Exhibitions

  • No Single Dancer

    Western Front – June 17th,  2021 1:00 pm

    June 17 – July 31, 2021 Western Front Virtual installation by visual artist Anna Firth – June 17 Online writing workshop with Ma̱lidi Webb – June 22 Performance by Justine A. Chambers – June 25 Curated by Jasmine Hynes https://nosingledancer.com/ While visiting Vancouver from New York, the experimental choreographer Deborah...

  • ORUKO MI NI: REINTERPRETING IBEJI

    – June 26th,  2021 10:00 am

    June 26 – 27, 2021 Afropolis.org “Twins Talking to Twins” with Dr. Kole Ade Odutola – June 26 “Edunjobi” (Film Screening) & Q&A with Qudus Onikeku and Professor Ahmed Yerima – June 27 Curated by Oluwasayo Taiwo Olowo-Ake Full event information & registration here: https://www.orukominireinterpretingibeji.org/ Oruko mi ni, (My name...

  • Fata Morgana: MFA Graduate Exhibition

    Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – April 30th,  2021 10:00 am

    April 30–May 30, 2021 The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of work by the 2021 graduates of the University of British Columbia’s two-year Master of Fine Arts program: Sol Hashemi, Martin Katzoff, Natalie Purschwitz, Xan Shian, and Dion Smith-Dokkie. This program in the...

  • The Fold- Artist Talks

    – April 28th,  2021 4:00 pm

    Please join us online April 28–29 from 4:00 to 5:00 each day for The Fold artist talk series, where some of our graduating student artists will discuss their works in the exhibition as well as the media, materials, influences, and theoretical concerns attendant to their individual practices. April 28: Erinne...

  • The Fold: 2021 BFA/BA Visual Art Graduating Exhibition

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – April 20th,  2021 12:00 pm

    Opening celebration: Tuesday, April 20, 4:00 PM, via Zoom. Register here. Physical exhibition: AHVA Gallery and Room 1002 in the Audain Art Centre, UBC Virtual exhibition: https://the-fold-visa-undergraduate-final-show.webflow.io/ The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory is pleased to present The Fold, the 2021 University of British Columbia Bachelor of...

  • Radical (Re)worlding: 44th Annual AHVA Graduate Symposium Exhibition

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – March 17th,  2021 3:00 pm

    44th Annual University of British Columbia, Art History, Visual Art and Theory Graduate Symposium Exhibition Opening Radical (Re)worlding: Breaking and Making Worlds through Radical Lenses Wednesday, March 17, 2021 3 – 5 PM   AHVA Gallery Audain Art Centre 6398 University Blvd Exhibition runs March 17–April 1, 2021 Tuesday–Friday 12–4...

  • MIRADAS ALTERNAS Through Her Lens

    The Polygon – December 11th,  2020 10:00 am

    December 11 2020 – February 7, 2021 The Polygon Curated by Andrea Sanchez Ibarrola The exhibition Miradas Alternas explores alternative approaches to the photographic representation of violence in contemporary Mexico. It features photographs, video and printed material by women lens-based artists from Mexico: Juliana Alvarado, Alejandra Aragón, Koral Carballo, Mariceu Erthal and...

  • Thought, outside

    Western Front – November 12th,  2020 1:00 pm

    November 12, 2020 – January 30, 2021 Western Front Curated by Amy Kazymerchyk Thought, outside is composed with an eye to how each artwork thinks the phenomenon of the outside. This concept is variably expressed as the condition of being out-of-doors, beyond a geographic delineation, without legal recognition or unfamiliar...

  • Coordination Complex (diagram enclosed)

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – October 28th,  2020 12:00 pm

    Please join the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory (AHVA) at the AHVA Gallery, in the Audain Art Centre from October 28 -December 3, 2020 for the 2nd Year MFA exhibition Coordination Complex (diagram enclosed). Artists: Sol Hashemi, Martin Katzoff, Natalie Purschwitz, Xan...

  • one sentence too many, one word too few: MFA Graduate Exhibition

    Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – July 16th,  2020 6:00 pm

    July 17–August 16, 2020 Opening Reception: Thursday, July 16, 6:00-9:00 pm (by reservation only) The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of work by the 2020 graduates of the University of British Columbia’s two-year Master of Fine Arts program: Matthew Ballantyne, Alejandro A. Barbosa,...

  • Errance: 2020 BFA/BA Visual Art Graduating Exhibition

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – April 22nd,  2020 12:00 pm

    Errance: BFA/BA Visual Art Graduating Exhibition Opening reception: cancelled Audain Art Centre 6398 University Boulevard Vancouver, BC The physical exhibition has been cancelled for the health and safety of our community, but you can learn more about the work of this year’s talented graduates by following us on Instagram (@ubcundergradshow2020)...

  • CLOSED: Decadence: Flows of Abundance and Decay

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – March 5th,  2020

    The exhibition is closed. Please see our department COVID-19 update for further details. The AHVA graduate symposium and its concurrent exhibition is a collaborative, interdisciplinary event, organized by current AHVA graduate students. In line with the University’s mandate our programming is aimed at creating a rich academic environment and fostering...

  • Visual Art Undergraduate Exhibition 2020

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – January 29th,  2020 5:00 pm

    Please join the University of British Columbia (UBC) Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory (AHVA) at the AHVA Gallery, in the Audain Art Centre on Wednesday, January 29 at 5 p.m. for the opening reception of the Visual Art Undergraduate Exhibition 2020 — an exhibition of recent works...

  • Situation X

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – November 14th,  2019 12:00 pm

    Please join the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory (AHVA) at the AHVA Gallery, in the Audain Art Centre on Thursday, November 21 at 5 p.m. for the opening reception and a musical performance for the Situation X exhibition. Situation X emerged out...

  • Morale Ambiguity

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – October 16th,  2019

    In a moment of political, ecological, and social disquiet, Morale Ambiguity speaks to the precarity of making art in uncertain times. The exhibition brings together the diverse practices and process-based research of second year MFA candidates at the University of British Columbia. Artists: Sam Kinsley, Alejandro A. Barbosa, Julian Pahre,...

  • A Seat Next to the Ceiling

    Frederic Wood Theatre – October 11th,  2019 7:00 pm

    Dana Claxton, Mark Clintberg, Karen Kraven, Alvin Lucier, Arnaud Maggs, Althea Thauberger, and John Watt October 11, 2019 Exhibition beings at 7:00 PM (Doors open at 6:30 PM) Curated by Gregory Elgstrand DK, Production Manager Peter Brook is right when he says, we find Shakespeare “excruciatingly boring.” But not in the writing, rather...

  • AHVA Visual Art Faculty Exhibition

    Audain Art Center Rm 1001 – September 18th,  2019 5:00 pm

    Please join the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory (AHVA) at the AHVA Gallery, in the Audain Art Centre on Wednesday, September 18 at 5 p.m. for the opening reception of the AHVA Faculty Exhibition 2019/20. Thirteen current faculty members and visiting artists...

  • …we can know more than we can tell…

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – June 1st,  2019 2:00 pm

    Exhibition dates: June 1 to 6, 2019 Opening reception: June 1, 4 to 6 p.m. Artist talks: June 1, 2 to 4 p.m. – Contemporary Art Gallery & Other Sights for Artists’ Projects June 4, 2 to 4 p.m. – Capture Photography Festival & VIVO Media Arts AHVA Gallery hours: Monday to Thursday,...

  • Shores: MFA Graduate Exhibition

    Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – May 2nd,  2019 6:00 pm

    May 3–June 9, 2019 Opening Reception: Thursday, May 2, 6:00-9:00 pm The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present Shores, an exhibition of work by the 2019 graduates of the University of British Columbia’s two-year Master of Fine Arts program: Angela Glanzmann, Cameron Kerr, Mandana Mansouri, Ramey Newell and...

  • Weird Flux: 2019 BFA/BA Visual Art Graduating Exhibition

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – April 18th,  2019 12:00 pm

    The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory is pleased to present Weird Flux, the 2019 University of British Columbia Bachelor of Fine Arts / Bachelor of Arts Visual Art graduating exhibition. Embodying the contemporaneity of the graduating class, the exhibition, held at the Audain Art Centre, brings together...

  • Violentia: Representing Bodies and Violence

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – March 7th,  2019

    Violentia is a collaborative, interdisciplinary event, organized by current AHVA graduate students meant to showcase the talents of emerging academics, artists, curators, and professionals in the arts. From Latin violentia, “vehemence, impetuosity” the signification of the word “violence” seems to have reached the contemporary moment unaltered. At the core of...

  • AHVA Visual Art Undergraduate Exhibition 2019

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – January 23rd,  2019

    Please join the University of British Columbia (UBC) Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory (AHVA) at the AHVA Gallery, in the Audain Art Centre on Wednesday, January 23 at 5 p.m. for the opening reception of the Visual Art Undergraduate Exhibition 2019 — an exhibition of recent works...

  • Vocal Performance by Cathy Busby

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – January 10th,  2019 5:00 pm

    Please join us on Thursday, January 10, 2019, at 5 p.m. in the AHVA Gallery for Cathy Busby’s PARKING, a vocal performance in the madrigal tradition, directed by Earle Peach and featuring singers Jenny Anderson, Caroline Olsen, Earle Peach, Veronica Roenitz. This new work is presented as part of the 2018...

  • VISA 370 Printed Matter: Class Show

    Or Gallery – November 20th,  2018 7:00 pm

    RECALL PRINTED MATTER CLASS SHOW  – one night only! Or Gallery, 555 Hamilton St, Vancouver Tuesday, November 20, 7 – 9 pm   Cathy Busby’s VISA 370 Printed Matter class warmly invites you to join them for a one-night show, Recall, at Or Bookstore on Tue Nov 20, 7 –...

  • AHVA Faculty Exhibition

    Audain Art Center Rm 1001 – November 14th,  2018 5:00 pm

    Please join the University of British Columbia (UBC) Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory (AHVA) at the AHVA Gallery, in the Audain Art Centre on Wednesday, November 14 at 5 p.m. for the opening reception of the AHVA Faculty Exhibition 2018—an exhibition of recent work by 15 members...

  • Some Kind of Darkness

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – September 19th,  2018

    “The contemporary is he who firmly holds his gaze on his own time so as to perceive not its light, but rather its darkness.”  – Giorgio Agamben Five MFA candidates present new work engaging different iterations and relationships with darkness. This exhibition combines diverse practices and process-based research via performance,...

  • sum of the parts

    221A Gallery – July 18th,  2018 11:00 am

    Divya Mehra, Felix Kalmenson, Casey Wei, Deanna Bowen, Krista Belle March 24 – July 18, 2018 Curated by Jenn Jackson Throughout the spring season of 2018, 221A hosts sum of the parts, a curatorial research project by Jenn Jackson which brings together a selection of films, performances and installations by...

  • Feathers, Ether, Sand, Speech

    Access Gallery. – June 16th,  2018

    Lauren Marsden, Elizabeth Milton, and Sydney Southam June 16 – August 4, 2018 Reception Friday June 15, 7:00 PM Curated by Whitney Brennan Feathers, Ether, Sand, Speech presents three contemporary Vancouver artists working at the intersection of performance and media art, and exploring sites of contested gender representation: the cinema,...

  • Being in Place

    Or Gallery – May 12th,  2018

    Bridget Reweti, Debra Sparrow, Shannon Te Ao, Kamala Todd May 12 – June 2, 2018 Reception Friday May 11, 8:00 PM Curated by Paula Booker Being in Place with Bridget Reweti, Debra Sparrow, Shannon Te Ao, and Kamala Todd will feature installation art, moving image and Coast Salish design. Initiated...

  • Postscript: MFA Graduate Exhibition

    Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – May 3rd,  2018 6:00 pm

    May 4–June 3, 2018 Opening Reception: Thursday, May 3, 6:00-9:00 pm   Public critique with Kimberly Phillips, Curator, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver: Saturday, May 5, 12:30-4:15 pm at the Belkin The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present Postscript, an exhibition of work by the 2018 graduates...

  • UNDERGROWTH 2018 BFA/BA Visual Art Graduating Exhibition

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – April 18th,  2018 5:00 pm

      The UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory is pleased to present Undergrowth, the 2018 University of British Columbia Bachelor of Fine Arts / Bachelor of Arts Visual Art Graduating Exhibition. Please join us on Wednesday, April 18, from 5 to 8 PM at the Audain Art...

  • We Built a House Out of the Things We Had Gathered

    Or Gallery – April 7th,  2018

    Maggie Groat, Joar Nango, Leya Tess April 7 — 28, 2018 Reception Friday April 6, 7:00 PM Curated by Laurie White Artist Talk: Leya Tess in conversation with Laurie White, Saturday, April 7, 2:00 PM We Built a House Out of the Things We Had Gathered brings together works by...

  • VISA 370 Printed Matter: Class Show — one night only!

    Or Gallery – March 29th,  2018 7:00 pm

    Or Gallery, 555 Hamilton St, Vancouver Thursday, March 29, 2018 7 – 9 pm Projects by 22 current VISA 370 students along with some graduates of this course. Topics are wide-ranging: the poetry of the everyday; rethinking the past, reflections on relationships, on being geographically dislocated, relocated; grappling with how...

  • Tracing Erasure

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – March 9th,  2018

    Tracing Erasure considers how the intertwined processes of destruction and production affect perceptions of the past and the present, intervening in the political, the social, the personal, and the historical. In bringing together the work of five graduate students from Vancouver’s three graduate fine arts programs, this exhibition proudly responds...

  • works on paper

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – January 24th,  2018 5:00 pm

    An exhibition featuring recent work by AHVA visual art students, works on paper presents a range of media that incorporate paper within their process, including photography, printmaking, drawing, painting, and mixed media. Exhibition: January 25 – February 24, 2018 Opening reception: Wednesday, January 24, 5 – 7 pm   AHVA...

  • Tales from the Old Fire Hall

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – November 16th,  2017

    An exhibition of recent works by Richard Prince. Please join the UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory (AHVA) at the AHVA Gallery in the Audain Art Centre on Wednesday, January 10, from 5 to 7 pm for the reception of Tales from the Old Fire Hall, an...

  • The Sioux Project / Tatanka Oyate

    MacKenzie Art Gallery – September 30th,  2017 10:00 am

    Dana Claxton: The Sioux Project / Tatanka Oyate September 30, 2017 to January 7, 2018 Symposium: Saturday, September 30, 2017 Dana Claxton: The Sioux Project / Tatanka Oyate (2017) is the first art exhibition to explore contemporary Sioux aesthetics in Saskatchewan. In this new work, Hunkpapa Lakota artist Dana Claxton...

  • The Diviners

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – September 28th,  2017 5:00 pm

    AHVA Gallery Room 1001 Audain Art Centre 6398 University Boulevard Vancouver Opening reception: Wednesday, September 27 5:00 – 7:00 pm (artists will be in attendance) Artist talks by Athena Papadopoulos and Ryan Peter: Thursday, September 28 12:30 pm Featuring work by: Sean Alward Steven Hubert Nick Lakowski Athena Papadopoulos Ryan...

  • Technical Problem

    grunt gallery – September 8th,  2017

    An exhibition by current UBC MFA student Aileen Bahmanipour. Opening: September 7, 7:00 – 10:00 PM Artist Talk: Saturday, September 9, 2:00 PM Technical Problem is an exhibition of mixed media drawings by Vancouver-based, Iranian-born artist Aileen Bahmanipour that explores cyclical political power and cultural identity. Bahmanipour’s work draws from...

  • Old Powerhouse

    North View Gallery – August 30th,  2017

    Michelle Weinstein Summer Residency and Exhibition Residency: August 8–31 Exhibition: August 30–October 21 Artist Talk and Closing Reception: Thursday, October 19, 2–5 PM Guest Curated by UBC CCST program graduate Kristine Olson Old Powerhouse is an experimental artwork that centers upon two architectural forms: the pyramids of Ancient Egypt, and...

  • Sites of Assembly

    Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – June 23rd,  2017

    June 23-August 13, 2017 Opening reception: Thursday, June 29, 6-9 pm Exhibit tour with Lorna Brown, Gabrielle Moser and Cheyanne Turions: Thursday, June 29 at 7 pm Outdoor art tour to James Hart’s Reconciliation Pole: Thursday, June 29 at 8 pm Weekend exhibition tours: Saturdays and Sundays at 1 pm...

  • An Absolute Movement

    Or Gallery – June 17th,  2017

    Sonny Assu, Matt Browning, Fiona Bowie, Kelly Jazvac, Genevieve Robertson & Jay White June 17 — July 22, 2017 Reception June 16, 8 PM Curated by CCST Student Weiyi Chang at the Or Gallery. An Absolute Movement brings together a body of work by Sonny Assu, Fiona Bowie, Matt Browning...

  • Posters + Student Work: from the collection of Garry Neill Kennedy and Cathy Busby

    Artscape Youngplace – June 15th,  2017 6:00 pm

    1st and 2nd floor hallways of the Toronto Art Book Fair Opening Reception Thursday, June 15, 6-10pm Artist Talk Friday, June 16th at 6:30, Studio 101, with Garry Neill Kennedy, Cathy Busby, and Roger Bywater. About the exhibition: “Our poster collection is an accumulation found here and there among our possessions....

  • Pictures From Here

    Vancouver Art Gallery – May 19th,  2017

    Barrie Jones (AHVA Visual Art faculty member) and Evan Lee (MFA alumnus) featured at the Vancouver Art Gallery in Pictures from Here. Read a review of the exhibition by Anton Lee, current PhD candidate in Art History at UBC. Beginning in the late 1970s artists such as Ian Wallace, Jeff Wall,...

  • It Is Almost That

    Or Gallery – May 5th,  2017 8:00 pm

    Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Eleanor King, Nadia Myre, Erdem Taşdelen Curated by Ines Min May 6 – June 10, 2017 Reception Friday, May 5, 8PM Or Gallery 555 Hamilton Street Vancouver Critical works by international artists Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Eleanor King, Nadia Myre and Erdem Taşdelen will be shown...

  • Candle: MFA Graduate Exhibition

    Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – May 4th,  2017 6:00 pm

    May 5–June 4, 2017 Opening Reception: Thursday, May 4, 6:00-9:00 pm   Public critique with Amy Kazymerchyk, Curator, SFU Audain Gallery: Saturday, May 6, 12:30-4:15 pm at the Belkin   The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present Candle, an exhibition of work by the 2017 graduates...

  • Now Now Wow | BFA/BA Visual Art Graduating Exhibition

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – April 19th,  2017 12:00 pm

    The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory is pleased to present Now Now Wow, this year’s University of British Columbia BFA/BA Visual Art Graduating Exhibition at the Audain Art Centre. Opening: April 19 2017, 5–8 PM Exhibition: April 20–26 2017, Monday to Saturday 12–5PM Audain Art Centre 6398...

  • Under Super Vision: 40th Annual Graduate Symposium

    Audain Art Centre – March 10th,  2017 6:00 pm

    Symposium Friday, March 10, 2017 10 am – 6:30 pm Room 1002 Audain Art Centre 6398 University Boulevard Under Super Vision seeks to provide a critical platform for scholarly and creative discourse on the significance and normalization of surveillance strategies both currently and historically. The importance of this matter continues...

  • Under Super Vision: 40th Annual Graduate Exhibition

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – March 9th,  2017 6:00 pm

    Exhibition (March 10 – April 1, 2017) Opening Reception Thursday, March 9, 2017 6 – 8 pm AHVA Gallery Audain Art Centre 6398 University Blvd. Gallery Hours Tuesday – Saturday 12 – 4 pm Artists cMAS Antonia Hirsch Public Studio Grayson Richards Terri Te Tau Co-curated by Laurie White, Sherena Razek, Whitney...

  • What You Looking At?!

    Plaza Projects – February 25th,  2017 6:00 pm

    Including the work of Professor Marina Roy … February 25 to March 20, 2017 Plaza Projects #2370 4000 No.3 Road Richmond Late last year saw the media coverage of the world’s ‘saddest’ polar bear; “Pizza paces past murals of icebergs in his glass enclosure … shakes his shaggy head under...
  • rhyme schematic exhibition poster

    Rhyme Schematic MFA Exhibition

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – February 1st,  2017 6:00 pm

    Exhibition dates: February 2 – 25, 2017 Opening reception: Wednesday, February 1 from 6 – 8 PM Please join the UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory (AHVA) at the AHVA Gallery in the Audain Art Centre on Wednesday, February 1 at 6 PM for the opening reception...

  • AESTHETIC – AN/AESTHETIC

    Gam Gallery – January 27th,  2017 7:00 pm

    Works by 4th year BFA theory students. To November 19, 2011. AESTHETIC youmi choi – charmaine hung – mia ikeda – elisha kim – lin lilly li – jasmine schuett – ye jin song – tony wu – kaitlin zhang – lucy zhong – diamond zhou october 20 – november...

  • MFA and BFA Open Studios 2016

    Audain Art Centre – December 6th,  2016 4:00 pm

    You are invited to the inaugural, combined Master of Fine Art (MFA) and Bachelor of Fine Art Visual Art (BFA) Open Studios. This event is an opportunity to view the work in progress of both MFA and BFA candidates and to engage with them on their current studio practice. MFA...

  • Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures

    Vancouver Art Gallery – December 3rd,  2016 10:00 am

        The Vancouver Art Gallery is pleased to launch Vancouver Special, a triennial exhibition surveying contemporary art in Vancouver. Co-curated by Daina Augaitis and Jesse McKee, Ambivalent Pleasures, the first iteration within this series, assesses the arts activity and discourse in the city over the past five years. Presenting...

  • Artifacture (Alumni Exhibition)

    Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre – November 30th,  2016 4:00 pm

    Artifacture features works by alumni from the BFA Visual Art and BA (Major, Visual Art): Mary Agoncillo Annabelle Allan Dustin Chan Emily Cho Angela Ji Yiying Wu Opening reception: Wednesday, November 30 4:00 to 6:00 pm Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre 6163 University Boulevard Vancouver, BC Exhibition runs to January...

