Events at: AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre

Tales from the Old Fire Hall

An Exhibition of Recent Works by Richard Prince Exhibition dates November 16, 2017 – January 13, 2018 Reception January 10, 2018 5 – 7 pm AHVA Gallery Room 1001 Audain Art Centre 6398 University Boulevard Please join the UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory (AHVA) at the AHVA Gallery in the Audain […]

works on paper

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 Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, […]

Tracing Erasure

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 to the University of British […]

UNDERGROWTH 2018 BFA/BA Visual Art Graduating Exhibition

  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 Centre for the opening reception […]

Some Kind of Darkness

“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, sculpture, photography, animation, and video. […]

MFA Interdepartmental Critiques

Please join us on Friday 12 October, 2018 for the MFA Interdepartmental Critiques. Please join 2nd year MFA Visual Art candidates Angela Glanzmann, Cameron Kerr, Mandana Mansouri, Ramey Newell, and Weronika Stepien for their Interdepartmental Critiques starting at 1:00 PM on Friday 12 October in the AHVA Gallery. Friday 12 October, 2018 AHVA Gallery, Audain […]

Vocal Performance by Cathy Busby

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 Visual Art Faculty Exhibition  which […]

AHVA Visual Art Undergraduate Exhibition 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 from second- and third- year […]

Violentia: Representing Bodies and Violence

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 human experience, there are no […]

OnSite! UBC Student Performance Art Festival 2019

OnSite! 2019 is the inaugural one-evening performance-art festival showcasing work by 3rd and 4th-year students from the Department of Art History Visual Art and Theory (AHVA) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). OnSite! animates areas of AHVA’s facilities (Audain Art Centre and Dorothy Somerset Studios), aiming to bring new awareness to these sites, their […]