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Ken Lum

MFA in Visual Art degree, 1985

Lum’s advice for incoming students of the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory is to “remember that the world is a lot bigger, more complex and contradictory than what one learns in AHVA or any other department. Another word of advice is to remember that sometimes form and content appear as opposites.”

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AHVA Alumna, Jeneen Frei Njootli is Longlisted for the Sobey Art Award

Apr 18th, 2018

Jeneen Frei Njootli (MFA 2017) is one of 25 Canadian artists longlisted for the prestigious Sobey Art Award. The Sobey Art Award honours Canada’s most exciting young artists, awarded to a visual artist age 40 and under who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated. The winner […]

AHVA Alumna, Jayne Wilkinson Joins Canadian Art as Managing Editor

Mar 8th, 2018

Photo courtesy of Canadian Art. Congratulations to AHVA alumna, Jayne Wilkinson, on her appointment as managing editor of Canadian Art. The now Toronto-based Wilkinson earned an MA in Art History at UBC in 2014. Her thesis, Art documents: The politics of the visible in the work of Taryn Simon and Trevor Paglen, investigated the politics […]

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 […]

  • The Source: Rethinking Water Through Contemporary Art

    November 18th,  2017 2:00 pm

    Book Launch Saturday, November 18, 2017 2 to 4 pm Open Studio 401 Richmond Street, Suite 104 Toronto If you are in the Toronto area, please come out to the official launch of a major publication that includes AHVA Professor Gu Xiong and AHVA alumni Colin Miner and Raymond Boisjoly,...

  • Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures Forum

    February 25th,  2017 1:00 pm

    The Vancouver Art Gallery exhibition Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures includes work by forty visual artists, as a survey of the contemporary art activity in the city over the past five years. The featured works of art do not adhere to a singular subject or style but instead point to overlapping and...

  • Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures

    December 3rd,  2016 10:00 am

        The Vancouver Art Gallery is pleased to launch Vancouver Special, a triennial exhibition surveying contemporary art in Vancouver. Co-curated by Daina Augaitis and Jesse McKee, Ambivalent Pleasures, the first iteration within this series, assesses the arts activity and discourse in the city over the past five years. Presenting...

  • Artifacture (Alumni Exhibition)

    November 30th,  2016 4:00 pm

    Artifacture features works by alumni from the BFA Visual Art and BA (Major, Visual Art): Mary Agoncillo Annabelle Allan Dustin Chan Emily Cho Angela Ji Yiying Wu Opening reception: Wednesday, November 30 4:00 to 6:00 pm Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre 6163 University Boulevard Vancouver, BC Exhibition runs to January...

  • From Imperial to Canadian Citizenship: Photography, Race, and Belonging in the Former British Empire, 1900–1948

    September 28th,  2016 5:30 pm

    Free Public Talk by Dr. Gabrielle Moser, AHVA Postdoctoral Fellow   This talk traces the emergence of citizenship as a photographable subject in the British Empire at the beginning of the twentieth century, taking as its focus an archive of 6,700 images produced by the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee:...

  • Absence in Remembrance; The Japanese Canadian Internment: Curated by CCST Candidate Kristine Olson

    June 17th,  2016

    Absence in Remembrance; The Japanese Canadian Internment: Curated by CCST Candidate Kristine Olson

    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...

  • MARINA ROY Your Kingdom to Command

    June 2nd,  2016 6:00 pm

    Offsite Opening | Thursday June 2, 2016 | 6-8pm Join us for the opening of Offsite: Marina Roy, the 13th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series. Artist Talk: Tuesday June 7, 7pm | Blue Moon Theatre, Shangri-La, 1100 West Georgia Street

  • Sausage Factory – Exhibition by Weronika Stepien and Stephen Wichuk

    February 25th,  2016

    Reception Thursday, February 25, 2016 from 7:00 – 10:00 pm. To April 2, 2016. Vancouver, BC – grunt gallery presents a new exhibition entitled “Sausage Factory” by artists Weronika Stepien and Stephen Wichuk. The opening night reception will be heldThursday, February 25, 2016 from 7:00 – 10:00 pm. This is...

  • Arts Night Out

    September 24th,  2015 6:30 pm

    A free evening of cultural activities! AHVA Faculty, Staff and Grads are cordially invited to Arts Night Out and the Centennial Harvest Feast next Thursday, September 24, 2015. UBC’s Arts & Culture District partners with Centennial Harvest Feast to present a free evening of cultural activities Arts Night Out after...

  • Art History, Visual Art and Theory: New School/Old School

    October 10th,  2012 7:30 pm

    7:30 pm – 9:00 pm You are invited to join your fellow alumni and friends from UBC’s Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory to hear notable alumniGrant Arnoldand Patrik Andersson speak about what they have been up to since graduating from UBC. Hosted by Heffel Fine Art, New...

  • New School/Old School: An Art History, Visual Art and Theory Event

    April 4th,  2012

    You are invited to join your fellow alumni and friends from UBC’s Art History, Visual Art & Theory Program as well as hear notable alumnus Ian Wallace speak about what he’s been up to since graduating from UBC. You are invited to join your fellow alumni and friends from UBC’s...