  • This is it with it as it is

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – November 23rd,  2016 5:00 pm

    Exhibition: November 24, 2016 – January 14, 2017 (holiday closure December 10 – January 2) Opening reception: Wednesday, November 23, 5 – 8 PM Artist’s talk with Peter von Tiesenhausen: Thursday, November 24, 3 PM Curator’s talk with Wil Aballe: Saturday, December 3, 2 PM In Canada, art making concerned...

  • I thought my discourse was true and pure, you promised!!

    Audain Art Centre – November 23rd,  2016 5:00 pm

    Opening: Wednesday, November 23, 5–7 pm Exhibition: November 2016 – March 2017 On the Wall Audain Art Centre 6398 University Blvd. Vancouver, BC For the art institution and beyond, Habedus, Mills, Thornhill, and Walker have created a scathing review, a work consisting of over 60 title cards; co-opting everything from...

  • Phillip McCrum: Variations of an Illusion

    Chernoff Fine Art – November 10th,  2016 7:00 pm

    Please join us at the opening for Phillip McCrum’s solo exhibition Variations of an Illusion, which features selected new paintings and works on paper. Thursday, November 10, 2016 7:00–9:00 pm Chernoff Fine Art 265 East 2nd Avenue Vancouver, BC The exhibition runs to December 17. Phillip McCrum has worked in the Vancouver...

  • True Crime Drama

    – September 24th,  2016 6:00 pm

    AHVA Master of Fine Arts Solo Graduate Exhibition – Daniel Phillips Exhibition viewing by appointment, please contact danieljordanphillips@gmail.com

  • Untitled (Visual Art Faculty Show 2016)

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – September 22nd,  2016 5:00 pm

    Opening — Thursday, September 22, 5 pm Please join the UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory (AHVA) at the AHVA Gallery in the Audain Art Centre on Thursday, September 22, at 5 pm for the opening of Untitled (Visual Art Faculty Show 2016) – an exhibition showcasing recent...

  • Three Kinds of Abstraction

    Access Gallery – July 29th,  2016 7:00 pm

    Graduating exhibition by Critical and Curatorial Studies MA student April Thompson Opening Reception Friday July 29th 7:00 pm Access Gallery In 2016, we are faced with shattering processes of abstraction emergent from late capitalism. How might these further abstractions push into new modes of visuality in contemporary photographic practices? Launching...
  • Absence in Remembrance; The Japanese Canadian Internment: Curated by CCST Candidate Kristine Olson

    Absence in Remembrance; The Japanese Canadian Internment: Curated by CCST Candidate Kristine Olson

    Franc Gallery – June 17th,  2016

    Graduating exibition by Critical and Curatorial Studies MA student Kristine Olson Franc Gallery is pleased to present Absence in Remembrance: The Japanese Canadian Internment, a group exhibition featuring Canadian artists Lillian Michiko Blakey, Leslie Hossack, Emma Nishimura, and Cindy Mochizuki. The exhibition is curated by Kristine Olson, an MA Candidate...

  • MARINA ROY Your Kingdom to Command

    Blue Moon Theatre, Shangri-La – June 2nd,  2016 6:00 pm

    Offsite Opening | Thursday June 2, 2016 | 6-8pm Join us for the opening of Offsite: Marina Roy, the 13th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series. Artist Talk: Tuesday June 7, 7pm | Blue Moon Theatre, Shangri-La, 1100 West Georgia Street

  • INHALE EXILE PT1 (THE BREAK) with Gareth James

    L'ESCALIER – May 21st,  2016 3:30 pm

    Ongoing archive on the culture of tobacco, May 21 – July 16, 2016 L’ESCALIER is proud to present Inhale Exile, a curatorial project by the art group Knowles Eddy Knowles. Inhale Exile presents a selection of the artists’ ongoing archive on the culture of tobacco and invites the participation of...

  • Security Theatre

    Or Gallery – May 14th,  2016

    Graduating exhibition by Critical and Curatorial Studies MA student Justin Barski Opening Reception Friday May 13th 8:00 pm Or Gallery The Or Gallery is pleased to present Security Theatre, an exhibition featuring works by Karl Burke, Harun Farocki, An-My Lê and the Bureau of Inverse Technology. Security Theatre revolves around...

  • Slip the Snare, UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2016

    – May 6th,  2016

    Benjamin J. Allard, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Saroop Soofi, Leigh Tennant, Olivia Whetung May 6-June 5, 2016 Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery University of British Columbia 1825 Main Mall Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z2 Opening Reception: Thursday, May 5, 6-9 pm Performance by Jeneen Frei Njootli: Friday, May 6, 1:00...

  • Re: Exhibition | BFA/BA Visual Art Graduating Exhibition

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – April 15th,  2016

    Opening: April 14 5 – 9 PM | Exhibition: April 15 – 27 2016, Monday – Saturday 12 – 4PM The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory is pleased to present Re: Exhibition, this year’s University of British Columbia BFA/BA Visual Art Graduating Exhibition at the Audain Art...

  • 39th Annual UBC AHVA Graduate Symposium: The Margin is the Centre

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – March 10th,  2016

    Symposium runs March 10 – 11 and Exhibition runs March 10 – April 2 The 39th Annual University of British Columbia Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory Graduate Symposium is pleased to announce that this year’s event, The Margin is the Centre, will take place from March 10...
  • Winsor Gallery Presents Ogema : I Am Woman: Curated by CCST Candidate Léa Toulouse

    Winsor Gallery Presents Ogema : I Am Woman: Curated by CCST Candidate Léa Toulouse

    Winsor Gallery – March 9th,  2016

    Reception: Wednesday, March 9, 2016, 6pm Maria Hupfield, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Tsema Tamara Skubovius, Wendy Red Star, Janice Toulouse, Olivia Whetung. Exhibition Dates: March 9 – March 29, 2016 Reception: Wednesday, March 9, 2016, 6-8pm Drum Group Performance at 6pm sharp Curated by Léa Toulouse The exhibition Ogema: I Am...

  • Sausage Factory – Exhibition by Weronika Stepien and Stephen Wichuk

    grunt gallery – February 25th,  2016

    Reception Thursday, February 25, 2016 from 7:00 – 10:00 pm. To April 2, 2016. Vancouver, BC – grunt gallery presents a new exhibition entitled “Sausage Factory” by artists Weronika Stepien and Stephen Wichuk. The opening night reception will be heldThursday, February 25, 2016 from 7:00 – 10:00 pm. This is...

  • The Lasting Concept

    Portland Institute for Contemporary Art – February 21st,  2016 2:00 pm

    OPENING RECEPTION: February 21, 2016 from 2–6 PM Richard Aldrich, Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Creeley, Jimmie Durham, Melvin Edwards, Gaylen Gerber, Robert Grenier, Rob Halverson Bill Hayden & Sam Pulitzer, Gareth James, Yuki Kimura, Nevine Mahmoud, Christoph Meier, Jean-Luc Moulène, George Oppen, Nathaniel T Price, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Anne...

  • For To Do

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – February 3rd,  2016 5:00 pm

    Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 3 from 5 – 7 PM. Runs to February 27, 2016. You are warmly invited to join us at the AHVA Gallery in the Audain Art Centre on Wednesday, February 3rd at 5 pm for the opening reception of For To Do. University of British Columbia...

  • In Place Of

    – January 10th,  2016

    Registration required The Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia is pleased to invite you to our Annual Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture, one of our largest lectures of the year. Professor Philip J. Ivanhoe of the City University of Hong Kong will speak on the...

  • Yours, Mine, Ours: The AMS Permanent Collection

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – January 5th,  2016 5:00 pm

    This exciting exhibition is a joint effort between AHVA and the AMS. You are warmly invited to our next exhibition at the AHVA Gallery showcasing the AMS Permanent Collection. This exciting exhibition is a joint effort between AHVA and the AMS and will open at the AHVA Gallery for regular...

  • METAMORPHIC

    Skylight Gallery – December 3rd,  2015 7:00 pm

    VISA 330 Group Painting Salon Show You are warmly invited to join the VISA 330 class for an exhibition of their work opening December 3rd at Skylight Gallery. Please see the following announcement for details: Opening Reception: December 3,  7pm – 10pm at Skylight Gallery Exhibition Time: December 4, 10am...

  • Yours, Mine, Ours: The AMS Permanent Collection

    AMS Hatch Gallery – November 26th,  2015 5:00 pm

      Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory (AHVA) AMS Hatch Art Gallery – Alma Mater Society   Yours, Mine, Ours: The AMS Permanent Collection AHVA Gallery: November 26, 2015 – January 23, 2016 Hatch Art Gallery: January 11 – February 5, 2016 Reception: Wednesday, January 13th from 5 to...

  • Gareth James – Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner

    Whitney Museum of American Art – November 15th,  2015

    Co-organized by the Whitney and the Centre Pompidou and composed of selections from the noted collection of Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, this exhibition celebrates American and international work from the 1960s to the present day.
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    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – September 17th,  2015

    Opening Reception: Wednesday September 16, 5 to 7 pm. Runs to November 7, 2015. Please join the UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory (AHVA) at the AHVA Gallery in the Audain Art Centre on Wednesday, September 16th at 5 pm for the opening of Slippery Terms – an...

  • Residual Noise: Works by Barrie Jones, Kate Henderson and Pascale Théorêt-Groulx

    Gallery 295 – July 17th,  2015 3:30 pm

    Exhibition runs July 17 – August 15, 2015 What remains of something when most is gone? The work in the exhibition Residual Noise weaves together narratives that touch on notions of collective trauma, historical weight, and dogma through mediated imagery bringing into question the long lasting and immeasurable effects of...

  • PARTY BEUYS: or what comes after farce

    Andrea Meislin Gallery – July 9th,  2015

    Exhibition runs July 9 to Aug 14, 2015 It is to leaf through an old book: From Harz to Hellas all are cousins ~ Goethe Faust Book II The tragedy of costume and implement is ultimately the history of human tragedy ~ Aby Warburg Who’s your Daddy? Warhol or Beuys?...

  • Camera Atomica

    Art Gallery of Ontario – July 8th,  2015

    Exhibition runs July 8 to Nov 15, 2015 Photographs have played a crucial role in shaping perceptions of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. Camera Atomica — guest-curated by writer, curator and art historian John O’Brian — is the first substantial exhibition of nuclear photography to encompass the entire postwar period...
  • #saltandwater: The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Curated by CCST Candidate Margaret Stern

    #saltandwater: The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Curated by CCST Candidate Margaret Stern

    Or Gallery – June 5th,  2015 8:00 pm

    Exhibition runs June 6 – July 17, 2015. The Or Gallery is pleased to present #saltandwater: The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, an exhibition of four Palestinian artists. In his 1981 book, The Political Unconscious, Fredric Jameson asserts the idea of Louis Althusser’s “absent cause” within a structure. He posits that the structure itself...
  • Gravure Automatique: Dalla Husband at Atelier 17: Curated by CCST Candidate Eva Tweedie

    Gravure Automatique: Dalla Husband at Atelier 17: Curated by CCST Candidate Eva Tweedie

    Burnaby Art Gallery – May 28th,  2015

    Exhibition runs May 28 – June 21, 2015. This exhibition features prints by Canadian artist Dalla Husband (1899-1944) made during her time in Paris through the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1899, Husband grew up in Vernon, British Columbia on her family’s ranch on Lake Kalamalka. Her...

  • Halmos: INCUBATORACCELERATOR

    Art in General – May 26th,  2015

    New work by Gareth James now on display. INCUBATORACCELERATOR An Art in General New Commission Curated by Kristen Chappa. This week in the INCUBATORACCELERATOR are Gareth James, Tobias Madison and Jeff Nagy. Opening Reception: Saturday, May 16, 6–8pm http://www.halmos.us.com http://www.artingeneral.org  

  • Traces of Histories: New Works by Barrie Jones and Phillip McCrum

    Organhause Gallery – May 16th,  2015 7:30 pm

    Traces of Histories is a continuation of a collaboration of sorts between Photographic Artist, Barrie Jones, and Painter, Phillip McCrum. Each artist’s practice covers similar areas of concern. Jones uses photography to index the traces of historical activity and maps the echo of the Human Condition.  Past and present are...

  • Dana Claxton; Revisited

    Tribe Inc – May 16th,  2015

    Opening Reception: May 29, 2015. To June 20, 2015. Tribe Inc. is an artist-run centre working outside of the constraints of a fixed gallery location enabling collaborations with various institutions. Together Tribe Inc. and AKA artist-run, formerly ‘Aka Gallery,’ have maintained a longstanding partnership. In the celebration of Tribe’s 20th...

  • object approaching short blue waves: UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2015

    Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – May 1st,  2015

    The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present object approaching short blue waves, an exhibition of work by the 2015 graduates of the University of British Columbia’s two-year Master of Fine Arts program: Eric Angus, Jamey Braden, Anyse Ducharme, Jessica Gnyp, and Michelle Weinstein. This program is...

  • object approaching short blue waves: UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2015

    Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – April 30th,  2015 6:00 pm

    Exhibition runs May 1 – 31, 2015 The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present object approaching short blue waves, an exhibition of work by the 2015 graduates of the University of British Columbia’s two-year Master of Fine Arts program: Eric Angus, Jamey Braden, Anyse Ducharme, Jessica...

  • Dana Claxton: You Are on Indian Land

    IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) – April 23rd,  2015 5:30 pm

    Opening Reception April 23, 5 – 7pm. To May 31, 2015. Gallery talk April 23, 5:30pm with guest curator Erin Joyce.

  • EXISTENCE

    Asian Center, UBC – April 20th,  2015 11:00 am

    An exhibition of the VISA 230 painting class. Opening April 20 from 5-7pm. The VISA 230-002 painting Class is having an Exhibition at the Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall, UBC from April 20-23. The opening is on April 20 from 5-7pm and all are welcome. Open daily 11am to 4pm.

  • DOUBLE SPACE | UBC 2015 BFA/BA Visual Art Graduating Exhibition

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – April 16th,  2015

    Opening April 16, 5pm. Exhibition runs April 17 – 26, 2015 The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory is pleased to present Double Space, this year’s University of British Columbia BFA/BA Visual Art Graduating Exhibition at the Audain Art Centre. Please join us for an evening of art,...

  • The Plains Indians: Artists of the Earth and Sky Sunday at the MET

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art – March 15th,  2015 3:00 pm

    Dana Claxton and Edgar Heap of Birds Perform Discover how contemporary artists Dana Claxton and Edgar Heap of Birds are redefining Plains Indians’ artistic traditions. Jodi Gillette, Senoir Policy Advisor for Native American Affairs, White House Domestic Policy Council, also speaks on issues relating to 21st century Native American life....

  • 38th Annual UBC AHVA Graduate Symposium: Le(s) Temps

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – March 13th,  2015

    Exhibition runs March 13 – April 4, 2015. Please join the UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory (AHVA) at the AHVA Gallery in the Audain Art Centre on Friday, March 13th from 6pm to 8pm for the opening of Le(s) Temps. Artists: Eric Angus, Willa Downing, Emily...

  • DIFFERENT THINGS

    Red Gate Arts Society – March 5th,  2015 5:00 pm

    An Exhibition of Artwork by UBC Senior Studio Students. Opening March 5, 8 pm. An Exhibition of Artwork by UBC Senior Studio Students. March 5 – 12, 2015 Opening March 5, 8 pm Gallery Hours: Fri, Sat, Wed, Thurs 1 – 5pm Artists: Willee Aimee, Elysse Bell, Marina Bender, Mimi...

  • dagwinuu – an exhibition showcasing recent work by first year MFA Visual Art candidates

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – February 5th,  2015 5:00 pm

    Exhibition runs February 5 – February 28, 2015 An exhibition showcasing recent work by first year MFA Visual Art candidates Please join the UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory (AHVA) at the AHVA Gallery in the Audain Art Centre on Wednesday, February 4th from 5 to 7pm...

  • Arts and Subversive Acts

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – January 19th,  2015 5:00 pm

    Works produced by the VISA 250 and 350 classes The works produced by the VISA 250-001 and 350-001 classes are linked in their exploration and visual enactment of themes such as hybridity, abstraction, boundaries, subversion, and food. However, the diversity of techniques and approaches to these topics resists any totalizing...

  • -HOME (Hyphenated Home)

    Centre 3 Gallery – January 9th,  2015 7:00 pm

    Gu Xiong: Becoming Rivers -Home (Hyphenated Home). To February 28, 2015. -Home (Hyphenated Home) is a group exhibition, co-presented by Centre[3] and Workers Arts and Heritage Centre, that explores how the hyphenated identities of first generation immigrants locate the complex notion of home in the liminal spaces between displacement and...

  • Printed Matter

    EAD Books, Charles Scott Gallery, Emily Carr University, Granville Island – December 3rd,  2014

    Extended until Dec 7th! PRINTED MATTER EXHIBITION AND SALE READ Books Charles Scott Gallery Emily Carr University 1399 Johnston Street Kathy Slade (ECU) and Cathy Busby + Garry Neill Kennedy (UBC) bring together their two printed matter classes for a celebratory end-of-term show and sale. Please come and see what...

  • 470 EXHIBITION/EXHIBITION

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – November 26th,  2014

    Exhibition runs November 26, 2014 – January 24, 2015 Closing reception: January 21st The 470 Exhibition/Exhibition is four (4) collaborative works based on the organization and curation of a fictional exhibition. The ‘exhibitions’ will be created by teams of students in the 470 Special Topics class who will conceive of...

  • The World of Li Xiongyi

    Asian Center, UBC – November 16th,  2014

    Exhibition runs November 16 to 24, 2014 The World of Li Xiongyi Artist: Born in 1988 and now living in Beijing, the young Chinese artist Li Xiongyi is a rising star in contemporary Chinese art world. Being a kid with autism who never received any academic training in art,  Li...

  • Beside Yourself

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – October 22nd,  2014 5:00 pm

    Exhibition runs October 22 to November 15, 2014. Opening Event – October 29th, 5pm. To be beside yourself.  To think of others, besides yourself. To feel outside yourself. We are in interaction with an affective field, the body a surface of intensities, the brain translating these, at times, as emotions...

  • Outcomes

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – September 17th,  2014 5:00 pm

    Exhibition runs September 17 – October 11, 2014. Opening Wednesday Sept 17th, 5pm. Please join the UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory (AHVA) at the AHVA Gallery in the Audain Art Centre on Wednesday, September 17th at 5pm for the opening of Outcomes – an exhibition showcasing...

  • Politics of Representation: ReImaging of Indigenous America From Warhol to MAP(ing) Contemporary Native American Artists

    Slocumb Galleries – September 15th,  2014 6:00 pm

    Exhibition runs September 15 to October 3, 2014 In partnership with the Office of Multicultural Affairs, SGA, Doubletree by Hilton, Women Studies Program, Women’s Resource Center and MAP(ing). The exhibit is co-curated by Slocumb Galleries’ Karlota Contreras-Koterbay and Map(ing) project director Mary Hood, associate professor at Arizona State University. Map(ing)...

  • A Spectacle and Nothing Strange

    WAAPART – July 24th,  2014 7:00 pm

    Opens Thursday, July 24, 2014, 7-9 pm. To August 23, 2014. Saturday 1 – 5PM • Tuesday 6 – 9PM ARTISTS: asianpunkboy (Terence Koh), Keith Cole, Todd Evanger, Brendan Fernandes, Eve Fowler, Paul de Guzman, Jeffrey Hallbauer, Luis Jacob, Attila Richard Lukacs, Will Munro and Patryk Stasieczek The use of...
  • Welcome to Screenland: Curated by CCST Candidate Carolyn Jervis

    Welcome to Screenland: Curated by CCST Candidate Carolyn Jervis

    Satellite Gallery, Floor 2 – July 10th,  2014 6:00 pm

    Exhibition runs July 11 – August 13, 2014 Welcome to Screenlandconsiders the personal dimensions of life plugged in, and the impact that the taken-for-granted structure of Internet programs and video games has on virtual expressions of identity, connection, memory, and love. Key to the selected works is their respective engagements...

  • Indian Candy – Dana Claxton

    Art Gallery of Greater Victoria – June 27th,  2014

    Exhibition runs until September 7th, 2014 The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria presents nine works from Dana Claxton’s most recent series, “Indian Candy.”  The works articulate her attempts “to bring forth a reversal of a whitewash of history by using vibrant colours to beautify the history and make historical discourses...
  • Where Does it Hurt? Curated by CCST Candidate Jonah Gray

    Where Does it Hurt? Curated by CCST Candidate Jonah Gray

    Artspeak – June 7th,  2014 8:00 pm

    Opening: Friday, June 6, 8pm. June 7 to July 26,2014. CATHY BUSBY, DAVID MACWILLIAM, RACHELLE SAWATSKY, KRISTA BELLE STEWART Curated by JONAH GRAY Boris Groys recently claimed that artworks are inherently sick and require a curator to heal them by including them in an exhibition.[1] While this was likely more...
  • Queering Citizenship: Curated by CCST Candidate Derrick Chang

    Queering Citizenship: Curated by CCST Candidate Derrick Chang

    Satellite Gallery, Floor 2 – May 15th,  2014 6:00 pm

    Exhibition runs May 16 – June 28, 2014. From Vancouver’s West End to Zagreb, Croatia, Satellite Gallery’s upcoming exhibitionQueering Citizenship, which opens on May 15 at 6pm, reflects a landscape that is socially and politically diverse. By considering the climate of queer citizens in Eastern Europe and Africa, the exhibition...
  • Dust on the Lens: Curated by CCST Candidate Michaela Rife

    Dust on the Lens: Curated by CCST Candidate Michaela Rife

    Or Gallery – May 9th,  2014 8:00 pm

    Exhibition runs May 10 – June 28, 2014 Jeremy Everett, Simone Jones, Richard T. Walker and Will Wilson Reception Friday, May 9, 8pm Curated by Michaela Rife The Or Gallery is pleased to present Dust on the Lens, a group exhibition featuring works by Jeremy Everett, Simone Jones, Richard T....

  • SUPERMOON: UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2014

    Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – May 2nd,  2014

    The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present SUPERMOON, an exhibition of work by the 2014 graduates of the University of British Columbia’s two-year Master of Fine Arts program. The artists represented examine the practice of making art through the shared and often conflicted relationship it has with...

