Faculty of Art
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MFA Open Studios
December 4th, 2018 5:00 pm
Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory (AHVA) University of British Columbia (UBC) Master of Fine Art (MFA) in Visual Art, Open Studios Tuesday, December 4, 2018 | 5–7 PM MFA | 4th floor, Audain Art Centre 6398 University Blvd You are invited to the annual MFA Open Studios....
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MFA Visual Art Roundtable Presentations
October 19th, 2018 1:00 pm
2018 MFA Roundtable Presentations The 2018 MFA Visual Art Roundtable Presentations will be held on Friday, October 19, 2018 from 1pm-5:30pm in the Lillooet Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (1961 East Mall UBC). Schedule: 1:00–1:40 Weronika Stepien The Warehouse: Stock 3D Models and User Generated Fantasy Moderator: Sam Kinsley...
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MFA Interdepartmental Critiques
October 12th, 2018 1:00 pm
Please join us on Friday 12 October, 2018 for the MFA Interdepartmental Critiques. Please join 2nd year MFA Visual Art candidates Angela Glanzmann, Cameron Kerr, Mandana Mansouri, Ramey Newell, and Weronika Stepien for their Interdepartmental Critiques starting at 1:00 PM on Friday 12 October in the AHVA Gallery. Friday 12...
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Some Kind of Darkness
September 19th, 2018
“The contemporary is he who firmly holds his gaze on his own time so as to perceive not its light, but rather its darkness.” – Giorgio Agamben Five MFA candidates present new work engaging different iterations and relationships with darkness. This exhibition combines diverse practices and process-based research via performance,...
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sum of the parts
July 18th, 2018 11:00 am
Divya Mehra, Felix Kalmenson, Casey Wei, Deanna Bowen, Krista Belle March 24 – July 18, 2018 Curated by Jenn Jackson Throughout the spring season of 2018, 221A hosts sum of the parts, a curatorial research project by Jenn Jackson which brings together a selection of films, performances and installations by...
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Feathers, Ether, Sand, Speech
June 16th, 2018
Lauren Marsden, Elizabeth Milton, and Sydney Southam June 16 – August 4, 2018 Reception Friday June 15, 7:00 PM Curated by Whitney Brennan Feathers, Ether, Sand, Speech presents three contemporary Vancouver artists working at the intersection of performance and media art, and exploring sites of contested gender representation: the cinema,...
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Being in Place
May 12th, 2018
Bridget Reweti, Debra Sparrow, Shannon Te Ao, Kamala Todd May 12 – June 2, 2018 Reception Friday May 11, 8:00 PM Curated by Paula Booker Being in Place with Bridget Reweti, Debra Sparrow, Shannon Te Ao, and Kamala Todd will feature installation art, moving image and Coast Salish design. Initiated...
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Postscript: MFA Graduate Exhibition
May 3rd, 2018 6:00 pm
May 4–June 3, 2018 Opening Reception: Thursday, May 3, 6:00-9:00 pm Public critique with Kimberly Phillips, Curator, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver: Saturday, May 5, 12:30-4:15 pm at the Belkin The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present Postscript, an exhibition of work by the 2018 graduates...
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We Built a House Out of the Things We Had Gathered
April 7th, 2018
Maggie Groat, Joar Nango, Leya Tess April 7 — 28, 2018 Reception Friday April 6, 7:00 PM Curated by Laurie White Artist Talk: Leya Tess in conversation with Laurie White, Saturday, April 7, 2:00 PM We Built a House Out of the Things We Had Gathered brings together works by...
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ARTH MA Roundtable Presentations
March 2nd, 2018 10:00 am
Art History, Visual Art & Theory Masters in Art History Roundtable Presentations Friday, March 2, 2018 10:00 am–4:10 pm Audain Art Centre, 6398 University Blvd Room 1002 The Masters in Art History Roundtable Presentations will be held on Friday, March 2, 2018, from 10:00–4:10 in the Audain Art Centre, (6398...
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CCST MA Roundtable Presentations
February 9th, 2018 1:30 pm
Critical and Curatorial Studies MA Roundtable Presentations Friday, February 9, 2018 1:30 pm–4:00 pm Audain Art Centre, 6398 University Blvd Room 1002 The Masters in Critical and Curatorial Studies Roundtable Presentations will be held on Friday, February 9, 2018, from 1:30–4:00 in the Audain Art Centre, (6398 University Blvd), Room...
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MFA Visual Art Roundtable Presentations
November 17th, 2017 1:00 pm
2017 MFA Roundtable Presentations The MFA Roundtable Presentations will be held on Friday, November 17, 2017 from 1pm-5:30pm in the Lillooet Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (1961 East Mall UBC). Please find the schedule below: 1:00–1:40 Aileen Bahmanipour Image, Disturbance, Pattern Moderator: Ali Ahadi 1:45–2:25 Christopher Lacroix It would...
