{ "metadata": { "dataset": "Vancouver Artists Open Dataset", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "release": "V3.0.0 — Authority Layer", "verification_date": "2026-08-30", "publisher": "Vancouver Artists", "canonical_origin": "https://vancouverartists.ca", "language": "en-CA", "record_type": "artists", "record_count": 192, "unknown_value_policy": "Unknown values are stated explicitly and are not inferred." }, "artists": [ { "id": "VA-ARTIST-graham-watts", "slug": "graham-watts", "name": "Graham Watts", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Vancouver-based artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Oil painting", "Limited-edition prints" ], "subjects": [ "vancouver-cityscapes", "mountain-art", "wildlife-art", "forest-and-coast" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "downtown-vancouver", "north-shore", "whistler", "sea-to-sky", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Canadian oil painter connecting rain-lit Vancouver streets, Coast Mountain landscapes and western Canadian wildlife through vibrant colour and palette-knife texture.", "significance": "Watts is the atlas founder and primary featured artist. His record is disclosed as such and is useful as a contemporary example of one practice spanning the cityscape, mountain, landscape and wildlife categories.", "featured": true, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "https://grahamwatts.art", "kind": "artist" }, { "label": "Available artwork", "url": "https://www.grahamwattsart.com", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/graham-watts/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-emily-carr", "slug": "emily-carr", "name": "Emily Carr", "dates": "1871–1945", "classification": "Historical British Columbia anchor", "location": "Victoria and the British Columbia coast", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Writing" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "forest-and-coast" ], "regions": [ "vancouver-island", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Painter and writer whose sustained engagement with the coastal environment made her central to the history of art in British Columbia.", "significance": "Carr belongs in this atlas as regional context, not as a Vancouver-based artist. Her treatment of forest, coast and place shaped later ways of seeing British Columbia.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "National Gallery of Canada", "url": "https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/emily-carr", "kind": "institutional" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/emily-carr/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-jack-shadbolt", "slug": "jack-shadbolt", "name": "Jack Shadbolt", "dates": "1909–1998", "classification": "Historical Vancouver artist", "location": "Vancouver and Burnaby, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Drawing", "Writing" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "forest-and-coast" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Painter, teacher and writer whose modernist practice transformed natural forms and whose long teaching career shaped Vancouver art education.", "significance": "Shadbolt moved to Vancouver in 1931 and became a central artist and teacher in the city’s twentieth-century art history.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Shadbolt Foundation", "url": "https://shadboltfoundation.org/founders/", "kind": "official" }, { "label": "National Gallery of Canada", "url": "https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/jack-shadbolt", "kind": "institutional" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/jack-shadbolt/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-gordon-smith", "slug": "gordon-smith", "name": "Gordon Smith", "dates": "1919–2020", "classification": "Historical Vancouver artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Printmaking" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "forest-and-coast" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "north-shore", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Vancouver painter known for an evolving dialogue between abstraction, material surface and the experience of the West Coast landscape.", "significance": "Smith’s long career connects postwar modernism with sustained observation of coastal forest, snow and terrain.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Vancouver Art Gallery", "url": "https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/exhibitions/gordon-smith-the-black-paintings/", "kind": "institutional" }, { "label": "Estate of Gordon Smith", "url": "https://www.equinoxgallery.com/our-artists/estate-of-gordon-smith/", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/gordon-smith/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-takao-tanabe", "slug": "takao-tanabe", "name": "Takao Tanabe", "dates": "Born 1926", "classification": "Contemporary British Columbia artist", "location": "Vancouver Island, with major Vancouver connections", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Printmaking", "Design" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "forest-and-coast" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "vancouver-island", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Painter, printmaker and designer whose restrained coastal landscapes are among the defining interpretations of British Columbia’s atmosphere.", "significance": "Tanabe’s record connects Vancouver art education, design and exhibitions with a later Vancouver Island landscape practice.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Art Canada Institute", "url": "https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/takao-tanabe/biography/", "kind": "institutional" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/takao-tanabe/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-landon-mackenzie", "slug": "landon-mackenzie", "name": "Landon Mackenzie", "dates": "Born 1954", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Works on paper" ], "subjects": [ "mapping-memory-place", "landscape-painting" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Vancouver artist known for large-scale painting and works on paper that connect mapping, memory, geography and psychological space.", "significance": "Mackenzie’s practice and decades of teaching at Emily Carr University form an important bridge between conceptual inquiry and contemporary painting in Vancouver.