Reshaping Collections: Where History Meets Art | Chinese Canadian Museum

Vancouver, BC (September 4, 2024) – The Chinese Canadian Museum is launching a brand new exhibition inside the Poy Family Gallery titled Reshaping Collections: Where History Meets Art from September 25, 2024 to September 28, 2025, featuring unique art creations by six diverse Chinese Canadian artists from across the country. These artists were invited to reinterpret historical and cultural objects and materials that explore the Canadian identity from the renowned Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection at the University of British Columbia (UBC).

In Reshaping Collections, the museum commissioned six featured artists, Morris Lum, Karen Tam, Howie Tsui, Chih-Chien Wang, Janet Wang, and Stella Zheng, to create various forms of art and visual media, equipping them with the latest portable 3D scanning technology to research and replicate select objects from the more than 25,000 rare and unique historical items from the Chung Collection at UBC Rare Books and Special Collections.