FOFA's Annual Undergraduate Student Exhibition (USE 2026)
grieving reveries
January 12 – February 20, 2026
The annual Undergraduate Student Exhibition (USE) is an interdepartmental undertaking that celebrates the talents of numerous creatives: visual artists, writers, designers and contemporary dancers.
Featuring the works of twelve artists, this year the exhibition honors and tends to the processes of transformation, dreaming, and grieving, as we reflect on our collective or individual losses and confabulations.
Artists
About the exhibition
Bringing together diverse practices and expressions, the collection of works that constitute grieving reveries reflects our current times through personal and courageous storytelling. Spanning sculptures, drawings, paintings, and textiles, these works are manifestations of the desire to care for the voids left after a loss, whether that of a loved one, our past selves, or collective and societal dreams. More than considering loss as void, this grieving space becomes a vessel for renewed love.
- María Andreína Escalona De Abreu, curator
Acknowledgements
The FOFA Gallery Team:
Gwynne Fulton, Gallery Administrator
María Andreína Escalona De Abreu, Current Exhibition Coordinator
Pierina Corzo-Valero, Communications Coordinator
Josh Jensen, Co-curator of Sustainability and Technician
Joé Côté-Rancourt, Co-curator of Sustainability and Technician
Clara-Jane Rioux Fiset, Assistant Technician of Sustainability
Philip Kitt, Technician
Adam Mbowe, Black Arts Series Coordinator
Call for artists jury: María Andreína Escalona De Abreu (Exhibition Coordinator) and Gwynne Fulton (Gallery Director) from the FOFA Gallery; Salma Chouqair (Programming Coordinator) and Gabriel Makinde (Financial and Administrative Coordinator) from the VAV Gallery; and Tess Larsen (CUJAH editor).
Call for writers jury: María Andreína Escalona De Abreu, Pierina Corzo-Valero from the FOFA Gallery; Sam Tréville (CUJAH's Editor-in-Chief); and Alexia Paz Escobar (VAV Gallery's Technical Coordinator).
Collaborators:
Kevin Yuen-Kit Lo, assistant professor in the Department of Computation Arts
Arrien Weeks, Modular Plinth project lead
The 2026 Undergraduate Student Exhibition was made possible through the support of:
