12 – October 10, 2026 Location: #205-268 Keefer St. (2nd floor of the Sun Wah Centre) Gallery Hours: Wed–Sat, 12–6 PM OTHER PUBLIC PROGRAMS: Artist-led Exhibition Tour: September 24, 2026, 6 – 8PM Workshop: Tracing lines on unstable ground with Xinwei Che: October 3, 2026, 2 – 4PM Artist Talk with Q&A with Ghinwa Yassine: October 8, 2026, 6 – 7:30PM This project is supported by The Canada Council for the Arts and BC Art Council Find out more about the exhibition and public programs via the link in our bio. This project is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council and the Government of British Columbia. taken in Vancouver, British Columbia by @centre_a
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[Artist Tour] I’ll be doing an artist tour on Thursday, Sept 24 at 6pm at @centre_a together with fellow artists @romikim.art and @arts.embodiment I’ll share about my creative process and fascination with fracture lines, mapping, and living archives. Come join us, and ask us questions about our current exhibition! taken in Centre A by @centre_a
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Thank you for joining us for the opening of Rituals for Unstable Ground, featuring new artwork by Xinwei Che, Romi Kim, Ghinwa Yassine, and a performance by SKIM! The event was well attended and we want to extend our gratitude for your support. It was especially meaningful to have everyone come together to see the works created during our residency and to celebrate the culmination of Xinwei, Romi, and Ghinwa’s time with us. The exhibition will run until October 10, come visit during our gallery hours! Rituals for Unstable Ground brings together three distinctive approaches to material, memory, and place. Across the exhibition, impressions become a way of understanding how bodies, histories, and places leave traces on one another. Fragments and absences become points of attention: what remains after something has been broken, displaced, concealed, or transformed. Exhibition Duration: September 12 – October 10, 2026 Location: #205-268 Keefer St. (2nd floor of the Sun Wah Centre) Gallery Hours: Wed–Sat, 12–6 PM Also come check out some of our other public programs as part of this exhibition! OTHER PUBLIC PROGRAMS: Artist-led Tour: September 24, 2026, 6 – 8PM Workshop: Tracing lines on unstable ground with Xinwei Che: October 3, 2026, 2 – 4PM Artist Talk with Q&A with Ghinwa Yassine: October 8, 2026, 6 – 7:30PM Find out more about the exhibition and public programs via the link in our bio. This project is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council and the Government of British Columbia. Photo Credit: Image 1 - 5: Samson Tam (@mistertam) Image 6: Tuck Abbott (@tuck.abbott) taken in Vancouver, British Columbia by @centre_a
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Thanks so much to everyone who came to the opening of Rituals for Unstable Ground @centre_a 🩵 I had so many fun and insightful conversations about Vancouver’s sidewalks, fracture patterns, maps, Chinese landscape paintings, and river topographies. Thanks to the team at Centre A for hosting this residency and exhibition. And thank you so much to my fellow artists @romikim.art and @arts.embodiment . This exhibition runs till October 10th, if you want to see the works at a quieter time. Romi, Ghinwa and I will be hosting an artist-tour on Thurs, 24 Sept, 6pm. Thanks to @tuck.abbott for the great photos! taken in Centre A by @centre_a
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