Alumni News & Events

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

Jan 19th, 2021

  Jay Pahre, Piebald Undercoat, 2020. Copper-coated steel, aluminum and gauze, 68.6 x 53.3 cm.   Congratulations to AHVA MFA alumni (2020), Jay Pahre, for being featured in the 2021 winter issue of Canadian Art. Jay was also the Chair in Transgender Studies at the University of Victoria through a fellowship in 2020. Jay Pahre is a […]

Former AHVA Student Derrick Chang Appointed Centre A Executive Director

Feb 13th, 2020

Photo credit: Liza Curtiss   Congratulations to former AHVA student Derrick Chang on his new role as Executive Director at Centre A, starting March 1, 2020. Derrick studied Critical and Curatorial Studies in the department, and mounted a thesis exhibition, Sounding Off: Making Queer Noise Areas – Queer experience, noise politics, transnationalism, which investigated the struggle […]

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

May 31st, 2019

Photo courtesy of Canadian Art. Congratulations to AHVA alumna, Jayne Wilkinson, on her promotion to Editor-in-Chief of Canadian Art. This follows her initial appointment at Canadian Art as Managing Editor in March 2018. The now Toronto-based Wilkinson earned an MA in Art History at UBC in 2014. Her thesis, Art documents: The politics of the […]

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

Feb 28th, 2019

Congratulations to Olivia Whetung who is the 2018 recipient of the John Hartman Award from The MacLaren Art Centre. Olivia Whetung is anishinaabekwe and a member of Curve Lake First Nation. She completed her BFA with a minor in anishinaabemowin at Algoma University, and has a MFA from the University of British Columbia (2016). Whetung’s […]

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

Sep 21st, 2018

Congratulatations to recent graduate Christopher Lacroix (MFA 2018) for winning the Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize and second-year MFA student, Ramey Newell, for being named an honourable mention. Christopher receives $5,000 toward the commissioning of a new artwork to be exhibited at The Polygon Gallery in 2019. Photo courtesty of The Polygon Gallery   Read […]

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

May 29th, 2018

Jeneen Frei Njootli (MFA 2017) is one of five Canadian artists shortlisted for the prestigious Sobey Art Award, representing the West Coast and the Yukon region. The Sobey Art Award honours Canada’s most exciting young artists. It is awarded to a visual artist age 40 and under who has exhibited in a public or commercial […]

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

Oct 17th, 2016

Congratulations to AHVA faculty member Dana Claxton who has been awarded the 2016 Mayor’s Arts Award for Visual Arts and to AHVA MFA graduate Carlos Colín who was named by Claxton as an emerging artist who demonstrates the promise of the next generation in the Visual Arts. Twenty-four individuals, one artist collective, and one business are […]

A Thousand Kinds of Wind Unveiled at Gordon Neighbourhood House

Jun 8th, 2016

A community-based experiential learning project On May 17, 2016, Gordon Neighbourhood House in Vancouver’s West End hosted a celebration of A Thousand Kinds of Wind, the recently installed sculptural work in the atrium of the building. The event recognized both the achievements of students from Professor Richard Prince’s VISA 401D class in the Department of […]

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

Oct 29th, 2015

ABBAS AKHAVAN WINS THE 2015 SOBEY ART AWARD! Halifax, October 28, 2015 – The prestigious 2015 Sobey Art Award has been presented to Abbas Akhavan  representing the Ontario region during tonight’s annual Award Announcement Gala at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. The 2015 finalists emerged from a longlist of 25 Canadian artists under the […]

CCST Graduate Shahana Rajani in the news!

Apr 17th, 2015

Shahana Rajani AHVA CCST Graduate in the news in Karachi The Tentative Collective is a group of young people working throughout the city of Karachi, sharing ideas and resources and producing images, but mostly projecting images from a rickshaw-powered projector, and in that way attempting to connect the experiences of artists, institutions, and ethnically diverse […]