Deluge Contemporary Art

Deluge Contemporary Art Our ongoing program of activities includes exhibitions, lectures, screenings, off-site projects, and the annual Antimatter festival.

Deluge has a focus on moving image installation and carefully curated programs, online, in public and in-house.

Photos: Kegan McFadden, Spring Evening on Willows Beach, 2026 [after Jack Wilkinson, 1927 - 2007]Please join us at Del...
05/29/2026

Photos: Kegan McFadden, Spring Evening on Willows Beach, 2026 [after Jack Wilkinson, 1927 - 2007]

Please join us at Deluge Contemporary Art for the opening of Instant Karma tonight at 7pm.

Instant Karma is group exhibition and sale supporting Deluge and Antimatter Media Art featuring the instant photos of more than 40 international artists, with all works priced at $75 CDN for single photos,, $100 and $125 for diptychs and triptychs respectively.

Sonja Elizabeth Ahlers| Ellinor Brandenburg | Anthony Carr | Peter Christenson | Gloria Chung | David Crompton | Shauna Doherty | Laura Dutton| Cormack Eacrett| Clint Enns | Lynda Gammon| Eric Gaucher | Emily Geen | Elisa Gonzalez | Internet Vernacular | Dave Johnson | Todd Lambeth| Jeffrey Langille| Jean-Paul Langlois | Christine Lucy Latimer | Dillon Lew'chuk | Janis Crystal Lipzin| Evan Locke | John Luna| Kegan McFadden | MikeAndrew McLean | Mirka Morales| Sasha Opeiko| pee-bee (Noah MacLeod) & Latina Penkova | Brandon Poole| Judith Price | Kethleen Rugh | Grace Salez| Rennie Taylor| Matt Trahan| Christine Walde | Paul Walde | Carrie Walker | Dina Yanni | Carollyne Yardley| Robert Youds

OPENING TOMORROW NIGHT AT 7PM AT DELUGE AND ONLINE!Instant Karma35th Anniversary Celebration & FundraiserJoin us on May ...
05/28/2026

OPENING TOMORROW NIGHT AT 7PM AT DELUGE AND ONLINE!
Instant Karma
35th Anniversary Celebration & Fundraiser

Join us on May 29 for a late spring celebration of 35 years of media and visual art programming and the opening of Instant Karma, a fundraising exhibition informed by chance and imagination.

Instant photography has been an important medium for artists since its introduction in the middle of the 20th century, through its near demise and resurrection in recent decades. As a link between project-based practice and a record of everyday life, it is a living image paralleling artistic process and labour—a format that requires adaptation, imagination, an embracement of chance and the unexpected. These qualities continue to inform the mandate and programming of Deluge and Antimatter, the artists and communities we serve.

Every instant photo is unique and irreproducible, a one-of-a-kind art object representing a singular time and place. What you see through the viewfinder is not always what you get, but whether decisive moment or impeccable accident, it is always unedited and unfiltered—the sanctity of the first draft versus the crafted illusion of digital or social media.

Featuring the instant photographs of 40+ artists, works in Instant Karma will be for sale in the gallery and online, with the website sales portal going live at 7pm on May 29 to coincide with the opening celebration at Deluge. Funds raised will support our new initiative Little Skies: Moving Image Art for Youth, slated for this November.

Photo diptych: Laura Dutton, untitled

Laura Dutton is a photo/video-based artist working and living in Victoria, BC on the unceded territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples. She is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Victoria and received an MFA from the University of Victoria in 2011 and a BFA from Concordia University, Montréal in 2006. Dutton works with photography and video installation to unravel the materiality of lens-based images and disrupt our ability to look straight through to the referent described. By obscuring, degrading or removing the subject matter altogether, her images reveal their own process and become distilled suggestions of what once stood before the lens, offering an epistemological space for the viewer to meditate on the act of seeing and knowing.

Daphne Dutton

Instant Karma, a group exhibition and sale featuring the instant photos of more than 40 international artists, opens thi...
05/26/2026

Instant Karma, a group exhibition and sale featuring the instant photos of more than 40 international artists, opens this Friday at 7pm PST, online and at 636 Yates Street in downtown Victoria, Canada! This gorgeous work shot with an SX-70 Polaroid on Impossible instant film using a macro lens by Dina Yanni is one of our offerings. All works are priced at $75 CDN for single photos,, $100 and $125 for diptychs and triptychs respectively.

Dina Yanni: "Nefertiti in Glass"
Dina Yanni is an Austrian-Egyptian video artist and researcher based in Vienna. Her work centres on found footage, which she reinterprets through remixing and glitch techniques to uncover underlying narratives, implicit biases and structures of power embedded in popular culture. Drawing on postcolonial theory, critical media studies and broader cultural theory, her practice bridges artistic experimentation and academic inquiry, often intertwining creative production with scholarly reflection.

Don’t miss Tristesse Seeliger this Saturday, May 23rd as she provides us with an exclusive look into her process creatin...
05/21/2026

Don’t miss Tristesse Seeliger this Saturday, May 23rd as she provides us with an exclusive look into her process creating and working with textiles for her pieces in Soft Systems: Radical Matters.

