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50 contemporary Vancouver artists
A cross-section of artists working in or substantially connected to Vancouver today. The list spans painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, video, animation, performance, public art and Indigenous contemporary practice. It is a reference collection, not a ranking.
Contemporary Vancouver-connected artist
Adad Hannah
Artist known for staged tableaux that use video, photography and installation to slow down looking and reframe art-historical scenes.Contemporary Vancouver artist
Alex Morrison
Artist examining subculture, activism, domestic architecture and civic space through painting, ceramics, sculpture and video.Contemporary Vancouver artist
Althea Thauberger
Artist developing collaborative photo, film and performance projects that examine institutions, communities and how people represent themselves.Contemporary Vancouver painter
Andrew Dadson
Artist extending painting beyond the canvas through layered monochrome surfaces, environmental actions, photography and installation.Contemporary Vancouver painter
Angela Grossmann
Figurative painter and collage artist exploring identity, gender, displacement and the representation of the female body.Contemporary Vancouver painter
Angela Teng
Painter who works with woven and interlaced acrylic paint to test the boundaries between image, textile, surface and sculpture.Contemporary Vancouver painter
Ben Reeves
Painter examining how ordinary scenes, memory and photographic reference become unstable through paint, surface and perception.Contemporary Vancouver painter
Bobbie Burgers
Painter whose energetic floral and botanical forms move between observation, abstraction, colour and gestural surface.Vancouver-based Indigenous artist
Charlene Vickers
Anishinaabe artist working through painting, sculpture and performance to explore memory, embodiment, cultural presence and urban Indigenous experience.Contemporary Vancouver artist
Cindy Mochizuki
Artist creating animation, installation, drawing and performance from oral history, family archives, migration and Japanese Canadian memory.Contemporary Vancouver textile artist
Colleen Heslin
Artist using dyed and sewn textiles to examine histories of modern painting, labour, gender and medium classification.Contemporary Vancouver artist
Damian Moppett
Artist working across sculpture, drawing, painting and photography to examine artistic process, representation and the studio as a subject.Vancouver-based Indigenous artist
Dana Claxton
Hunkpapa Lakota artist working across photography, video, performance and installation to address Indigenous presence, representation and cultural memory.Contemporary Vancouver artist and writer
Douglas Coupland
Vancouver-based visual artist and writer using sculpture, installation, painting and public art to examine technology, identity and contemporary culture.Contemporary Vancouver painter
Eli Bornowsky
Painter whose geometric and patterned abstractions use repetition, colour and hand-built structure to create shifting optical spaces.Contemporary Vancouver painter
Erin McSavaney
Artist producing meticulously observed paintings of architecture and urban space that question the apparent neutrality of photographic vision.Contemporary Vancouver artist
Evan Lee
Vancouver artist using photography, painting and image manipulation to examine value, migration, representation and overlooked subjects.Vancouver-based Indigenous artist
Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill
Métis artist and writer using found materials, land-based knowledge and economic histories to examine property, value and survival.Contemporary Vancouver ceramic artist
Gailan Ngan
Ceramic artist building richly layered sculptural forms from clay, glaze, gathered materials and accumulated surface.Senior contemporary Vancouver artist
Gathie Falk
Vancouver artist whose sculpture, ceramics, performance and painting transform everyday objects and bodily experience through wit and repetition.Contemporary Vancouver installation artist
Geoffrey Farmer
Artist creating expansive installations from images, objects, sound and theatrical structures that reorganize histories and cultural memory.Contemporary Vancouver artist
Germaine Koh
Artist and organizer adapting everyday actions, common spaces and responsive systems to create connections among people, technology and environment.Contemporary British Columbia artist
Graham Gillmore
Painter using layered text, humour and contradiction to explore communication, knowledge, belief and personal experience.Vancouver-born photographer — wider practice
Greg Girard
