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.
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.
Jamelie Hassan is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist, lecturer, writer and independent curator.
Laiwan is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator and educator based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her wide-ranging practice is based in poetics and philosophy.
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 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.
Sylvia Grace Borda is a Canadian artist working in photography, video and emergent technologies. Borda has worked as a curator, a lecturer, a multimedia framework architect with a specialization in content arrangement (GUI) and production. Born and raised in Vancouver, Borda is currently based in Vancouver, Helsinki, and Scotland. Her work has been exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally.
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.
Elizabeth Zvonar is a Canadian contemporary artist that works primarily with mixed-media collage and sculpture based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is currently represented by Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Tarah Hogue is a Canadian writer and curator, known for her work with indigenous art. Hogue is of Métis/French Canadian and Dutch ancestry and she resides in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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 Curator/Head of Programs at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery 2011-12, Director/Curator of Artspeak 2004-10 and 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.
Cecily Nicholson is a Canadian poet, arts administrator, independent curator, and activist. Originally from Ontario, she is now based in British Columbia. As a writer and a poet, Nicholson has published collections of poetry, contributed to collected literary works, presented public lectures and readings, and collaborated with numerous community organizations. As an arts administrator, she has worked at the Surrey Art Gallery in Surrey, British Columbia, and the artist-run centre Gallery Gachet in Vancouver.
T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss is a Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō, Kanaka Maoli (Hawaii'an), Irish-Métis, and Swiss multi-media artist, ethnobotanist, independent curator, educator, and activist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. T’uy’t’tanat is Wyss's ancestral name, which means “woman who travels by canoe to gather medicines for all people.” Wyss's interdisciplinary practice encompasses aspects of visual art, fiber arts, ethnobotany, storytelling, and community education, among other interdisciplinary approaches, and she has been working with new media, performance, and interdisciplinary arts for more than 30 years. As a Coast Salish weaver, Wyss works with wool and cedar and uses indigenous plants in the dyeing process. Wyss also engages with beekeeping and gardening practices as part of community-led initiatives and as a way to explore aspects of land remediation - the ability of plants to remediate soil that has been contaminated with colonial toxins.
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.
Ron Benner is an internationally recognized Canadian artist whose longstanding practice investigates the history and political economics of food cultures. He is also a gardener and writer who currently lives and works in London, Ontario.