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist biography", "url": "https://landonmackenzie.com/about/", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/landon-mackenzie/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-renee-van-halm", "slug": "renee-van-halm", "name": "Renée Van Halm", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Drawing", "Ceramics" ], "subjects": [ "mapping-memory-place", "vancouver-cityscapes" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Artist examining architecture, pattern, visual convention and the politics of private and public space.", "significance": "Van Halm brings architectural and perceptual questions into the atlas, widening Vancouver art beyond scenic representation.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist biography", "url": "https://www.reneevanhalm.com/about", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/renee-van-halm/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-e-j-hughes", "slug": "e-j-hughes", "name": "E. J. Hughes", "dates": "1913–2007", "classification": "Historical British Columbia anchor", "location": "Born in North Vancouver; worked primarily on Vancouver Island", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Drawing", "Printmaking" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "forest-and-coast" ], "regions": [ "north-shore", "vancouver-island", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Painter whose stylized realism and close attention to working landscapes created a distinctive record of coastal British Columbia.", "significance": "Hughes links North Vancouver origins and Vancouver art training to an extensive Vancouver Island practice.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "E. J. Hughes Gallery", "url": "https://ejhughes.ca/", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/e-j-hughes/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-jeff-wall", "slug": "jeff-wall", "name": "Jeff Wall", "dates": "Born 1946", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Photography", "Lightbox", "Digital image" ], "subjects": [ "photoconceptualism", "vancouver-cityscapes", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Internationally influential Vancouver artist whose constructed photographs connect pictorial traditions, cinema and the everyday spaces of the city.", "significance": "Wall is central to understanding Vancouver’s international reputation for conceptually rigorous, large-scale photographic work.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Vancouver Art Gallery collection", "url": "https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the-collection/", "kind": "institutional" }, { "label": "Pictures From Here", "url": "https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/exhibitions/pictures-from-here/", "kind": "institutional" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/jeff-wall/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-stan-douglas", "slug": "stan-douglas", "name": "Stan Douglas", "dates": "Born 1960", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Photography", "Film", "Video", "Installation", "Theatre" ], "subjects": [ "photoconceptualism", "mapping-memory-place", "vancouver-cityscapes" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Vancouver artist using photography, film, video, installation and theatre to examine history, technology and collective memory.", "significance": "Douglas extends Vancouver photoconceptualism through technically ambitious reconstructions and historically specific narratives.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "David Zwirner", "url": "https://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/stan-douglas", "kind": "official" }, { "label": "Guggenheim", "url": "https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/stan-douglas", "kind": "institutional" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/stan-douglas/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-ian-wallace", "slug": "ian-wallace", "name": "Ian Wallace", "dates": "Born 1943", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Photography", "Painting", "Writing" ], "subjects": [ "photoconceptualism", "vancouver-cityscapes", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Artist and educator combining photography and monochrome painting while treating Vancouver as both social space and art-historical context.", "significance": "Wallace is a foundational figure in Vancouver’s photo-based conceptual art history and an important teacher within the city’s art community.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Vancouver Art Gallery chronology", "url": "https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Annotated-Chronology.pdf", "kind": "institutional" }, { "label": "Pictures From Here", "url": "https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/exhibitions/pictures-from-here/", "kind": "institutional" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/ian-wallace/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-rodney-graham", "slug": "rodney-graham", "name": "Rodney Graham", "dates": "1949–2022", "classification": "Vancouver artist — legacy record", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Photography", "Film", "Installation", "Music", "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "photoconceptualism", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Vancouver polymath whose photography, film, music and installations drew on literary, philosophical and popular references.", "significance": "Graham’s wide-ranging practice is a major part of the city’s photoconceptual legacy and its international art-historical identity.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "City of Vancouver Public Art Registry", "url": "https://covapp.vancouver.ca/PublicArtRegistry/ArtistDetail.aspx?ArtistId=316&FromArtistIndex=False", "kind": "institutional" }, { "label": "303 Gallery", "url": "https://www.303gallery.com/artists/rodney-graham/biography", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/rodney-graham/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-lawrence-paul-yuxweluptun", "slug": "lawrence-paul-yuxweluptun", "name": "Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Lets’lo:tseltun", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Vancouver-based Indigenous artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Drawing", "Public art" ], "subjects": [ "indigenous-art-and-land", "landscape-painting", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Cowichan and Syilx artist whose work addresses Indigenous sovereignty, colonization, environmental destruction and ancestral territory.", "significance": "His paintings and public works make land an explicitly political and ancestral entity, challenging any account of British Columbia landscape art that treats the region as empty scenery.