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Old Powerhouse
August 30th, 2017
Michelle Weinstein Summer Residency and Exhibition Residency: August 8–31 Exhibition: August 30–October 21 Artist Talk and Closing Reception: Thursday, October 19, 2–5 PM Guest Curated by UBC CCST program graduate Kristine Olson Old Powerhouse is an experimental artwork that centers upon two architectural forms: the pyramids of Ancient Egypt, and...
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An Absolute Movement
June 17th, 2017
Sonny Assu, Matt Browning, Fiona Bowie, Kelly Jazvac, Genevieve Robertson & Jay White June 17 — July 22, 2017 Reception June 16, 8 PM Curated by CCST Student Weiyi Chang at the Or Gallery. An Absolute Movement brings together a body of work by Sonny Assu, Fiona Bowie, Matt Browning...
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It Is Almost That
May 5th, 2017 8:00 pm
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Eleanor King, Nadia Myre, Erdem Taşdelen Curated by Ines Min May 6 – June 10, 2017 Reception Friday, May 5, 8PM Or Gallery 555 Hamilton Street Vancouver Critical works by international artists Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Eleanor King, Nadia Myre and Erdem Taşdelen will be shown...
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Candle: MFA Graduate Exhibition
May 4th, 2017 6:00 pm
May 5–June 4, 2017 Opening Reception: Thursday, May 4, 6:00-9:00 pm Public critique with Amy Kazymerchyk, Curator, SFU Audain Gallery: Saturday, May 6, 12:30-4:15 pm at the Belkin The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present Candle, an exhibition of work by the 2017 graduates...
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Rhyme Schematic MFA Exhibition
February 1st, 2017 6:00 pm
Exhibition dates: February 2 – 25, 2017 Opening reception: Wednesday, February 1 from 6 – 8 PM Please join the UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory (AHVA) at the AHVA Gallery in the Audain Art Centre on Wednesday, February 1 at 6 PM for the opening reception...
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MFA and BFA Open Studios 2016
December 6th, 2016 4:00 pm
You are invited to the inaugural, combined Master of Fine Art (MFA) and Bachelor of Fine Art Visual Art (BFA) Open Studios. This event is an opportunity to view the work in progress of both MFA and BFA candidates and to engage with them on their current studio practice. MFA...
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2016 Winter Art History / CCST Roundtables
December 2nd, 2016 1:00 pm
The Art History and CCST Roundtables will take place: Friday, December 2, 2016 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm Room 1002 Audain Art Centre 6398 University Boulevard Schedule 1:00 pm Marisa C. Sánchez The Beckett Effect: The Work of Paul Chan, Stan Douglas and William Kentridge Moderator: Anton Lee 2:30 Break...
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Winter 2016 MFA Roundtables
November 18th, 2016 1:00 pm
The MFA Roundtables will take place: Friday, November 18, 2016 1:00–5:00 pm Dodson Room Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (UBC) 1961 East Mall Vancouver, BC Schedule: 1:05 pm Matt Browning For to do too Moderator: Ali Ahadi 1:50 pm Steven Cottingham Occupy Necropolis Moderator: Leigh Tennant 2:35 pm Jessica Evans A...
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Absence in Remembrance; The Japanese Canadian Internment: Curated by CCST Candidate Kristine Olson
June 17th, 2016
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...
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Slip the Snare, UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2016
May 6th, 2016
Benjamin J. Allard, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Saroop Soofi, Leigh Tennant, Olivia Whetung May 6-June 5, 2016 Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery University of British Columbia 1825 Main Mall Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z2 Opening Reception: Thursday, May 5, 6-9 pm Performance by Jeneen Frei Njootli: Friday, May 6, 1:00...
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It’s All a Blur: An Artist Talk by Tony Labat
March 30th, 2016 5:30 pm
Join us for the last Distinguished Visiting Artist talk this term! Since the early 1980s, Cuban-born artist Tony Labat has developed a body of work in performance, video, sculpture, and installation dealing with the body, popular culture, identity, urban relations, politics, and the media. Labat has exhibited internationally over the...
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39th Annual UBC AHVA Graduate Symposium: The Margin is the Centre
March 10th, 2016
Symposium runs March 10 – 11 and Exhibition runs March 10 – April 2 The 39th Annual University of British Columbia Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory Graduate Symposium is pleased to announce that this year’s event, The Margin is the Centre, will take place from March 10...
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Winsor Gallery Presents Ogema : I Am Woman: Curated by CCST Candidate Léa Toulouse
March 9th, 2016
Reception: Wednesday, March 9, 2016, 6pm Maria Hupfield, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Tsema Tamara Skubovius, Wendy Red Star, Janice Toulouse, Olivia Whetung. Exhibition Dates: March 9 – March 29, 2016 Reception: Wednesday, March 9, 2016, 6-8pm Drum Group Performance at 6pm sharp Curated by Léa Toulouse The exhibition Ogema: I Am...
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Artist Talk by Maria Hupfield
March 2nd, 2016 5:30 pm
Wasauksing artist Maria Hupfield presents public talk March 2, 2016 Maria Hupfield’s public talk, If You Want to Be Included You Have to Participate, is about rising above through the act of doing and through embodied knowledge. Topics include the politics of recognition, cultural revitalization, native feminism, social activism, the...
