Aaron Carpenter (born 1975) is a Canadian visual artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia noted for his interest in language, [1] representation, replication, and authorship. [2] Carpenter's work has come to prominence through a series of exhibitions and projects at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Lawrence Eng Gallery, Helen Pitt Gallery, Ministry of Casual Living, Artspeak, Or Gallery, Paul Petro Special Projects Space, Dalhousie Art Gallery, and Neon Gallery. He was also previously involved as a curator at the Bodgers' and Kludgers' Co-operative Art Parlour Website
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Germaine Koh is a Malaysian-born and Canadian conceptual artist based in Vancouver. Her works incorporate the artistic styles of neo-conceptual art, minimalism, and environmental art, and is concerned with the significance of everyday actions, familiar objects and common places.
Marian Penner Bancroft is a Canadian artist and photographer based in Vancouver. She is an associate professor at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, where she has been teaching since 1981. She has previously also taught at Simon Fraser University and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She is a member of the board of Artspeak Gallery and is represented in Vancouver by the Republic Gallery.
The grunt gallery is a Canadian artist-run centre, founded in 1984 and located in Vancouver, British Columbia. They show work by both indigenous and non-indigenous artists.
Karin Bubaš is a contemporary Canadian artist known for her work in various media including photography, painting, and drawing.
Marina Roy is a visual artist, educator and writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Lorna Brown is a Canadian artist, curator and writer. Her work focuses on public space, social phenomena such as boredom, and institutional structures and systems.
Valérie Blass is a Canadian artist working primarily in sculpture. She lives and works in her hometown of Montreal, Quebec, and is represented by Catriona Jeffries, in Vancouver. She received both her Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts, specializing in visual and media arts, from the Université du Québec à Montréal. She employs a variety of sculptural techniques, including casting, carving, moulding, and bricolage to create strange and playful arrangements of both found and constructed objects.
Divya Mehra is a Canadian artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Known for her meticulous attention to the interaction of form, medium and site, Mehra's work deals with her diasporic experiences and historical narratives. She incorporates found artifacts and readymade objects as active signifiers of resistance or as reminders of the difficult realities of displacement, loss, neutrality and oppression.
Laiwan is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator and educator based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her wide-ranging practice is based in poetics and philosophy.
Helga Pakasaar is a contemporary art curator and writer based in Vancouver, Canada. She has worked as curator at Polygon Gallery since 2003 and is now the Audain Chief Curator of Polygon. She has also curated exhibitions for Griffin Art Projects in North Vancouver and previously worked as a curator at the Art Gallery of Windsor and the Walter Phillips Gallery.
Arabella Campbell is a Canadian artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia in 1996, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2002. She attended the San Francisco Art Institute from 1998 to 2000. She is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery and has exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally. She works out of a warehouse studio in False Creek Flats, Vancouver.
Julia Feyrer is a Canadian visual artist, performer, and writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Isabelle Pauwels is a Vancouver-based artist who works primarily in video-based art. Pauwels received a BFA from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and obtained an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. Pauwels' work explores narrative structures, forms of storytelling and how they shape moral and emotional experiences. The narrative in her work does not follow causality; instead it performs in a twisting loop that circles around itself.
Kathy Slade (1966) is a Canadian artist, author, curator, editor, and publisher born in Montreal, Quebec, and based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is currently a Term Lecturer at Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts.
Sara Mameni is Assistant Professor at University of California, Berkeley.
Jennifer Weih is a Canadian artist and educator based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She currently teaches at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Weih received her BFA from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design and her MFA from the University of British Columbia. She works in installation, objects, video, and print. Her projects include a range of aesthetics including found, manufactured, or crafted materials. She is part of the production team at Other Sights for Artists' Projects. Weih was a programmer for VIVO Media Arts Centre, which she initiated community oriented projects, and founded Signal and Noise Media Art Festival.
Elizabeth MacKenzie is a Canadian artist based in Vancouver known for her drawing, installation and video since the early eighties. MacKenzie uses drawing to explore the productive aspects of uncertainty through the use of repetition, interrogations of portraiture and considerations of intersubjective experience. Her work has been characterized by an interest in maternal ambivalence, monstrous bodies, interrogations of portraiture and considerations of the complexity of familial and other interpersonal relations.
Melanie O'Brian is a Canadian curator of contemporary art based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She was Director and Curator of Simon Fraser University Art Galleries, including Audain, Teck, and SFU gallery from 2012-2020. O’Brian was Assistant Curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2001-2004). O'Brian has taught at Emily Carr University, Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. O’Brian received her MA in Art History at the University of Chicago, Chicago IL, and her BA in Art History from Reed College, Portland, Oregon.
Elspeth Pratt is a Canadian contemporary artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Pratt is best known for her colorful sculptures using "poor" materials such as cardboard, polystyrene, balsa wood and vinyl, and for her interest in leisure and consumerism in domestic and public spaces. Her use of humble, crude, unusual materials has sometimes been compared to the Arte Povera movement.
Denise Ryner is a Canadian curator and writer. She is director and curator at Or Gallery, Vancouver. Ryner has worked as an independent curator, writer and educator at several galleries, artist-run centers and institutions, in Toronto, Vancouver and Berlin. Ryner has contributed to publications like FUSE magazine and Canadian Art magazine.
