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AHVA Alumna Adrienne Fast and Faculty Camille Usher Appointed as Vancouver Art Gallery Curators

 
Huge congratulations to AHVA alumna Adrienne Fast (PhD ’15) and faculty member Camille Georgeson-Usher!
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Congratulations to AHVA Recipients of the 2025 Community-University Engagement Support Fund

 
Congratulations to AHVA faculty members Manuel Piña Baldoquin and Germaine Koh!

48th UBC AHVA Graduate Symposium: Call for Papers

 
The Committee invites graduate students to submit abstracts for the annual AHVA Graduate Symposium

AHVA Alum Jeneen Frei Njootli Selected as a Finalist for the 2025 Yukon Prize for Visual Arts

 
Congratulations to AHVA alum and former faculty member Jeneen Frei Njootli (MFA ’17)
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Upcoming Events

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VALUE: Rebecca Belmore at the Museum of Anthropology

 
May 15, 2025 - October 19, 2025
place Museum of Anthropology

Qiu Anxiong and Howie Tsui: The Roaming Peach Blossom Spring

 
June 28, 2025 - August 24, 2025
place Richmond Art Gallery
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Community

AHVA maintains strong connections with artists, critics, curators, and art historians locally and internationally, through invited lectures, symposia, and events. We are also proud to share the accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni through regular news items published on the website.

Events and programs supporting the community include:

  • Departmental and student-led initiatives, including a number of lectures by international and Canadian artists, critics, curators, and scholars as part of the Joan Carlisle-Irving Lecture Series and the BC Binning Endowment
  • Exhibitions, programs, and annual lectures hosted and curated by both the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and the AHVA Art Gallery
  • The Art History, Visual Art and Theory Graduate Symposium involving an exhibition curated by graduate students in the department featuring artworks by MFA students from around the globe
  • An exhibition program featuring work by MFA students
  • Open Studios events and interdepartmental critiques several times a year