Join us for an Artist Talk with Don Kwan on November 8th from 2pm - 3pm in-person at Modern Fuel to hear about the exhibition Material Memories on view in the Main Gallery.

MEET DON

Don Kwan is an Ottawa-based artist working in sculpture, installation, photography, and performance. A third-generation Chinese Canadian, Kwan turns to his own experiences and challenges of being a gay, East Asian artist as a way to ground broader conversations about identity, representation, and intergenerational memory-making in the diaspora. His work has been featured in exhibitions at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Chinese Garden (Vancouver), Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto), Bonavista Biennale (Newfoundland) and most recently in the 2025 CAFKA Biennale (Kitchener). In 2022, his year-long exhibit at the Ottawa Art Gallery, Landscape, Loss and Legacy, was shortlisted for an award by Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries. That same year, he received the Peter Honeywell Mid-Career Artist Award from the Ottawa Arts Council.