This month, our spotlights center on place: what happens when grassroots creative spaces disappear, how public art transforms an everyday commute, and how architecture can create a sense of belonging.
Here is a closer look at three Format members presenting work in the physical world this October, and how they share their practices online.
Maya Fuhr Joins Scenes That Steal Themselves in Vancouver
Victoria-born, Los Angeles-based multimedia artist Maya Fuhr works across photography, direction, and installation to examine iconography and consumer culture through the construction of identity. Whether building white-cube installations or shooting playful campaigns, her layered imagery oscillates with the tension between concealing and unveiling, inviting audiences to peel back each layer to explore what lingers beneath the surface.
This fall, Fuhr features in Scenes That Steal Themselves, on view through November 15 no Rio Grindhouse Gallery in Vancouver.
Curated by Graeme Berglund and produced by Tyshaya Smith, the exhibition marks the grand opening of the Rio Grindhouse Gallery. Bringing together work from 25 established and emerging artists across diverse disciplines, the show examines the erosion of Vancouver’s cultural infrastructure and honors the independent spaces that have shaped the city’s creative community.
To share her work online, Fuhr uses Format’s Horizon Left theme, utilizing its sleek left-hand menu and horizontal scrolling flow to let visitors move through her photography with clear captions and plenty of context.
Jason Zante at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport
Toronto-based Filipino-Canadian artist Jason Zante works across digital and acrylic mediums, creating temporary and permanent mural installations, paintings, and digital illustrations. His work explores the emotional impact of nature, examining its role as a source of belonging, a sense of home, a call to action, a means of reconnection, and an escape from reality.
Starting this season, Zante’s work greets travelers and commuters as part of The Perspectives Public Art Program, running from Spring 2026 through Spring 2027.
Located in the pedestrian tunnel at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, the year-long civic project transforms the underground walkway into a vibrant celebration of the people, places, and stories that shape Toronto, placing large-scale public art directly into one of the city’s busiest transit hubs.
Zante presents his portfolio through the Horizon theme, which highlights his murals and illustrations in a full-view, horizontal scroll that preserves the scale of his public work without hiding the navigation.
Julie Beugin at Bildraum Studio in Vienna
Canadian artist Julie Beugin transforms photographs of Vienna’s courtyards and archways into collage and painting, exploring architecture, belonging, and her family’s history of exile. Born in Calgary and based in Berlin since 2009, Beugin begins her process in the street, taking photographs of ordinary architectural details: a portico, an overhang, a single step, or pink shadows falling across a wall.
Em November 26, Beugin opens her solo exhibition, A Wide Place Stranger, at Bildraum Studio, Brotfabrik Wien, in Vienna, running through December 18, 2026. Developed during her residency at the studio, it marks her first presentation in Austria and her first solo exhibition in Europe.
The work is rooted in a deeply personal history: in 2021, Beugin gained Austrian citizenship as restitution for her Jewish family’s exile from the city in 1939. During research trips and her residency, she focused on Vienna’s historic municipal housing complexes, where roughly 60 percent of residents live. These complexes are built around interior courtyards reached through large archways. As Beugin notes, these passages “connect residents with inhabitants of the greater city and create a porous flow of space between public and private.” For the show, she expands her collages into wall-sized installations that activate the gallery as visitors move through the space.
To take a closer look at her creative process and the ideas shaping her residency, read our full visual essay.
Beugin uses the Offset theme for her website, relying on its classic slideshow layout to present her layered collages and paintings with clarity, one work at a time.
Por que esses portfólios são importantes
There is an inherent impermanence to sharing work in the physical world. A gallery exhibition eventually comes down, a residency draws to a close, and a public installation makes way for the next season.
A portfolio acts as that permanent home, giving people a place to watch your story unfold. When someone encounters an installation in a tunnel or a gallery abroad, they’re only catching a single snapshot in time. A portfolio ensures they aren’t limited to just the now. It connects that moment to the years of work that built it, and keeps the door open for whatever comes next.
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