Instant Karma
35th Anniversary Celebration & Fundraiser

Sonja Ahlers | Ellinor Brandenburg | Anthony Carr | Peter Christenson | Gloria Chung | David Crompton | Meganelizabeth Diamond | Shauna Doherty | Laura Dutton | Cormack Eacrett | Clint Enns | Lynda Gammon | Eric Gaucher | Emily Geen | Elisa Gonzalez | Internet Vernacular | Dave Johnson | Todd Lambeth | Jeffrey Langille | Jean-Paul Langlois | Christine Lucy Latimer | Dillon Lew’chuk | Janis Crystal Lipzin | Evan Locke | John Luna | Kegan McFadden | Mike Andrew McLean | Mirka Morales | Sasha Opeiko | pee-bee (Noah MacLeod) & Latina Penkova | Brandon Poole | Judith Price | Kathleen Rugh | Grace Salez | Rennie Taylor | Matt Trahan | Christine Walde | Paul Walde | Carrie Walker | Dina Yanni | Carollyne Yardley | Robert Youds

May 29 to June 20, 2026
Opening Friday, May 29 at 7pm, in the gallery and at deluge.ca

Deluge Contemporary Art
636 Yates St, Victoria BC Canada  |  deluge.ca
Wed to Sat 12 to 5pm

 

 

Please join us on May 29 for a late spring celebration of 35 years of media and visual art programming and the opening of Instant Karma, a fundraising exhibition informed by chance and imagination. 

Instant photography has been an important medium for artists since its introduction in the middle of the 20th century, through its near demise and resurrection in recent decades. As a link between project-based practice and a record of everyday life, it is a living image paralleling artistic process and labour—a format that requires adaptation, imagination, an embracement of chance and the unexpected. These qualities continue to inform the mandate and programming of Deluge and Antimatter, the artists and communities we serve.

Every instant photo is unique and irreproducible, a one-of-a-kind art object representing a singular time and place. What you see through the viewfinder is not always what you get, but whether decisive moment or impeccable accident, it is always unedited and unfiltered—the sanctity of the first draft versus the crafted illusion of digital or social media.

Featuring the instant photographs of 40+ artists, works in Instant Karma will be for sale in the gallery and online, with the website sales portal going live at 7pm on May 29 to coincide with the opening celebration at Deluge. All works are priced at $75 for single photos,, $100 and $125 for diptychs and triptychs respectively.

Funds raised will support our new initiative Little Skies: Moving Image Art for Youth, slated for this November.