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UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory MFA Interdepartmental Critique
February 12th, 2016 2:00 pm
Please join 2nd year MFA Visual Art candidates Saroop Soofi, Leigh Tennant, and Olivia Whetungfor their Interdepartmental Critiques at 2:00 – 5:00 PM on Friday February 12th in Room 1002 of the Audain Art Centre. All are welcome.
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Treasure Island: An Artist Talk by Daniel Boyd
February 10th, 2016 5:30 pm
Aboriginal Australian artist Daniel Boyd presents public talk February 10, 2016 Daniel Boyd (b. 1982) is an Aboriginal Australian artist who has been exhibiting his work nationally and internationally since 2005. Boyd’s ancestry can be traced throughout Queensland and Northern New South Wales to the peoples of Kudjla, Eastern Kuku...
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UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory MFA Interdepartmental Critique
January 15th, 2016 12:30 pm
Please join 2nd year MFA Visual Art candidates Benjamin J. Allard, Jeneen Frei Njootli, and Daniel Phillips for their Interdepartmental Critiques at 12:30 – 3:30 PM on Friday January 15th in Room 1002 of the Audain Art Centre. All are welcome.
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MFA Open Studios
December 8th, 2015 4:00 pm
Our MFA students open their studios to view works in progress. Dear AHVA Community, You are invited to join us at our MFA Open Studios which will take place on Tuesday December 8, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM on the 4th Floor of the Audain Art Centre (6398 University Blvd).
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Winter 2015 ARTH/CCST Roundtables
November 20th, 2015 10:30 am
MA Critical and Curatorial Studies Roundtable Presentations Winter 2015 ARTH/CCST Roundtables The ARTH/CCST Roundtables will take place on Friday, November 20th, 2015 from 10:30am to 3:00pm in Room 1002, Audain Art Centre (6398 University Blvd., UBC) Schedule: 10:30 AM – 11:10 AM Kristine Olson (MA, CCST) Unmapping the Unacceptable: The...
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#saltandwater: The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Curated by CCST Candidate Margaret Stern
June 5th, 2015 8:00 pm
Exhibition runs June 6 – July 17, 2015. The Or Gallery is pleased to present #saltandwater: The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, an exhibition of four Palestinian artists. In his 1981 book, The Political Unconscious, Fredric Jameson asserts the idea of Louis Althusser’s “absent cause” within a structure. He posits that the structure itself...
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Gravure Automatique: Dalla Husband at Atelier 17: Curated by CCST Candidate Eva Tweedie
May 28th, 2015
Exhibition runs May 28 – June 21, 2015. This exhibition features prints by Canadian artist Dalla Husband (1899-1944) made during her time in Paris through the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1899, Husband grew up in Vernon, British Columbia on her family’s ranch on Lake Kalamalka. Her...
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object approaching short blue waves: UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2015
May 1st, 2015
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present object approaching short blue waves, an exhibition of work by the 2015 graduates of the University of British Columbia’s two-year Master of Fine Arts program: Eric Angus, Jamey Braden, Anyse Ducharme, Jessica Gnyp, and Michelle Weinstein. This program is...
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38th Annual UBC AHVA Graduate Symposium: Le(s) Temps
March 13th, 2015 10:00 am
Symposium runs March 13 – 14th, 2015 Keynote: T.J. Demos (Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture, UC Santa Cruz) Friday, March 13 10:00am: Opening Remarks 10:30am: Morning Session Hye-Shim Yi (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles) Solid, But Not Bounded: Garden Rocks in Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) China Natalie Massong...
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MFA Interdepartmental Critique
February 6th, 2015 2:00 pm
2nd Year MFA Interpartmental Critiques Please join 2nd year MFA candidates Anyse Ducharme, Jessica Gnyp, and Michelle Weinstein for their Interdepartmental Critiques in the new Audain Art Centre. February 6th, 2015, 2pm. Main Floor, Room 1002, 6398 University Blvd. UBC. All are welcome.
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Interdepartmental Critiques
January 9th, 2015 2:00 pm
2nd year MFAs Eric Angus and Jamey Braden. 2pm. Please join 2nd year MFA candidates Eric Angus and Jamey Braden for their Interdepartmental Critiques in the new Audain Art Centre. January 9th, 2015. Main Floor, Room 1002, 6398 University Blvd. UBC. All are welcome.
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ARTH/CCST MA & PhD Students Round Table Presentations
November 28th, 2014
Winter 2014/2015 ARTH/CCST Roundtables The ARTH/CCST Roundtables will take place on Friday, November 28th, 2014 from 11:00am to 4:30 pm in the Lillooet Room, Irving K Barber Learning Centre (1961 East Mall UBC). Schedule: 11am-12:30pm: Heather Muckart (PhD, ARTH) Title: Reformation of the Portrait: Banality and Likeness in Early Modern...