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Vancouver Art Gallery", "url": "https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/exhibitions/1-1-artists-select-paul-wong/", "kind": "institutional" }, { "label": "Ovoidism", "url": "https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/exhibitions/lawrence-paul-yuxweluptun-ovoidism/", "kind": "institutional" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/lawrence-paul-yuxweluptun/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-sonny-assu", "slug": "sonny-assu", "name": "Sonny Assu", "dates": "Born 1975", "classification": "Contemporary British Columbia artist", "location": "British Columbia; educated in Vancouver", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Sculpture", "Installation", "Digital media" ], "subjects": [ "indigenous-art-and-land", "identity-language-and-place", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Ligwilda’xw Kwakwaka’wakw contemporary artist working across media to examine colonial history, popular culture, land and Indigenous presence.", "significance": "Assu’s Emily Carr University connection and interdisciplinary practice expand the atlas beyond landscape genre toward critical questions of land, identity and representation.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "National Gallery of Canada interview", "url": "https://www.gallery.ca/magazine/artists/an-interview-with-sonny-assu", "kind": "institutional" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/sonny-assu/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-jin-me-yoon", "slug": "jin-me-yoon", "name": "Jin-me Yoon", "dates": "Born 1960", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Photography", "Video", "Performance", "Installation" ], "subjects": [ "identity-language-and-place", "mapping-memory-place", "photoconceptualism" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Vancouver artist whose photo, video, performance and installation work examines identity, migration, memory, tourism and contested ideas of place.", "significance": "Yoon’s practice connects Vancouver’s photo-based art history to migration, diasporic identity and the ways landscapes are culturally constructed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "National Gallery of Canada", "url": "https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/jin-me-yoon", "kind": "institutional" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/jin-me-yoon/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-brian-jungen", "slug": "brian-jungen", "name": "Brian Jungen", "dates": "Born 1970", "classification": "Contemporary artist with Vancouver training", "location": "British Columbia; trained in Vancouver", "mediums": [ "Sculpture", "Installation" ], "subjects": [ "indigenous-art-and-land", "identity-language-and-place", "public-art-and-sculpture" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Dane-zaa and Swiss-Canadian artist known for transforming consumer materials into sculptural forms that engage Indigenous culture, display and commodity systems.", "significance": "Jungen studied at Emily Carr and provides an important sculptural and material counterpoint within a publication that might otherwise over-centre painting.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "National Gallery of Canada", "url": "https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/brian-jungen", "kind": "institutional" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/brian-jungen/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-ken-lum", "slug": "ken-lum", "name": "Ken Lum", "dates": "Born 1956", "classification": "Vancouver-born artist — wider practice", "location": "Born and raised in Vancouver; currently based in the United States", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Sculpture", "Photography", "Public art" ], "subjects": [ "identity-language-and-place", "public-art-and-sculpture", "photoconceptualism" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Conceptual and representational artist whose work across text, portraiture, sculpture and public art examines identity, language and spatial politics.", "significance": "Lum’s Vancouver origins, education and teaching are stated separately from his current base, preserving the distinction between Vancouver connection and Vancouver residency.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist biography", "url": "https://kenlumart.com/about/biography/", "kind": "artist" }, { "label": "City of Vancouver Public Art Registry", "url": "https://covapp.vancouver.ca/PublicArtRegistry/ArtistDetail.aspx?ArtistId=3&FromArtistIndex=False", "kind": "institutional" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/ken-lum/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-roy-arden", "slug": "roy-arden", "name": "Roy Arden", "dates": "Born 1957", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Photography", "Video", "Collage", "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "photoconceptualism", "vancouver-cityscapes", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Vancouver artist whose photography and archival work examine urban transformation, economic landscapes and the construction of history.", "significance": "Arden’s sustained attention to Vancouver’s changing urban fabric links photoconceptual practice directly to the city as subject.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery", "url": "https://collection.belkin.ubc.ca/index.php/Detail/entities/1069", "kind": "institutional" }, { "label": "Monte Clark", "url": "https://monteclarkgallery.com/roy-arden-bio/", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/roy-arden/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-ron-terada", "slug": "ron-terada", "name": "Ron Terada", "dates": "Born 1969", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Text-based art", "Installation" ], "subjects": [ "identity-language-and-place", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Vancouver artist using text, appropriation and exhibition conventions to examine how information circulates through art, media and popular culture.", "significance": "Terada adds a text-based conceptual practice to the atlas and connects Vancouver art to questions of authorship, circulation and public language.