News

Alumni, In the Media, Spotlight

AHVA Alumnus Abbas Akhavan to Represent Canada at 2026 Venice Biennale

October 25, 2024
Achievement, Announcement

2024 Audain Travel Award

September 20, 2024
Student

Isabel Chen Recipient of the Spring 2024 Partnership Recognition and Exploration Fund

August 26, 2024
Announcement

AHVA Initiative Received Indigenous Strategic Initiatives Fund

August 26, 2024
Announcement

Paul Wong – AHVA Artist in Residence 2024

August 21, 2024
Announcement, Faculty

AHVA Welcomes Assistant Professors of Visual Art

July 8, 2024
Alumni, Announcement

Alumni Spotlight: Anton Lee

July 5, 2024
Alumni, Announcement

AHVA Alumna Trish Kelly Appointed Emily Carr University of Art + Design President

June 3, 2024
Announcement

Call for Applications: Ellen Neel & Beau Dick Award in Art History, Visual Art & Theory

March 25, 2024
Achievement, Alumni

AHVA Alumna Shahana Rajani wins the Han Nefkens Foundation—South Asian Video Art Production Grant 2023

January 15, 2024
Announcement, Student

Competition Announcement: Indigenous Graduate Fellowships

January 3, 2024
Student

47th Annual AHVA Graduate Symposium and Exhibition: Call for Papers

December 15, 2023
Student

47th Annual AHVA Graduate Symposium and Exhibition: Call for Artworks

December 15, 2023
Announcement

Linnea Jericho Watts in Memoriam

December 14, 2023

Rosalin Te Omra (1949–2023)

November 9, 2023
Announcement, Student

Joanne & Alice Application Support Fund for Black and Indigenous People

October 27, 2023
Achievement, Announcement, Faculty, In the Media

Dana Claxton Wins 2023 Audain Prize for the Visual Arts

September 26, 2023
Announcement, Faculty

AHVA Welcomes Assistant Professor Camille Georgeson-Usher

July 10, 2023
Announcement

Bronze Disc Base Installed at the base of The Reconciliation Pole

June 2, 2023
Alumni

AHVA Alumnus Séamus Kealy Appointed Executive Director of Oakville Galleries

May 12, 2023
Announcement, Event Highlight

Diamond Point: ya:y̓əstəl̓ (Working Together)

May 5, 2023
Achievement, Alumni

AHVA Alumnus Woojae Kim Longlisted for the 2023 Sobey Art Award

May 2, 2023
Announcement, Spotlight

Robert Young (1938-2023)

April 27, 2023
Announcement

Call for Applications: Ellen Neel & Beau Dick Award in Art History, Visual Art & Theory

March 30, 2023
Announcement

David Rimmer (1942-2023)

February 10, 2023
Achievement, Alumni, In the Media

AHVA Alumna Simranpreet Anand Wins 2022 Lind Prize

February 3, 2023
Achievement, Alumni

AHVA Alumna Jenn Jackson Appointed Director/Curator of Or Gallery

February 3, 2023
Student

46th Annual AHVA Graduate Symposium and Exhibition: Call for Papers

January 5, 2023
Student

46th Annual AHVA Graduate Symposium and Exhibition: Call for Artworks

January 5, 2023
Achievement, Announcement

Congratulations to Andrea Tuele, Dean of Arts Award for Staff Excellence Winner

December 14, 2022
Achievement, Alumni, Announcement

AHVA Alumni Shortlisted for the 2022 Lind Prize

November 28, 2022
Announcement

Statement on protests in Iran

October 31, 2022
Announcement

Rodney Graham (1949–2022)

October 28, 2022
Achievement, Alumni, Announcement, Student

2022 BMO 1st Art! BC Regional Winner

October 27, 2022
Announcement, Student

Joanne & Alice Application Support Fund for Black and Indigenous People

October 13, 2022
Announcement

Diamond Point – AHVA Koerner Artist in Residence 2022

October 5, 2022
Announcement

Autumn Star Chacon Concludes Geoffrey & Margaret Andrew Fellowship

September 27, 2022
Student

VISA 250 & 350 Students in Connecting the Dots Exhibition at Emily Carr

September 8, 2022
Student

Apply now! Student work learn jobs with AHVA this academic year!