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Visual Art MFA Student Roundtable Presentations
November 14th, 2014
Winter 2014/2015 MFA Roundtables The MFA Roundtable Presentations will be held on Friday, November 14th 2014 from 2pm-6pm in the Lillooet Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (1961 East Mall UBC). Please find the schedule below: 2:00pm Eric Angus Follow the Bird (Vibration, Resonance, and the Heterotopic Convergence of Space)...
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Welcome to Screenland: Curated by CCST Candidate Carolyn Jervis
July 10th, 2014 6:00 pm
Exhibition runs July 11 – August 13, 2014 Welcome to Screenlandconsiders the personal dimensions of life plugged in, and the impact that the taken-for-granted structure of Internet programs and video games has on virtual expressions of identity, connection, memory, and love. Key to the selected works is their respective engagements...
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Where Does it Hurt? Curated by CCST Candidate Jonah Gray
June 7th, 2014 8:00 pm
Opening: Friday, June 6, 8pm. June 7 to July 26,2014. CATHY BUSBY, DAVID MACWILLIAM, RACHELLE SAWATSKY, KRISTA BELLE STEWART Curated by JONAH GRAY Boris Groys recently claimed that artworks are inherently sick and require a curator to heal them by including them in an exhibition.[1] While this was likely more...
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Queering Citizenship: Curated by CCST Candidate Derrick Chang
May 15th, 2014 6:00 pm
Exhibition runs May 16 – June 28, 2014. From Vancouver’s West End to Zagreb, Croatia, Satellite Gallery’s upcoming exhibitionQueering Citizenship, which opens on May 15 at 6pm, reflects a landscape that is socially and politically diverse. By considering the climate of queer citizens in Eastern Europe and Africa, the exhibition...
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Dust on the Lens: Curated by CCST Candidate Michaela Rife
May 9th, 2014 8:00 pm
Exhibition runs May 10 – June 28, 2014 Jeremy Everett, Simone Jones, Richard T. Walker and Will Wilson Reception Friday, May 9, 8pm Curated by Michaela Rife The Or Gallery is pleased to present Dust on the Lens, a group exhibition featuring works by Jeremy Everett, Simone Jones, Richard T....
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SUPERMOON: UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2014
May 2nd, 2014
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present SUPERMOON, an exhibition of work by the 2014 graduates of the University of British Columbia’s two-year Master of Fine Arts program. The artists represented examine the practice of making art through the shared and often conflicted relationship it has with...
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Art History MA Graduate Student Roundtable Presentations
March 28th, 2014 10:00 am
Winter 2013/2014 Round Tables Art History MA Graduate Student Roundtable Presentations Friday, March 28th 2014 Lillooet Room, IKBLC (1961 East Mall, UBC) 10:00am-10:40am Laura Dickson Negotiating Community in the Vernacular: Considering the Photographic Archive of Metis Activist James P. Brady. Moderator: Jacqueline Witkowski 10:50am-11:30am Denise Ryner Space as a Participant...
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37th Annual UBC Art History Graduate Symposium: Shifting Pedagogies
March 14th, 2014 1:00 pm
37th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium runs March 14 – 15, 2014 Keynote Judith Rodenbeck (Sarah Lawrence College) Friday, March 14 1:00pm: Coffee 1:30pm: Opening Remarks 2:00pm: Panel I Allan Doyle (PhD, Princeton University) Rumble à Roma: Quatremère de Quincy, Horace Vernet, and the Question of Pedagogy at the French...
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Art History PhD Student Roundtable Presentations
January 10th, 2014 10:30 am
Winter 2013/2014 Round Tables All are welcome to attend the Art History Graduate Roundtables being presented by the following PhD Candidaates: 10:00am-11:30am Yanlong Guo Luxury for the Rural: Mass Consumption of Mirror at the “Centre” of the Han Empire (Moderator: Vytas Narusevicius) 11:45am-1:15pm: Ivana Vranic Between Physis and Techn?: Molding,...
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Art History MA and PhD Graduate Student Roundtable Presentations
November 29th, 2013 10:00 am
Winter 2013 Roundtables All are welcome to attend the Art History Graduate Roundtables being presented by: 10:00am-10:40am Jeff O’Brien (MA) Fiction, Testimony and the Exergue of the Archive: Godard, Géricault and Hirschhorn’s Concordia, Concordia Moderator: Robin Simpson ~ 10:45am-11:25am Rachel Smith (MA) Beyond Epistemic Disobedience: Gesturing Towards Humor in Fred...
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Ten Thousand Suns: Curated by CCST candidate Jeremy Jaud
September 12th, 2013 5:30 pm
Exhibition runs September 13 – October 26, 2013. Satellite Gallery presents Ten Thousand Suns, a new group exhibition that features works in sculpture, audio, video and performance by Rebecca Belmore, Tanya Tagaq, Luke Parnell, Guadalupe Martinez, Abbas Akhavan, Jamie Look, Ali Ahadi, Erin Siddall, Carlos Colín and Brianne Nord-Stewart. These...