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Catriona Jeffries", "url": "https://catrionajeffries.com/artists/ron-terada", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/ron-terada/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-vikky-alexander", "slug": "vikky-alexander", "name": "Vikky Alexander", "dates": "Born 1959", "classification": "Vancouver photoconceptual context", "location": "Born in Victoria; associated with Vancouver photoconceptualism", "mediums": [ "Photography", "Installation", "Collage" ], "subjects": [ "photoconceptualism", "identity-language-and-place", "forest-and-coast" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "vancouver-island" ], "summary": "Canadian artist whose photography and installations examine consumer imagery, artificial nature, beauty and the construction of desire.", "significance": "Alexander is included as a regional and art-historical context record; the atlas does not describe her as currently Vancouver-based.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Art Canada Institute", "url": "https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/photography-in-canada-1839-1989/key-photographers/vikky-alexander/", "kind": "institutional" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/vikky-alexander/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-paul-wong", "slug": "paul-wong", "name": "Paul Wong", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver media artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Video", "Photography", "Performance", "Public art" ], "subjects": [ "moving-image-performance", "identity-language-and-place", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "downtown-vancouver" ], "summary": "Video and media artist whose practice examines identity, race, sexuality, public memory and the social history of Vancouver.", "significance": "Wong’s long relationship with Vancouver’s artist-run and media-art communities makes his work essential to the city’s contemporary cultural history.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Vancouver Art Gallery", "url": "https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/exhibitions/1-1-artists-select-paul-wong/", "kind": "institutional" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/paul-wong/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-dana-claxton", "slug": "dana-claxton", "name": "Dana Claxton", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Vancouver-based Indigenous artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Photography", "Video", "Performance", "Installation" ], "subjects": [ "indigenous-art-and-land", "identity-language-and-place", "moving-image-performance" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Hunkpapa Lakota artist working across photography, video, performance and installation to address Indigenous presence, representation and cultural memory.", "significance": "Claxton’s Vancouver practice and teaching connect contemporary Indigenous art with lens-based media, performance and critical histories of representation.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Macaulay + Co.", "url": "https://mfineart.ca/artists/dana-claxton/", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/dana-claxton/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-douglas-coupland", "slug": "douglas-coupland", "name": "Douglas Coupland", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver artist and writer", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Sculpture", "Installation", "Painting", "Public art" ], "subjects": [ "public-art-and-sculpture", "identity-language-and-place", "text-conceptual-art" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "downtown-vancouver" ], "summary": "Vancouver-based visual artist and writer using sculpture, installation, painting and public art to examine technology, identity and contemporary culture.", "significance": "Coupland brings a widely visible public-art and popular-culture dimension to Vancouver’s contemporary art landscape.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Vancouver Art Gallery", "url": "https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/exhibitions/1-1-artists-select-douglas-coupland/", "kind": "institutional" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/douglas-coupland/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-liz-magor", "slug": "liz-magor", "name": "Liz Magor", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver sculptor", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Sculpture", "Installation" ], "subjects": [ "public-art-and-sculpture", "ceramics-material-practice", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Sculptor whose materially precise works reconsider ordinary objects, value, shelter, dependency and the emotional lives attached to things.", "significance": "Magor is a major figure in Vancouver sculpture and a key counterpoint to the city’s better-known photo-based practices.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Catriona Jeffries", "url": "https://catrionajeffries.com/artists/liz-magor", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/liz-magor/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-geoffrey-farmer", "slug": "geoffrey-farmer", "name": "Geoffrey Farmer", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver installation artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Installation", "Collage", "Sculpture", "Performance" ], "subjects": [ "ceramics-material-practice", "moving-image-performance", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Artist creating expansive installations from images, objects, sound and theatrical structures that reorganize histories and cultural memory.", "significance": "Farmer’s large-scale, research-driven installations demonstrate Vancouver contemporary art’s international and interdisciplinary reach.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Catriona Jeffries", "url": "https://catrionajeffries.com/artists/geoffrey-farmer", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/geoffrey-farmer/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-gathie-falk", "slug": "gathie-falk", "name": "Gathie Falk", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Senior contemporary Vancouver artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Sculpture", "Ceramics", "Performance", "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "ceramics-material-practice", "figure-portraiture-body", "moving-image-performance" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Vancouver artist whose sculpture, ceramics, performance and painting transform everyday objects and bodily experience through wit and repetition.", "significance": "Falk’s practice links Vancouver’s performance history with materially inventive sculpture and ceramics across more than six decades.