This is an archived event from Culture Days 2025.
Images
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![A graphic on a yellow background shows a colourful painting at left that shows three Black women in the interior hall of a room interacting with one another, surrounded by household objects. A black dog in the foreground looks at the disembodied head of a woman on the ground. To the right, text reads "Bria Fernandes: things left unsaid, September 11 to October 31, 2025". Gallery 1C03 and University of Winnipeg logos appear along the bottom.]()
Image: Bria Fernandes, Ain’t Misbehavin’, 2024, oil and acrylic on canvas, 68” x 81”. Collection of The Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre, City of Medicine Hat.
Bria Fernandes: Things Left Unsaid
In-person
PaintingDate and time
This activity runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location
Gallery 1C03, The University of Winnipeg (Gallery 1C03 is located on the first floor of Centennial Hall at The University of Winnipeg)
515 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, MB
Access
Free.
Offered in English.
Wheelchair accessible and has gender-neutral washrooms.
About
From September 11 to October 31, 2025, Gallery 1C03 at the University of Winnipeg is hosting a free public exhibition featuring paintings by Bria Fernandes.
Winnipeg-based artist Bria Fernandes creates introspective paintings that explore her social, cultural, and personal experiences as a Black woman in Canada. By revisiting specific memories, Fernandes considers complex thoughts and feelings such as self-doubt, anxiety and displacement that emerge from the specificity of racialized and diasporic communities. Her large-scale tableaus are abundant with a cast of often expressionless figures tethered to one another and to symbolic objects and animals. The result are layered narratives that speak to the intricacies and intersections of individual and collective lived experiences within diasporic communities.
The exhibition is open weekdays from 12:00 to 4:00 pm. Closed statutory holidays.
Links
- Exhibition webpage uwinnipeg.ca
Organizer
Gallery 1C03
Gallery 1C03 is the campus art gallery of The University of Winnipeg. Our mission is to engage diverse communities through the development and presentation of contemporary and historical art exhibitions and related programming initiatives.