Matthew Ballantyne (Canadian, b. 1984) is an artist, poet and lapsed ironist. His work is preoccupied with birds despite their disinterest in him. For Ballantyne’s online project, visit https://belkin.ubc.ca/matthew-ballantyne/

Alejandro A. Barbosa (they/he) is an HIV- queer latinx visual artist born in Argentina who lives and works on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples—the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations—in what is known as Canada. Alejandro’s art practice focuses on lens-based media and revolves around questions on the politics of looking, the political implications of space exploration discourse, the flaws of representation, and queer lived experience. They hold an MFA in visual art from the University of British Columbia, and a BFA in photography from Concordia University. Alejandro’s work has been exhibited and collected in Argentina, Canada, Peru, and the United States.

Rosamunde Bordo (Canadian, b. 1991) is an interdisciplinary artist invested in exploring narrative possibilities through collections of objects and images, appropriated/ready-made texts, and a practice of creative writing. Bordo is the recipient of numerous awards including the Audain Travel Award and the B.C. Binning Memorial Fellowship. She has participated in artist residencies in Canada and Europe and is cofounder of everydaystollen, an experimental podcast series. She is currently based on the traditional unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, known as Vancouver. For Bordo’s online project, visit https://belkin.ubc.ca/rosamunde-bordo/

Sam Kinsley (Canadian, b. 1982) is an interdisciplinary artist of settler ancestry currently living and learning on the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Kinsley uses attentive repetition of chosen actions to investigate the implications of the habits and tendencies that her body takes up.  The practice of repetition and re-acting allows her openings to question what is considered “natural” or “given,” and opportunities to re-orient.  Kinsley is cofounder of an experimental podcast series everydaystollen.She has participated in artist residencies and has exhibited in galleries across Canada. For Kinsley’s online project, visit https://belkin.ubc.ca/sam-kinsley/

Nazanin Oghanian (Iranian, b. 1990) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice unfolds from critical reflection around notions of the body, identity, gender, memory, politics and the establishment of a constant dialectic between the individual and the social. She earned a BFA in Sculpture from the University of Tehran in 2013 with her graduation project Fingerprint, a body of work that was awarded the first prize of The 7^th Selection of New Generation by Homa Gallery. Oghanian’s work has been shown in several galleries in different cities in Iran, and since arriving in Canada she has shown her work at the AHVA Gallery and Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden. For Oghanian’s online project, visit https://belkin.ubc.ca/nazanin-oghanian/

Jay Pahre (American, b. 1991) is a queer and trans settler artist, writer, and cultural worker currently based on the unceded territories of the of Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Weaving between drawing, sculpture and writing, his work queries trans and queer nonhuman ecologies at points of intersection with the human. Originally from the midwestern US, Pahre has turned his work back toward the shifting ecologies of the Great Lakes and Great Plains regions. He received his BFA in painting and BA in East Asian studies in 2014, and his MA in East Asian studies from the University of Illinois in 2017. He went on to complete his MFA in visual art at the University of British Columbia in 2020. His work has been exhibited across the US and Canada. He was selected for the Transgender Studies Chair Fellowship at the University of Victoria (2020), as well as the Helen Belkin Memorial Scholarship (2020) and Fred Herzog Award in Visual Art (2019) at the University of British Columbia.