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Equinox Gallery", "url": "https://www.equinoxgallery.com/our-artists/gathie-falk/", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/gathie-falk/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-angela-grossmann", "slug": "angela-grossmann", "name": "Angela Grossmann", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver painter", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Collage", "Works on paper" ], "subjects": [ "figure-portraiture-body", "contemporary-painting-abstraction", "identity-language-and-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Figurative painter and collage artist exploring identity, gender, displacement and the representation of the female body.", "significance": "Grossmann expands the atlas’s painting layer through a sustained Vancouver-based practice centred on figure, colour and found imagery.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Equinox Gallery", "url": "https://www.equinoxgallery.com/our-artists/angela-grossmann/", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/angela-grossmann/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-adad-hannah", "slug": "adad-hannah", "name": "Adad Hannah", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver and Montreal, Canada", "mediums": [ "Video", "Photography", "Installation", "Performance" ], "subjects": [ "moving-image-performance", "figure-portraiture-body", "photoconceptualism" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Artist known for staged tableaux that use video, photography and installation to slow down looking and reframe art-historical scenes.", "significance": "Hannah’s Vancouver connection and durational image-making broaden the city’s lens-based history toward performance and living pictures.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Equinox Gallery", "url": "https://www.equinoxgallery.com/our-artists/adad-hannah/", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/adad-hannah/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-maggee-day", "slug": "maggee-day", "name": "Maggee Day", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver painter", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Drawing" ], "subjects": [ "contemporary-painting-abstraction", "vancouver-cityscapes", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Painter using observation, colour and spatial compression to turn everyday interiors, streets and objects into shifting pictorial structures.", "significance": "Day represents a younger Vancouver painting practice rooted in close looking and the transformation of ordinary surroundings.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Maggee Day — artist CV", "url": "https://www.maggeeday.com/text", "kind": "artist" }, { "label": "Emily Carr University biography", "url": "https://ecuad.ca/ecu-directory/maggee-day/", "kind": "institutional" }, { "label": "Equinox Gallery exhibitions", "url": "https://www.equinoxgallery.com/our-artists/maggee-day/", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/maggee-day/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-bobbie-burgers", "slug": "bobbie-burgers", "name": "Bobbie Burgers", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver painter", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Drawing" ], "subjects": [ "contemporary-painting-abstraction", "forest-and-coast" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Painter whose energetic floral and botanical forms move between observation, abstraction, colour and gestural surface.", "significance": "Burgers adds a recognizable contemporary painting voice connected to Vancouver and the visual abundance of the West Coast.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Equinox Gallery", "url": "https://www.equinoxgallery.com/our-artists/bobbie-burgers/", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/bobbie-burgers/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-philippe-raphanel", "slug": "philippe-raphanel", "name": "Philippe Raphanel", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver painter", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "contemporary-painting-abstraction", "landscape-painting" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Painter creating luminous, layered abstractions that suggest landscape, reflection, atmosphere and the instability of perception.", "significance": "Raphanel connects Vancouver abstraction with the atmospheric experience of coastal landscape without reducing the work to scenery.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Equinox Gallery", "url": "https://www.equinoxgallery.com/our-artists/philippe-raphanel/", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/philippe-raphanel/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-ben-reeves", "slug": "ben-reeves", "name": "Ben Reeves", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver painter", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Drawing" ], "subjects": [ "contemporary-painting-abstraction", "mapping-memory-place", "vancouver-cityscapes" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Painter examining how ordinary scenes, memory and photographic reference become unstable through paint, surface and perception.", "significance": "Reeves represents a Vancouver painting practice that treats everyday images as sites of material and perceptual inquiry.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Equinox Gallery", "url": "https://www.equinoxgallery.com/our-artists/ben-reeves/", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/ben-reeves/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-erin-mcsavaney", "slug": "erin-mcsavaney", "name": "Erin McSavaney", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver painter", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Photography" ], "subjects": [ "vancouver-cityscapes", "urban-photography-everyday-life", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "downtown-vancouver" ], "summary": "Artist producing meticulously observed paintings of architecture and urban space that question the apparent neutrality of photographic vision.", "significance": "McSavaney connects contemporary painting to Vancouver’s built environment and the city’s long investigation of photographic ways of seeing.