Resonant Chambers
March 19, 2026
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May 3, 2026
Resonant Chambers brings together three distinct exhibitions by Sonya Iwasiuk, Jenny Hawkinson, and Golriz Rezvani. Using multimedia approaches, each artist explores the home as a site of layered meaning unfolding through performance, memory, ritual, and connection. Across different gallery spaces, encounter mixed media, painting, sound art, sculpture, and site-specific installations that consider how public and private spheres function as sites of influence.
Sonya Iwasiuk: You Are My Home
Canadian Pacific Gallery
Sonya Iwasiuk’s You Are My Home highlights the importance of nurturing intergenerational connections in an era shaped by online communication. Working across mixed media painting, textiles, sculpture, and installation, Iwasiuk frames the house as a symbol of shared history, community, and memory. Thread lines are embedded throughout the works, tracing the invisible networks that connect us across digital space.
About the Artist:
Sonya Iwasiuk is a contemporary mixed media artist and educator based in Vancouver, BC. Raised on the prairies of Northern Alberta, her childhood explorations of abandoned homesteads deeply influence her art, which often reflects themes of memory, place, and forgotten stories.
Her distinctive techniques include embossed acrylic skins, engraved plaster, and paintings on hand-rusted steel. Constantly experimenting, she brings this spirit of exploration into her teaching, offering fresh and innovative art lessons.
Sonya’s work often features prairie landscapes and derelict buildings, incorporating materials like found objects, gold leaf, and repurposed elements. She also explores more challenging themes such as forced migration, homelessness, LGBTQS2+ identity, and systemic issues like racism and misogyny.
She has exhibited in BC and Alberta, completed juried public art commissions, and brings a rich blend of storytelling and technique to every critique. Outside her art practice, she enjoys solo backwoods camping, foraging, and attending cultural events.
Jenny Hawkinson: Manifesto for Dissonance
Beedie Living Gallery
Manifesto for Dissonance presents a site-specific sound installation by Jenny Hawkinson, transforming recordings of an improvised brass performance into an immersive gallery experience. Inspired by urban soundscapes of horns during convoy protests, the musical score explores dialogue, dissonance, and collective listening as a way to bridge differences. The work offers timely reflections on how conflict can reverberate between public and private spaces.
About the Artist:
Jenny Hawkinson is an artist and creative researcher based in Vancouver, BC. Her practice exists between the studio and the streets and is found at the intersections of socially engaged art, conflict engagement, visual art, social composition and sound studies. Hawkinson’s work often plays with notions of public space and contested territories. Her preferred methodology is gathering, whether it be field recordings, found materials or people. The resulting projects are complex works that dance between the political and the poetic; creating space for practicing subversion, circular systems and gift economies.
In the Spring of 2024, Hawkinson curated and facilitated a d.i.y. community residency structured around notions of feedback. Feedback Loop shifted the gallery into a collective space for shared meals, discussions and reading groups, experimental sound-based art, performance/rehearsal space and a community drop-in. In July 2023 she facilitated Call & Response, a collaborative sound intervention beneath the Burrard Street Bridge in Vancouver, BC. In addition to several groups shows, she has exhibited her work throughout Western Canada. Several research trips to Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland, and the UK have informed her social practice and other creative work in understanding conflict engagement through a creative lens.
Hawkinson holds an MFA in Creative Research from Transart Institute with Liverpool John Moores University (2024) and a BA in Visual Arts from Trinity Western University (2010). She is grateful to work on the unceded and traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ ílwətaʔɬ /Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations.
Thank you to our gallery sponsor, Beedie Living.
Golriz Rezvani: Left Over
Ann Kitching Gallery
Left Over by Golriz Rezvani brings together sculpture and video installation that integrate bread and dough as a medium, long associated with domestic labour and care. Manipulated, burned, and left to decay, the dough evokes skin, the body, and the endurance of women under systemic pressure and expectation, while found objects and industrial materials highlight the tension between structural forces and embodied memory.
About the Artist:
Golriz Rezvani is an Iranian-Canadian artist whose practice spans painting and drawing, with a recent focus on installation and bread as a central material. Her work examines bread as both medium and domestic social artifact. Working through installation and readymade forms, she transforms this culturally loaded material through acts of marking, erosion, and structural alteration. Her practice engages questions of gendered labor, care under conditions of inequality, and the politics embedded in acts of nourishment and deterioration.
She is currently pursuing her second Master’s degree at the University of British Columbia. She teaches at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and Vancouver Film School, and was awarded a SSHRC Graduate Scholarship in 2024.
