The Audain Art Museum is a 56,000-square-foot private museum located in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, that houses the private art collection of Michael Audain.[1] Designed by Patkau Architects and opened to the public in 2016, it holds a comprehensive permanent collection of British Columbian art.[2]
The site is moderately forested with mature spruce and cedar trees.[3] In an effort to preserve the site's ecology only a single tree was removed during the initial phase of construction.[3] The design is intended to blend into the existing site. Its cladding "is an intentionally recessive colour—it recedes into the shadows, and that's our view of the appropriate relationship between it and the context".[3]
The museum's design was shaped by its function as a gallery, by the challenging site in the Fitzsimmons Creek floodplain which poses a flood risk, and the enormous amount of annual snowfall Whistler receives.[4]
First Nations War Canoes in Alert Bay by Emily Carr (1871–1945), in the museum collection
The Audain Art Museum displays a permanent collection of over 300 works of art from coastal British Columbia.[12] The works span from the 18th century to the modern era and present day, containing a collection of Northwest Coast First Nations masks, a collection of works encompassing all periods of Emily Carr's artistic career as well as art by important post-war modernists such as E.J. Hughes, Gordon Smith and Jack Shadbolt.[12] The collection also showcases art by internationally renowned contemporary British Columbia artists including Jeff Wall, Dana Claxton, Marianne Nicolson, Rodney Graham and Stan Douglas, among others.[12]
Accessibility
All public areas of the museum are wheelchair-accessible.[13]
Past exhibitions
Since its inception, the Audain Art Museum has hosted numerous temporary exhibitions, displaying a variety of artworks.[14]
January 21 – May 22, 2017Fred Herzog: Shadowlands.
March 9 – April 9, 2018Shawn Hunt: Transformation.
March 30 – June 11, 2018Beau Dick: Revolutionary Spirit.[15]
June 30 – September 17, 2018POP.
October 6 – January 28, 2019Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection.
February 16 – May 6, 2019Tales of an Empty Cabin: Somebody Nobody Was…
May 18 – August 26, 2019Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries.
September 21 – January 20, 2020Emily Carr: Fresh Seeing – French Modernism and the West Coast.[16]
February 8 – October 18, 2020The Extended Moment: Fifty Years of Collecting Photographs.
June 10 – September 6, 2021Itee Pootoogook: Hymns to the Silence.[17]
October 23, 2021 – February 21, 2022Riopelle: The Call of Northern Landscapes and Indigenous Cultures.[18]
April 2 – August 14, 2022Wolves: The Art of Dempsey Bob.[19]
September 17, 2022 - January 8, 2023Out of Control: The Concrete Art of Skateboarding
January 28 - May 15, 2023The Collectors' Cosmos: The Meakins-McClaran Print Collection
April 1 - June 11, 2023Svava Tegesen: Ornamental Cookery
June 24 - October 9, 2023 Manabu Ikeda: Flowers from the Wreckage
September 23, 2023 - January 29, 2024Karin Bubaš: Garden of Shadows
November 25, 2023 - May 6, 2024Gathie Falk: Revelations
April 21 - September 9, 2024Otherwise Disregard - Capture Photography Festival
June 29 - October 14, 2024Tom Thomson: North Star
October 4, 2024 - January 27, 2025Russna Kaur: Pierced into the air, the temper and secrets crept in with a cry!
November 23, 2024 - May 5, 2025Curve! Women Carvers on the Northwest Coast
April 27 - September 15, 2025The Coast Mountains: Recent Works by Edward Burtynsky
Governance
The Audain Art Museum is incorporated under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act, effective October 4, 2012, and is a Registered Charity.[20] The Museum's Board of Trustees serves as its governing body.[20]
↑ Riopelle, Jean Paul; Roy, Adrienne; Des Rochers, Jacques; Riopelleurl, Yseult. Roy, A. et al. (2020). Riopelle: The Call of Northern Landscapes and Indigenous Cultures. Milan: 5 Continents. OCLC1237696718.
↑ Bob, Dempsy; Milroy, Sarah (2022). Milroy, S. (ed.) Dempsey Bob: In His Own Voice. Vancouver: Figure 1. Audain Art Museum, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Kelowna Art Gallery. Figure 1. OCLC1291402823.
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