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Equinox Gallery", "url": "https://www.equinoxgallery.com/our-artists/erin-mcsavaney/", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/erin-mcsavaney/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-neil-wedman", "slug": "neil-wedman", "name": "Neil Wedman", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Drawing", "Painting", "Photography" ], "subjects": [ "contemporary-painting-abstraction", "urban-photography-everyday-life", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Artist working across drawing, painting and photography with images that combine narrative uncertainty, humour and the uncanny.", "significance": "Wedman’s cross-media practice represents the durable overlap of drawing, photography and conceptual image-making in Vancouver.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Equinox Gallery", "url": "https://www.equinoxgallery.com/our-artists/neil-wedman/", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/neil-wedman/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-angela-teng", "slug": "angela-teng", "name": "Angela Teng", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver painter", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Textile" ], "subjects": [ "contemporary-painting-abstraction", "ceramics-material-practice" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Painter who works with woven and interlaced acrylic paint to test the boundaries between image, textile, surface and sculpture.", "significance": "Teng’s material approach makes painting itself an object and extends Vancouver abstraction into textile-like construction.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Equinox Gallery", "url": "https://www.equinoxgallery.com/our-artists/angela-teng/", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/angela-teng/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-jack-kenna", "slug": "jack-kenna", "name": "Jack Kenna", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Sculpture", "Installation" ], "subjects": [ "contemporary-painting-abstraction", "ceramics-material-practice", "text-conceptual-art" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Artist moving between painting and sculpture while incorporating found objects, images and text into materially playful arrangements.", "significance": "Kenna represents an emerging Vancouver practice in which painting, object-making and language remain deliberately porous.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Equinox Gallery", "url": "https://www.equinoxgallery.com/our-artists/jack-kenna/", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/jack-kenna/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-evan-lee", "slug": "evan-lee", "name": "Evan Lee", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Photography", "Painting", "Works on paper" ], "subjects": [ "photoconceptualism", "urban-photography-everyday-life", "identity-language-and-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Vancouver artist using photography, painting and image manipulation to examine value, migration, representation and overlooked subjects.", "significance": "Lee extends Vancouver photo-based practice through deliberately modest subjects and a sustained questioning of photographic material.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Monte Clark", "url": "https://monteclarkgallery.com/evan-lee-artist/", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/evan-lee/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-karin-bubas", "slug": "karin-bubas", "name": "Karin Bubaš", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver photographer", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Photography", "Drawing" ], "subjects": [ "photoconceptualism", "urban-photography-everyday-life", "figure-portraiture-body" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Photographer whose staged figures and atmospheric landscapes draw on cinema, fashion and the emotional construction of place.", "significance": "Bubaš adds a cinematic and psychologically charged lens-based practice to the Vancouver photography graph.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Monte Clark", "url": "https://monteclarkgallery.com/karin-bubas-artist/", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/karin-bubas/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-colleen-heslin", "slug": "colleen-heslin", "name": "Colleen Heslin", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver textile artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Textile", "Painting", "Sculpture" ], "subjects": [ "contemporary-painting-abstraction", "ceramics-material-practice" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Artist using dyed and sewn textiles to examine histories of modern painting, labour, gender and medium classification.", "significance": "Heslin’s work expands the atlas beyond conventional canvas painting while remaining in direct dialogue with abstraction.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Monte Clark", "url": "https://monteclarkgallery.com/colleen-heslin-artist/", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/colleen-heslin/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-alex-morrison", "slug": "alex-morrison", "name": "Alex Morrison", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Sculpture", "Ceramics", "Video" ], "subjects": [ "contemporary-painting-abstraction", "ceramics-material-practice", "public-art-and-sculpture" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Artist examining subculture, activism, domestic architecture and civic space through painting, ceramics, sculpture and video.", "significance": "Morrison’s Vancouver practice links craft, protest aesthetics and critiques of modernist design across several media.