Introducing the 2026-2027 Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellows

Evan Lee

Host Department: English

Evan Lee is a visual artist based in Vancouver. Lee graduated with an MFA from the University of British Columbia in 2000 and is known for exhibitions of his experimental photography and painting, and also for working across a range of media and subjects, as well as teaching and writing.

Lee has exhibited in numerous museums and institutions including the Presentation House Gallery (now Polygon Gallery), Vancouver Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Windsor, the Contemporary Art Gallery, the Surrey Art Gallery, the Richmond Art Gallery, the Confederation Centre for the Arts, the Liu Hai Su Art Museum and at the Winnipeg Art Gallery as a Sobey Art Award Finalist in 2014.

Lee’s work has been published in Artforum, Frieze, Canadian Art Magazine, Art on Paper, Border Crossings, Flash Art, Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art and is represented by Monte Clark Gallery. Upcoming projects include an artist book with author Kevin Chong to be published by Figure1 Publishing, and a solo exhibition at the West Vancouver Museum in 2027.

Evan's term as a Shadbolt Fellow runs from September 2026 to May 2027.

Fiorella Pinillos

Host Department: Urban Studies

Fiorella Pinillos (she/her) is a Peruvian-Canadian urbanist, curator, and community engagement specialist with a Master’s in Urban Studies and a Bachelor’s in Architecture. She spent five formative years as a Program Coordinator in SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement before co-founding La Libélula Latin American Arts Cooperative and City in Colour Urban Consultancy Cooperative. Her work brings together urbanism, arts, and community-based research to amplify marginalized voices and contribute to more inclusive and equitable cities. She collaborates with communities often excluded from planning and cultural processes, using creative methods to make their experiences visible and accessible to wider audiences.

Through La Libélula, Fiorella explores themes of migration, belonging, and identity within Vancouver’s Latin American community, creating spaces for women, youth, and newcomers to connect, reflect, and express their experiences through art. Through City in Colour, she applies these community-centred approaches to broader social issues, including refugee housing precarity in the Lower Mainland.

During her fellowship, Fiorella will work on a project titled Places of Significance. This project documents and maps culturally and historically meaningful sites of the Latin American community in the Lower Mainland. Combining oral histories, storytelling, and visual arts, the project creates a cultural archive that preserves collective memory and highlights underrecognized community spaces.

Fiorella's term as a Shadbolt Fellow runs from January to August 2027.

Kevin Chong

Host Department: English

Kevin Chong (he/him) is the author of eight books of fiction and nonfiction, including his forthcoming novel, Yorick Yip Meets the Local God. His novel, The Double Life of Benson Yu, was a finalist for the 2023 Giller Prize, and he has published widely as a journalist.

Chong is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus and he lives with his family in Vancouver.

Kevin's term as a Shadbolt Fellow runs from September 2026 to May 2027.

Nathan Crompton

Host Department: History

Nathan Crompton (he/him) is a writer and community organizer based in Vancouver, Canada, where he edits The Mainlander and works for the Our Homes Can’t Wait (OHCW) and the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU).

He recently completed a PhD in French history at Simon Fraser University. Nathan is a building organizer with the Vancouver Tenants Union.

Nathan's term as a Shadbolt Fellow runs from January 2027 to August 2027.

Pamela Post

Host Department: Indigenous Studies

Pamela Post (Ggol’gm Hana’ack) (she/they) is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, filmmaker and educator based in Vancouver in beautiful Coast Salish territory. She is Ts’msyen and German-Canadian, well-known as a longtime CBC news reporter/documentarian and university journalism teacher. Pamela has won major awards and fellowships for her often social-justice-themed CBC reporting. She has strong connections to her family’s traditional village of Kitsumkalum, where she worked in 2019 with Ts’msyen youth at the K-12 band school on a podcast/short film project on 2SLGTBQ+ themes, and strong family ties to Tsimshian villages in Alaska. She is a Sm’algyax learner and beginner speaker of the language her Ts’msyen grandmother spoke fluently.

Her short, stop motion animated film Haboolm Ksinaalgat SOUL CATCHER (based on a true story from her Ts’msyen father’s childhood on the Skeena River) co-directed with Métis filmmaker Amanda Strong, makes its world premiere at TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) in September, 2026. Pamela’s next story project is Silver Beads on Silken Thread, based on her Ts’msyen aunt’s diaries written from her sick bed in a TB sanatorium. Pamela was given the name Ggol’gm Hana’ack (Cloudberry Woman) in a 2023 traditional naming ceremony by the Tsimshian Tribal Association in Ketchikan, Alaska.

Pamela's term as a Shadbolt Fellow runs from September 2026 to December 2026.

Tarique Qayumi

Host Department: English

Tarique Qayumi (he/him) is an award-winning Afghan-Canadian filmmaker whose work explores resilience, displacement, family, and the search for identity and belongingness amid political and personal upheaval. His dramatic escape from Afghanistan, hidden in the back of a truck with his mother, inspired him to become a storyteller.

A graduate of UCLA’s MFA program, Qayumi has directed for television, including CBC’s Allegiance through the Warner Access x Academy Directing Program. His second feature, Black Kite, a historical drama blending animation, documentary, and live action, premiered at TIFF, screened at more than 20 festivals, and won three Leo Awards for Best Writer, Best Direction, and Best Picture before being acquired by Amazon Studios. His third feature, Conceiving Clara, premiered at the Canadian Film Festival.

His projects have received support from Telefilm Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts, the BC Arts Council, and CBC. He serves on the Directors Advisory Board of DGC-BC, has mentored emerging screenwriters at the Whistler Film Festival, and has served as a jury member for VIFF’s Arbutus Award.

Tarique's term as a Shadbolt Fellow runs from September 2026 to May 2027.