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Right to the City: Travel Guide to Karachi: Curated by CCST candidate Shahana Rajani
July 19th, 2013 7:00 pm
Book Launch Ever heard of Karachi? It lies 11,700 kilometers from Vancouver, on the coast of the Arabian Sea in Pakistan. For those curious to explore the city but unable to afford the airfare or keep hearing that it’s too unsafe to travel there, here is your lucky day! Hot...
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Shifting Margins: Emily Carr and Irene Hoffar Reid: Curated by CCST Candidate Sofia Stalner
May 30th, 2013 7:00 pm
Exhibition runs May 30 – July 1, 2013. Shifting Margins: Emily Carr and Irene Hoffar Reid exhibits works by two B.C. artists and selected archival materials surrounding their life and work. Engaging a discussion around the marginalisation and mythification of certain artists, the exhibition considers aspects such as gender, geographic...
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Full Frontal: curated by CCST candidate Katie Schroeder
April 12th, 2013 6:00 pm
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 11, 6:00-9:00 pm. Exhibition runs April 12 – May 11, 2013 Drawn from the collection of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Full Frontal explores the relationship between masculinity and male sexuality, and why the image of a naked man, baring all, is one of...
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ARTH/CCST Roundtables
March 1st, 2013 12:00 pm
ARTH/CCST Roundtables Friday, March 1, 2013. 12 to 6pm. Schedule: 12:00pm-12:40pm: Sofia Stalner (CCST) Shifting Margins: Emily Carr and Irene Hoffar Reid Moderator: Carolyn Jervis ~ 12:50pm-1:30pm: Katie Schroeder (CCST) Full Frontal Moderator: Katherine Jackson ~ 1:40pm-2:20pm: Jeremy Jaud (CCST) Ex Mundana Moderator: Robin Simpson ~ 2:30pm-3:10pm: Shahana Rajani (CCST)...
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Things Matter: Curated by CCST candidate Klara Manhal
December 7th, 2012 8:00 pm
Opening Reception: December 7, 8 PM. Show runs to January 26th. Accompanying talk December 11, 7 PM. The Or Gallery is pleased to present Things’ Matter, a group exhibition curated by CCST candidate Klara Manhal featuring works by Kika Thorne, Heather Passmore, Michael Drebert and Jen Weih. Accompanying Talk with...
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Graduate Student Roundtable Presentations
November 30th, 2012 2:30 pm
2:30 to 5pm 2:30pm-3:15pm: Jordan Strom (MA CCST) Vipers in a Pail: Serial Portraiture through Self and Archive 3:15pm-4:00pm: Jayne Wilkinson (MA ARTH) Art Documents: Complicating the visible in the work of Taryn Simon and Trevor Paglen 4:00pm-4:45pm: Esme Cunningham (MA ARTH) The Pool and The Web: A Critique of...
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Alison Shields – Emergence: curated by CCST candidate Tarah Hogue
September 7th, 2012 7:00 pm
Opening Reception 7pm September 7th. Exhibition runs September 7 to September 28, 2012 Alison Shields’ second solo exhibition with the Gam Gallery focuses on the process of painting. Stemming from her MFA thesis work at the University of Waterloo, Shields’ canvases are the result of layers upon layers of tracings...
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Facing the Animal: curated by CCST candidate Tarah Hogue
May 25th, 2012 8:00 pm
Opening Reception: May 25th, 8 to 11 pm. Artist Talk and Book Signing with Bill Burns: June 7th, 7 pm. Show runs to June 29, 2012. Download The Or Gallery is pleased to present Facing the Animal, a group exhibition curated by CCST candidate Tarah Hogue featuring works by Julie Andreyev, Mary...
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Sans Song: curated by CCST candidate Jenny Walton
April 27th, 2012 7:00 pm
Opening reception: 26th April 2012 at 7pm. Exhibition runs to June 2, 2012. Introducing new works by Nathan McNinch and by Joshua Bonnetta, in conjunction with two pieces released in 1976 by Joan La Barbara, the artworks in Sans Song investigate the tools and instruments of vocal sonic production and...
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Broken Borders: curated by CCST candidate Adriana Estrada Centelles
March 10th, 2012
Exhibition runs March 10 to April 28, 2012. Satellite Gallery and Access Gallery co-present Mexican curator and CCST candidate Adriana Estrada Centelles’ group exhibition Broken Borders. The exhibition reflects on the sociopolitical situation that has affected Mexico and more recently other countries, such as Canada and the United States, for the...
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Nature, Knowlege and the Knower: curated by CCST candidate Mo Salemy
October 29th, 2011 5:00 pm
An exhibition that features digital enlargements of panoramic photographs from James L. (Lippit) Clark’s archives from the American Museum of Natural History in New York. James L. Clark Archives and the Construction of Habitat Dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History. A new exhibition at Satellite Gallery offers unprecedented...
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Studies in Decay; curated by CCST Candidate Jonah Gray
October 29th, 2011 5:00 pm
October 29 — December 10, 2011. Opening Friday, October 28, 8PM. Curated by Jonah Gray. Or Gallery is pleased to present Raymond Boisjoly, Jordy Hamilton, Laura Piasta: Studies in Decay, a group exhibition curated by Jonah Gray. The dark overtones in both the subject matter and colour palette of the artworks in...