  • Satellite Gallery Presents – Extended Party Mix

    Satellite Gallery, Floor 2 – April 16th,  2014 5:00 pm

    Exhibition runs April 16 to May 2, 2014 Satellite Gallery invites four first year Master of Fine Arts (MFA) students from the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia to create an experimental, site responsive collaboration using the gallery’s exhibition spaces. Artists Eric...

  • MARINATE ME: UBC 2014 BFA/BA Visual Art Graduating Exhibition

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – April 16th,  2014

    Exhibition runs April 16 – 26, 2014. The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at UBC is pleased to present Marinate Me, this year’s BFA/BA Visual Art Graduating Exhibition at the Audain Art Centre. For the first time, this exhibition will be housed the Audain Art Centre.  Featuring...

  • Beyond the Screen

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – April 11th,  2014 7:00 pm

    Exhibition runs April 8 – 18, 2014 Screenprinting’s inception in the art realm was due to a number of artists in the 60s, specifically the Pop movement. The implementation of this method as a visual language owes to its adaptation as a commercial method a decade before. The students from...

  • NO LUGAR (To Cameron Clow)

    Gene Coffee Bar – April 6th,  2014 5:30 pm

    Runs April 1st to April 28th 2014 Down on the Corner is happy to present Carlos Colín the final programmed artist @ Gene Cafe. NO LUGAR (To Cameron Clow) April 1st to April 28th 2014 Reception: Sunday April 6th 5.30-7pm Artist Talk at 6pm Carlos Colín (b Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico...

  • The Brood: Fan-Ling Suen

    Access Gallery – March 21st,  2014 8:00 pm

    Access Gallery: Join us for The Brood: Fan-Ling Suen’s opening reception on Friday March 21st, at 8pm-11pm. Fan-Ling’s sculptural practice investigates the complex nature of human relations and how we understand ourselves within the framework of institutions – particularly those that structure childhood experience. Her work navigates issues of memory,...

  • Teaching Material

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – March 14th,  2014 6:00 pm

    Teaching Material accompanies Shifting Pedagogies, the 37th annual Graduate Symposium of the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory. Runs March 14 to 29, 2014. Teaching Material is an exhibition about art and education, whether the education of the artists themselves or their attempts to educate others. Each work...

  • CONCATENATION | A Series of Interconnected Events

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – March 10th,  2014 5:00 pm

    FEATURING WORK BY: NICK LOEWEN, SHERMAN YIK, ELYSSE BELL, PATRICK O’NEILL, VANESSA GRONDIN, CATHY BUSBY and GARRY NEILL KENNEDY The aim of this collaboration is to encourage artistic communication and community. We acknowledge, however, that while the participating artists may engage with similar issues, work together, or study together, they...

  • UBC Off Campus

    Redgate Gallery – March 6th,  2014 7:00 pm

    Exhibition runs March 6 – 13, 2014 Please join the students of VISA 401A at their exhibition Off Campus at the Redgate Gallery. Works by: SHAINA DICKSON, AMIEL GONZALES, VANESSA GRONDIN, ERVIN HADZIC, ZAHRA HOSSEINKHAN, GLADYS HSU, CHRISTIAN JONES, MINJI KIM, BEATA KURACZYCKA, SODA LEAVEY, NICK LOEWEN, DIANA LUPIERI, BLAINE...

  • DENISE

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – February 12th,  2014 5:00 pm

    1st year MFA candidate exhibition. Opening reception February 12th, 5 to 7pm. To March 1, 2014.   Please join the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, UBC at the new AHVA Gallery on Wednesday, February 12th between 5 and 7pm for the opening of Denise, an exhibition showcasing...

  • CounterIntelligence

    Justina M Barnicke Gallery – January 24th,  2014 5:00 pm

    January 24 to March 16, 2014 A Project by Charles Stankievech With contributions by Anonymous, Abbas Akhavan, George Antheil, Gregory Bateson, BBC, Walter Benjamin, Lene Berg, Black Cat Systems, Sir Anthony Blunt, Mel Bochner, Bertolt Brecht, Adam Broomberg + Oliver Chanarin, Bill Burns, Canadian Army, Raymond Cass, Center for Land...

  • Kinetica

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – January 15th,  2014 4:30 pm

    Exhibition runs January 15 – February 1, 2014 Green. Red. Go. Stop. Fast. Slow. Forwards. Backwards. We concern ourselves on a daily basis with ways of depicting and capturing different states of motion. It is a concept that is both ancestral and modern. One that has permeated art practice since...

  • An Honest Days Work

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – December 6th,  2013 5:30 pm

    AMS Art Gallery, Student Union building, UBC VISA 401D class show

  • VIS-A-VIS: a class show of printed matter

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – December 2nd,  2013 10:00 am

    Exhibition runs two days only! Dec 2 and 3, 2013. Garry Kennedy and Cathy Busby’s VISA 370A Printed Matter class have been making small edition artist books, wall works and ephemera all semester. Now they’re making a exhibition of their work, with much of it for sale. UBC’s AMS Art...

  • D’UN DISCOURS QUI NE SERAIT PAS DU SEMBLANT / ACTORS, NETWORKS, THEORIES

    Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University – November 14th,  2013 5:30 pm

    Exhibition runs November 14, 2013 to January 25, 2014 D’UN DISCOURS QUI NE SERAIT PAS DU SEMBLANT / ACTORS, NETWORKS, THEORIES A gap often manifests itself between the publication of a text in one language and that of its translation, or between the initial presentation of an artwork in one...

  • and Materials and Money and Crisis

    Mumok – November 7th,  2013 4:00 pm

    Exhibition runs November 7, 2013 to February 2, 2014 and Materials and Money and Crisis is a group exhibition that serves as an experimental proposition about the matter of capital as it exists in the artwork. Matter here has a double meaning. On the one hand flows of material and...

  • The Photo Show: 1969/2013 – Exploring the Photo Conceptual Archive

    AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre – October 23rd,  2013

    Exhibition runs October 23 – November 30, 2013 In 1969 UBC students organized an exhibition called The Photo Show in the newly constructed Student Union Building that was perhaps the first exhibition of its kind dedicated to showcasing both local and international artists primarily interested in looking at new Conceptual...

  • Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture

    Musée d’art Contemporain – October 17th,  2013 5:00 pm

    Exhibition runs October 17, 2013 to January 5, 2014 Beat Nation:  Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture describes a generation of artists who juxtapose urban culture with Aboriginal identity to create innovative and unexpected new works that reflect the realities of Aboriginal peoples today. Organized and circulated by the Vancouver...

  • NOT SENT LETTERS & GUESTS

    VIVO Media Arts Centre – September 28th,  2013 8:00 pm

    3 Hour Programme Only: 8-11pm interdisciplinary works by SARAH SHEARD ANNA MARIE REPSTOCK & MIKE CONROY DINKA PIGNON & IVA MLADENOVIC KATE HENDERSON (AHVA MFA Candidate) NEIL EUSTACHE & CHARLENE VICKERS an installation by SARAH SHAMASH musical performance by LEAH ABRAMSON & KORI MIYANISHI a new Not Sent Letters Set...

  • SPLICE: At the Intersection of Art and Medicine

    Pratt MAnhattan Gallery – September 20th,  2013 4:30 pm

    Exhibition runs September 20 to November 9, 2013 Showcasing 20th-century anatomical drawings complemented by contemporary works of art, SPLICE: At the Intersection of Art and Medicine brings together both scientific and artistic means of representing the human body. It also represents the first significant public exhibition within the United States...

  • Indian Candy

    Winsor Gallery – September 19th,  2013 6:00 pm

    Exhibition runs September 19 to November 2, 2013 Indian Candy features new photography and print media by artist and AHVA Visual Arts faculty member Dana Claxton. For Indian Candy, Claxton sourced material from the greater, worldwide digital archive in order to create aluminum-mounted chromogenic prints.  Bright, slick, and visually delicious,...

  • GHOST DANCE Activism. Resistance. Art.

    Ryerson Image Centre – September 18th,  2013 4:30 pm

    Exhibition runs September 18 – December 15, 2013 Ghost Dance: Activism. Resistance. Art. At the Intersection of Events and Artistic Practice Aboriginal Artists Manifest an Aesthetic of Resistance combines commissioned works, existing works and photographs from the Black Star Collection to examine the role of the artist as activist, as...

  • NET-ETH: Going out of the Darkness

    – September 13th,  2013 6:00 pm

    Opening reception September 13, 2013, 6:00 to 9:00 pm. Exhibition runs September 13 – 29, 2013. NET-ETH: Going out of the Darkness is a group exhibition of over twenty contemporary and traditional First Nations artists, among them are Indian Residential School survivors and their descendants whose work is a powerful...
  • Ten Thousand Suns: Curated by CCST candidate Jeremy Jaud

    Ten Thousand Suns: Curated by CCST candidate Jeremy Jaud

    Satellite Gallery, Floor 2 – September 12th,  2013 5:30 pm

    Exhibition runs September 13 – October 26, 2013. Satellite Gallery presents Ten Thousand Suns, a new group exhibition that features works in sculpture, audio, video and performance by Rebecca Belmore, Tanya Tagaq, Luke Parnell, Guadalupe Martinez, Abbas Akhavan, Jamie Look, Ali Ahadi, Erin Siddall, Carlos Colín and Brianne Nord-Stewart. These...
  • Right to the City: Travel Guide to Karachi: Curated by CCST candidate Shahana Rajani

    Right to the City: Travel Guide to Karachi: Curated by CCST candidate Shahana Rajani

    221A Gallery – July 19th,  2013 7:00 pm

    Book Launch Ever heard of Karachi? It lies 11,700 kilometers from Vancouver, on the coast of the Arabian Sea in Pakistan. For those curious to explore the city but unable to afford the airfare or keep hearing that it’s too unsafe to travel there, here is your lucky day! Hot...

  • House Advantage

    221A Gallery – June 21st,  2013 8:00 pm

    Exhibition runs June 22 – July 27, 2013 House Advantage features work by artists Fabiola Carranza (AHVA MFA candidate), Yuriko Iga, Arvo Leo and Peggy & Karen Ngan based on ideas of play, chance and commerce in contemporary art practices, with a focus on the culture of gambling and games....

  • Strangelove’s Weegee

    Presentation House Gallery – June 14th,  2013 7:00 pm

    Exhibtion runs June 14 to July 26, 2013 Strangelove’s Weegee is an exhibition of photographs by American news photographer, Weegee, taken on the set of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. The exhibition also includes publicity stills, posters, lobby cards and other material...

  • Voice of the Unseen: Chinese Independent Art 1979 to Today

    Biennale di Venezia – June 1st,  2013

    Exhibition runs June 1 to November 24, 2013 Who are, where are they, and what are doing now the artists who, with the historical event of the 1979 exhibition on the “Wall of Democracy” of Xidan in Beijing, gave birth to the growingly influential stream of independent contemporary art in...
  • Shifting Margins: Emily Carr and Irene Hoffar Reid: Curated by CCST Candidate Sofia Stalner

    Shifting Margins: Emily Carr and Irene Hoffar Reid: Curated by CCST Candidate Sofia Stalner

    Burnaby Art Gallery – May 30th,  2013 7:00 pm

    Exhibition runs May 30 – July 1, 2013. Shifting Margins: Emily Carr and Irene Hoffar Reid exhibits works by two B.C. artists and selected archival materials surrounding their life and work. Engaging a discussion around the marginalisation and mythification of certain artists, the exhibition considers aspects such as gender, geographic...

  • SHELL GAME: Marina Roy and Natasha McHardy

    WAAPART – May 23rd,  2013 7:00 pm

    Opens Thursday, May 23rd, 7-9 pm. To June 29, 2013. Natasha McHardy and Marina Roy started working together to produce video works as the artist-duo Roy & McHardy in 2003. While maintaining their own separate practices over the past few years, their artwork continues to share an interest in materiality,...

  • As Seen Here: UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2013

    Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – May 2nd,  2013 8:00 pm

    Opening Reception: Thursday, May 2, 8:00 – 10:00pm. Runs May 3 to June 2, 2013. The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present As Seen Here, an exhibition of work by the 2013 graduates of The University of British Columbia’s two-year Master of Fine Arts program: Carlos...

  • Plaisance Group Exhibition

    Midway Contemporary Art – April 19th,  2013 6:00 pm

    Exhibition runs April 19 – June 22, 2013 Opening Reception: Friday, April 19 from 6-8 pm Artists: Jonathas de Andrade, Sven Augustijnen, Alejandro Cesarco, Tamara Henderson, Gareth James, Henrik Olesen, Willem de Rooij, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, and Florian Zeyfang Curated by Fionn Meade. http://www.midwayart.org/index.php Midway Contemporary Art 527 Second Avenue...

  • Is It Happening | UBC 2013 BFA/BA Visual Art Graduating Exhibition

    AHVA Library Gallery | Dorothy Somerset Studios | BC Binning Studios – April 18th,  2013

    Opening Reception: April 18th 2013, 5 to 9pm. Exhibition runs April 18 – 27, 2013 The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at UBC is pleased to present Is It Happening? this year’s BFA/BA Visual Art Graduating Exhibition. Featuring work from a diverse background of theories, materials and...
  • Full Frontal: curated by CCST candidate Katie Schroeder

    Full Frontal: curated by CCST candidate Katie Schroeder

    Satellite Gallery, Floor 2 – April 12th,  2013 6:00 pm

    Opening Reception: Thursday, April 11, 6:00-9:00 pm. Exhibition runs April 12 – May 11, 2013 Drawn from the collection of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Full Frontal explores the relationship between masculinity and male sexuality, and why the image of a naked man, baring all, is one of...

  • Pretty Boys Kill Me

    Gallery Fukai – April 5th,  2013 8:00 pm

    Exhibition runs April 5 – 27, 2013. Opening reception: April 5, 8 PM – 12 AM Gallery FUKAI presents pretty boys kill me, a solo exhibition of drawings by Roselina Hung.  Her work continues to reference both public and personal histories through new drawings that address the subtle distinction between...

  • Bad Habits

    AHVA Library Gallery, Room 112, Koerner Library – March 20th,  2013

    An exhibition of recent work by MFA Candidates: March 20 – April 9, 2013 This exhibition features new work by MFA Candidates: Fabiola Carranza, Todd Evanger, Marie Horstead, Guadalupe Martinez, Kate Moss and Setareh Yasan. Please join the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory for the opening reception...

  • RESONATING EXISTENT(S)

    AHVA Library Gallery, Room 112, Koerner Library – February 13th,  2013 12:00 pm

    Exhibition runs February 13 – March 9, 2013. Reception: Friday, March 8th 4:00 – 6:00pm. Resonating Existent(s), in conjunction with the 36th Annual AHVA Graduate Symposium: EYES on PROTEST, brings together eight, Canada-based artists to consider the construct of protest, its many narratives and its place in our contemporary society....

  • FAILURE

    SUB Art Gallery – February 4th,  2013 10:00 am

    Exhibition runs February 4 – 15, 2013 The Visual Arts Student Association is pleased to present: FALIURE  A student run exhibition exploring the vastness of failed objective and expectations. Opening reception | Thursday, February 7th from 5:30 to 8:30pm Failure acts as part of the art making process—a necessity to...

  • ALL THE ROTTEN EGGS IN ONE BASKET

    Gallery Fukai – February 1st,  2013 8:00 pm

    Exhibition runs February 1 to March 2, 2013 Gallery FUKAI is pleased to announce: ALL THE ROTTEN EGGS IN ONE BASKET. Join them on Friday February 01st from 8:00 pm onwards for the opening reception. Artists will be in attendance. New work by Alex Heilbron, Jenny G, and Marie Horstead,...

  • Temporal Remains: New Work by Kate Henderson

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – January 21st,  2013 11:00 am

    Opening: Thursday, January 24th, 6-9 PM. Runs through February 1st. Temporal Remains New work by Kate Henderson Curated by Klara Manhal Essay by Jayne Wilkinson AMS Gallery Open Monday-Friday, 11-5 SUB Building 6138 Student Union Blvd. University of British Columbia January 21st-February 1st, 2013 Opening Reception: Thursday January 24, 6-9...

  • Anatomize Obfuscation

    The Commons – January 16th,  2013 7:00 pm

    Exhibition by Guadalupe Martinez, Jasmine Reimer, and Anna Wood The Commons is proud to present Anatomize Obfuscation, an exhibition of three female artists who work in assemblage sculpture, collage, and painting. These artists’ abstract use of ostensibly mundane materials speak of these common objects as charged with aesthetic potential. The...

  • The Idiot of Nature

    AHVA Library Gallery, Room 112, Koerner Library – January 16th,  2013 5:00 pm

    Opening: Wednesday, January 16, 5 to 7pm. Exhibition runs January 16 to February 2, 2013 When the rational meaning and natural order of things rub up against our sense of understanding, laughter’s innocent self-ignorance is perhaps a naïve, unconscious acquiescence responding to the shortcomings of knowledge. It is a laughter...

  • New Work: Todd Evanger

    SUB Art Gallery – January 10th,  2013 6:00 pm

    Exhibition runs January 7th – 18th, 2013 Todd Evanger is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Vancouver.  Evanger is a MFA candidate in the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory at The University of British Columbia and artist-in-residence student scholar at Malaspina Printmakers. Evanger’s current research explores...

  • Gareth James: Looking Back / The 7th White Columns Annual

    White Columns – January 10th,  2013

    Opening Thursday, January 10, 6 – 8pm. January 10 – February 23, 2013 Participating artists: Yuji Agematsu Julie Ault / James Benning Lutz Bacher Martin Beck Kaucyila Brooke Leos Carax Moyra Davey Disband Peter Fend Liam Gillick and Henry Bond David Grubbs and Susan Howe Lawrence Abu Hamdan Alex Israel...

  • Have you Heard

    Print Media Research Centre – December 10th,  2012 12:00 pm

    VISA 350 Students’ Prints Exhibition Come see what the VISA 350 students have been up to this term. An exhibition of copper and polymer-plate intaglio prints. December 10th and 11th, noon to 2:00 PM. Everyone welcome!
  • Things Matter: Curated by CCST candidate Klara Manhal

    Things Matter: Curated by CCST candidate Klara Manhal

    Or Gallery – December 7th,  2012 8:00 pm

    Opening Reception: December 7, 8 PM. Show runs to January 26th. Accompanying talk December 11, 7 PM. The Or Gallery is pleased to present Things’ Matter, a group exhibition curated by CCST candidate Klara Manhal featuring works by Kika Thorne, Heather Passmore, Michael Drebert and Jen Weih. Accompanying Talk with...

  • The Shift Show

    Print Media Research Centre – December 6th,  2012 12:00 pm

    Location: Print Media Research Centre, Room 210 Wesbrook Building, 6174 University Blvd. Exhibition of a selection of prints by VISA 250 Students Come check out the Shift Show: a selection of prints by VISA 250 students on display in the Print Media Research Centre in room 210 of the Wesbrook...

  • Gu Xiong: Coquitlam Waterscapes

    Evergreen Cultural Centre – December 1st,  2012 4:00 pm

    Exhibition runs December 1st to January 19th Internationally celebrated mixed-media installation artist Gu Xiong examines the significance of rivers and their ability to stand as microcosms of our ever-changing, fluctuating world. He focuses on the inherent migration patterns found along BC’s Fraser River and China’s Yangzi River – revealing their...

  • Sticks and Stones

    – November 30th,  2012 8:00 pm

    Open Monday, December 3rd and Monday December 10th, 5-8 pm. Evan French and Marchien Veen are proud to present “sticks & stones” : the first of many things to fill an empty bracket. Drawings of sand and handcut dovetail boxes are amongst some of the things these young Vancouver artists...

  • n2m u?

    TAG Gallery, UBC – November 19th,  2012

    Opening Reception – November 22, 6 to 8 pm. Runs from November 19 – December 1, 2012. The Visual Arts Student Association of UBC presents an exhibition exploring the theme of the mundane, questioning how the banal and the boring function in contemporary art. Can the mundane be transformed, amplified,...

  • what’s the matter?

    Gam Gallery – November 16th,  2012

    Exhibition runs November 16 to December 14, 2012. Gam Gallery is pleased to presentwhat’s the matter? an exhibition featuring the undergraduate Contemporary Art Theory Class from the University of British Columbia. In the course students explore both theoretical discourse and its practical manifestations in cultural spaces and artistic practice. In...

  • In the Shadow of the Destroyers

    AHVA Library Gallery, Room 112, Koerner Library – November 14th,  2012

    Opening: Wednesday, November 14, 5 – 7pm. Exhibition runs to December 1, 2012 Selected work from 3rd-year Visual Arts Students Exhibition runs November 14 – December 1, 2012 Please join the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory for the opening reception of In the Shadow of the Destroyers...

  • SPLICE: At the Intersection of Art and Medicine

    University of Toronto Mississauga – October 23rd,  2012

    Exhibition runs October 23 – December 1, 2012 SPLICE: At the Intersection of Art and Medicine presents a scientific gaze at the human body by showcasing traditional anatomical art, complemented and challenged by contemporary artworks. A large-scale public showing of anatomical images by Maria Wishart, Eila Hopper-Ross, Nancy Joy, Dorothy...

  • Ded Reckoning – 2nd Year MFA Student Exhibition

    AHVA Library Gallery, Room 112, Koerner Library – October 10th,  2012

    Opening reception October 10th, 5pm to 7pm. Exhibition runs October 10 – November 3, 2012 Ded Reckoning is an exhibition featuring the recent work by the senior year MFA candidates of the AHVA graduate program. Featured artists will include Kate Henderson, Chris Howison, Erin Siddall, Carlos Colín, Stephen Wichuk, and...

  • Dana Claxton

    URBAN SHAMAN CONTEMPORARY ABORIGINAL ART – October 5th,  2012

    Exhibition runs October 5 to November 17, 2012 This new body of text based work was inspired by Claxton’s stay in Winnipeg for six weeks in 2007. Incorporating her roots as a poet, Claxton has made two video installations based on her original writings she did while in Winnipeg. The...