Photographer whose sustained studies of cities, architecture and changing neighbourhoods connect personal history with wider urban transformation.Contemporary Vancouver artist
Gu Xiong
Artist whose drawing, photography and installation examine migration, labour, cultural memory and the changing spaces of cities.Contemporary Vancouver media artist
Henry Tsang
Visual and media artist exploring the spatial politics of history, language, community, migration, food and cultural translation.Contemporary Vancouver artist
Howie Tsui
Artist using intricate drawing, animation and installation to build speculative worlds shaped by diaspora, surveillance, history and popular culture.Contemporary Vancouver artist
Jack Kenna
Artist moving between painting and sculpture while incorporating found objects, images and text into materially playful arrangements.Contemporary Vancouver media artist
Judy Radul
Artist using video, installation, performance and writing to investigate spectatorship, legal space, technology and the production of public events.Contemporary Vancouver artist
Julia Feyrer
Artist and filmmaker creating associative installations where film, sculpture, writing and exhibition design shape one another.Contemporary Vancouver photographer
Karin Bubaš
Photographer whose staged figures and atmospheric landscapes draw on cinema, fashion and the emotional construction of place.Contemporary Vancouver artist
Kathy Slade
Artist working with textiles, film, music, publishing and appropriation to trace how cultural forms circulate and gather meaning.Syilx artist with Vancouver training
Krista Belle Stewart
Syilx artist whose installations and moving-image works engage archival materials, land, family history and the instability of documentary truth.Contemporary Vancouver artist
Laiwan
Interdisciplinary artist and writer engaging language, embodiment, ecology, migration and queer cultural histories.Contemporary Vancouver sculptor
Liz Magor
Sculptor whose materially precise works reconsider ordinary objects, value, shelter, dependency and the emotional lives attached to things.Contemporary Vancouver artist
Lorna Brown
Artist and curator using text, public space, archives and social research to examine civic memory, labour and collective knowledge.Contemporary Vancouver artist
Lyse Lemieux
Artist using drawing, fabric, installation and sculptural line to explore the body, clothing, language and the spaces between abstraction and figuration.Contemporary Vancouver painter
Maggee Day
Painter using observation, colour and spatial compression to turn everyday interiors, streets and objects into shifting pictorial structures.Kwakwaka’wakw artist with Vancouver connections
Marianne Nicolson
Dzawada’enuxw First Nations artist whose installations, paintings and light-based works address land, language, sovereignty and cultural continuity.Contemporary Vancouver sculptor
Myfanwy MacLeod
Sculptor using humour, popular culture and familiar animal or domestic forms to examine desire, consumption and cultural cliché.Contemporary Vancouver painter
Neil Campbell
Painter creating optical and spatial works in which simple forms, colour and installation alter the viewer’s bodily perception.Contemporary Vancouver artist
Neil Wedman
Artist working across drawing, painting and photography with images that combine narrative uncertainty, humour and the uncanny.Vancouver-trained artist — wider practice
Owen Kydd
Artist known for video works that appear nearly still, using subtle motion to test the boundary between photography and film.Contemporary Vancouver media artist
Paul Wong
Video and media artist whose practice examines identity, race, sexuality, public memory and the social history of Vancouver.Contemporary Vancouver painter
Philippe Raphanel
Painter creating luminous, layered abstractions that suggest landscape, reflection, atmosphere and the instability of perception.Vancouver-based Indigenous artist
Raymond Boisjoly
Haida and Québécois artist using text, photography and installation to examine language, Indigenous representation and cultural transmission.Contemporary Vancouver painter
Rebecca Brewer
Painter working through abstraction, figuration and textile references to explore memory, intimacy and the construction of images.Contemporary Vancouver artist and researcher
Ruth Beer
Interdisciplinary artist and researcher using sculpture, video, photography and tapestry to examine contested geographies and landscapes in transition.Contemporary Indigenous artist with Vancouver connections
Skeena Reece
Tsimshian/Gitksan and Cree artist working across performance, video, sculpture and installation with humour, critique and embodied cultural presence.Contemporary Vancouver photographer