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Rehearsal Research: curated by CCST candidate Sarah Todd
April 19th, 2011 12:00 pm
Justine Chambers, Holly Ward, Paul Kajander. Curated and coordinated by Sarah Todd. Closing reception and performance by Justine Chambers, April 28, 6 -9 PM. Tuesday April 19 – Thursday April 28 Open Tuesday – Saturday 12pm -5pm Rehearsal Research is a presentation of work made during the Rehearsal Research residency,...
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MFA Roundtable Presentations
March 26th, 2011 10:30 am
MFA students will present their major paper abstracts followed by a question and answer period. Please join the Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory for the MFA Roundtable Presentations. Saturday, March 26, 2011 10:30 – 4:30 Dorothy Somerset Room 109.
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Art History, CCST MA/PhD Roundtable presentations
March 19th, 2011 10:00 am
Art History, CCST MA/PhD Graduate students will present abstracts of their research Please join the department to hear Art History and Critical & Curatorial graduate students present their thesis research. Each presentation will be followed by a question and answer period. Reception to follow. See attached pdf for schedule of speakers...
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Field Work: curated by CCST Candidate Shaun Dacey
June 26th, 2010 8:00 pm
Opening Reception: Friday June 25, 8pm. Runs June 26 – July 24, 2010 Diane Borsato, Roy Caussy, Brendan Fernandes, Hannah Jickling, Will Kwan Guest curated by Shaun Dacey Artist Talk by Brendan Fernandes: Saturday 26 June 2010 2pm MFA in Paper Maché event hosted by Hannah Jickling: Thursday 16 July...
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Hold Still Wild Youth: The GINA Show Archive curated by CCST Candidate Allison Collins
June 4th, 2010 8:00 pm
Opening 8 pm, Friday, June 4, 2010. Runs June 5 – July 10, 2010 Curated by Allison Collins, MA CCST Candidate. A new exhibition about The GINA Show, John Anderson’s television art project, will be shown nearly thirty years after its initial broadcast in 1979 on Vancouver Cable 10, at...
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Friend or Foe; curated by CCST candidate Darrin Martens
April 24th, 2010
Exhibition runs from April 24 to May 29, 2010. Friend or Foe is an exhibition featuring new work by two of Canada’s most respected visual artists – Rebecca Belmore and Terrance Houle, curated by Darrin Martens MA Candidate, Critical and Curatorial Studies, UBC. Opening at the Or Gallery in Vancouver on...
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Cosmologies: anything that exists has a beginning; curated by CCST candidate Daina Warren
July 4th, 2009
Opening, Friday, July 3, 2009. Artist Talk: July 4, 2009 at 2pm. Show runs July 4 to August 8, 2009. Jason Baerg, Dana Claxton Lewis deSoto, Richard Tawhanga Kereopa This multi-media group exhibition deals with complex cultural systems created by individual artists from various Indigenous cultures. These systems of knowing...
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Paper Trail: Serial Material; curated by CCST candidates Allison Collins, Shaun Dacey and Sarah Todd
May 1st, 2009
Exhibition continues until May 30, 2009. Reception 8 pm, Friday May 1st. Featuring works by: Ruth Beale (London, UK) Gretchen Bennett (Seattle) Michael Comeau (Toronto) Paige Gratland (Toronto) Packard Jennings (San Francisco) Hannah Jickling and Helen Reed (Portland) Curated by: Allison Collins,Shaun Dacey and Sarah ToddUBC MA (Curatorial Studies) Program...
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The Wild so Close; curated by CCST candidate Jennifer Cane
April 25th, 2009
Showing April 25th – May 1st, 2009. Opening Reception Friday, 24 April, 8:00 pm. Curated by Jennifer Cane, MA Candidate, Critical and Curatorial Studies, UBC The Wild so Close presents photographic and video works by Tacita Dean, Leslie Grant and Al Bersch, Jason Hendrickson, David Horvitz, and Donald Lawrence. The...
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shrink-wrapped; curated by CCST candidate Alison Rajah
December 5th, 2008
6 December, 2008 to 24 January, 2009. Opening Reception Friday, December 5, 8 to 10 pm. Adel Abidin, Abbas Akhavan, A.S. Dhillon, Josephine Meckseper, Martha Rosler, Gail Wight and Retort shrink-wrapped considers how a group of artists and intellectuals have responded to images of war and the image-world leading up to...
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Everything Is Not Lost; curated by CCST candidate Kim Nguyen
April 19th, 2008
April 19 — May 18, 2008. Curated by CCST candidate Kim Nguyen, an exhibition featuring the work of Christian Nguyen, Nhan Duc Nguyen, Pipo Nguyen-duy, and Khanh Vo, four contemporary artists who address themes of family, loss, and the intricacies of memory. Everything Is Not Lost features the work of...