  • Ali Ahadi: WARNING – Use by Other Than Registered Owner Prohibited by Law

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – October 4th,  2012 5:00 pm

    Opening reception Thursday October 4, 5 – 8pm. Runs to October 13, 2012 Curated by Mo Salemy

  • Dorothy – Myfanwy MacLeod

    Satellite Gallery and Access Gallery – September 27th,  2012 6:00 pm

    Opening Thursday, September 27, 2012, 6 – 9pm. Exhibition runs September 28 – November 10, 2012 Dorothy is a new series of works by Vancouver-based artist Myfanwy MacLeod. The exhibition at Satellite Gallery features origami sculptures and photographs of origami designs, each made from pages of a Playboy magazine in...

  • Out-Of-______ (Paris)

    Galerie Dohyang Lee – September 22nd,  2012 4:00 pm

    Opening September 22 at 8pm. September 22 – November 17, 2012 Featuring: Chris Burden, Harun Farocki, David Gilbert, Gareth James, Vishal Jugdeo, Peter Kirby, Oliver Laric, Simon Leung, Jan Mancuska, Job Piston, Miljohn Ruperto, Amie Siegel, Jill Spector, Diego Tonus, Kerry Tribe, Francesco Vezzoli and David Wojnarowicz. http://www.galeriedohyanglee.com/en

  • Wild New Territories

    – September 18th,  2012 12:30 pm

    Exbitibion runs concurrently at both locations from September 18th, 2012. Wild New Territoriesshowcases new visual art, media and performance works by a broad cross-section of award winning, and emerging, contemporary artists from a variety of geo-political backgrounds in an unusually natural setting. In the heart of urban Kings Cross London,...

  • 3 Days Off

    Emily Carr University of Art and Design – September 13th,  2012 7:00 pm

    Exhibition runs September 13th to September 30th, 2012. “3 days off”, is an exhibition in two parts that presents the work of “a young artist in Vancouver”Dustin Brons. He points laconically, but never brusquely, to the latent humour embedded in the business of contemporary partying rituals and meditations on the...

  • it’s fine – UBC Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition

    AHVA Library Gallery | Dorothy Somerset Studios | BC Binning Studios – September 12th,  2012 5:00 pm

    Opening: September 12th, 5 to 7:30 pm. Exhibition runs September 12 to 29, 2012 Please join the Department at the AHVA Library Gallery on Wednesday, September 12th at 5pm for the opening of it’s fine – a visual art Faculty exhibition, showcasing recent works by our studio faculty.  We have...
  • Alison Shields - Emergence: curated by CCST candidate Tarah Hogue

    Alison Shields – Emergence: curated by CCST candidate Tarah Hogue

    Gam Gallery – September 7th,  2012 7:00 pm

    Opening Reception 7pm September 7th. Exhibition runs September 7 to September 28, 2012 Alison Shields’ second solo exhibition with the Gam Gallery focuses on the process of painting. Stemming from her MFA thesis work at the University of Waterloo, Shields’ canvases are the result of layers upon layers of tracings...

  • Hail to the Destroyers: Opening Reception

    Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – September 6th,  2012 7:00 pm

    The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present Hail to the Destroyers, an exhibition of work by the 2012 graduates of The University of British Columbia’s two-year Master of Fine Arts program: Ali Ahadi, Nelly Cesar, Kevin Day, Yan Luo, Nathan McNinch, and Lux Petrova.  These six...

  • New Xanadu: Kevin Murphy

    UBC Botanical Garden – July 8th,  2012 1:00 pm

    Opening Reception: July 8, 1-5 pm, in the Main Lawn. Artist Talk: August 2, 7pm, in the Garden Pavilion. Exhibition runs June 27 – August 18, 2012. Opening Reception: July 8, 1-5 pm, in the Main Lawn Artist Talk: August 2, 7pm, in the Garden Pavilion. UBC Botanical Garden and...

  • A/VERSION

    Topdown Bottomup – June 22nd,  2012 7:00 pm

    A/VERSION: sophia bartholomew with kate barbaria, nelly césar, evan french, and you. Exhibition runs June 22 – July 10, 2012 “the reason i’m painting this way is because i want to be a machine.” because i want to be a factory. an assembly line of readymades: appropriated garments and regurgitated...

  • Fire/Fire – Abbas Akhavan and Marina Roy

    Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Art – June 2nd,  2012

    Exhibition runs: June 1st – August 4th, 2012. Opening Reception Friday, June 1st 8pm – 10pm Fire/Fire Artists: Abbas Akhavan and Marina Roy This project was originally conceived by artist and curator Andrea Pinheiro. Artists Talk: Saturday, June 2, 1:00- 3:00 pm A conversation with Abbas Akhavan and Marina Roy,...
  • Facing the Animal: curated by CCST candidate Tarah Hogue

    Facing the Animal: curated by CCST candidate Tarah Hogue

    Or Gallery – May 25th,  2012 8:00 pm

    Opening Reception: May 25th, 8 to 11 pm. Artist Talk and Book Signing with Bill Burns: June 7th, 7 pm. Show runs to June 29, 2012. Download The Or Gallery is pleased to present Facing the Animal, a group exhibition curated by CCST candidate Tarah Hogue featuring works by Julie Andreyev, Mary...

  • Elegant Disorder: Perspectives on Porcelain: curated by CCST candidate Louis-Alexandre Douesnard-Malo

    Satellite Gallery, Floor 2 – May 11th,  2012 7:00 pm

    Opening reception: Friday, May 11, 7 to 9pm. Curator’s Tour with Louis-Alexandre Douesnard-Malo on Saturday, June 2 at 2pm. To June 23, 2012. Artist talk with Paul Mathieu: Friday, May 11, 6 to 7pm Curator’s Tour with Louis-Alexandre Douesnard-Malo on Saturday, June 2 at 2pm at Satellite Gallery. Space is...
  • Sans Song: curated by CCST candidate Jenny Walton

    Sans Song: curated by CCST candidate Jenny Walton

    Western Front – April 27th,  2012 7:00 pm

    Opening reception: 26th April 2012 at 7pm. Exhibition runs to June 2, 2012. Introducing new works by Nathan McNinch and by Joshua Bonnetta, in conjunction with two pieces released in 1976 by Joan La Barbara, the artworks in Sans Song investigate the tools and instruments of vocal sonic production and...

  • Black Maria – Scott Billings

    Topdown Bottomup – April 27th,  2012

    Opening April 27th 7-12pm. Exhibition Runs April 27th – May 18th, 2012 TOPDOWN BOTTOMUP is pleased to present Black Maria, a video installation by local artist Scott Billings. Gallery open Wednesday to Friday 12 to 6pm Inspired by early film and the protocinematic devices of the late 18th century, Black...

  • TOO DEEP FOR YOU | UBC 2012 BFA/BA Visual Art Graduating Exhibition

    AHVA Library Gallery | Dorothy Somerset Studios | BC Binning Studios – April 12th,  2012

    nOpening Reception: April 19th | Exhibition runs April 20th – May 5th This year, UBC’s annual BFA/BA Visual Art graduating exhibition is TOO DEEP FOR YOU. The exhibition showcases the ambitious final projects of graduating Visual Art students. Materially and methodologically diverse, artworks in the exhibition are representative of  students’...

  • Ali Ahadi

    – April 6th,  2012

    Opening: Friday, 6 April, 7 – 11pm. To May 12, 2012. Exhibition Dates: Fri, 6 April – Sat, 12 May, 2012 Creative Contributor: Glenn Alteen This exhibition is comprised of multiple series of black and white photographs and a video that address the personal and sociopolitical context of working as...

  • The Unseen Exhibition: Part of the 35th Annual UBC Art History Graduate Symposium

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – March 30th,  2012

    Opening Friday, March 30, 2012, 7 pm. Show runs to March 29 to April 7, 2012. In Conjunction with The Unseen: AHVA Graduate Symposium “The Unseen” features works by seven graduate students that explore the limits of the unseen. A common dialogue around the body as invisible or absent emerges...

  • Serge Guilbaut: Retro-Perspective

    AHVA Library Gallery, Room 112, Koerner Library – March 21st,  2012

    Reception and Performances March 28, 6 to 9 pm. Exhibition runs to April 7, 2012. Retro-Perspective is an exhibition of Serge Guilbaut’s remarkable artistic career. Guilbaut has long been a leading academic figure in the art history world and now a retrospective of his artwork, which has stealthfully flown under...

  • Is it… is it just for laughs?

    Interurban – March 15th,  2012

    Exhibition runs from March 15 – March 24, 2012 Opening Reception: March 15, 2012 7-10 pm (Snacks and drinks will be served) Is it… is it just for laughs? is a group exhibition of works by seven Vancouver-based student artists. Their works encourage the audience to have a humourous encounter...
  • Broken Borders: curated by CCST candidate Adriana Estrada Centelles

    Broken Borders: curated by CCST candidate Adriana Estrada Centelles

    Satellite Gallery, Floor 2 – March 10th,  2012

    Exhibition runs March 10 to April 28, 2012. Satellite Gallery and Access Gallery co-present Mexican curator and CCST candidate Adriana Estrada Centelles’ group exhibition Broken Borders. The exhibition reflects on the sociopolitical situation that has affected Mexico and more recently other countries, such as Canada and the United States, for the...

  • Beat Nation

    Vancouver Art Gallery – February 25th,  2012

    Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture – February 25 to June 3, 2012 Beat Nation reflects a generation of artists who juxtapose urban youth culture with Aboriginal identity in entirely innovative and unexpected ways. Using hip hop and other forms of popular culture, artists create surprising new cultural hybrids—in painting,...

  • Gareth James: Group Exhibition: Notations: The Cage Effect Today

    Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York – February 17th,  2012

    Opening Reception: February 16, 6 – 8pm. To April 21, 2012. Artists: William Anastasi / Soladad Arias / Céleste Boursier-Mougenot / John Cage / Waltercio Caldas / José Damasceno / Hanne Darboven / Matthew Deleget / Liz Deschenes / Felipe Dulzaides / León Ferrari / Robert Filliou / Yukio Fujimoto...

  • THIRD YEAR HERE

    AHVA Library Gallery, Room 112, Koerner Library – February 15th,  2012

    Opening Reception Wednesday February 15, 5:00 to 7:00 PM. To March 10th. AHVA Library Gallery is pleased to announce THIRD YEAR HERE, a selection of work from AHVA Visual Art students. February 15 through March 10,  2012 HOURS: Wednesday through Saturday 12:00 to 4:00 OPENING  RECEPTION: Wednesday,  February 15,  5:00...

  • Waterscapes: Reframed by Gu Xiong

    – January 26th,  2012 7:30 pm

    January 26 – March 25, 2012 Opening Reception, Thursday, January 26, 7pm Opening Remarks, 7:30pm by Michael Audain, Chair of the Board, National Gallery of Canada and Neil Chrystal, President and CEO, Polygon Homes Ltd. Hours of Operation: – Tues, Wed, Fri 10am — 5pm, Thurs 10am — 9pm, Sat...

  • Gareth James: Group Exhibition: OUT-OF-_________

    Michael Benevento Gallery – January 18th,  2012 5:30 pm

    To February 25, 2012. Artists: Chris Burden, Harun Farocki, David Gilbert, Gareth James, Vishal Jugdeo, Oliver Laric, Zoe Leonard, Simon Leung, Jan Mancuska, Job Piston, Miljohn Ruperto, Amie Siegel, Diego Tonus, Kerry Tribe, James Turrell, Francesco Vezzoli and David Wojnarowicz. Curated by Leila Khastoo http://www.beneventolosangeles.com/index2.html Michael Benevento Gallery 7578 /...

  • Never-Dying Worm

    AHVA Library Gallery, Room 112, Koerner Library – January 11th,  2012 5:30 pm

    Exhibition runs January 11 to February 4, 2012. January 11 to February 4, 2012 AHVA Library Gallery, UBC (gallery open Wednesday through Saturday 12-5pm) Opening Reception Wednesday, January 11, 5 – 7pm. An exhibition with works by: Abbas Akhavan, Raymond Boisjoly, Barry Doupé, Derek Dunlop, Kelly Lycan, Natasha McHardy, Heather...

  • Identity (In)Flux

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – December 9th,  2011 5:00 pm

    Runs until December 13, 2011. Gallery open 11 to 5 pm.

  • If You Make Art in a Forest

    NoMAss Gallery – November 26th,  2011 4:00 pm

    Presented by NoMass Gallery. One night only! NoMass Gallery – Vancouver’s new non-profit, pop-up gallery invites you to a metaphorical forest on November 26 at 196 Kingsway. If You Make Art in a Forest… is a multimedia group exhibition by local and international emerging and established artists.  It calls for...

  • Axis of Light

    AHVA Library Gallery, Room 112, Koerner Library – November 16th,  2011 5:00 pm

    Opening Reception 5 tp 7 pm, November 16th. Exhibition runs November 16 to December 3, 2011 The Axis of Light is a joint exhibition of work by photography students from Visual Art + Material Practice, Emily Carr University of Art and Design  and visual art students from the Department of...

  • Christine D’Onofrio; Falling Woman

    La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse – November 11th,  2011 4:00 pm

    Opening Friday, November 11, 7pm. Exhibition runs to December 11, 2011. Falling Woman, an exhibition of work by Christine D’Onofrio, features a large scale, looped video depicting a woman trapped in a never-ending fall. The fall references many art historical works and media events.  From Yves Klein’s photomontage farce Leap...

  • Manuel Pina: Like a dirty joke or an angel

    Marvelli Gallery – November 3rd,  2011 3:30 pm

    Show runs to December 8, 2011. “Like a Dirty Joke or an Angel” November 3 through December 8, 2011 Opening Reception: Thursday, November 3, 6-8 PM 526 West 26th Street, 2nd Floor New York, New York 10001 T: 212 627 3363 F: 212 627 3368
  • Nature, Knowlege and the Knower: curated by CCST candidate Mo Salemy

    Nature, Knowlege and the Knower: curated by CCST candidate Mo Salemy

    Satellite Gallery, Floor 2 – October 29th,  2011 5:00 pm

    An exhibition that features digital enlargements of panoramic photographs from James L. (Lippit) Clark’s archives from the American Museum of Natural History in New York. James L. Clark Archives and the Construction of Habitat Dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History. A new exhibition at Satellite Gallery offers unprecedented...
  • Studies in Decay; curated by CCST Candidate Jonah Gray

    Studies in Decay; curated by CCST Candidate Jonah Gray

    Or Gallery – October 29th,  2011 5:00 pm

    October 29 — December 10, 2011. Opening Friday, October 28, 8PM. Curated by Jonah Gray. Or Gallery is pleased to present Raymond Boisjoly, Jordy Hamilton, Laura Piasta: Studies in Decay, a group exhibition curated by Jonah Gray. The dark overtones in both the subject matter and colour palette of the artworks in...

  • Studies in Decay; curated by CCST Candidate Jonah Gray

    Belkin Satellite – October 29th,  2011 10:00 am

    Exhibition – Raymond Boisjoly, Jordy Hamilton, Laura Piasta: Studies in Decay – Curated by CCST Candidate Jonah Gray Raymond Boisjoly, Jordy Hamilton, Laura Piasta: Studies in Decay October 29 — December 10, 2011 Opening Friday, October 28, 8PM Curated by Jonah Gray Or Gallery is pleased to present Raymond Boisjoly,...

  • Gareth James; Human Metal

    Miguel Abreu Gallery – October 22nd,  2011 6:00 pm

    Gareth James, Solo Exhibition. Runs to December 23, 2011 “Human Metal” Opening Reception October 22 October 22 – December 23 Miguel Abreu Gallery 36 Orchard Street New York, NY 10002 Tel. 212.995.1774 http://www.miguelabreugallery.com/index.htm

  • Where Nothing Is In Its Place Lies Disorder

    AHVA Library Gallery, Room 112, Koerner Library – October 12th,  2011 5:00 pm

    Opening reception 5 to 7 pm October 12, 2011. Exhibition runs to November 5, 2011. An exhibition of work by 2nd year MFA students Ali Ahadi, Nelly Cesar, Kevin Day, Yan Luo, Nahan McNinch, and Erika Petro. Gallery open 12 to 4 pm Wednesday to Saturday. http://gallery.ahva.ubc.ca  

  • Only When the Shades of Night Begin to Gather

    AHVA Library Gallery, Room 112, Koerner Library – September 14th,  2011 5:00 pm

    Reception and Artist Talk – September 15th, 2011, 5 to 7 pm. Exhibition runs to October 1, 2011. The title of this exhibition is pulled from Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (1820): “Philosophy, as the thought of the world, does not appear until reality has completed its formative process, and made...

  • Waterscapes: Migration along the Vancouver Island, Fraser and Yangzi Rivers

    Campus Gallery – September 9th,  2011

    Opening Friday, September 9th from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Exhibition runs from September 9, 2011 to January 7, 2012 Artist’s Talk: Friday, September 30 at noon Free Docent Led Exhibition Tours: Saturday, October 22nd at 1:00pm & Saturday, November 19th at 1:00pm with Marie Egan Campus Gallery – 900...

  • Opening Reception for Happy: UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduation Exhibition

    – September 8th,  2011

    http://www.belkin.ubc.ca/current/ubc-master-of-fine-arts-graduate-exhibition

  • Careful; You Just Might Trip

    Artworks Gallery – September 8th,  2011

    Exhibition runs from Thursday September 8th to Friday September 9th, 6-10 pm Joe Berube is a graduating MFA student of UBC.

  • Happy: UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2011

    – September 2nd,  2011

    Opening Reception Thursday, September 8, 7 – 10 pm. Exhibition runs Sept 2 to Sept 18, 2011 Happy Joe Bérubé, Marilyne Blais, Jordy Hamilton, , Chunping Huang, Nick Lakowski, Joomi Seo, Damla Tamer UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2011 September 2 – 18, 2011 Reception Thursday, September 8,...

  • The Pose Stands for Potentiality – an exhibtion featuring the work of Jordy Hamilton

    Ridington Reading Room in the Irving K Barber Library, UBC – August 9th,  2011

    Curated by Toby Lawrence. Exhibition runs to October 14th. Working with the permanent art installation in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre’s Ridington Room, The Pose Stands for Potentiality juxtaposes the University of British Columbia’s formal presidential portraits with a series of small works from Vancouver-based artist Jordy Hamilton. This...

  • I don’t know if it makes any sense – I feel quite dizzy and a little drunk due to the blow. I will return with more info shortly…

    IMO Projects – June 24th,  2011

    Group exhibition with Gareth James. To July 23, 2011. Artists: Acconci Studio, Cory Arcangel, Matthew Brannon, Lucky DeBellevue, Cheryl Donegan, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Renee Green, Guyton\Walker, Alex Hubbard, Gareth James, JEQU, Josh Kline, Margaret Lee, Rose Marcus, Danny McDonald, Jonas Mekas, Sam Moyer, Ken Okiishi, Virginia Overton, Eileen Quinlan, Mika...

  • Signal and Noise, Media Art Festival

    VIVO Media Arts Centre – June 23rd,  2011

    June 23 – 27, 2011 The 11th annual Signal + Noise Media Art Festival presents a collision of revolutionary Armenian Kino Cinema, remixes of ex-Yugoslav and CBC Television Broadcast ID Music, travelogues from an arctic sea voyage, and science fictional rediscovery of diminishing islands. The 2011 festival aims to create...

  • The End of Money

    Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art – May 21st,  2011 6:00 pm

    Date: May 21, 2011 Location: Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Witte de Withstraat 50, 3012 BR Rotterdam Group exhibition with Antonio (Tonel) Fernandez. To August 7, 2011. Opening: Saturday 21 May 2011 (6 – 9 pm) Performance by Goldin+Senneby at 7 pm Film Screening: Sunday 26 June 2011...

  • Poste Restante

    Artspeak – May 21st,  2011 2:00 pm

    Conversation with Gareth James and Eric Fredericksen – Saturday, May 21, 2pm What are the outcomes of an exhibition that “refuses to deliver”? Gareth James, in conversation with curator Eric Fredericksen, will examine ideas of refusal, denial, and the strategies of exhibition-making. What is the status of the object within...

  • Marijke Nap: Life Works

    Koerner Library – May 11th,  2011 4:30 pm

    Exhibition runs from May 11 – 28th, 2011, Wednesday to Saturday 12-4pm. Marijke Nap: Life Works Opening Reception: May 11, 4:30-7:30pm. Remarks starting at 5:30pm. The AHVA Library Gallery at the University of British Columbia is pleased to present Marijke Nap, Life Works, an exhibition celebrating the work and talent...

  • 2011 UBC BFA/BA Visual Art Graduating Class Exhibition

    AHVA Library Gallery | Dorothy Somerset Studios | BC Binning Studios – April 20th,  2011 6:00 pm

    Opening April 20, 6 pm – 10 pm. Exhibition runs to May 2, 2011. Hours: Monday to Saturday, 12 – 5 pm. how do you sleep with yourself? AHVA Library Gallery (rm 112, koerner library, 1958 main mall), Dorothy Somerset Studios (6361 university blvd), BC Binning Studios (6373 university blvd) Official remarks...
  • Rehearsal Research: curated by CCST candidate Sarah Todd

    Rehearsal Research: curated by CCST candidate Sarah Todd

    Western Front – April 19th,  2011 12:00 pm

    Justine Chambers, Holly Ward, Paul Kajander. Curated and coordinated by Sarah Todd. Closing reception and performance by Justine Chambers, April 28, 6 -9 PM. Tuesday April 19 – Thursday April 28 Open Tuesday – Saturday 12pm -5pm Rehearsal Research is a presentation of work made during the Rehearsal Research residency,...

  • BRENDAN IS BUILDING A PLAYGROUND IN THE SUB

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – April 4th,  2011 6:00 pm

    Work by AMS Artist in Residence Brendan Albano. To April 8th. Opening April 4, 6-9pm | April 4-8, 11am-4pm website: http://www.brendanalbano.com/portfolio/brendan-is-building-a-playground/ facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=153767738017568

  • A Corporeal Affair: Sabina Sutherland and Mikolaj Smolinski

    – March 30th,  2011 2:00 pm

    Exhibition runs from March 30 – April 24, 2011. Opening April 16th, 2 to 5pm. Dundarave Print Workshop presents: A Corporeal Affair with Sabina Sutherland and Mikolaj Smolinski. The exhibition runs from March 30 – April 24, 2011 and features recent print based work by Sabina and Mikolaj. A reception will...

