Enemy Alien: Tamio Wakayama
October 3, 2025–February 22, 2026
Tamio Wakayama, March on Washington to Protest the War in Vietnam, Washington, D.C., April 17, 1965, 1965, silver gelatin print, Estate of Tamio Wakayama
Enemy Alien is the first major solo exhibition and retrospective of works by documentary photographer Tamio Wakayama.
His career, spanning over fifty years, began with his photographs of the Civil Rights Movement in the southern United States. Wakayama documented many of the social justice movements and countercultures of the 1960s and 70s. His work tells stories of community, joy and resistance in the face of injustice. The exhibition also highlights Wakayama’s documentation of Indigenous communities in Saskatchewan and the Doukhobors of eastern BC.
The exhibition culminates with Wakayama’s activism and work organizing and documenting the Redress movement for Japanese Canadians and his deep connections to Vancouver.
Enemy Alien: Tamio Wakayama will be accompanied by an exhibition catalogue featuring Wakayama’s unpublished memoir Soul on Rice.