August 4, 2022
Announcement, Faculty

Welcome Assistant Professor and Audain Chair Alexandra Peck

July 26, 2022
Announcement, Faculty

Welcome Assistant Professor Nikki Georgopulos

July 25, 2022
Announcement, Faculty

Welcome Assistant Professor of Teaching Jillian Lerner

July 22, 2022
Announcement, Spotlight

Seeking Director/Curator, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (Assistant or Associate Professor)

July 21, 2022
Student

Jacqueline Morrisseau-Addison Featured in Polygon Podcast

July 19, 2022
Alumni

MFA Alumni Marty Katzoff: The Light Within the Shell Exhibition

July 7, 2022
Achievement, Announcement, Research, Spotlight, Student

2022 Art Canada Institute Inaugural Research Fellowship

July 6, 2022
Alumni

MFA Alumni Sol Hashemi: After petal fall spray Exhibition Opening

April 14, 2022
Announcement

Call for Applications: Ellen Neel & Beau Dick Award in Art History, Visual Art & Theory

March 28, 2022
In the Media, Spotlight, Student

Reconciliation Pole: Bronze Disc Base

March 11, 2022
Achievement, Spotlight, Student

Art History Major Ivy Li Recognized by Faculty Scholarship

March 2, 2022
Announcement, Faculty, Research

New Publications by Professor Joseph Monteyne

March 1, 2022
Announcement, Exhibition

Visual Art Undergraduate Exhibition 2022 Virtual Tour

February 9, 2022

45th Annual AHVA Graduate Symposium and Exhibition: Call for Artworks

January 11, 2022

45th Annual AHVA Graduate Symposium and Exhibition: Call for Papers

January 11, 2022
Announcement, Faculty

Welcome Associate Professor Nuno Porto

January 10, 2022

Seeking Assistant Professor of Teaching, Art History

December 1, 2021

Seeking Open Rank Professor of Modern and Contemporary Indigenous Art and Cultural Practices

December 1, 2021
Announcement, Exhibition, Faculty, Research, Spotlight, Student

AHVA Faculty and Students involved in SANKOFA – African Routes, Canadian Roots at Museum of Anthropology

November 19, 2021
Announcement, Faculty, Publication

New Book by Dana Claxton, The Sioux Project – Tatanka Oyate

November 15, 2021
Announcement, Spotlight

Autumn Star Chacon – 2021 Geoffrey & Margaret Andrew Fellow

November 4, 2021
Announcement

Seeking Research Assistants for Red on Red on the Workshop Floor: Indigeneity and The Labour Theory of Value

October 22, 2021
Announcement, Spotlight, Student

Call to Action! Joanne & Alice Application Support Fund for Black and Indigenous People

October 14, 2021
Announcement

Andrew Gruft (1937-2021)

October 4, 2021
Announcement, Spotlight

Orange Shirt Day | National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

September 24, 2021
Announcement

Garry Neill Kennedy (1935-2021)

August 12, 2021
Announcement

Seeking Audain Chair in Historical Indigenous Arts (tenure-track/stream)

August 11, 2021
Announcement

Welcome Lecturer Karice Mitchell

July 16, 2021
Announcement, Faculty

Welcome Assistant Professor Dan Starling

July 9, 2021
Announcement, In the Media

UBC Flag Lowered In Memory of the 215 Children Buried at the Former Kamloops Indian Residential School

June 8, 2021
Achievement, Alumni

Congratulations to Art History Honours Graduate Niklas Groschinski

June 2, 2021
Alumni, Exhibition, Faculty

AHVA Faculty and Alumni involved in Vancouver Special: Disorientations and Echo at the Vancouver Art Gallery

May 31, 2021
Announcement, Faculty, Publication

New Book by Professor Erin Silver, Suzy Lake: Life & Work

May 7, 2021
Announcement

Call for applications: Art History and Visual Art Sessional Lectureships

April 26, 2021
Achievement, Alumni

Dustin Brons Selected as Winner of 2021 New Generation Photography Award

April 6, 2021
Announcement

Seeking Canada Research Chair (Tier II, tenure-track) in Art History — History of South Asian Art, Architecture and Visual Culture