The artist will be present from 2–4pm on that, the final day of the exhibition.

Instant Karma35th Anniversary Celebration & FundraiserSonja Ahlers | Ellinor Brandenburg | Anthony Carr | Peter Christen...
05/19/2026

Instant Karma
35th Anniversary Celebration & Fundraiser

Sonja Ahlers | Ellinor Brandenburg | Anthony Carr | Peter Christenson | Gloria Chung | David Crompton | Meganelizabeth Diamond | Shauna Doherty | Laura Dutton | Cormack Eacrett | Clint Enns | Lynda Gammon | Eric Gaucher | Emily Geen | Elisa Gonzalez | Internet Vernacular | Dave Johnson | Todd Lambeth | Jeffrey Langille | Jean-Paul Langlois | Christine Lucy Latimer | Dillon Lew'chuk | Janis Crystal Lipzin | Evan Locke | John Luna | Kegan McFadden | Mike Andrew McLean | Mirka Morales | Sasha Opeiko | pee-bee (Noah MacLeod) & Latina Penkova | Brandon Poole | Judith Price | Kathleen Rugh | Grace Salez | Rennie Taylor | Matt Trahan | Christine Walde | Paul Walde | Carrie Walker | Dina Yanni | Carollyne Yardley | Robert Youds

May 29 to June 20, 2026
Opening Friday, May 29 at 7pm at Deluge and online

Join us on May 29 for a late spring celebration of 35 years of media and visual art programming and the opening of Instant Karma, a fundraising exhibition informed by chance and imagination.

Instant photography has been an important medium for artists since its introduction in the middle of the 20th century, through its near demise and resurrection in recent decades. As a link between project-based practice and a record of everyday life, it is a living image paralleling artistic process and labour—a format that requires adaptation, imagination, an embracement of chance and the unexpected. These qualities continue to inform the mandate and programming of Deluge and Antimatter, the artists and communities we serve.

Every instant photo is unique and irreproducible, a one-of-a-kind art object representing a singular time and place. What you see through the viewfinder is not always what you get, but whether decisive moment or impeccable accident, it is always unedited and unfiltered—the sanctity of the first draft versus the crafted illusion of digital or social media.

Featuring the instant photographs of 35+ artists, works in Instant Karma will be for sale in the gallery and online, with the website sales portal going live at 7pm on May 29 to coincide with the opening celebration at Deluge. Funds raised will support our new initiative Little Skies: Moving Image Art for Youth, slated for this November.

https://deluge.squarespace.com/

Deluge Contemporary is open from 12 - 5 pm today at 636 Yates Street in Victoria, CanadaOn view, Tristesse Seeliger: So...
05/09/2026

Deluge Contemporary is open from 12 - 5 pm today at 636 Yates Street in Victoria, Canada

On view, Tristesse Seeliger: Soft Systems: Radical Matters

Deadline approaching! Friends of Deluge & Antimatter: Friday, May 15 is the last day to sign up to participate in our In...
05/09/2026

Deadline approaching! Friends of Deluge & Antimatter: Friday, May 15 is the last day to sign up to participate in our Instant Karma fundraiser and anniversary celebration. Donate an instant photo (Polaroid, Instax, etc) for the exhibition/sale starting May 29 and help support ongoing programming at the gallery and festival. Link in comments.

Tristesse Seeliger will present an artist talk about her practice and exhibition Soft Systems: Radical Matters at Deluge...
05/07/2026

Tristesse Seeliger will present an artist talk about her practice and exhibition Soft Systems: Radical Matters at Deluge Contemporary on Saturday, May 23rd at 2pm The artist will be present from 2–4pm on that, the final day of the exhibition.

636 Yates St in Victoria, Canada

This is the last week to view Repeat as Necessary, online at deluge dot ca, free and viewable from anywhere in the world...
05/05/2026

This is the last week to view Repeat as Necessary, online at deluge dot ca, free and viewable from anywhere in the world through May 8th.

Participating artists are Martín Dávalos (Mexico), McLean Fahnestock (USA), Brice Goldberg (USA), Aleksandra Kolodziejczyk & Karl Wratschko (Austria), Matthew Lancit (Canada/France), Dave Mawer (USA), Mike Andrew McLean (Canada), Kate Pelling (Germany), Jonathan Seungjoon Lee & Huh Yunhee (Korea) and Dina Yanni (Austria).







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Friends of Deluge & Antimatter! Please be part of our Instant Karma fundraiser and anniversary celebration. Donate an in...
05/02/2026

Friends of Deluge & Antimatter! Please be part of our Instant Karma fundraiser and anniversary celebration. Donate an instant photo (Polaroid, Instax, etc) for the exhibition/sale starting May 29 and help support ongoing programming at the gallery and festival. Full details and signup at deluge.squarespace.com/instant-karma.

Image: Brayan, Tacubaya, 2026

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Thursday 12pm - 5pm
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