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the strange space that will keep us together – Wil Murray; curated by CCST candidate Jacqueline Mabey
March 7th, 2008
Murray’s work explores the horrors of banal choices. To April 6th. the strange space that will keep us together is a survey exhibition of emerging, Montreal-based painter Wil Murray. The exhibition consists of a selection of works made after the July 2003 destruction by fire of his West Pender Street...
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Roundtable – MA Adah Hudson
November 23rd, 2007 12:30 pm
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Working Back; curated by CCST candidate Jesse Birch
September 1st, 2007
Opening reception: August 31, 8 to 10 PM. Exhibition runs: September 1 to 30, 2007 . Hours: Wed – Sun, 12 to 5pm Gareth Moore, Kerri Reid, Kara Uzelman Drawing from archeology, anthropology, and traditional craft, the artists in Working Backengage in sculptural interventions with once discarded things. Gareth Moore,...
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Kim Phillips Doctoral Defense: “Conjured Spaces: Representation and the Recurring Past in Post-Unification Berlin”
August 29th, 2007 12:30 pm
Doctoral Defense by PHD candidate Kim Phillips. This study considers three temporary, site-specific installations that for brief moments haunted such sites in Berlin during the first volatile years after 1990. Behind the mask of new architecture rapidly transforming Berlin’s visage in the years following Germany’s reunification in 1990 lie profound...
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Limits of Tolerance: Re-framing Multicultural State Policy; curated by CCST candidate Liz Park
May 19th, 2007
EXHIBITION: May 19 to June 23, 2007. Guest Curator: Liz Park,candidate in the CCST program. OPENING: Friday May 18, 8pm Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11:00 -18:00, Sunday-Monday closed SYMPOSIUM: Saturday May 26, 14:00 to 17:00, UBC Robson Square theatre A group exhibition with works by Dana Claxton, Stan Douglas, Laiwan,...
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How Much Longer; curated by CCST candidate Kegan McFadden
April 13th, 2007 8:00 pm
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Terence Koh, Micah Lexier, Kelly Mark, Andy Warhol. Opening reception: Friday April 13, 8 to 10 pm. Hours: Wednesday to Sunday, 12 to 5 pm. The phrase ‘how much longer’ refers to a state in between. It implies an unmeasured distance before reaching the end, a sentiment akin...
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The Backlot; curated by CCST candidate Sophie Brodovitch
March 3rd, 2007
Opening reception 03 March 2007. Runs 03 March – 01 April 2007. Corey Adams, Roy Arden, Geoffrey Farmer, Angus Ferguson, Jacob Gleeson, Mark Lewis, Anne Ramsden, Matthew Robertson The title of the exhibition, The Backlot, makes reference to the false façades typically found on the lots at major Hollywood studios. Consisting...
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Round Table – Samantha Miki, MA, Heidi Ravenel, MA
November 17th, 2006 12:00 pm
Roundtables are held by MA, MFA, and PhD students to present their Thesis and Major paper research to peers, faculty, and any others who may wish to attend.
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Figure Drawing
November 15th, 2006 5:30 pm
All are welcome. VASS annual membership: $5.00 Website link: http://www.ahva.ubc.ca/vass/about.html
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Material Obsessions: Janet Morton and Evelyn Roth; curated by CCST candidate Julie Bevan
July 8th, 2006
Opening Reception: Friday July 7, 8-10. Show runs July 8 – August 6, 2006 Artist Talk: Saturday, July 8 at 2:00 p.m. Material Obsessions pairs the textile-based work of two artists from different generations: veteran Vancouver artist Evelyn Roth and Toronto artist Janet Morton. Though the works exhibited were created in disparate...
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Sonny Assu: As Defined Within the Indian Act; curated by CCST candidate Matthew Hills
April 22nd, 2006
Opening Reception: April 21, 8:00 pm. Runs April 22- May 21. Sonny Assu: As Defined Within the Indian Act is the first solo exhibition of emerging contemporary artist Sonny Assu. The exhibition will feature new work that explores the current tension between innovation and tradition through the forms and sensibility...
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Beyond Redemption: Gay Erotic Art; curated by CCST candidate Jean-François Renaud
October 28th, 2005
Stephen Andrews, AA Bronson, Brice Canyon, Evergon, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Attila Richard Lukacs, Donald Moffett. Opening Reception: October 28 at 8:00 pm. October 29 – November 27. “The value of sexuality itself is to demean the seriousness of efforts to redeem it”. – Leo Bersani Beyond Redemption: Gay Erotic Art will...
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Unterspiel: An Exhibition of Contemporary Viennese Artists, curated by CCST candidate Séamus Kealy
July 1st, 2005
Opening Reception & Performances: Thursday June 30th, 2005, 6-9 pm. Show runs July 1 – August 14. Patrick Baumüller & Severin Hofmann, Catrin Bolt, Marlene Haring, monochrom, Hans Schabus Emerging Viennese artists come to Vancouver to rewrite their cultural history. Guest Curator Séamus Kealy. Unterspiel is an exhibition of five...
