Karen Zalamea: Every Surface Is a Shrine
March 7 – May 24, 2026
Karen Zalamea: Every Surface Is a Shrine
The Gallery at Evergreen Arts is pleased to present Every Surface Is a Shrine, which brings together a selection of photo-based works by Karen Zalamea that traces the shifting boundaries between material, memory and place. Rooted in a critical exploration of photography’s expanded possibilities, Zalamea’s practice reimagines the medium not only as an image-making tool but as a methodology of care, labour and cultural inquiry.
Images: Installation view of Karen Zalamea: Every Surface Is a Shrine, exhibition at The Gallery at Evergreen Arts, 2026. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.
This exhibition is part of the 2026 Capture Photography Festival Selected Exhibition Program.
About The Artist
Karen Zalamea is a visual artist whose photographic practice critically considers the medium’s methodologies and materials to attend to issues of memory, inheritance, place and identity.
She is the recipient of the 2025 Barbara Spohr Memorial Award for Photography from the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Alberta, and the 2023 Prefix Prize from the Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions and as public art projects across Canada and internationally. Zalamea holds an MFA from Concordia University, Montreal, and a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver.
She was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada, by immigrant parents from the Philippines, and now resides in Burnaby, on the ancestral and unceded homelands of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples.
The artist acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the BC Arts Council.
We acknowledge that Evergreen Cultural Centre Society operates on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem First Nation). We thank the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm who continue to live on these lands and care for them, along with the waters and all that is above and below.
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We acknowledge that Evergreen Cultural Centre Society operates on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem First Nation). We thank the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm who continue to live on these lands and care for them, along with the waters and all that is above and below.
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Wednesdays 12 – 5pm
Thursdays + Fridays 12 – 6pm
Saturdays + Sundays 12 – 5p
Evergreen Arts
Monday – Saturday | 12 – 5pm
1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam BC, V3B 7Y3
The Gallery at Evergreen Arts
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Thursdays + Fridays 12 – 6pm
Saturdays + Sundays 12 – 5p
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We acknowledge that Evergreen Cultural Centre Society operates on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem First Nation). We thank the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm who continue to live on these lands and care for them, along with the waters and all that is above and below.
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Thursdays + Fridays 12 – 6pm
Saturdays + Sundays 12 – 5p
Evergreen Arts
Monday – Saturday | 12 – 5pm
1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam BC, V3B 7Y3
The Gallery at Evergreen Arts
Wednesdays 12 – 5pm
Thursdays + Fridays 12 – 6pm
Saturdays + Sundays 12 – 5p
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