March 29, 2021
Announcement, In the Media

Statement Denouncing Anti-Asian Racism

March 25, 2021
Announcement

Seeking Lecturer in Visual Art, Photography

March 24, 2021
Announcement, Exhibition, Faculty

VISA 330 Painting Showcase at Audain Art Centre

March 24, 2021
Announcement

Call for Applications: Ellen Neel & Beau Dick Award in Art History, Visual Art & Theory

March 11, 2021
Announcement, Faculty

AHVA Welcomes Professor Rachel Boate

January 25, 2021
Achievement, Announcement

Germaine Koh – AHVA Koerner Artist in Residence 2021

January 25, 2021
Event Highlight, Exhibition, Faculty

Visual Art Professor Gu Xiong’s Exhibition - Galleries West Stories

January 20, 2021
Alumni, Announcement, In the Media

AHVA MFA Alumni Jay Pahre Featured in the Winter Issue of Canadian Art

January 19, 2021
Announcement

Call to Action! Joanne & Alice Application Support Fund for Black and Indigenous People

November 30, 2020
Announcement

Updates on Spring 2021 Course Delivery in AHVA

October 23, 2020
Achievement, Alumni

BMO 1st Prize Regional Winner for BC

October 15, 2020
Achievement, Alumni

Helen Belkin Memorial Scholarship

October 15, 2020
Achievement, Research

2020 Audain Travel Award

October 15, 2020
Announcement

ARTH 382—Is Art History Queer?

July 17, 2020
Announcement

ARTH 230—Art and Feminism(s)

July 17, 2020
Spotlight

ARTH 464—Seminar on Japanese Art

June 29, 2020
Spotlight

ARTH 323—Heaven and Earth: Renaissance Art and Culture in Northern Europe

June 29, 2020
Spotlight

ARTH 253—Asian Architecture

June 29, 2020
Achievement, Faculty

Professor Dana Claxton Awarded 2020 Scotiabank Photography Award

June 24, 2020
Announcement, In the Media

Department Statement on Black Lives Matter

June 12, 2020
Announcement

Fall 2020 Courses in AHVA

May 31, 2020
Announcement

CrDF Standing and AHVA Undergraduate Programs

March 31, 2020
Announcement

Department COVID-19 Update: March 31

March 31, 2020
Announcement

Department COVID-19 Update: March 17

March 17, 2020
Achievement, Faculty

Dana Claxton and Kenneth Lum Honoured with Major Art Awards

March 15, 2020
Achievement, Alumni

Former AHVA Student Derrick Chang Appointed Centre A Executive Director

February 13, 2020
Announcement, In the Media

Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Statement

February 10, 2020
Alumni, In the Media

Gordon A. Smith (1919-2020)

January 20, 2020
Achievement

Professor Dana Claxton Awarded 2019 Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award

January 13, 2020
Achievement, Alumni

AHVA Alumni Vanessa Parent Receives Postdoctoral Fellowship

December 17, 2019
Spotlight

ARTH 311—Art in the Early Medieval West

December 12, 2019
Announcement, Faculty

Stan Douglas – AHVA Koerner Artist in Residence 2019-2020

September 3, 2019
Spotlight

ARTH 376—Arts of the Northwest Coast Peoples: The North

July 31, 2019
Spotlight

ARTH 397A—Special Topic: Mexican Muralism

July 25, 2019
Spotlight

ARTH 361—Chinese Modern and Contemporary Art

July 25, 2019
Spotlight

ARTH 360—Chinese Painting: Word and Image

July 25, 2019
Spotlight

ARTH 351b—Art and Architecture in the Islamic World

July 25, 2019
Achievement, Alumni

2019 Lind Prize Announcement

June 20, 2019
Alumni, Announcement

AHVA Alumna, Jayne Wilkinson is Editor-in-Chief of Canadian Art

May 31, 2019
Achievement, Alumni

AHVA PhD Candidate Pamela MacKenzie wins pre-doctoral fellowship

May 31, 2019
Achievement, Faculty

Professor Dana Claxton is a 2019 YWCA Woman of Distinction Winner

May 14, 2019
Alumni, Spotlight

Shawn Hunt

March 25, 2019
Achievement, Faculty

Professor Althea Thauberger Shortlisted for 2019 Scotiabank Photography Award

March 21, 2019
Alumni, Announcement, Spotlight

MFA Alumna, Olivia Whetung 2018 Recipient of the John Hartman Award

February 28, 2019
Announcement, In the Media

Department Statement Regarding Wet'suwet'en Land Defenders

January 10, 2019
Faculty

Professor Emeritus Serge Guilbaut Curates New Exhibition at Museo Reina Sofía

November 15, 2018
Faculty

Visual Art Professor Dana Claxton's Solo Exhibition Opens at the Vancouver Art Gallery

