Image: Stan Douglas © Evaan Kheraj
In 2019–20, the department hosted Stan Douglas as Koerner Artist in Residence. Douglas gave a public talk, conducted studio visits with MFA students, and led a seminar with a table reading of his latest play.
Stan Douglas is a visual artist who lives and works in Vancouver and Los Angeles. Since 1990 his films, videos, and photographs have been seen in exhibitions internationally, including four Venice Biennales and Documentas IX, X, and XI. A survey of recent work, Stan Douglas: Mise en scène, travelled throughout Europe from 2013 until the end of 2015 and his play Helen Lawrence toured internationally until 2017. He was the 2016 recipient of the Hasselblad Prize and since 2009 he has been a core faculty member in the Grad Art Department at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Germaine Koh will be our Koerner Artist in Residence for 2021. She will create a new body of work while she is here, making use of the photography and workshop facilities. Her work is concerned with the significance of everyday actions, familiar objects, and common places. Her work has been shown at numerous international venues, including the BALTIC Centre (Newcastle), De Appel (Amsterdam), Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Para/Site Art Space (Hong Kong), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Bloomberg SPACE (London), The Power Plant (Toronto), Seoul Museum of Art, Artspace (Sydney), The British Museum (London), the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Plug In ICA (Winnipeg), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), and the Liverpool, Sydney and Montreal biennials. Koh was a recipient of the 2010 VIVA Award and a finalist for the 2004 Sobey Art Award. Formerly an Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada, she is also an independent curator and partner in the independent record label weewerk.
Learn more: https://germainekoh.com
The Koerner Artist in Residence Program in the Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory is made possible by the generous support of the Koerner Foundation and a private BC-based foundation.