06/02/2026
Proof 32, featuring the work of Zaynab Ghaïs-Mortada, Tommy Keith, Dion Smith-Dokkie, Parumveer Walia and Long Xi Vlessing, opens in the Main Gallery from June 5 — July 4, 2026.
Artist Walkthrough: Friday, June 5, 5:00 — 6:00PM
Opening Reception: Friday, June 5, 6:00 — 8:00PM
Proof is Gallery 44’s annual group exhibition of work by emerging Canadian artists, reflecting a range of current concerns and practices in contemporary photography and lens-based media. Proof is often one of the first exhibitions in a professional context for an emerging artist. Past exhibitions have featured work by Kotama Bouabane, Leila Fatemi, Isabelle Hayeur, Anique Jordan, Laurie Kang, Germaine Koh, Luther Konadu, Meryl McMaster, Karice Mitchell, Elise Rasmussen, Michaëlle Sergile and Althea Thauberger.
For more information, visit the link in our bio to read A Test’s Procession, an exhibition essay by guest writer Benjamin de Boer. Designed by Mubashir Baweja.
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Dion Smith-Dokkie’s work oscillates around intermedia image practice, post-representational cartography, translation and morphology as a practice of escapist, sentimental formalism.
Long Xi Vlessing’s evolving practice centres diaristic photography in exploring intimacy and the lived-in body, the shared humanity of strangers, and quotidian scenes as sites of personal and collective transformation.
Parumveer Walia is an artist whose practice extends image-making into video, installation, and object-based forms, drawing on expanded media and q***r aesthetics.
Tommy Keith photographs people and places close to where he lives, and often returns to the same areas over extended periods of time.
Zaynab Ghaïs-Mortada is a self-taught artist who works primarily with photographic objects and has led research on gendered Islamophobia and epistemic violence in Québec.