October 27, 2018
Achievement, Alumni

MFA Graduate Christopher Lacroix Wins Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize

September 21, 2018
Faculty, Publication

First Book by Jillian Lerner: Graphic Culture

September 6, 2018
Alumni

AHVA PhD Candidate Gloria Bell Receives Assistant Professor Position at McGill

July 31, 2018
Achievement, Faculty, Student

AHVA PhD Candidate Jeff O'Brien Receives Darat al Funun Fellowship

June 8, 2018
Achievement, Alumni

AHVA Alumna, Jeneen Frei Njootli Is Shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award

May 29, 2018
Faculty, Spotlight

Professor Catherine M. Soussloff Discusses Foucault on Painting

May 23, 2018
Faculty, In the Media

Geoffrey Smedley (1927–2018)

May 16, 2018
Announcement, Faculty

AHVA Welcomes Professor Althea Thauberger

January 29, 2018
Faculty, Publication

Catherine M. Soussloff Discusses Her Work in the Foucault Archive at the BnF

January 9, 2018
Achievement, Faculty, Publication

Dana Claxton Shortlisted for bpNichol Chapbook Award

November 10, 2017
Faculty, Publication

Catherine M. Soussloff, Foucault on Painting - forthcoming in November 2017 from University of Minnesota Press

November 2, 2017
Announcement

41st Annual Graduate Symposium: Call for Papers

October 20, 2017
Faculty, In the Media

Professor Jaleh Mansoor featured in TEXTE ZUR KUNST

June 8, 2017
In the Media

Chief Beau Dick (1955–2017)

March 28, 2017
Achievement, Alumni, Faculty, Student

2017 Lind Prize Nominees from AHVA

March 21, 2017
Faculty, Publication

First Book by Professor Jaleh Mansoor: Marshall Plan Modernism

November 21, 2016
Faculty, Publication

Release of Foucault on the Arts and Letters, Catherine M. Soussloff, ed.

November 8, 2016
Achievement, Faculty

Dana Claxton Wins 2016 Mayor's Arts Award for Visual Arts

October 17, 2016
Alumni, Faculty

A Thousand Kinds of Wind Unveiled at Gordon Neighbourhood House

June 8, 2016
Alumni, Spotlight

Ian Wallace

June 3, 2016
Alumni

MFA 2013 Graduates

May 30, 2016
Announcement

May 30, 2016
Alumni, Spotlight

Alexander Alberro

May 25, 2016
Publication, Spotlight

Postcard to Moscow

May 20, 2016
Announcement

Test Slide 2

May 18, 2016
Announcement

Test Slide

May 18, 2016
Publication, Spotlight

Atomic Postcards: Radioactive Messages from the Cold War

May 18, 2016
Publication, Spotlight

Camera Atomica

May 18, 2016
Publication, Spotlight

Basket Weavers for the California Curio Trade

May 18, 2016
Alumni, Spotlight

Ken Lum

May 18, 2016
Faculty, In the Media

James Caswell (1937–2016)

February 15, 2016
Announcement

Do I have to apply separately for funding?

January 18, 2016

This exciting exhibition is a joint effort between AHVA and the AMS.

December 15, 2015
Faculty, Spotlight

Dana Claxton: Made To Be Ready

December 15, 2015
Alumni, Announcement, In the Media

AHVA MFA Grads A Akhavan and R Boisjoly in the news!

October 29, 2015
Announcement, In the Media

International Election Observers to Monitor Monday’s Vote

October 16, 2015
Alumni, Spotlight

Charo Neville

August 25, 2015
Announcement

BFA Transfer Applications Due March 15, 2019

May 22, 2015
Achievement, In the Media

AHVA Faculty Dr. Charlotte Townsend-Gault in the news!

April 27, 2015
Alumni, In the Media

CCST Graduate Shahana Rajani in the news!

April 17, 2015
Achievement, Faculty

AHVA Faculty T'ai Smith in the News

February 5, 2015
Exhibition

Exhibition: In Place Of

January 19, 2015