  • Effects Become Causes

    AHVA Library Gallery, Room 112, Koerner Library – March 23rd,  2011 5:00 pm

    Paintings from the Undergraduate Visual Arts Programs. Opening Wednesday March 23, 2011, 5 to 7 pm. To April 9, 2011. Effects/Causes “The question is no longer what or how but why. Why Paint? The study and teaching of painting holds a central place in art instruction in art departments and...

  • It’s Not You, It’s Me

    SUB Art Gallery – March 14th,  2011 6:00 pm

    Opening 6 to 8 pm March 14th. To March 18th, 2011. Visa 311 Video Art Exhibition. Work by John Baziuk, Megan Blackford, Queenie Cao, Mia Ikeda, Tina Jin, Sean Kim, Louise Leung, Jessica Li, Tara Maghsoudnia, Mia Mushinski, Edmond Ng, Jade Pearce, Cam Pearson, Jordan Ratanadawong and Cynthia Yuan. Hours...

  • Pia Gemma: From Charles Baudelaire to Pat-Downs and Body Scans…

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – February 28th,  2011 7:00 pm

    Opening Monday 28 Feb 2011, 7:00 – 9:00 pm. To March 4th. Solo exhibition 28 Feb 2011 – 4 Mar 2011. Gallery hours 11:00 – 4:00 pm. Paintings and ruminations on travel by BFA student Pia Gemma.

  • Dana Claxton: Stop(the)Gap International Indigenous art in motion

    Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum – February 24th,  2011 4:30 pm

    Stop(the)Gap: International Indigenous art in motion, Feb 24 to April 21, 2011. 2011 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival and Samstag Museum of Art present: Stop(the)Gap: International Indigenous art in motion Moving image installations, screenings and discussions featuring works by Warwick Thornton (Australia), Rebecca Belmore (Canada), Dana Claxton (Canada), Alan Michelson (USA),...

  • Contemporary Histories. Intersecting Pasts and Futures.

    AHVA Library Gallery, Room 112, Koerner Library – February 23rd,  2011 12:00 pm

    Part of the 2011 UBC Art History, Visual Art and Theory 30th Annual Graduate Symposium. Opening Reception: Friday February 25, 5 to 7 pm. February 23 – March 12, 2011 Opening Reception: Friday February 25, 5 – 7 pm. Contemporary Histories— Intersecting Pasts and Futures is an exhibition featuring works by:...

  • Marina Roy: What’s pushed out the door comes back through the window (part 2)

    La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse – February 18th,  2011 7:00 pm

    Opening Friday, February 18, 7pm. Artist talk Saturday, February 19, 3pm. Exhibition runs to March 20, 2011. Marina Roy’s exhibition What’s pushed out the door comes back through the window (part 2) sets up an arena of discursive activity between human, animal, myth, psychoanalysis, literature, and biopolitics. The artworks betray...

  • IDENTIVERSE

    Asian Center, UBC – February 13th,  2011 4:00 pm

    Opening Reception, Sunday March 13, 4 to 8 pm. To Friday March 18, 2011. Exhibition of 3rd year painting and 4th year Art Theory students.

  • Christine D’Onofrio / Falling Woman

    Eyelevel Gallery – February 12th,  2011 6:00 pm

    Exhibitions runs to March 5, 2011. Opening reception: Saturday, February 12th at 6:00pm. Falling Woman is a looped video depicting a woman trapped in a never-ending fall.  The fall in Falling Woman represents an interest in contrived depictions of unconsciousness.  The piece plays with the dream of falling interpreted as...

  • Rebecca Belmore: the Named and the Unnamed

    Satellite Gallery, Floor 2 – February 4th,  2011 6:00 pm

    Opening Reception: Saturday, February 5 from 6 to 9 pm. Show runs to April 10, 2011. Rebecca Belmore’s powerful performances confront us with images of loss, struggle, and silence. The installation The Named and the Unnamed (2002) incorporates a video of Vigil that Belmore performed at the corner of Gore...

  • FACES: Works from the Permanent Collection

    Satellite Gallery, Floor 2 – February 4th,  2011 10:00 am

    Exhibition runs from February 4 to April 10, 2011. Faces is an exhibition that features work from the collection of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. The exhibition explores the diverse ways “faces” are represented, looking specifically at how notions of gender, race, class, and historical contexts affect our...

  • UNREAL

    Vancouver Art Gallery – January 22nd,  2011

    Exhibition runs until September 5th, 2011. Since the origins of Surrealism in the 1920s, the tension between the recognizable and the unfamiliar has inspired and informed artistic practices. Unreal, drawn primarily from the Gallery’s permanent collection and augmented with local loans, considers contemporary artists’ explorations beyond the rational and looks...

  • Works from the Interior

    AHVA Library Gallery, Room 112, Koerner Library – January 13th,  2011 5:00 pm

    Works from the Interior runs from January 12 to February 5, 2011. The AHVA Library Gallery, located in room 112 in Koerner Library presents; WORKS FROM THE INTERIOR An exhibition of works from the Faculty of the Creative Studies Department, UBC Okanagan Campus. Open from January 12 to February 5,...

  • Marina Roy: What’s pushed out the door comes back through the window

    – December 4th,  2010

    Exhibition runs to February 26, 2011. Or satellite gallery, Berlin, Germany Marina Roy’s exhibition What’s pushed out the door comes back through the window sets up an arena of discursive activity between human, animal, myth, psychoanalysis, literature, and biopolitics. The artworks—two and three dimensional works as well as moving image—cull...

  • No Windows

    – November 27th,  2010 6:00 pm

    Satellite Gallery’s First Group Show. To January 23, 2011. Satellite Gallery’s First Group Show Invites the Public to Decode the Conventions of Art and Exhibition-Making. No Windows, on view at Satellite Gallery from November 27, 2010 to January 23, 2011, is the result of a unique collaboration between the Department...

  • The Wall to Wall Sale: UBC Student Art Sale

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – November 24th,  2010

    10am to 4pm Thursday and Friday, 10am to 1pm Saturday. The Visual Arts Students’ Association (VASA) of the University of British Columbia 2010/2011 present The Wall to Wall Sale: UBC Student Art Sale from November 24 – 27, 2010. This salon-style art exhibition is organized to challenge students to respond...

  • MONOTHEMES

    AHVA Library Gallery, Room 112, Koerner Library – November 18th,  2010 5:00 pm

    A solo exhibition of the works of Visual Art Faculty member Manuel Pina. Show runs to December 4th. AHVA Library Gallery, located in room 112 in Koerner Library presents; MONOTHEMES A solo exhibition of the works of Visual Art Faculty member Manuel Pina. Open from November 17 to December 4,...

  • SEE YOU LATER, IN A WHILE

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – November 8th,  2010

    Selected works from Anna Karin Tidlund + Hope C.W. La Farge. To November 12th. Selected works from Anna Karin Tidlund + Hope C.W. La Farge Opening Night: Monday, November 8th – 6 to 9 pm. Come join us for drinks (beer and wine) and some original tunes created by Benj plus other tunage....

  • girls girls girls

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – October 25th,  2010 5:00 pm

    Opening: Monday, October 25, 2010, 6 to 9pm. Show runs until October 29th. The AMS Gallery is pleased to present girls girls girls. The show brings together the work of UBC visual arts students, Holly Parmley and Athena Papadopoulos. Working with video, performance, photography and sculpture, they explore issues of...

  • Yet Not Quite – 2nd Year MFA Exhibition

    Visual Arts Gallery, Koerne Library – October 20th,  2010 5:00 pm

    Opening reception October 21, 5 to 7pm. Exhibition runs October 20 to November 6th. Work by 2nd year MFA students Joe Berube, Marilyn Blais, Jordy Hamilton, ChunPing Huang, Nick Lakowski, Joomi Seo and Damla Tamer. Gallery open Wednesday to Saturday 12 to 4pm. Gallery Homepage  

  • Dana Claxton

    Winsor Gallery – October 9th,  2010

    Exhibition runs to October 30, 2010 Please join us in for the opening reception on Saturday October 9, 2010 2pm – 4pm. The artist will be in attendance. Winsor Gallery 604-681-4870

  • Mark Boulos

    Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – October 8th,  2010

    Opening Reception Thursday, October 7, 8 – 10 pm. Artist Talk Saturday, October 9, 1 – 3pm. To December 5th. The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in North America of work by Amsterdam based, artist-filmmaker Mark Boulos. Boulos was trained as...

  • Four Directions – Dana Claxton, Isabelle Hayeur, Werner Herzog and Val Klassen

    The Brickworks – September 26th,  2010

    Toronto Brickworks – September 26 to December 31, 2010 From September 26 to December 31, 2010, an environmentally themed video installation entitled Four Directions will be on show in celebration of the opening of Evergreen at the Brickworks in Toronto. Through this exhibition, public art organization No. 9 Contemporary Art...

  • Mikolaj Smolinski: “Canadian Exhibition of Contemporary Printmaking” (group exhibition exchange)

    Art College of Shenzen University – September 20th,  2010 5:00 pm

      Show runs to October 20, 2010. An exhibition of 10 Canadian Artists working with Print organized in joint effort by Guy Langevin, co-director of the Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivires and Prof. Qi Fengge, of Shenzhen University.  The project served as an exchange of 10 selected Canadian Artists...

  • WATERSCAPES – Gu Xiong

    Richmond Art Gallery – September 17th,  2010 7:00 pm

    Opening Reception: Thursday September 16, 7–9 pm. Exhibition runs to November 14th. Panel Discussion: Date TBA Monday to Friday 10am to 6pm, Weekends 10am to 5pm, Closed on statutory holidays. Free admission. Wheelchair accessible, Canada Line stop: Richmond-Brighouse. phone: 604.247.8300 / 8312 Image: Gu Xiong, Red River, installation, paper boat,...

  • Gwenessa Lam | Shadow

    Republic Gallery – September 16th,  2010 6:00 pm

    Opening reception: Thursday, September 16th, 6 – 8 pm. Exhibition runs to October 30, 2010. In her work, Gwenessa Lam explores the intersection between the perception, memory, and representation of place. Drawing from notions of the uncanny, her paintings depict darkened interiors and shadows cast from everyday objects. Furniture pieces...

  • The T ing Is: UBC Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition

    AHVA Library Gallery, Room 112, Koerner Library – September 15th,  2010 5:30 pm

    Artist Talks September 20 and October 4, 5:30 pm. Exhibition runs through October 9th. An exhibition of work by Visual Art faculty Dana Claxton, Christine D’Onofrio, Gu Xiong, Gareth James, Barrie Jones, Phil McCrum, Manuel Piña, Richard Prince and Barbara Zeigler. Artist talk – Monday, September 20, 5:30 pm with...

  • Karen Tennant: Creativity Kills Her

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – September 13th,  2010 8:00 pm

    Opening reception September 14, 8 to 10pm Exhibition by 4th year Visual Art student Karen Tennant.

  • NOVEL – Gareth James

    Dépendance – September 10th,  2010 5:00 pm

    Opening reception: Friday September 9th. Runs through October 10, 2010. NOVEL * Ed Atkins, Nick Mauss, Henri Chopin, Nicholas Byrne, Oscar Tuazon, Henrik Olesen, Gareth James, Michaela Eichwald, Merlin Carpenter, Josef Strau, Michael Krebber, R.H. Quaytman, Simon Thompson, Bernadette Corporation, Kirsten Pieroth, Christian Flamm, Camp David, Sergej Jensen. dépendance http://www.dependance.be

  • Six Pact

    Malaspina Printmakers Gallery – September 9th,  2010 6:00 pm

    Opens September 9 from 6 to 9 on Granville Island. Through to October 10th. A juried exhbiton at Malaspina Printmakers that includes the work of UBC undergraduate students Frieda-raye Green and Alison Lau. The work of 14 students selected from Capilano University, Emily Carr University, Kwantlen Polytechnical University, Langara College, University...

  • Here today, gone today: UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2010

    Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – September 3rd,  2010 7:00 pm

    Opening Reception: Thursday, Sept. 9, 7–10 pm. External critique with Distinguished Visiting Artist Ken Lum Sunday, Sept.19, 12–5 pm. Runs through Sept 19th. The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of work by the 2010 graduates of the two-year Master of Fine Arts program...
  • Field Work: curated by CCST Candidate Shaun Dacey

    Field Work: curated by CCST Candidate Shaun Dacey

    Access Gallery – June 26th,  2010 8:00 pm

    Opening Reception: Friday June 25, 8pm. Runs June 26 – July 24, 2010 Diane Borsato, Roy Caussy, Brendan Fernandes, Hannah Jickling, Will Kwan Guest curated by Shaun Dacey Artist Talk by Brendan Fernandes: Saturday 26 June 2010 2pm MFA in Paper Maché event hosted by Hannah Jickling: Thursday 16 July...

  • Field Work: curated by CCST Candidate Shaun Dacey

    Access Gallery – June 26th,  2010

    Opening Reception: Friday June 25, 8pm. Runs June 26 – July 24, 2010 Diane Borsato, Roy Caussy, Brendan Fernandes, Hannah Jickling, Will Kwan Guest curated by Shaun Dacey Artist Talk by Brendan Fernandes: Saturday 26 June 2010 2pm MFA in Paper Maché event hosted by Hannah Jickling: Thursday 16 July...

  • Ryan Peter: Spacetime!

    Republic Gallery – June 25th,  2010 6:00 pm

    Opening reception: Friday, June 25th, 6 – 8 pm. Runs June 25th – August 7th, 2010. Ryan Peter’s exhibition SPACETIME! explores the relationship between painting, materiality, and the photographic image, specifically the aesthetic and aural potential of materials in the era of digital manipulation. Minimizing brushstrokes, he works with heavily...

  • Beyond Imaginings: Eight artists encounter Ontario’s Greenbelt

    Harbourfront Centre – June 19th,  2010

    This summer, Harbourfront Centre unveils a new large-scale photographic exhibition along Toronto’s waterfront. The subject: the world’s largest Greenbelt. Artists: Becky Comber, Keesic Douglas (MFA Candidate), Martie Giefert, Mark Kasumovic, Rob MacInnis, Erin Riley, Meera Margaret Singh, Garett Walker. Curatorial Statement Ontario is home to one of the largest natural...

  • Cinema Verite Redux

    Gallery Sumukha – June 18th,  2010 6:30 pm

    Curated by Shaheen Merali Subba Ghosh Ravikumar Kaghi Attila Richard Lukacs Parvathi Nayar Charly Nijensohn Prasad Raghavan Marina Roy Preview 18 Jun 2010 6:30 – 8:30 pm On view till 30 Jul 2010 10:30 am – 6:00 pm Monday to Saturday http://www.sumukha.com/

  • Barrie Jones, Philip McCrum, Xiong Gu: Three Voices

    Organhaus Gallery – June 15th,  2010 8:00 pm

    VISA Faculty Show: Three Voices, showing June 15th – June 27th Three Voices features the work of AHVA faculty members from the Visual Arts – Barrie Jones, Philip McCrum, and Xiong Gu. http://www.organhaus.org/
  • Hold Still Wild Youth: The GINA Show Archive curated by CCST Candidate Allison Collins

    Hold Still Wild Youth: The GINA Show Archive curated by CCST Candidate Allison Collins

    Or Gallery – June 4th,  2010 8:00 pm

    Opening 8 pm, Friday, June 4, 2010. Runs June 5 – July 10, 2010 Curated by Allison Collins, MA CCST Candidate. A new exhibition about The GINA Show, John Anderson’s television art project, will be shown nearly thirty years after its initial broadcast in 1979 on Vancouver Cable 10, at...

  • (red)man; MFA Candidate Keesic Douglas

    Soho Lobby Gallery – May 9th,  2010 4:00 pm

    Exhibition runs from May 9th – August 31, Toronto. Opening May 22, 2 – 6pm Keesic Douglas (MFA Candidate) is a multidisciplinary artist who uses performance, video, installation and of course photography to both explore and challenge the mediated construction of ‘Indian’. As a First Nations Artist he is well...

  • Expo Mad Junk: Mad is Mad

    Madrid – May 6th,  2010 9:00 pm

    The opening of the group show “Mad is Mad” in Madrid features “junk art” and includes the work of UBC alumna, Heather Passmore.

  • “Breathless Days 1959-1960: A Chronotropic Experiment”

    – May 1st,  2010

    Opening Reception: May 1, 5:30 – 7:30 pm. Runs April 16 to June 2, 2010. This exhibition of painting, photography, collage, and prints includes work from the Belkin Art Gallery Collection, and loans from the Vancouver Art Gallery and Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft. The works draw a constellation of...

  • Notes from an expedition: JOE BERUBE

    SUB Art Gallery – April 26th,  2010 6:00 pm

    Opening Reception: Friday, April 30, from 6 – 9 pm.
  • Friend or Foe; curated by CCST candidate Darrin Martens

    Friend or Foe; curated by CCST candidate Darrin Martens

    Or Gallery – April 24th,  2010

    Exhibition runs from April 24 to May 29, 2010. Friend or Foe is an exhibition featuring new work by two of Canada’s most respected visual artists – Rebecca Belmore and Terrance Houle, curated by Darrin Martens MA Candidate, Critical and Curatorial Studies, UBC. Opening at the Or Gallery in Vancouver on...

  • Friend or Foe; curated by CCST candidate Darrin Martens

    Or Gallery – April 24th,  2010

    Exhibition runs from April 24 to May 29, 2010. Friend or Foe is an exhibition featuring new work by two of Canada’s most respected visual artists – Rebecca Belmore and Terrance Houle, curated by Darrin Martens MA Candidate, Critical and Curatorial Studies, UBC. Opening at the Or Gallery in Vancouver on...

  • 2010 BFA/BA Visual Art Graduating Class Exhibition

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – April 23rd,  2010 5:00 pm

    Opening reception: April 23, 5 – 10 pm. Exhibition runs April 24 to May 5, 2010. Exhibition locations are: BC Binning Studios – 6373 University Blvd, UBC Dorothy Somerset Studios – 6361 University Blvd, UBC The Gallery (located in room 112, Koerner Library bottom floor) – 1958 Main Mall, UBC...

  • Initials – Works by foundation studio classes

    AHVA Library Gallery, Room 112, Koerner Library – March 31st,  2010 4:00 pm

    Open March 31, April 1, 7, 8, 9, 10 The Gallery, room 112, Koerner Library 1958 Main Mall, UBC   The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia is pleased to present a selection of art works from the first year studio classes....

  • Horse and Sparrow: Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens

    The New Gallery – March 26th,  2010 7:00 pm

    Horse and Sparrow is a grouping of works, including silkscreen prints, wall-sculptures and video, that share a common concern with the ways objectivity is performed in economic discourse. Initiated in 2008 by artists Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens (MFA 2007) , Horse and Sparrow develops through in-house research and field...

  • UBC PRINTS

    AHVA Library Gallery, Room 112, Koerner Library – March 12th,  2010 4:00 pm

    Date: March 12, 2010 Location: Gallery in room 112 of the Koerner Library   Opening: Friday, March 12th, 4 to 7 pm.   Print works by 2nd and 3rd year Visual Art students. Gallery hours Wednesday to Saturday, 12 to 5pm.  

  • Celebrating the Image

    Robson Square, UBC – March 11th,  2010 3:00 pm

    An exhibition of video works by UBC visual arts students. Constant technological advancements in recent years have significantly impacted the production and consumption of images. Such developments open many new possibilities but has also important cultural implications as they are changing the ways we create and understand images. This poses...

  • SNOW

    Equinox Gallery – February 10th,  2010 10:00 am

    February 10 – February 27, 2010 Tuesday – Saturday 10am to 5pm or by appointment Works by: Peter Doig, Gathie Falk, Fred Herzog, Geoffrey James, Erin McSavaney, Ryan Peter, Philippe Raphanel, Ben Reeves, Gerhard Richter, Danny Singer, Gordon Smith, David Thauberger Ryan Peter is an alumnus of the University of...

  • Re: View (New Ways of Seeing)

    Dorothy Somerset Studios, Lum Space - Room 110 – February 4th,  2010 12:00 pm

    VISA 430 Class: Mixed Media Works Feb. 4 – 11, 2010 12p – 2p Daily Reception on Friday, Feb. 5, 4p – 6p.  

  • Learning from Vancouver

    Western Front – January 30th,  2010 8:00 pm

    January 30 to March 6, 2010 Learning from Vancouver Exhibition and Symposium Bik Van der Pol and Urban Subjects: in dialogue Curated by Alissa Firth-Eagland and Johan Lundh Exhibition: January 30 to March 6, 2010 Opening reception: January 29, 2010, 8 PM Symposium: January 29 to 31, 2010 According to...

  • Sights/Sites of Spectacle Exhibition

    Koerner Library, Room 102 – January 27th,  2010

    Opening reception Friday, January 29th, 5:30 to 8:00 pm. Exhibition runs through February 20th. Located in the AHVA Gallery in Koerner Library, Room 112. Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 12 to 5 pm.  

  • CUE: Artists’ Videos

    Vancouver Art Gallery – January 23rd,  2010

    January 23 to March 21, 2010 CUE: Artists’ Videos features internationally acclaimed artists, Fischli & Weiss, Gary Hill, William Kentridge, Kimsooja, Paul Wong and UBC MFA alumni Marina Roy, Myfanwy McLeod and Tim Lee. The Vancouver Art Gallery presents CUE: Artists’ Videos, an exhibition of video art displayed on the portico...

  • Border Zones: New Art Across Cultures

    Museum of Anthropology – January 23rd,  2010

    Exhibition marking the launch of the ‘new’ Museum of Anthropology – through September 12, 2010 January 23, 2010 – September 12, 2010 Curated by Karen Duffek, MOA Curator of Contemporary Visual Arts. Presented with Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad. Border Zones: New Art Across Cultures is an exhibition of international contemporary...

  • Backstory: Nuuchaanulth Ceremonial Curtains and the Work of Ḳi-ḳe-in

    – January 16th,  2010

    through to 28 March, 2010 17 January to 28 March, 2010 — Opening reception: Saturday, January 16, 3 to 5pm — Symposium: Talking about Thliitsapilthim, Nuuchaanulth Ceremonial Curtains Friday, January 15, 10 am – 5:30 pm Saturday, January 16, 10 am – 12:30 pm VANCOUVER: Curated by Professor Charlotte Townsend-Gault...

  • Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens

    – January 15th,  2010

    January 15 to February 14, 2010 VU CENTRE DE DIFFUSION ET DE PRODUCTION DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE Wednesday to Sunday, 12pm to 5pm Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens have been working together since 2002 in installation and sound art, video and photography. They enquire into the construction of meaning in identity,...

  • Im/Perfect Bodies

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – January 11th,  2010

    An Exhibition put on by AHSA + VASA Jan. 11-15 Opening Reception Jan. 11, 4-7pm

  • Manuel Piña: Chronotypes

    Gallery Atsui – January 8th,  2010

    January 8 to 30, 2010 January 8 to 30, 2010 Opening Reception: Friday, January 8, 8 pm. Open hours: Saturdays from 1 to 4 pm. Guest curated by Keith Wallace The title of Manuel Piña’s exhibition, Chronotypes, is, on the one hand, a reference to “chronotopes,” a term proposed by...

  • Horse and Sparrow: Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens

    Vernon Public Art Gallery – January 7th,  2010

    January 7 to March 11, 2010 Hours: Mon-Fri: 10am-5pm, Sat: 11am-4pm Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens, Montreal and Vancouver-based artists, have been producing collaborative works since 2002. Their engagement with language, identity, and history is pursued through re-articulations of existing systems of thought and forms of representation. The Vernon Public...

  • THIS IS THE FUTURE, the Rest is History

    Western Bridge – December 12th,  2009 6:00 pm

    Featuring work by alumni, Raymond Boisjoly and Ryan Peter, through January 9 in Seattle TARL announces its first public project, an exhibition by Vancouver artists Raymond Boisjoly and Ryan Peter, on view at 1447 21st Ave in Seattle, with an artist talk at Western Bridge preceding the opening. Using a...

  • MORPH

    Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room – December 9th,  2009 5:00 pm

    A creative transitioning UBC VISA 330 Undergraduate Exhibition 2009 Working within the theme of “transformation” on a personal and universal level, Morph is an exhibition of paintings that offer multiple aspects of individuals’ creative focus, academic backgrounds, personal stories and global perspectives. In preceding projects, students have researched and reinterpreted...

  • Identity and Difference

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – December 7th,  2009 5:00 pm

    VISA 230 Class Opening: Dec. 7, 5p-7p Exhibition times: Dec. 7-11, 12p-5p This exhibition represents the artists’ varied views, interpretations and reflections on self and society.

  • Doublethink

    AHVA Library Gallery, Room 112, Koerner Library – December 2nd,  2009 4:00 am

    VISA 480 Theory Class Group Exhibitions Reception: Friday December 4th, 4-7pm December 2-5, 2009 Hours: Wednesday-Saturday noon-4pm Gallery located in room 112, Koerner Library, 1958 Main Mall, UBC, Vancouver The gallery located in room 112, Koerner Library presents the work of students from VISA 480 in a two-part exhibition. The...

  • VitaminGU

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – November 30th,  2009 11:00 am

    UBC VISA 320 Undergraduate Exhibition 2009 Please join us for an exhibition of works by third year drawing students in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory. Nov. 30th to Dec. 4th, 2009, 11:00AM – 5:00PM There will be an opening reception on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at...

  • Internet Friends Don’t Count

    AHVA Library Gallery, Room 112, Koerner Library – November 24th,  2009 4:00 am

    VISA 480 Theory Class Group Exhibitions Opening Reception: Tuesday November 24, 4-7pm November 24-28, 2009 Hours: Wednesday-Saturday noon-4pm gallery located in room 112 Koerner Library 1958 Main Mall, UBC, Vancouver The gallery located in room 112, Koerner Library presents the work of students from VISA 480 in a two-part exhibition....

  • DUMBWAITER

    James Taylor Gallery – November 21st,  2009 12:00 pm

    21st Nov – 13th Dec, 2009 JAMES TAYLOR GALLERY In association with FIELDGATE GALLERY Presents DUMBWAITER Lee Holden Tod Hanson Denise Hawrysio (Sessional 2009W) Alex Schady & Mia Taylor Margaret O’Brien Richard Ducker Zoe Walker & Neil Bromwich Bruno Martelli & Ruth Gibson (igloo) PRIVATE VIEW: Fri, 20th Nov.  6-9pm...

  • E-MIXER at the Surrey Art Gallery

    Surrey Art Gallery – November 19th,  2009 7:00 pm

    Featuring works of alumni: Scott Billings and Julio Lopez Celebrating digital media, art and artists in Metro Vancouver, E-MIXER is a party and networking event with presentations by sound artists and emerging digital media artists. As part of E-MIXER, Acoustic Illusions is a set of performed sound works by Martin...

  • Surveilling Public Space: Perspectives on Spectacle

    Interurban – November 18th,  2009 1:00 pm

    18 – 21 November, 2009 (Wed – Sat) Gallery Hours: 1:00PM – 5:00PM Free Admission Opening with Performative Act: Nov 18, 2009 (Wed) 7:00PM Simon Fraser University (Communication) and the Vancouver Public Space Network present a public art exhibition by various artists at the Interurban Gallery from November 18 – 21,...

  • The Way We Were

    Pendulum Gallery – November 2nd,  2009 10:00 am

    A solo exhibition by Vancouver artist and AHVA graduate Roselina Hung Roselina Hung (BFA 2002) November 2 – November 14, 2009 Artist Reception: November 5, 2009, 6-9 pm The Pendulum Gallery is pleased to present The Way We Were, a solo exhibition by Vancouver artist Roselina Hung. Her intricate pop-flavoured...

  • Take Your Time

    SFU Gallery – October 31st,  2009 10:00 am

    Opening Reception: Friday October 30, 7 to 9pm, SFU Burnaby Artists: Rebecca Brewer, Ron den Daas, Colleen Heslin, Damian Moppett, Heather Passmore (BFA 2000 & MFA 2004), Gary Pearson, Ben Reeves and Neil Wedman. Opening Reception: Friday October 30, 7 to 9pm, SFU Burnaby Taking a Deep Breath: a panel...

  • Samplings: Painters Survey the 20C

    Dorothy Somerset Studios, Lum Space - Room 110 – October 28th,  2009 2:30 pm

    Reception, October 30, 2009 at 5pm Gu Xiong’s VISA 330 001 class show,

  • Speaking Out: A Lamentation for Parrhesian Strategies

    Emily Carr University of Art and Design, South Building, Room 301 – October 23rd,  2009 6:30 pm

    Curated by Sadira Rodrigues “My intention was not to deal with the problem of truth, but with the problem of truth-teller or truth-telling as an activity … Who is able to tell the truth? What are the moral, the ethical, and the spiritual conditions which entitle someone to present himself...

  • Satyagraha: Yang Shu

    AHVA Library Gallery, Room 112, Koerner Library – October 15th,  2009 4:00 pm

    The gallery located in Room 112, Koerner Library presents Satyagraha (October 15th – 31st, 2009), the first Vancouver exhibition of Chinese artist Yang Shu. The word Satyagraha is a synthesis of the Sanskrit words Satya (truth) and Agraha (holding firmly to). It is a philosophy and practice of nonviolent resistance...

  • ANGELS IN THE ANGLES: An exhibition of Concrete Poets

    Gallery Atsui – October 9th,  2009 1:00 pm

      Donato Mancini Christian Bök Marina Roy Opening reception: Friday, October 3, 8 pm to 1 am. Gallery Atsui, 602 E.Hastings, Vancouver BC

  • Black Hole is Also Supernova: Colleen Brown, Paul Kajander and Kara Uzelman

    Richmond Art Gallery – September 18th,  2009

    18 September – 1 November, 2009 Opening: Thursday 17 September, 7–9 pm Colleen Brown, Paul Kajander (MFA ’07), and Kara Uzelman This exhibition features the work of Colleen Brown, Paul Kajander and Kara Uzelman in a variety of media: video, photography, sculpture, found materials, and text. Their treatment of objects...

  • Race: Proposals in Truth and Reconciliation

    – September 12th,  2009

    Curated by Sadira Rodrigues What are the possibilities of talking about race today? It is critical that we continue to challenge the conditions of racism, marginality, exclusion, and xenophobia. But how does one approach talking about a subject whose archaeologies of knowledge have been laden with histories of conflict and...

  • WHAT MATTER

    AHVA Library Gallery, Room 112, Koerner Library – September 11th,  2009

    UBC Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition Friday September 11 – October 3, 2009 Hours: Wednesday – Saturday noon to 4pm Opening: Friday Sept. 11, 2009, 4 – 7pm The recent turn toward visual culture, materiality, and the “thing” in the humanities is central to issues around artistic praxis and reception. It...

  • Denise Hawrysio vs Al Masson

    – September 11th,  2009

    From 11 September – 11 October 2009 OPENING FRIDAY 11th September, 5pm – 8pm Denise Hawrysio Etching Plate as Shield Denise Hawrysio work pursues the conceptual possibilities of printmaking, especially in relation to her notion of site-specificity. Hawrysio produces her prints by employing external agents: human and physical. The prints...

  • MORE ENLIGHTENMENT

    VIVO Media Arts Centre – September 10th,  2009

    David Cunningham Kathleen Ritter Sylvain Sailly Zoe Tissandier (MFA Candidate) Amy Zion September 10—October 3, 2009 SWARM Opening September 10, 7pm Artist Talk September 23, 7:30pm Gallery Hours Wed—Sat | 1pm—7pm MORE ENLIGHTENMENT gathers five Vancouver artists — together their work builds a set of possibilities for thinking about the...

  • THE DEAD 2

    Great Northern Way Studios, Bldg 1, Suite 202 – September 8th,  2009

    Opening Reception, September 10, 2009, 8pm – 11pm – Part of SWARM 2009 The Dead 2 highlights the work of ten painters who currently live and or have lived in Vancouver – Shea Allan-McCachen Paul A. Carr Jordy Hamilton Nick Lakowski Phillip McCrum Alicia Munro Kevin Murphy Ryan Peter Anna...

  • INTERROBANG: UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2009

    Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – September 4th,  2009

    MFA 2009 Graduate Exhibition Shea Allan-McCachen, Scott Billings, Krista Dragomer, Julio Lopez, Jen Weih Opening Reception: Thursday, September 10, 7 – 10 pm External Critique by Liz Magor: Saturday September 12, 12 to 5 pm Interrobang. This uncommon typographic ligature superimposes the meaning of a question mark onto an exclamation...

  • Caught in the Middle

    LumSpace, Dorothy Somerset Building, Room 210 – August 24th,  2009

    Paintings, drawings, photographs and poems by Yoriko Gillard, 1 pm to 4:30 pm daily This exhibition reflects the artist’s intercultural experiences between Canada and Japan. Yoriko Gillard was born in Japan and is currently a student taking courses at UBC. This is her first solo show, and she sees this...
  • Cosmologies: anything that exists has a beginning; curated by CCST candidate Daina Warren

    Cosmologies: anything that exists has a beginning; curated by CCST candidate Daina Warren

    Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Art – July 4th,  2009

    Opening, Friday, July 3, 2009. Artist Talk: July 4, 2009 at 2pm. Show runs July 4 to August 8, 2009. Jason Baerg, Dana Claxton Lewis deSoto, Richard Tawhanga Kereopa This multi-media group exhibition deals with complex cultural systems created by individual artists from various Indigenous cultures. These systems of knowing...

  • Windows; an exhibition by Gwenassa Lam

    – June 11th,  2009 4:00 pm

    Gwenessa Lam (BFA 2001) In the series Windows, Gwenessa Lam explores the notion of absence through paintings of vacant windows and walls. The windowed wall is a liminal space between the interior and exterior. It suggests a potential to see, to visualize the other side without physically entering into the...

  • Hidden Sites; an exhibition by Barbara Zeigler

    Richmond Art Gallery – May 28th,  2009 7:00 pm

    Exhibition runs from May 28 to July 12. Opening: May 28, 2009, 7 – 9 PM Hidden Sites links two BC sites that are significant yet “hidden” to most British Columbians, Cache Creek and the Broughton Archipelago. Barbara Zeigler’s video installation and photographs link the migration of BC salmon with...

  • Even Though We Are Not Together; an exhibition by Ron Tran

    Bestway – May 23rd,  2009 7:00 pm

    Opening reception Saturday 23 May, 7 – 11pm. Exhibition open Sunday 24 May, 12 – 5pm and Monday 25 May, 12 – 5pm. Curated by Charo Neville, CCST graduate 2006. Busking and feeding pigeons; Exotic World Museum and Puff Pipes; Our Community Bikes and Bill’s Glass Ltd.; Ilosam Frames &...

  • Hard Candy; an exhibition by Jade Yumang

    Malaspina Printmakers Gallery – May 5th,  2009 3:30 pm

    Jade Yumang, UBC Alumnus (BFA Honours, 2008) Opening Reception, Friday May 8, 7-9pm May 5 – June 14, 2009 Hours: Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm; Sat-Sun 11am-5pm Hard Candy is an exhibition of the newest works by emerging artist Jade Yumang.  Comprised of nine portraits, Hard Candy is a series of work that...

  • Flare; an exhibition by Christine D’Onofrio

    Soho Lobby Gallery – May 2nd,  2009 1:00 pm

    Exhibition runs until August 31, 2009. Opening: May 2, 2009, 1 – 5 pm Flare: Christine D’Onofrio At its most elementary level, photography is merely a series of light rays reflecting off surfaces, finding their way through a camera lens and burning an organized image onto a lightsensitive surface. D’onofrio...
  • Paper Trail: Serial Material; curated by CCST candidates Allison Collins, Shaun Dacey and Sarah Todd

    Paper Trail: Serial Material; curated by CCST candidates Allison Collins, Shaun Dacey and Sarah Todd

    Gallery Atsui – May 1st,  2009

    Exhibition continues until May 30, 2009. Reception 8 pm, Friday May 1st. Featuring works by: Ruth Beale (London, UK) Gretchen Bennett (Seattle) Michael Comeau (Toronto) Paige Gratland (Toronto) Packard Jennings (San Francisco) Hannah Jickling and Helen Reed (Portland) Curated by: Allison Collins,Shaun Dacey and Sarah ToddUBC MA (Curatorial Studies) Program...
  • The Wild so Close; curated by CCST candidate Jennifer Cane

    The Wild so Close; curated by CCST candidate Jennifer Cane

    Or Gallery – April 25th,  2009

    Showing April 25th – May 1st, 2009. Opening Reception Friday, 24 April, 8:00 pm. Curated by Jennifer Cane, MA Candidate, Critical and Curatorial Studies, UBC The Wild so Close presents photographic and video works by Tacita Dean, Leslie Grant and Al Bersch, Jason Hendrickson, David Horvitz, and Donald Lawrence. The...

  • Readings

    Shudder Gallery – April 24th,  2009

    Exhibition by Alumni Anna Marie Repstock (BFA, 2007) and Casey Wei (BFA, 2008). April 24 – May 16, 2009. Open Wed-Sat: 12:30 pm -5:30 pm. Opening Reception April 24, 7-11 pm. Readings is an exhibition of new work by emerging Vancouver artists Anna Marie Repstock and Casey Wei. Romantic ideals...

  • Ménagerie; Abbas Akhavan and Marina Roy

    DAÏMÕN – April 21st,  2009

    Exhibition from April 21st until May 10th 2009 Ménagerie Abbas Akhavan Marina Roy Residency from April 4th until April 24th 2009 Exhibition from April 21st until May 10th 2009 SWARM / Opening April 21st, 6 – 9 PM Artist talk April 23rd, 6H30 PM At DAÏMÕN’s StudiÕ and at AXENÉO7,...

  • 2009 UBC BFA/BA Visual Art Graduating Class Exhibition: Like It In Theory

    – April 17th,  2009 5:00 pm

    Opening reception: April 17, 5 – 10 pm. Show runs April 18 – 29, 2009. Exhibition locations are: BC Binning Studios – 6373 University Blvd, UBC Dorothy Somerset Studios – 6361 University Blvd, UBC Monday – Saturday 11 AM – 5 PM The Gallery  – (located in room 112, Koerner Library bottom floor) – 1958...

  • FIRST YEAR 2008/9 exhibition

    AHVA Library Gallery, Room 112, Koerner Library – April 2nd,  2009

    April 2 to April 11th (closed on Friday, April 10) Opening reception Friday April 3, 5pm – 7pm For the inaugural exhibition following renovation of its new gallery space in the Koerner Library, the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory presents work from our first year Visual Art...

  • dogsdinner

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – March 31st,  2009 5:30 pm

    new work: VISA 381 theory Opening reception: March 31, 5:30 to 7:30 Open 11am to 4pm daily

  • Prints

    Dorothy Somerset Studios, Lum Space - Room 110 – March 26th,  2009 3:00 pm

    Thursday March 26 through Friday April 3 Reception Wednesday April 1, 5 to 6 pm This exhibition features innovative digital, etching, screen, collagraph, and woodblock prints, and many works combining a variety of these print media, produced in second and third-year print media classes (VISA 250-001, 002 and 003, VISA...

  • Social Spectrum

    Dorothy Somerset Studios, Lum Space - Room 110 – March 16th,  2009 3:00 pm

    Through to March 22nd. Part of the UBC-OKANAGAN photography exchange. This is the first of what we hope will be an ongoing exchange of student exhibitions between the two campus’ of UBC.

  • Lägenheten (Apartment)

    Dorothy Somerset Studios, Lum Space - Room 110 – March 10th,  2009 9:00 am

    VISA 410 Interactive Installation Exhibition Sovrum (Bedroom): Micky Burgess, Jordana Hovis, & Dina Maani. Kök (Kitchen): Russell Case, Jeff Chang, Jessica Delisle, & Lauren Mckenna. Rekreation (Recreation): Annabelle Au, Man Tim Tsui, Jaime Yee, Jeen Yee, & Eric Yuen. Utomhus (Outside): Danny Askew, Kath Blair, & Andrew Lunny.   Open...

  • Cosmologies: anything that exists has a beginning; curated by CCST candidate Daina Warren

    Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Art – March 7th,  2009

    Opening, Friday, July 3, 2009. Artist Talk: July 4, 2009 at 2pm. Show runs July 4 to August 8, 2009. Jason Baerg, Dana Claxton Lewis deSoto, Richard Tawhanga Kereopa This multi-media group exhibition deals with complex cultural systems created by individual artists from various Indigenous cultures. These systems of knowing...

  • Mind the Gap

    Dorothy Somerset Studios, Lum Space - Room 110 – February 25th,  2009 5:00 pm

    2nd Year Printmaking Show Denise Hawrysio’s VISA 250 print class will be holding a small installation this Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 in the Lum Space. The project called Mind the Gap encouraged an experimental approach to printmaking, while at the same time addresses the what the art historian John Berger...

  • Survey #6: To Range One’s Gaze Leisurely Over

    Dorothy Somerset Studios, Lum Space - Room 110 – February 9th,  2009 12:00 pm

    Date: February 09, 2009 Time: 12:00 PM Location: Dorothy Somerset Studios, Rm 110, 6361 University Boulevard Undergraduate exhibition. Closing reception, Friday February 13, 4 pm – 7 pm An exhibition of works by: Alicia Munro, Kevin Murphy, Julia Higgs, Jaylene McDonald, Leah Perry, Mike Macri, Jodie Mak, Jessica Delisle &...

  • Facts and fictions

    FINA Art Gallery – February 9th,  2009

    Part of the UBC-OKANAGAN photography exchange. Work from 3rd and 4th year AHVA photography students presented at the Okanagan campus gallery.

  • HOW SOON IS NOW: Contemporary Art from Here

    – February 7th,  2009

    Contemporary BC Artists. Through to May 3, 2009. With ahva MFA graduates Abbas Akhavan, Raymond Boisjoly, Kyla Mallett, Luanne Martineau, Marina Roy, Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky. Opening, February 6th, 7-10pm How Soon Is Now is a selection of recent art from the province of British Columbia. Drawing on diverse...

  • Motions of Attachment

    SUB Art Gallery – February 2nd,  2009 5:00 pm

    Undergraduate Students’ Exhibition Visual Arts students Sin Hye Park, Sally Song and Nadine Bouliane invite you to view an exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints that survey the places of inquiry they have explored in their time at UBC.   “It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of...

  • The Glocal Project: Jer Thorp, M. Simon Levin, Sylvia Grace Borda

    Surrey Art Gallery – January 24th,  2009 2:00 pm

    The Glocal Project is a collaborative, multifaceted artist-led project that examines the changing role of digital image making today.  The digital revolution has included the global proliferation of millions of image-taking devices (such as digital cameras, video recorders, cell phones, and PDAs) and the sharing of billions of images through online networking and archival sites...

  • Action-Camera: Beijing Performance Photography

    – January 15th,  2009 8:00 pm

    Opening night January 15, 8 to 10 pm Runs January 16 to April 19, 2009 This exhibition is curated by Keith Wallace and explores an aspect of performance art that is prominent in mainland China and in particular, Beijing. In mainland China, performance art is a relatively recent development with...

  • “NEW WORK”: Michael Morris, Paul Wong, Attila Richard Luckacs and Ignacio Corral

    – January 7th,  2009 1:00 pm

    Four Vancouver artists welcome the New Year by collaborating to exhibit work for two weeks at the site of the old A&B Sound at 556 Seymour Street in downtown Vancouver. Opening Tuesday January 6th @ 6-9pm Michael Morris is a senior Canadian artist known for his dynamic paintings of the...
  • shrink-wrapped; curated by CCST candidate Alison Rajah

    shrink-wrapped; curated by CCST candidate Alison Rajah

    Or Gallery – December 5th,  2008

    6 December, 2008 to 24 January, 2009. Opening Reception Friday, December 5, 8 to 10 pm. Adel Abidin, Abbas Akhavan, A.S. Dhillon, Josephine Meckseper, Martha Rosler, Gail Wight and Retort shrink-wrapped considers how a group of artists and intellectuals have responded to images of war and the image-world leading up to...

