Dec 17 – Jan 14, 2026
We’re pleased to welcome our first artist in residence of 2026 Deon Feng to SUM gallery, Dec 17 – Jan 14, 2026. Join us on Saturday, January 10 for a special SUM gallery Open House event, Service Surface.
Inspired by the artist’s personal experience working at a Chinese restaurant in Paris, Service Surface is the result of a month-long exploration into the tenuous negotiations between artistic creation and racialized service labour. Specifically, the residency examines “the Chinese restaurant” no longer as a backdrop in service, but as its own creative site of culture-making. Featuring artefacts of time theft on the job, ephemera from SUM gallery’s own surrounding restaurants, and photographs of the artist’s DIY bedroom-darkroom, this new body of work presents the messy metonymies between labour and art, service and surface. “Where should we go after the reception?”
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
冯棣盎 Deon Feng, (b.2002, “Vancouver”, BC) is an artist. They are accredited with a BA in Political Humanities from the Paris Institute for Political Studies (Sciences Po) and a BA in Visual Arts from UBC. Their work has been shown in solo projects at Artspeak Off-site and The Reach Gallery Museum in Abbotsford. Recent group exhibitions include Winterlong (People), Grad Ex (AHVA Gallery UBC), and Essential Pleasures New Happiness (Malaspina Howe Street Studios). Feng’s writing has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Cloud Lake Literary, and on CiTR 101.9FM, where they occasionally make playlists and sound experiments. Feng currently lives in Paris.
