2026 Installations

Lumen 2026 Installations

Large installation of horizontal red light strips in a gallery, viewed by several visitors.

Bring Your Friends

Sebastian Bevelander
Abstract green wireframe form made of overlapping looping lines against a black background.

Chatter 'o' Scope

Valeriya Naboikina & Igor de Bagneux
Minimal abstract image of a blue gradient square centred on a pale yellow background.

Chromatic Dialogue

atelier Brume
DJ performing under a tent overlooking a busy outdoor festival filled with colourful illuminated installations.

Dance The Night Away

DJ King Kadeem, DJ NiteMare, & DJ DIVAA
Two visitors interacting with a small device on a pedestal while a yellow waveform-like projection stretches across the wall behind them.

Empreintes Sonores

Victor Drouin-Trempe & Jean-Philippe Côté
Bright white light shining through optical lenses and transparent panels, creating blue and purple lens flares in a dark space.

Engineering Uptown Lab

University of Waterloo - Engineering Outreach
Festival visitors gathered around a brightly lit coffee trailer, with apartment buildings glowing pink in the background.

Food Truck Hub

People gathered around a busy art-making table covered with colourful pipe cleaners, feathers, scissors, markers and other craft supplies.

Glowing Mask Craft

Button Factory Arts Centre
Child leaning over a black light, their nails painted and glowing, while bathed in blue and purple light

Glow in the Dark Nails

LUXE Nail Bar
Festival attendees wearing and playing with colourful glowing accessories under blue and red light.

Glow in the Dark Tattoos

actOUT! KW
Close-up of overlapping fluorescent light sticks glowing in pink, green, blue and yellow.

Glow Up

Create Waterloo
Two smiling people pose behind a large gold pretzel-shaped sculpture covered in warm white lights at night.

GOLDEN PRETZEL

Esther Slevinsky
Historic William Street Pumping Station, a yellow-brick industrial building with tall arched windows and a large brick chimney, surrounded by grass and trees beneath a cloudy sky.

Imagine the Future

City of Waterloo
Festival visitors, including children, standing on an interactive illuminated floor made of glowing red, blue and green panels.

Infinity Dance Floor

Create Waterloo
Abstract projected artwork in layered blue, white, yellow and black, creating a fluid, distorted architectural image.

Inflow Polyphony

Germaine Liu, Meghan Cheng, Mark Zurawinsk
People creating glowing paper lanterns at a festival activity table illuminated with bright green and pink light.

Lantern Making

Create Waterloo
Nighttime projection artwork on a modern building, with clusters of white dots and a large black-and-white portrait projected across the façade.

Light Science

Perimeter Institute
Lion dancers performing for a large outdoor crowd at night, surrounded by illuminated public art and buildings.

Lion Dancers

Chinese Lion Dancers of Waterloo
Audience members silhouetted in front of a large colourful projection during a live electronic music performance.

Live Electronic Music

Waveform Collective
Festival visitors inside a dark wooden structure lit in red and purple, with surreal eye projections displayed above and behind the crowd.

MEGAMOJI

DarkRooms - Jonah Kamphorst and Jackie Levitt
People standing and talking inside a blue-lit gallery space, while another person reclines on a dark floor installation beneath soft projected light.

Mind Mirror

Eden Schwinghamer
Colourful illuminated geometric sculpture glowing pink, blue and green among trees in a snowy park at night.

Moment

Melissa Joakim
Green and yellow neon artwork depicting riders on horseback, with blue illuminated text across the lower centre.

Neon Canada: The Art of Electrified Glass

The Canadian Clay and Glass Art Gallery
Glowing neon-style words and letters in green, pink, blue and yellow arranged vertically against a black background.

Neon-Inspired Photocards

The Canadian Clay and Glass Art Gallery
Two enormous illuminated sculptures of blue human eyes against a black night sky, with a person silhouetted running in front of them.

OCULUCIS

Hermes Mangialardo
Stylized archival-looking image of people outdoors with several brightly coloured animal-like figures in the foreground.

Phantom Monuments of Waterloo

Paige Smith
Colourful digital artwork featuring glowing pink, blue and teal plant-like forms suspended against a black background.

PHARMAKON

Sabrina Ratté, presented by Ed Video Media Arts Centre
Interactive light and sound installation in a city square, with children and adults exploring large illuminated sculptural structures.

Plenum

Wireframe Studio, in collaboration with Audiotopie
Row of tall vertical light columns glowing purple and white beside a pond, with illuminated high-rise buildings in the background at dusk.

Polyrhythmic Illuminations

Gary Kirkham with Rob Gorbet, Matilda Pawlega and Shaan Sawrup
Festival visitors gathered around an illuminated interactive display, with a screen of glowing blue dots behind them.

Quantum Quest

Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo
Three translucent coloured rulers standing upright on a pink-lit surface, casting long dark shadows.

Science of Shadows Studio

University of Waterloo - Science Outreach
Outdoor light installation resembling a field of glowing golden reeds winding through a wooded area at night.

Switch/Grass

Treehouse Collective
Large outdoor sculptural installation made of intricate rust-coloured cut metal forms suspended from a black framework against a warm sky.

Terra Precarium

Garret Gilbart
Two people view a large angular metallic artwork with dark reflective panels inside a gallery.

The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery Exhibitions

The Canadian Clay and Glass Art Gallery
Abstract digital graphic of vertical glowing lines rising across a gradient from teal and blue to yellow and orange.

The Commons

Alex Maclean
Vintage wooden card catalogue with several drawers open to reveal glowing photographs, objects and papers, surrounded by books, ivy and a green desk lamp.

The Lost Library

Maddy Simpkins & Nancy Yee
Four-panel blue-toned abstract video image showing distorted and overlapping figures with raised arms.

The Machine Remembers You

Andrew O'Connor
Surreal symmetrical digital collage combining flowers, green organic textures and mirrored natural forms against a grassy waterfront background.

The Things That Hold Us

Janet Hinkle
Wall of stacked vintage television screens displaying close-up images of human eyes in blue and white.

TV Me!

Elysha Poirier & Ryan Mason
Performer outdoors wearing a sculptural costume made from translucent plastic bags and other discarded plastic materials.

Water Wishes

Pat the Dog Theatre Creation + Dust and Soul Dance
Black-and-white colouring page featuring Waterloo Park, with a large butterfly sculpture, bees, an arched garden entrance with flowers, a picnic table, trees, umbrellas and a flying goose. The words “Waterloo Park” appear across the top.

What's next for Waterloo Park?

City of Waterloo
Minimal snowy landscape beneath an overcast grey sky, with a thin dark horizon stretching across the image.

Winter

Sherri Hay, Presented by Student Art Innovation Lab (S.A.I.L.), University of Waterloo

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