The Art Gallery of Ontario has posted an apology on social media after it says an artist included racist costumes in a performance featured at a recent fundraiser party.

In photos posted to Instagram, outfits sported at their Annual Massive Party on Thursday bore resemblance to traditional Asian rice hats as well as kimono-styled dresses.

According to the statement issued on the AGO’s Facebook and Instagram pages, the performance was intended to “play with stereotypes.”

“The artist’s performance included racist costumes that are deemed offensive to the East Asian community. The end result was that the costumes in the artist’s performance perpetuated negative stereotypes, regardless of the artist’s intent. This is not acceptable,” it read.

“We apologize unreservedly. We commit to doing better moving forward, working with artists and the artistic community to ensure that this doesn’t happen again.”