  • Local

    – December 5th,  2008

    Local is an exhibition of 22 Vancouver artists curated by The Apartment in collaboration with Fillip Magazine. Abbas Akhavan, Kim Kennedy Austin, Raymond Boisjoly, Colleen Brown, Sabine Bitter, Barb Choit, Andrew Dadson, Jason Fitzpatrick, Jacob Gleeson, Andrew Herft, Jeremy Hof, Cameron Kerr, Jeff Khonsary, Jacquie Leggatt, Sara Mameni, Brad Phillips,...

  • Facts and Fictions: Photography

    AHVA Library Gallery, Room 112, Koerner Library – November 18th,  2008

    Opening night November 18, 6 to 8pm. Show runs Nov 19 through 21, noon to 5pm. Visual Art Undergraduate Students in Photography. This exhibition of photographic works is selected from Intermediate and Advanced Photography classes of the Visual Art program in the Department of At History, Visual Art and Theory at...

  • Alicia Munro – The Sebastians

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – November 17th,  2008

    Opening: Monday November 17, 6-8pm, continues November 17-21, 12-4pm In September I traveled to Kelowna, BC to visit my grandparents. At their house, I gathered photographs from their family albums. I used these images to make a painting every day for the month of October. The photographs span fifty years...

  • Persistent Resistance: Early Feminist Video in Vancouver (Day 2)

    VIVO Media Arts Centre – November 8th,  2008

    This two evening event celebrates early feminist video practice by artists working in Vancouver in the 70s and 80s. 7pm: Early Video by Elizabeth Vander Zaag, and artist talk 8:30 : Experimental Short Video by Marion Barling, Kate Craig, Crista Dahl, Deborah Fong, Saralee James, Nomi Kaplan, Shawn Preus, Ruby...

  • Persistent Resistance: Early Feminist Video in Vancouver (Day 1)

    VIVO Media Arts Centre – November 7th,  2008

    This two evening event celebrates early feminist video practice by artists working in Vancouver in the 70s and 80s. 7pm: Reception and launch of Documentaries and The Rise Of Women’s Collectives. Work by Amelia Productions, Peg Campbell, Paula Levine, Reel Feelings Media, Barbara Steinman and Women in Focus. Tapes available...

  • LOOP: VISA 470A Exhibition

    Koerner Library, Room 118 – November 4th,  2008

    LOOP presents works by VISA 470A. Opening: Tuesday, November 4 6-8pm. Through to November 15th. Danny Askew// Kath Blair// Nancy Chang// Ale Coates// Jessica Delisle// Chris Hettel// Julia Higgs// Heather Kaytor// Jason Lee// Andrew Lunny// Elnaz Maassoumian// Lauren Mckenna// Robin Mcnulty// Felix Suen//  Max Taffet// Pia Ugarte// Andrea Van Schubert//...

  • Anonymous Atrocities – art by Mikolaj Smolinski and Marijke Nap

    Dundarave Print Workshop, Granville Island – October 24th,  2008

    October 20 – November 9 Opening Reception on October 24 from 7 – 10 pm

  • THUMBSUCKER

    Ridington Reading Room in the Irving K Barber Library, UBC – October 23rd,  2008

    October 23rd to November 14th, 2008 The Visual Art Theory class for Studio is pleased to announce its upcoming group exhibition, Thumbsucker.  Featuring mixed media work by Erin Catherall, Rebecca Chen, Anna Cheung, Lok Him Fung, Dawn Goldberg, Perrin Grauer, Ervin Hadzic, Christopher Hettel, Jordana Hovis, Karen La, Anthony Lam, ...

  • Kevin Murphy: Entropy Now

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – October 20th,  2008

    AMS Gallery Oct 20-24, 11:00-5:00 Daily Opening Reception: Monday Oct 20, 6:00-8:00pm Entropy Now features three new sculptural installation works by Kevin Murphy. Mapping ideas of entropy onto the contemporary moment, the exhibition investigates the relationships between accumulation, stasis, and collapse within a series of contrived microcosms. Employing the vocabulary...

  • M Simon Levin, Jer Thorp and Sylvia Grace Borda

    Surrey Art Gallery – October 18th,  2008 1:00 pm

    New work by these artists draws on social science methods of participatory action research and reworks them towards a contemporary art (new media) installation. This October 18, Surrey Art Gallery’s Techlab will host an afternoon open house for the ongoing digital media project Glocal. Already one year into the research,...

  • NEIGHBOURS – Marina Roy and Abbas Akhavan

    VIVO – October 17th,  2008 8:00 pm

    Opening OCTOBER 17, 8 PM, Artist Talk OCTOBER 21, 8 PM This October 17th, VIVO Media Arts Centre will premier new works by Marina Roy and Abbas Akhavan. For most Vancouverites, the transformation of domestic space and its discontents are a fact of life. But for Roy and Akhavan some...

  • David Claerbout

    – October 10th,  2008 12:00 pm

    October 10 – December 7, 2008 The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by the Belgian artist David Claerbout. The exhibition will transform the gallery to show a selection of video installations that date from 1996 to the present. This exhibition...

  • Rodney Graham’s Millennial Time Machine

    – September 25th,  2008

    Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery presents – Rodney Graham’s Millennial Time Machine Take a ride in the Millennial Time Machine! Visitors are invited to participate in free drop-in tours! Sit inside the carriage and look at the glowing image projected through the powerful lens.

  • Christine D’Onofrio – Falling Woman

    Republic Gallery – September 13th,  2008 2:00 pm

    September 13th through October 18th 2009 with an artist reception on Saturday, September 13th, 2 – 5 pm. The exhibition features a new work entitled Falling Woman, a large scale, looped video depicting a woman trapped in a never-ending fall. The fall specifically references art historical events and works, such...

  • Haydex Li – CONQUER – works on paper

    Numen Gallery – September 6th,  2008 4:00 pm

    Artist’s Reception: Saturday, September 6, 4 – 6 pm In CONQUER, Haydex Li ponders the excesses of technology. Has the acceleration of scientific and technological advancements fostered the belief that nature can be re-constructed to the point of expendability? Using the simplest of mediums, Li has created complex pen on...

  • THE DEAD

    – September 4th,  2008

    Opening September 4, 2008, 6pm – 12am GNW Studios – Part of SWARM 2008. The Dead highlights the work of nine painters who currently live and or have lived in Vancouver – Paul Carr, Jordy Hamilton, Phillip McCrum, Alicia Munro, Kevin Murphy, Ryan Peter, Byron Peters, Marina Roy and Andrew...

  • The Sooner the Better Late Than Never: UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2008

    – September 4th,  2008

    September 5 – 21, 2008, Opening reception: Thursday September 4, 7 to 10pm The Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of work by the 2008 graduates of UBC’s two-year Master of Fine Art program. Raymond Boisjoly’s focus is the equivocal status of materiality in the active pursuit...

  • The Constant Search for a Better Way

    SFU Gallery – June 19th,  2008 7:00 pm

    An exploration exploring the general weirdness of technology and humanity’s attempts to exploit “the technical” to its advantage. SFU Gallery | The Constant Search for a Better Way | JUN 19 June 20 – August 1, 2008 SFU Gallery, Burnaby Campus Opening: Thursday June 19 from 7pm to 9pm *...

  • Interior of Design

    Republic Gallery – June 14th,  2008 2:00 pm

    Date: June 14, 2008 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Republic Gallery, 732 Richards Street, Third Floor, Vancouver Republic Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming group exhibition INTERIOR OF DESIGN. Curated by Jordan Strom, including work by: Babak Golkar, Hadley+Maxwell, YeddaMorrison, Natasha McHardy and Marina Roy, Samuel Roy-Bois, Nicole+Ryan, EricaStocking, and...

  • Showroom

    – June 6th,  2008 8:00 pm

    Date: June 06, 2008 Time: 8:00 PM Location: 2 West Hastings, Vancouver, BC Kristina Lee Podesva and Inge Roecker in collaboration with Michelle Allard, Marianne Bos, Patrick Chan, Paul de Guzman, Vanessa Kwan, Gwenessa Lam, Heidi Nagtegaal, Alex Pensato, Ryan Peter and Jordan Strom. Exhibition Dates: June 6 – July 12,...

  • UBC BY DESIGN

    Visual Arts Gallery, Koerne Library – May 22nd,  2008 11:00 am

    Date: May 22, 2008 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Visual Arts Gallery, Koerner Library (basement), 1958 Main Mall (RE)CONSTRUCTING SPACES OF ACADEMIC CULTURE AND COMMUNITY What is the University? Why is the design important? Who defines its purposes and fabric? How is it experienced? 29 May, Musical Performance by Von Bingen...

  • IDYLL Three Exhibitions

    – May 16th,  2008 10:00 am

      Opening reception, Saturday May 31, 1 to 3 pm Holly Ward: Radical Rupture Noam Gonick and Luis Jacob: Wildflowers of Manitoba Audrey Capel Doray: Electronic Seascape and other works including Victor Doray’s Pic-A-Mix with works from the collection. The Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present three exhibitions featuring...

  • APOCALEPSY

    The Fall Gallery – May 9th,  2008 8:00 pm

    Show runs from Saturday, May 10 – Friday, May 30, 2008. Opening Party Life Performance :: Cash Bar Friday, May 9 at 8pm An Ecdysis Collective Interactive Installation Gallery open: Tuesday – Friday 11am – 10pm Sunday – Monday 12noon – 8pm Event info online at:  www.thefalltattooing.com In May 2008,...

  • SLIP/FRICTION Barrie Jones and Manuel Pina

    Soho Grand Condominium Gallery – May 3rd,  2008 7:00 pm

    OPENING MAY 3, 7 – 10PM Exhibition runs May 3rd – June 30th (Toronto) Slip/Friction features Vancouver photo-based artists Barrie Jones and Manuel Pina. Both approach the photograph in a similar way, but render images that are provocatively dissimilar. Jones’ work incorporates the figure in Vancouver’s landscape with tableaux that capture...

  • Everything Is Not Lost; curated by CCST candidate Kim Nguyen

    Belkin Satellite – April 19th,  2008 8:00 pm

    Curated by CCST candidate Kim Nguyen, an exhibition featuring the work of Christian Nguyen, Nhan Duc Nguyen, Pipo Nguyen-duy, and Khanh Vo, four contemporary artists who address themes of family, loss, and the intricacies of memory. Everything Is Not Lost features the work of Christian Nguyen, Nhan Duc Nguyen, Pipo...
  • Everything Is Not Lost; curated by CCST candidate Kim Nguyen

    Everything Is Not Lost; curated by CCST candidate Kim Nguyen

    Satellite Gallery, Floor 2 – April 19th,  2008

    April 19 — May 18, 2008. Curated by CCST candidate Kim Nguyen, an exhibition featuring the work of Christian Nguyen, Nhan Duc Nguyen, Pipo Nguyen-duy, and Khanh Vo, four contemporary artists who address themes of family, loss, and the intricacies of memory. Everything Is Not Lost features the work of...

  • 2008 UBC BFA/BA Visual Art Graduating Class Exhibition: Today’s Special

    – April 17th,  2008 6:00 pm

    UBC BFA/BA Visual Art Graduating Show:… until Sunday April 27th, 2008. TODAY’S SPECIAL Opening: Thursday April 17, 6-10pm Dates: Friday April 18- Sunday April 27 Hours: 11am-6pm daily 650 Industrial Ave, Vancouver, B.C. (near 2nd Ave. & Main Street) TODAY’S SPECIAL is an exhibition showcasing artworks from UBC BFA/BA visual...

  • Dark Liquid

    Blackwater Café – April 12th,  2008 8:00 pm

    Show runs April 12th to June 2nd Please join UBC Master’s of Fine Arts student, Shea Allan-McCachen for the opening of a new mural show, entitled Dark Liquid, on Saturday April 12 from 8-11pm, at the Blackwater Café (280 Carrall Street – at Cordova). The mammoth scale in which Shea...

  • AHVA Departmental Exhibit

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – April 7th,  2008 11:00 am

    Selected works from UBC Visual Art – supervised by Richard Prince (Sculpture/3D work). Runs Monday April 7 through Friday April 11 Gallery Hours: Monday to Thursday- 11am to 5pm, Friday- 11am to 3pm

  • AHVA departmental Exhibit

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – March 31st,  2008 11:00 am

    Opening reception: Wednesday April 2, 5 to 7pm. Selected works from UBC Visual Art – supervised by Barbara Zeigler (print, drawing, mixed media). Runs Monday March 31 through Friday April 4. Gallery Hours: Monday to Thursday – 11am to 5pm, Friday- 11am to 3pm

  • Frontierism

    Artspeak – March 27th,  2008 8:00 pm

    Juan Gaitan, a PhD candidate in art history at the University of British Columbia and the co-curator of Exponential Future at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, participate. Thursday, March 27, 8pm Juan A. Gaitán (curator) Speakeasy: Frontierism is a series that addresses notions of unchecked urban expansion within...

  • AHVA Departmental Exhibit

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – March 24th,  2008 11:00 am

    Selected works from UBC Visual Art – supervised by Barrie Jones (photography). Runs Monday March 24 through Friday March 28 Gallery Hours: Monday to Thursday- 11am to 5pm, Friday- 11am to 3pm

  • Lum Space – 2nd and 3rd Year Print

    Dorothy Somerset Studios, Lum Space - Room 110 – March 24th,  2008

    Work from the 2nd and 3rd year print class. Maria Anna Parolin and Barbara Zeigler supervise.

  • Red River: GuXiong

    The Winnipeg Art Gallery – March 20th,  2008 7:30 pm

      Vancouver-based artist Gu Xiong spent the spring and summer of 2006 taking photographs and shooting video from boats on Winnipeg’s Red River, the Qingxi River near Chongqing in China, and the Rhine in Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Red River is the premiere of this work, which consists of...

  • AHVA Departmental Exhibit

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – March 17th,  2008 11:00 am

    Supervised by Marina Roy and Phil McCrum. Selected works from UBC Visual Art – supervised by Marina Roy and Phil McCrum (theory, painting & drawing) Runs Monday March 17 through Friday March 21 Gallery Hours: Monday to Thursday- 11am to 5pm, Friday- 11am to 3pm
  • the strange space that will keep us together - Wil Murray; curated by CCST candidate Jacqueline Mabey

    the strange space that will keep us together – Wil Murray; curated by CCST candidate Jacqueline Mabey

    Satellite Gallery, Floor 2 – March 7th,  2008

    Murray’s work explores the horrors of banal choices. To April 6th. the strange space that will keep us together is a survey exhibition of emerging, Montreal-based painter Wil Murray. The exhibition consists of a selection of works made after the July 2003 destruction by fire of his West Pender Street...

  • VISA 469B Exhibit

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – February 3rd,  2008

    VISA 469B is unique in that it is an interdisciplinary course in which students from Film, Theatre, Creative Writing, Music and Visual Arts work together to create art/performance/installation works throughout the year. This exhibition will explore the idea of “artists in residence” for two weeks in the AMS Art Gallery...

  • Student Exhibit – Gerry Gauthier

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – January 28th,  2008

    Gerry is a fourth year Fine Arts student. Gerry’s work is mainly site specific; his work engages with the nature of the viewing space, i.e. The gallery space, but more specifically the socio-economic factors that surround the space. Gerry is inte AMS Art Gallery http://www.ams.ubc.ca/content.cfm?ID=453

  • Vanguard Magazine Retrospective

    Belkin Satellite – January 25th,  2008 7:00 pm

    Published in the 1970s and 80s, Vanguard was a prominent arts and culture magazine. Vanguard critically explored Vancouver’s vibrant art scene and kept its readers abreast of international developments. A number of local and national arts critics, gal Introductory remarks by Josh Hite, Jacqueline Mabey, Charlotte Townsend-Gault, and William Wood...

  • Opening reception: EXPONENTIAL FUTURE

    – January 24th,  2008 8:00 pm

    Tim Lee, Alex Morrison, Isabelle Pauwels, Kevin Schmidt, Mark Soo, Corin Sworn, Althea Thauberger, Elizabeth Zvonar Exponential Future features eight young Vancouver artists.  The exhibition opens a window on the vitality of contemporary art in this city.  Vancouver artists continue to be better known in the U.S. and Europe than...

  • EXPONENTIAL FUTURE Tim Lee, Alex Morrison, Isabelle Pauwels, Kevin Schmidt, Mark Soo, Corin Sworn, Althea Thauberger, Elizabeth Zvonar

    – January 18th,  2008

    Exponential Future features eight young Vancouver artists.  The exhibition opens a window on the vitality of contemporary art in this city.  Vancouver artists continue to be better known in the U.S. and Europe than they are in their own city.  Curators Juan Gaitan and Scott Watson chose artists working in...

  • “I am who I AM” – Gu Xiong

    Kwantlen Art Gallery – January 14th,  2008 12:00 pm

    Opening Reception, Jan 14th, 12:00 PM. Artist will be in attendance. Gu Xiong is an Associate Professor of Visual Art at UBC. Gallery Hours: Mon-Thu 9AM to 5PM, Fri 9AM-3PM.  Show ends Feb. 1st, 2008.

  • Lum Space Exhibit – “Between worlds” by Mehran Modarres-Sadeghi

    Dorothy Somerset Studios, Lum Space - Room 110 – January 14th,  2008 11:00 am

      “How do you feel when you are in the middle of a typical conversation and you become the target of stereotyped questions? The sense of being between cultures for me has been very strong and being aware of the cultural differences does not make things any easier. The recent...

  • Student Exhibit – Byron Peters “Tent”

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – January 14th,  2008 11:00 am

    Reception: Mon. Jan 14, 7-9pm.  Runs until Jan 18th.  Gallery Hours: 11am to 5pm Tent is an exhibition of paintings motivated by elitist outdoor catalogues, attitudes towards wilderness and the popular stylistic trend, ‘sanitation chic’. Byron is a fourth year in the faculty of Fine Arts. This is an interactive exhibition,...

  • “The Expression” – Ilsoo Kyung Maclaurin

    Tsawwassen Arts Centre – January 2nd,  2008 11:00 am

    Date: January 02, 2008 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Delta Arts Council – Tsawwassen Arts Centre, 1172 56th St, Delta BC Runs January 2nd to 31st,  Mon-Fri 11am-4pm with an opening reception on January 11th, 7-9 pm.  Ilsoo is a visual arts student at UBC.

  • AHVA Student Exhibit – “Deer, Eyeballs and Thread”

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – December 10th,  2007

    From the presenting students: “We, Kanuemiah, Annie, and Jo, present our humble exhibition, Deer, Eyeballs, and Thread. This show is a selection of our works from four years of visual arts studies.” Runs Monday December 10 There are multiple mediums featured, each medium an exploration of communicating an idea. Instead of...

  • Denise Hawrysio – Artist in Residence

    MFA Studios – December 4th,  2007 3:00 pm

    Artist in Residence Denise Hawrysio will be showing her work along side Masters of Fine Arts Candidates at this year’s MFA Open Studios. Tuesday December 4, 2007, 3-6pm Reception to follow from 7- 10pm

  • Lum Space Exhibit: “Yac-Tac”

    Dorothy Somerset Studios, Lum Space - Room 110 – December 3rd,  2007

    Student exhibit by the Yac-Tac Artist Collective. Justine Cheung, Janice Cheung, Peggy Ngan, and Karen Ngan. Opening Party with special performance Mon Dec 3rd 8-10pm.  Runs Tue 10-5, Wed 10-5, Thur 10-9, Fri 10-3.   The Young Asian Twin Artist Collective stems from the uniqueness of Yac-Tac culture.  One that...

  • Student Exhibit – Mehran Modarres-Sadegh

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – December 2nd,  2007

    Mehran has a BFA degree from UBC, and is an unclassified student working on her portfolio. This exhibition will feature large installation oil paintings and photography, which will explore the issues of identity and feminism. Many of Mehran’s wor

  • Transforming: An Exhibition of Paintings addressing changes within the world and the individual

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – November 26th,  2007 11:00 am

    Presented by Gu Xiong’s VISA 330 Class. Monday November 26 through Friday November 30 Gallery Hours: Monday to Thursday 11am to 5pm, Friday 11am to 3pm. Opening Reception: Tuesday Nov. 27 at 5:30 pm. Everyone Welcome!!!

  • 2nd year Painting Exhibition

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – November 19th,  2007 10:00 am

    Exhibition of 2nd Year Student Paintings. Runs through Nov 23rd, 10am-4pm daily. Opening: Tuesday, November 20, 5-7pm

  • Tim Lee: Remakes, Variations (1741-2049)

    Presentation House Gallery – November 17th,  2007

    Tim Lee is a former sessional instructor and MFA graduate of the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at UBC. Presentation House Gallery is pleased to present Remakes, Variations (1741-2049), an exhibition of new work by Tim Lee. Thematically oriented around the premise of remaking artworks that, likewise,...

  • Chimo: An Exhibition of Prints and Drawings

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – November 13th,  2007 5:00 pm

    Presented by Visual Arts students in VISA 220-002, VISA 320-001 and VISA 250-001 and 003. Exhibit Runs through to Nov 16th, 10-4 daily.  Everyone Welcome. Opening: Tuesday Nov 13, 5-7pm

  • New Voices Collective: “(NOT) MADE IN CHINA”

    Gallery Gachet – November 2nd,  2007 12:00 pm

    The New Voices collective presents two pieces at Gallery Gachet from Nov 2 – Dec 2 as part of the 4th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, and Gallery Gachet’s Work of Migration series. OPENING Fri 2 Nov 2007 TWOSPEAK is a two-channel audio recording that attempts to...

  • Luis Jacob A Dance for Those of Us Whose Hearts Have Turned to Ice, and Other Works

    – October 25th,  2007 10:00 am

    until December 2, 2007 Tues to Fri 10 a.m.—5 p.m.; Sat 12—5 p.m.; Sun 12—5 p.m. (Closed Mondays and Statutory Holidays)   The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by Toronto artist Luis Jacob.  This exhibition features the Vancouver premiere of work from a...