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Monte Clark", "url": "https://monteclarkgallery.com/alex-morrison-artist/", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/alex-morrison/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-gailan-ngan", "slug": "gailan-ngan", "name": "Gailan Ngan", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver ceramic artist", "location": "Vancouver and Hornby Island, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Ceramics", "Sculpture" ], "subjects": [ "ceramics-material-practice", "contemporary-painting-abstraction" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Ceramic artist building richly layered sculptural forms from clay, glaze, gathered materials and accumulated surface.", "significance": "Ngan brings contemporary ceramics into the atlas as an independent sculptural language connected to Vancouver and coastal British Columbia.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Monte Clark", "url": "https://monteclarkgallery.com/gailan-ngan-artist/", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/gailan-ngan/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-owen-kydd", "slug": "owen-kydd", "name": "Owen Kydd", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Vancouver-trained artist — wider practice", "location": "Los Angeles; trained in Vancouver", "mediums": [ "Video", "Photography", "Digital media" ], "subjects": [ "photoconceptualism", "moving-image-performance", "urban-photography-everyday-life" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Artist known for video works that appear nearly still, using subtle motion to test the boundary between photography and film.", "significance": "Kydd is labelled as Vancouver-trained rather than currently based; his work shows how the city’s photo-conceptual questions travel into digital display.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Monte Clark", "url": "https://monteclarkgallery.com/owen-kydd-artist/", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/owen-kydd/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-stephen-waddell", "slug": "stephen-waddell", "name": "Stephen Waddell", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver photographer", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Photography" ], "subjects": [ "photoconceptualism", "urban-photography-everyday-life", "figure-portraiture-body" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Photographer observing figures, labour and ordinary environments through carefully composed images grounded in the social world.", "significance": "Waddell links Vancouver’s photographic history to direct observation and the traditions of street, portrait and documentary image-making.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Monte Clark", "url": "https://monteclarkgallery.com/stephen-waddell-artist/", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/stephen-waddell/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-graham-gillmore", "slug": "graham-gillmore", "name": "Graham Gillmore", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary British Columbia artist", "location": "Winlaw, British Columbia and Toronto, Ontario", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Text-based art", "Mixed media" ], "subjects": [ "text-conceptual-art", "contemporary-painting-abstraction", "identity-language-and-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Painter using layered text, humour and contradiction to explore communication, knowledge, belief and personal experience.", "significance": "Gillmore belongs as a wider British Columbia and Vancouver exhibition context, with his current location stated rather than simplified.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Monte Clark", "url": "https://monteclarkgallery.com/graham-gillmore-artist/", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/graham-gillmore/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-greg-girard", "slug": "greg-girard", "name": "Greg Girard", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Vancouver-born photographer — wider practice", "location": "Vancouver-born; works internationally", "mediums": [ "Photography", "Books" ], "subjects": [ "urban-photography-everyday-life", "vancouver-cityscapes", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "downtown-vancouver" ], "summary": "Photographer whose sustained studies of cities, architecture and changing neighbourhoods connect personal history with wider urban transformation.", "significance": "Girard’s Vancouver origins and city-focused books provide a contemporary photographic lens on urban memory and global change.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Monte Clark", "url": "https://monteclarkgallery.com/greg-girard-artist/", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/greg-girard/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-rebecca-brewer", "slug": "rebecca-brewer", "name": "Rebecca Brewer", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver painter", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Textile", "Collage" ], "subjects": [ "contemporary-painting-abstraction", "figure-portraiture-body", "identity-language-and-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Painter working through abstraction, figuration and textile references to explore memory, intimacy and the construction of images.", "significance": "Brewer represents a contemporary Vancouver painting practice attentive to both material experimentation and personal narrative.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Catriona Jeffries", "url": "https://catrionajeffries.com/artists/rebecca-brewer", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/rebecca-brewer/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-julia-feyrer", "slug": "julia-feyrer", "name": "Julia Feyrer", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Film", "Sculpture", "Writing", "Installation" ], "subjects": [ "moving-image-performance", "ceramics-material-practice", "identity-language-and-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Artist and filmmaker creating associative installations where film, sculpture, writing and exhibition design shape one another.", "significance": "Feyrer’s practice reflects Vancouver’s strong artist-run and experimental-film culture while resisting a single-medium label.", "featured": false, "sources": [], "verification_status": "under-review", "indexable": false, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/julia-feyrer/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-raymond-boisjoly", "slug": "raymond-boisjoly", "name": "Raymond Boisjoly", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Vancouver-based Indigenous artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Photography", "Text-based art", "Installation" ], "subjects": [ "indigenous-art-and-land", "identity-language-and-place", "text-conceptual-art" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Haida and Québécois artist using text, photography and installation to examine language, Indigenous representation and cultural transmission.", "significance": "Boisjoly’s Vancouver practice makes language and image circulation central to contemporary Indigenous art and conceptual inquiry.