Faculty of Art-
MIRADAS ALTERNAS Through Her Lens
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...
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Thought, outside
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...
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A Seat Next to the Ceiling
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...
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sum of the parts
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...
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Feathers, Ether, Sand, Speech
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,...
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Being in Place
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...
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We Built a House Out of the Things We Had Gathered
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...
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An Absolute Movement
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...
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It Is Almost That
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...
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Three Kinds of Abstraction
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...
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Absence in Remembrance; The Japanese Canadian Internment: Curated by CCST Candidate Kristine Olson
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...
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Security Theatre
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...
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Winsor Gallery Presents Ogema : I Am Woman: Curated by CCST Candidate Léa Toulouse
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...
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#saltandwater: The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Curated by CCST Candidate Margaret Stern
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...
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Gravure Automatique: Dalla Husband at Atelier 17: Curated by CCST Candidate Eva Tweedie
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...
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Welcome to Screenland: Curated by CCST Candidate Carolyn Jervis
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...
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Where Does it Hurt? Curated by CCST Candidate Jonah Gray
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...
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Queering Citizenship: Curated by CCST Candidate Derrick Chang
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...
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Dust on the Lens: Curated by CCST Candidate Michaela Rife
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....
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Ten Thousand Suns: Curated by CCST candidate Jeremy Jaud
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...
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Right to the City: Travel Guide to Karachi: Curated by CCST candidate Shahana Rajani
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...
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Shifting Margins: Emily Carr and Irene Hoffar Reid: Curated by CCST Candidate Sofia Stalner
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...
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Full Frontal: curated by CCST candidate Katie Schroeder
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...
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Things Matter: Curated by CCST candidate Klara Manhal
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...
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Alison Shields – Emergence: curated by CCST candidate Tarah Hogue
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...
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Facing the Animal: curated by CCST candidate Tarah Hogue
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...
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Sans Song: curated by CCST candidate Jenny Walton
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...
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Broken Borders: curated by CCST candidate Adriana Estrada Centelles
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...
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Nature, Knowlege and the Knower: curated by CCST candidate Mo Salemy
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...
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Studies in Decay; curated by CCST Candidate Jonah Gray
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...
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Rehearsal Research: curated by CCST candidate Sarah Todd
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,...
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Field Work: curated by CCST Candidate Shaun Dacey
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...
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Hold Still Wild Youth: The GINA Show Archive curated by CCST Candidate Allison Collins
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...
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Friend or Foe; curated by CCST candidate Darrin Martens
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...
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Cosmologies: anything that exists has a beginning; curated by CCST candidate Daina Warren
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...
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Paper Trail: Serial Material; curated by CCST candidates Allison Collins, Shaun Dacey and Sarah Todd
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...
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The Wild so Close; curated by CCST candidate Jennifer Cane
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...
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shrink-wrapped; curated by CCST candidate Alison Rajah
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...
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Everything Is Not Lost; curated by CCST candidate Kim Nguyen
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...
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the strange space that will keep us together – Wil Murray; curated by CCST candidate Jacqueline Mabey
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...
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Working Back; curated by CCST candidate Jesse Birch
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,...
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Limits of Tolerance: Re-framing Multicultural State Policy; curated by CCST candidate Liz Park
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,...
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How Much Longer; curated by CCST candidate Kegan McFadden
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...
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The Backlot; curated by CCST candidate Sophie Brodovitch
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...
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Material Obsessions: Janet Morton and Evelyn Roth; curated by CCST candidate Julie Bevan
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...
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Sonny Assu: As Defined Within the Indian Act; curated by CCST candidate Matthew Hills
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...
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Beyond Redemption: Gay Erotic Art; curated by CCST candidate Jean-François Renaud
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...
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Unterspiel: An Exhibition of Contemporary Viennese Artists, curated by CCST candidate Séamus Kealy
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...
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Picturing the Downtown Eastside; curated by CCST candidate Charo Neville
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...
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Clare E. Rojas: Will Poor Will; curated by CCST candidate Liz Bruchet
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...
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Makeshift; curated by CCST candidate Veronika Klaptocz
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...
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Manufacturing Mod: Metal Tunics to Paper Dresses; curated by CCST candidate Jamila Dunn
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...
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Re-Reading the 80s: Feminisms as Process in Vancouver; curated by CCST candidate Jessie Caryl
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...
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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...