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Visiting Artist Series

Paul Wong presents: ‘Enemy Alien: Tamio Wakayama’

EVENT LOCATION:
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Theatre 

EVENT DATE & TIME
October 20, 2025 7:00 pm

About the Event

A social justice warrior’s photographs, capturing The 1960’s Civil Rights in the Black South of America to Japanese-Canadian Redress movements in the book, Enemy Alien: Tamio Wakayama.

Curator Paul Wong will present the documentary film, Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama, followed by a discussion and launch of the Enemy Alien book that includes his memoir, Soul On Rice, the inspiration for both the film and exhibition currently on view at the Vancouver Air Gallery until Feb. 22, 2026. Enemy Alien will be for purchase on site.

Visitors to enter & exit via Security Entrance at 1728 Bedford Row as the Courtyard Entrance will be closed after 5pm.

 

This talk is presented as part of NSCAD’s Visiting Artist program, supported by the Daglish Family Foundation Visiting Artist Fund.

Special thanks to our Outreach Partner, the Prismatic Arts Festival.

Artist Paul Wong standing in front of his art installation FUll Moon Polygon

About The Artist(s)

Paul Wong is a pioneering artist known for his innovative work in visual and media art. With a career spanning over five decades, Wong has continuously pushed the boundaries of interdisciplinary storytelling, working outside mainstream conventions making art for site-specific spaces and screens of all sizes working in film, video, sound, photography, installation, printmaking, performance and writing. He is an award winning artist and curator and founder of several artist-run groups, and organizing events, festivals, conferences and public interventions since the 1970s. Wong has produced projects throughout North America, Europe and Asia. He is the Artistic Director of On Main Gallery and currently guest curating Enemy Alien: Tamio Wakayama Retrospective opening Oct 2025 Vancouver Art Gallery. He is currently the UBC AHVA Artist in Residency 2024/2025. Wong received the 2005 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Art, Best Canadian Film or Video at the 2008 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. 2016 Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Visual Arts. In 2023 he received the Outstanding Artist Award from the Federation of Gay Games, and an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Emily Car University of Art and Design (ECUAD). 2024 the Toronto Reel Asian Fire Horse Award.