  • Fragments – Paintings by Alison Shields

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – October 22nd,  2007 10:00 am

    Exhibit of 4th year BFA candidate Alison Shield’s work.  Runs through Oct 26. Open Mon. 10-8, Tues.-Fri. 10-5

  • Who Am You? and other nauseas

    Dorothy Somerset Studios, Lum Space - Room 110 – October 15th,  2007 12:30 pm

    Third Year Drawing Exhibition Opening Reception: Oct 15th, 5-7pm. Show runs until Oct 17th.

  • UBC Visual Art Faculty Exhibition

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – October 1st,  2007 5:30 pm

    UBC Visual Art Faculty Exhibition 2007. Opening Reception:  October 01, 2007  5:30-7.30 PM Exhibition runs through Monday October 1st to Friday October 5th, 2007. Works by UBC Visual Art Faculty and Sessional Instructors: Denise Hawrysio, Gu Xiong, Barbara Zeigler, Phil McCrum, Barrie Jones, Derek Dunlop, Gwenessa Lam, Richard Prince, Ana...

  • Five from Hornby

    LindaLando Fine Arts – September 29th,  2007 10:00 am

    Date: September 29, 2007 Time: 10:00 AM Features work by 5 artists living on Hornby Island.  Artists will be in attendance Saturday September 29th, 2 – 5pm “Five from Hornby” is a show of works by five artists currently living on Hornby Island.  Coral Barclay does dreamy Hornby land, sea and...

  • MFA Final Gallery Presentation

    – September 22nd,  2007 1:00 pm

    Special Guest: Randy Lee Cutler

  • The Black Slip – The Painting of Jane Billaux

    West Vancouver Museum & Archives – September 15th,  2007 11:00 am

    Recent Acquisitions exhibition, featuring the work of artist Jane Billaux.  Runs until Oct 27/07. This exhibit was co-curated and researched by Jacquline Mabey, Master of Arts Candidate, Critical and Curatorial Studies. Opening at the West Vancouver Museum on September 15, The Black Slip: The Painting of Jane Billaux is a recent...

  • Green: UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2007

    – September 13th,  2007 8:00 pm

    Nicole Brabant, Paul Kajander, Marilou Lemmens in collaboration with Richard Ibghy, Elizabeth Milton, Colin Miner, Kristina Podesva, Concerned with hegemony from the perspective of the Other,Nicole Brabant’s suite of videos takes up golf as a vehicle to enter into a multi-axial critique of contemporary society.  In her work Adaptation (Cold...
  • Working Back; curated by CCST candidate Jesse Birch

    Working Back; curated by CCST candidate Jesse Birch

    Satellite Gallery, Floor 2 – September 1st,  2007

    Opening reception: August 31, 8 to 10 PM. Exhibition runs: September 1 to 30, 2007 . Hours: Wed – Sun, 12 to 5pm Gareth Moore,  Kerri Reid,  Kara Uzelman Drawing from archeology, anthropology, and traditional craft, the artists in Working Backengage in sculptural interventions with once discarded things. Gareth Moore,...

  • REDRESS EXPRESS – Exhibition and Symposium

    Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Art – August 3rd,  2007 8:00 pm

    “Chinese Restaurants and the Head Tax Issue in Canadian Art” The exhibition “REDRESS EXPRESS: Chinese Restaurants and the Head Tax Issue in Canadian Art” features recent photography, video and installations by five Chinese-Canadian artists: Gu Xiong (Vancouver), Shelly Low (Montreal), Ho Tam (Victoria, BC), Karen Tam (Montreal), and Kira Wu...

  • Between You and the Thing Itself

    Or Gallery – June 28th,  2007 8:00 pm

    June 29 – August 4, 2007, open: Thursday June 28, 8pm With works by Robert Arndt, Raymond Boisjoly, Matthew Booth, Heidi Johansen, Kyla Mallett, and Jeremy Todd, curated by Dan Starling. “Between You and the Thing Itself” presents the work of six artists from Vancouver working with photography. This exhibition...

  • Helen’s Cookbook

    Helen Pitt Gallery – June 4th,  2007 7:30 pm

    Designed by Carley Hodgkinson, Edited by Abbas Akhavan and Marina Roy Please join us to launch a new Helen Pitt publication, Helen’s Cookbook, with recipes, writings, and images by: Kim Kennedy Austin, Kristina Podesva, Natasha McHardy, Randy Lee Cutler, Margot Leigh Butler, Renay Egami, Michael Turner, Aleksandra Idzior, Patrick Andersson,...

  • Glenn Ligon: Some Changes

    – May 31st,  2007 8:00 pm

    June 1—August 19, 2007 Opening reception, Thursday May 31, 8pm Glenn Ligon: Some Changes surveys the breadth of the New York based artists’ oeuvre over the last seventeen years.  Ligon is at the forefront of a generation of artists who came to prominence in the late 1980s on the strength...
  • Limits of Tolerance: Re-framing Multicultural State Policy; curated by CCST candidate Liz Park

    Limits of Tolerance: Re-framing Multicultural State Policy; curated by CCST candidate Liz Park

    Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Art – May 19th,  2007

    EXHIBITION: May 19 to June 23, 2007. Guest Curator: Liz Park,candidate in the CCST program. OPENING: Friday May 18, 8pm Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11:00 -18:00, Sunday-Monday closed SYMPOSIUM: Saturday May 26, 14:00 to 17:00, UBC Robson Square theatre A group exhibition with works by Dana Claxton, Stan Douglas, Laiwan,...

  • papercupanorama

    – May 13th,  2007 1:00 pm

    Participate with Vancouver artist Kim Kennedy Austin in an activity that explores ideas about architecture, space and the city through drawing.  In relation to some of the themes taken up in our current exhibition John Massey: The House That Jack Built, Austin will talk about her own practice and lead...

  • 2007 UBC BFA/BA Visual Art Graduating Class Exhibition: yours truly

    – April 20th,  2007

    April 21st to May 4th, 2007. The emerging artists and undergraduates of the University of British Columbia’s Visual Art program present their diverse art works. Presenting: Josh Anderson Sue Damen Ella Deer Brian Fernandes Erica Forssman Alyssa Fruson Natalie Gagnon Clara Halpern Joanne Hu Grace Ho Patricia Janecek Allison Johnstone...

  • Visual Art 321 and 350 Students Present The ECHO Banners

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – April 16th,  2007

    The results of a collaborative process involving more than 225 UBC students, faculty and staff in the making of a series of 23 large-scale banners related to issues of biodiversity and sustainability in the GVRD and Selected Prints and Drawings. The collaborative ECHO Banners thematically bridge aspects of art and...
  • How Much Longer; curated by CCST candidate Kegan McFadden

    How Much Longer; curated by CCST candidate Kegan McFadden

    Satellite Gallery, Floor 2 – April 13th,  2007 8:00 pm

    Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Terence Koh, Micah Lexier, Kelly Mark, Andy Warhol. Opening reception: Friday April 13, 8 to 10 pm. Hours: Wednesday to Sunday, 12 to 5 pm. The phrase ‘how much longer’ refers to a state in between. It implies an unmeasured distance before reaching the end, a sentiment akin...

  • 451 Exhibition Opens Tuesday

    Dorothy Somerset Studios (Hut M18), Rm 109 – April 10th,  2007

    Everyone welcome. Art History, Visual Art and Theory http://www.ahva.ubc.ca

  • “City of Rich Gate” Art Exhibition

    Richmond City – March 24th,  2007

    In 2005, UBC Professors Gu Xiong, Kit Grauer, Rita Irwin and Emily Carr Prof. Ruth Beer traveled to China to share their work with universities and communities in cities including Chongqing, Beijing and Xi’an. During that trip, they showed the &quo UBC and Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design...
  • The Backlot; curated by CCST candidate Sophie Brodovitch

    The Backlot; curated by CCST candidate Sophie Brodovitch

    Satellite Gallery, Floor 2 – March 3rd,  2007

    Opening reception 03 March 2007. Runs 03 March – 01 April 2007. Corey Adams, Roy Arden, Geoffrey Farmer, Angus Ferguson, Jacob Gleeson, Mark Lewis, Anne Ramsden, Matthew Robertson The title of the exhibition, The Backlot, makes reference to the false façades typically found on the lots at major Hollywood studios. Consisting...

  • Babak Golkar: Then, Now and Then

    Republic Gallery – March 2nd,  2007

    Opening Reception March 3 to 31 2007 Republic Gallery http://Republicgallery.com   291  

  • The Puffin Hunter: Eleanor Morgan

    Artspeak – February 9th,  2007 8:00 pm

    Opening Reception Friday February 9, 8pm Artist talk Saturday February 10, 2pm Exploring the complex relationship between the human and animal worlds, Eleanor Morgan’s practice examines empathy in light of cultural and personal politics. The artist writes, we can only understand animals as metaphors for our own behavior, so there...

  • Curator’s Tour: Grant Arnold on Fred Herzog

    Vancouver Art Gallery – January 30th,  2007 7:00 pm

    Free with Gallery admission. Join exhibition curator Grant Arnold for a tour of the exhibition Fred Herzog, the first survey to examine Herzog’s overall body of work, including more than 100 photographs. Born in Germany, Fred Herzog came to Vancouver in 1953. Since that time he has produced a substantial...

  • Touching Home: Exhibition by Jacquelin Connelly, Shawna Muhic and Kerri Reid

    CityScape Community ArtSpace – January 25th,  2007 7:00 pm

    Presented by the North Vancouver Art Council: These artists use metal, fibre, wool and found materials to explore the disintegration in objects. By using laborious methods and techniques usually associated with craft making, they address the fine line between art and craft.

  • Oh, What A Blow That Phantom Gave Me!

    – January 19th,  2007 8:00 pm

    UBC Master of Fine Arts Exhibition Raymond Bisjoly, Melanie Bond, Natalie Doonan & Christian Chaumont, Jesse Gray, Joshua Hite, Paul Kajander, Marilou Lemmens & Richard Ibghy, Elizabeth Milton, Colin Miner, Ryan Peter, Kristina Podesva, Sarah Turner Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me! features new works by the University...

  • 1NEshow – A Solo Show of the Newest Works by Jessie Hannigan

    AMS Gallery, UBC Student Union Building – January 14th,  2007

  • THE MONOCHROMATIC FIELD: WORKS FROM THE COLLECTION and THE MOLNAR COLLECTION: A VIEW OF EUROPEAN ART

    – January 13th,  2007 2:00 pm

    Opening Reception The Monochromatic Field spans five decades and features both monochromatic works and works that use a monochromatic field.  Emblematic of radical negation and a complete break with the past when it first appeared in the history of art, the monochrome remains a critical gesture with multiple and provocative...

  • Passing Through: Iain Baxter & Photographs, 1958 – 1983

    Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – October 20th,  2006

    October 20 through December 10, 2006 Throughout his career, Iain Baxter& has challenged ideas about what art is and what it does. Using everyday objects and processes, Baxter& creates works that engage audiences in contemporary social, political, and environmental issues. One of Canada’s most recognized conceptual artists, Baxter& has been...

  • Strange Bedfellows: UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2006

    Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – September 15th,  2006

    15 September – 01 October 2006 Opening Reception: 15 September at 8:00 p.m. Abbas Akhavan, Eryne Donahue, Rebecca Donald, Derek Dunlop, Robert Niven, Michael Euyung Oh Strange Bedfellows points to the diverse and distinct practices of the 2006 Master of Fine Arts graduates. This is an excellent opportunity to view...
  • Material Obsessions: Janet Morton and Evelyn Roth; curated by CCST candidate Julie Bevan

    Material Obsessions: Janet Morton and Evelyn Roth; curated by CCST candidate Julie Bevan

    Satellite Gallery, Floor 2 – July 8th,  2006

    Opening Reception: Friday July 7, 8-10. Show runs July 8 – August 6, 2006 Artist Talk: Saturday, July 8 at 2:00 p.m. Material Obsessions pairs the textile-based work of two artists from different generations: veteran Vancouver artist Evelyn Roth and Toronto artist Janet Morton.  Though the works exhibited were created in disparate...
  • Sonny Assu: As Defined Within the Indian Act; curated by CCST candidate Matthew Hills

    Sonny Assu: As Defined Within the Indian Act; curated by CCST candidate Matthew Hills

    Satellite Gallery, Floor 2 – April 22nd,  2006

    Opening Reception: April 21, 8:00 pm. Runs April 22- May 21. Sonny Assu: As Defined Within the Indian Act is the first solo exhibition of emerging contemporary artist Sonny Assu. The exhibition will feature new work that explores the current tension between innovation and tradition through the forms and sensibility...
  • Beyond Redemption: Gay Erotic Art; curated by CCST candidate Jean-François Renaud

    Beyond Redemption: Gay Erotic Art; curated by CCST candidate Jean-François Renaud

    Satellite Gallery, Floor 2 – October 28th,  2005

    Stephen Andrews, AA Bronson, Brice Canyon, Evergon, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Attila Richard Lukacs, Donald Moffett. Opening Reception: October 28 at 8:00 pm. October 29 – November 27. “The value of sexuality itself is to demean the seriousness of efforts to redeem it”.  –  Leo Bersani Beyond Redemption: Gay Erotic Art will...

  • Horses for Courses: UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2005

    Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – September 16th,  2005

    16 September – 02 October 2005 Opening Reception: 15 September at 8:00 pm. Erin Coates, Leanne Coughlin, Babak Golkar, Peter Mintchev, Daria Tavoularis and Rahel Wachs While the idiom derives from racetrack lingo (referring to the suitability of different horses for different courses), Horses for Courses points to the diverse...
  • Unterspiel: An Exhibition of Contemporary Viennese Artists, curated by CCST candidate Séamus Kealy

    Unterspiel: An Exhibition of Contemporary Viennese Artists, curated by CCST candidate Séamus Kealy

    Contemporary Art Gallery – July 1st,  2005

    Opening Reception & Performances: Thursday June 30th, 2005, 6-9 pm. Show runs July 1 – August 14. Patrick Baumüller & Severin Hofmann, Catrin Bolt, Marlene Haring, monochrom, Hans Schabus Emerging Viennese artists come to Vancouver to rewrite their cultural history. Guest Curator Séamus Kealy. Unterspiel is an exhibition of five...
  • Picturing the Downtown Eastside; curated by CCST candidate Charo Neville

    Picturing the Downtown Eastside; curated by CCST candidate Charo Neville

    Or Gallery – April 30th,  2005 1:30 pm

    30 April  – 29 May 2005 Opening Reception: Friday, 29 April, 8 – 10 pm Public Forum: Saturday, 7 May, 12 – 3 pm desmedia Tapings: Sundays, 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29 May, 2 – 5 pm Six years after the Or Gallery presented its last exhibition in its...

  • Tickle Your Catastrophe: UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2004

    Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – September 10th,  2004

    10 September – 26 September 2004 Lynette Gillis, Eleanor Morgan, Anna Harrison, Heather Passmore, Kyla Mallett and Melissa Pauw The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery was pleased to launch the 2004 fall exhibition schedule with the University of British Columbia’s Masters of Fine Arts graduate exhibition. This was an excellent opportunity to view the work...
  • Clare E. Rojas: Will Poor Will; curated by CCST candidate Liz Bruchet

    Clare E. Rojas: Will Poor Will; curated by CCST candidate Liz Bruchet

    Satellite Gallery, Floor 2 – May 7th,  2004

    Opening Reception:  Friday 7 May 2004   8 – 10 pm. Show runs May 8 to May 30 2004. Musical Performance by the artist as Peggy Honeywell at 8:30 pm Will Poor Will is the first exhibition of Clare E. Rojas’s work in Canada. The San Francisco-based artist playfully draws from American craft...
  • Makeshift; curated by CCST candidate Veronika Klaptocz

    Makeshift; curated by CCST candidate Veronika Klaptocz

    Interurban – April 8th,  2004

    8 April – 1 May 2004 Opening Reception:  Wednesday 7 April 2004,  8 -10 pm Curators’ Talk: Saturday 17 March, 3 pm, at Interurban Work by Dirk Bahmann, Keren Ben Zeev, Jeremy Downie, Ismail Farouk, Sphiwe Gama, Nicholas Hlobo, Alison Kearney, Kasia Kwiecinska, Brenton Maart, Vivienne Mahloko, Desné Masie, Toni...
  • Manufacturing Mod: Metal Tunics to Paper Dresses; curated by CCST candidate Jamila Dunn

    Manufacturing Mod: Metal Tunics to Paper Dresses; curated by CCST candidate Jamila Dunn

    Satellite Gallery, Floor 2 – April 3rd,  2004

    3 – 25 April 2004 Opening Reception: Friday 2 April 2004,  8 – 10 pm This exhibition features a spectacular selection of original metal tunics by Paco Rabanne, extremely rare presidential candidate paper dresses for Nixon, Kennedy, Rockefeller, and Trudeau along with the Warhol inspired “Campbell’s Souper Dress,” and vintage magazines. Manufacturing...
  • Re-Reading the 80s: Feminisms as Process in Vancouver; curated by CCST candidate Jessie Caryl

    Re-Reading the 80s: Feminisms as Process in Vancouver; curated by CCST candidate Jessie Caryl

    Satellite Gallery, Floor 2 – February 27th,  2004

    27 February – 21 March, 2004 Opening Reception:  Thursday 26 February,  8 -10 pm Curator’s Tours:  Saturday 28 February & Sunday 29 February,  1 pm Work by the Association for Noncommercial Culture, Lorna Brown, Margot Leigh Butler, Allyson Clay, Laiwan, Jin-me Yoon, and Worksite This exhibition reconsiders the critical strategies...

  • Belkin Invitational: UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2003

    – September 5th,  2003

    5 September – 21 September 2003 Jerry Allen, Dick Averns, Christine D’Onofrio, and Jennifer Pickering Occurring at a juncture of professional art practice, historical study and critical theory, this exhibition marks the graduation of four artists from the MFA in Visual Art program at the University of British Columbia. Through...
  • Various Properties; curated by CCST candidate Katie Spicer with Heather Bjorgan, Alice Edwards and Kiriko Watanabe

    Various Properties; curated by CCST candidate Katie Spicer with Heather Bjorgan, Alice Edwards and Kiriko Watanabe

    – January 17th,  2003

    17 January – 9 March, 2003. Opening Reception: Thursday, 16 January, 8 – 10 pm The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to announce that the inaugural exhibition of the Critical Curatorial Studies Masters program at the University of British Columbia opens January 17, 2003. Graduating students Heather...

  • Various Properties; curated by CCST candidate Katie Spicer with Heather Bjorgan, Alice Edwards and Kiriko Watanabe

    – January 17th,  2003

    17 January – 9 March, 2003. Opening Reception: Thursday, 16 January, 8 – 10 pm The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to announce that the inaugural exhibition of the Critical Curatorial Studies Masters program at the University of British Columbia opens January 17, 2003. Graduating students Heather...

  • Dogwood: UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2002

    – September 13th,  2002

    13 September – 22 September 2002 Sean Alward, Gavin Hipkins, Tim Lee, Natasha McHardy and Ann Shelton The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present this year’s Masters of Fine Arts graduate exhibition: Dogwood. This is an excellent opportunity to view the work of five emerging artists...

  • Present: UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2001

    – September 14th,  2001

    14 September – 30 September 2001 Sylvia Grace Borda, Keith Langergraber, Daphne Locke and Misa Nikolic This is an excellent opportunity to view an exciting, new generation of artists, working in media such as printmaking, drawing, installation and painting. This year’s exhibition features the work of Sylvia Grace Borda, Keith...

  • UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2000

    Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – September 15th,  2000 4:30 pm

    Cheryl Larson, Evan Lee, Heidi May and Mohamed Somani This year’s University of British Columbia Masters of Fine Arts Exhibition is an excellent opportunity to view an exciting, new generation of Canadian artists, working in such media as video, mixed media sculpture, photography and drawing. Heidi May’s paintings and digital...

  • L’encage: Up Against The Wall Motherposter”

    Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – October 8th,  1999

    with essays by: Serge Guilbaut Jennifer Durrie Patricia Kelly James Phillips Victoria Scott

  • Up Against the Wall Motherposter: An Exhibition of French and American Posters from the 1950s

    Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – October 8th,  1999

    To December 19th, 1999

  • UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 1999

    Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – September 10th,  1999

    Jane Cameron, Sue Laing, Jeremy Todd and Marina Roy llustrated Panel Discussion, Thursday 16 September 1999, 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. Lasserre Building Rm 102. Moderator: Will This is an exellent opportunity to view a new generation of artists working in such media as installation, drawing, sculpture, painting, and photography. Jane Cameron...

  • UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 1998

    Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – October 9th,  1998

    Trevor Mahovsky, Paulo Majano, Rhonda Weppler and Victor K. T. Wong Working in such mediums as installation, multi-media, painting, photography and sculpture, this is an excellent opportunity to view an exciting, new generation of Canadian artists: Referencing the gallery space itself, Trevor Mahovsky uses minimalist sculpture and 19th C animation devices...

  • UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 1997

    – October 31st,  1997

    Jonathan Boer, Kevin Dubois, Karin Geiger, Phyllis Greenwood, I – Chun Melody Lin and Gerald Penry The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to open its fall season with the group showing of six graduates from the Masters of Fine Arts class: Jonathan Boer, Kevin Dubois, Karin Geiger,...

  • Théodore Géricault, The Alien Body: Tradition and Chaos

    – August 15th,  1997

    Exhibition at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia with Scott Watson, Director of the Belkin Gallery, Serge Guilbaut and Maureen Ryan, Fine Arts Department. This was an exhibition of 95 Prints (lithographs and illustrations), Drawings and Watercolours from the Louvre Museum, Paris, the Ecole des...

  • UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 1996

    – October 5th,  1996

    October 5 – October 12, 1996 Brynhildur Gudmundsdottir, Joy James Henley, Tessa Lamb, Tim Rattel, Mel Stidolph and Kelly Wood Featured are six artists: Brynhildur Gudmundsdottir, Joy James Henley, Tessa Lamb, Tim Rattel, Mel Stidolph, and Kelly Wood. For further information please contact: Naomi Sawada at naomi.sawada@ubc.ca, tel: (604) 822-3640,...

  • UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 1995

    – September 29th,  1995

    Meredith Brown, Val Buckingham, Sarah Dobai, Luanne Francis Martineau and Johanna Stark Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery http://www.belkin.ubc.ca