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Picturing the Downtown Eastside; curated by CCST candidate Charo Neville
April 30th, 2005 1:30 pm
30 April – 29 May 2005 Opening Reception: Friday, 29 April, 8 – 10 pm Public Forum: Saturday, 7 May, 12 – 3 pm desmedia Tapings: Sundays, 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29 May, 2 – 5 pm Six years after the Or Gallery presented its last exhibition in its...
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Clare E. Rojas: Will Poor Will; curated by CCST candidate Liz Bruchet
May 7th, 2004
Opening Reception: Friday 7 May 2004 8 – 10 pm. Show runs May 8 to May 30 2004. Musical Performance by the artist as Peggy Honeywell at 8:30 pm Will Poor Will is the first exhibition of Clare E. Rojas’s work in Canada. The San Francisco-based artist playfully draws from American craft...
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Makeshift; curated by CCST candidate Veronika Klaptocz
April 8th, 2004
8 April – 1 May 2004 Opening Reception: Wednesday 7 April 2004, 8 -10 pm Curators’ Talk: Saturday 17 March, 3 pm, at Interurban Work by Dirk Bahmann, Keren Ben Zeev, Jeremy Downie, Ismail Farouk, Sphiwe Gama, Nicholas Hlobo, Alison Kearney, Kasia Kwiecinska, Brenton Maart, Vivienne Mahloko, Desné Masie, Toni...
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Manufacturing Mod: Metal Tunics to Paper Dresses; curated by CCST candidate Jamila Dunn
April 3rd, 2004
3 – 25 April 2004 Opening Reception: Friday 2 April 2004, 8 – 10 pm This exhibition features a spectacular selection of original metal tunics by Paco Rabanne, extremely rare presidential candidate paper dresses for Nixon, Kennedy, Rockefeller, and Trudeau along with the Warhol inspired “Campbell’s Souper Dress,” and vintage magazines. Manufacturing...
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Re-Reading the 80s: Feminisms as Process in Vancouver; curated by CCST candidate Jessie Caryl
February 27th, 2004
27 February – 21 March, 2004 Opening Reception: Thursday 26 February, 8 -10 pm Curator’s Tours: Saturday 28 February & Sunday 29 February, 1 pm Work by the Association for Noncommercial Culture, Lorna Brown, Margot Leigh Butler, Allyson Clay, Laiwan, Jin-me Yoon, and Worksite This exhibition reconsiders the critical strategies...
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Various Properties; curated by CCST candidate Katie Spicer with Heather Bjorgan, Alice Edwards and Kiriko Watanabe
January 17th, 2003
17 January – 9 March, 2003. Opening Reception: Thursday, 16 January, 8 – 10 pm The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to announce that the inaugural exhibition of the Critical Curatorial Studies Masters program at the University of British Columbia opens January 17, 2003. Graduating students Heather...
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06th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium
April 22nd, 1987
A Modern Day Victor Samerjian, “Reception of Surrealism in New York: 1948-1955” Robert Lindsay, “Wilfredo Lam: Painter of Negritude” Andrea Thomsett, “Charles Estienne’s Critical Discourse and the Search for Revolt” Allan Langdale, “Picasso and the ‘Corrida’ Images of the 1950’s” Julia Browne, “Picasso’s Ceramics: The Past Tradition” Alexander Alberro, “Calling...
AHVA PhD Candidate Gloria Bell Receives Assistant Professor Position at McGill
Jul 31st, 2018
AHVA PhD candidate Gloria Bell has received an Assistant Professor position at McGill University in the Department of Art History & Communication Studies beginning Fall 2018. Her current research and teaching examines visual culture focusing on Indigenous arts of the Americas, primarily from the nineteenth century through to contemporary manifestations. Bell will be completing her […]
AHVA PhD Candidate Jeff O’Brien Receives Darat al Funun Fellowship
Jun 8th, 2018
AHVA PhD Candidate Jeff O’Brien has received the prestigious Darat al Funun Fellowship for Modern and Contemporary Arab Art for 2018-2019. Awarded by the Darat al Funun Art Gallery in Amman, Jordan, the Fellowship will support his thesis research which focuses on ‘The Right to be Seen: Archiving Absence After Nakba in Palestine and Lebanon […]
41st Annual Graduate Symposium: Call for Papers
Oct 20th, 2017
Tracing Erasure University of British Columbia Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory (AHVA) 41st Annual Graduate Student Symposium March 9, 2018 Deadline for Submissions: December 21, 2017 The University of British Columbia’s 41st Annual Graduate Symposium in Art History, Visual Art and Theory invites papers that explore art and architecture as sites of […]
2017 Lind Prize Nominees from AHVA
Mar 21st, 2017
Presentation House Gallery has just announced the shortlist for the second annual Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize. Congratulations to AHVA MFA student Brian Lye and BFA Natasha Habedus! Brian Lye Shitty Magician #3 (still) 2016, one minute, HD, silent Be sure to check out the Lind Prize exhibition at Presentation House Gallery, April […]
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 […]