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "City of Vancouver Public Art Registry", "url": "https://covapp.vancouver.ca/PublicArtRegistry/ArtistDetail.aspx?ArtistId=372&FromArtistIndex=False", "kind": "institutional" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/raymond-boisjoly/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-eli-bornowsky", "slug": "eli-bornowsky", "name": "Eli Bornowsky", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver painter", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Drawing" ], "subjects": [ "contemporary-painting-abstraction", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Painter whose geometric and patterned abstractions use repetition, colour and hand-built structure to create shifting optical spaces.", "significance": "Bornowsky adds a rigorous but materially human form of abstraction to Vancouver’s contemporary painting field.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Catriona Jeffries", "url": "https://catrionajeffries.com/artists/eli-bornowsky", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/eli-bornowsky/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-damian-moppett", "slug": "damian-moppett", "name": "Damian Moppett", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Sculpture", "Drawing", "Painting", "Photography" ], "subjects": [ "public-art-and-sculpture", "figure-portraiture-body", "ceramics-material-practice" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Artist working across sculpture, drawing, painting and photography to examine artistic process, representation and the studio as a subject.", "significance": "Moppett’s multi-medium practice is an important Vancouver example of art that makes experimentation and art history visible within the work.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "https://damianmoppett.com/", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/damian-moppett/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-andrew-dadson", "slug": "andrew-dadson", "name": "Andrew Dadson", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver painter", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Photography", "Installation" ], "subjects": [ "contemporary-painting-abstraction", "mapping-memory-place", "forest-and-coast" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Artist extending painting beyond the canvas through layered monochrome surfaces, environmental actions, photography and installation.", "significance": "Dadson’s Vancouver practice connects abstraction with site, landscape and the physical limits of the painted object.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "https://andrewdadson.com/", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/andrew-dadson/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-neil-campbell", "slug": "neil-campbell", "name": "Neil Campbell", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver painter", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Installation" ], "subjects": [ "contemporary-painting-abstraction", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Painter creating optical and spatial works in which simple forms, colour and installation alter the viewer’s bodily perception.", "significance": "Campbell connects Vancouver abstraction to architectural space and the active experience of looking.", "featured": false, "sources": [], "verification_status": "under-review", "indexable": false, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/neil-campbell/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-myfanwy-macleod", "slug": "myfanwy-macleod", "name": "Myfanwy MacLeod", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver sculptor", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Sculpture", "Public art", "Installation" ], "subjects": [ "public-art-and-sculpture", "identity-language-and-place", "ceramics-material-practice" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "downtown-vancouver" ], "summary": "Sculptor using humour, popular culture and familiar animal or domestic forms to examine desire, consumption and cultural cliché.", "significance": "MacLeod’s public sculpture and gallery work make her a visible bridge between Vancouver civic space and critical contemporary art.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "https://www.myfanwymacleod.com/", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/myfanwy-macleod/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-althea-thauberger", "slug": "althea-thauberger", "name": "Althea Thauberger", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Photography", "Video", "Performance", "Public art" ], "subjects": [ "moving-image-performance", "identity-language-and-place", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "downtown-vancouver" ], "summary": "Artist developing collaborative photo, film and performance projects that examine institutions, communities and how people represent themselves.", "significance": "Thauberger’s Vancouver practice expands lens-based art through sustained collaboration and attention to civic and social structures.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "https://altheathauberger.com/", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/althea-thauberger/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-germaine-koh", "slug": "germaine-koh", "name": "Germaine Koh", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Installation", "Public art", "Performance", "Digital media" ], "subjects": [ "public-art-and-sculpture", "moving-image-performance", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "north-shore" ], "summary": "Artist and organizer adapting everyday actions, common spaces and responsive systems to create connections among people, technology and environment.", "significance": "Koh’s projects move between gallery, civic infrastructure and participatory life, making her central to Vancouver’s socially engaged contemporary art.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "City of Vancouver Public Art Registry", "url": "https://covapp.vancouver.ca/PublicArtRegistry/ArtistDetail.aspx?ArtistId=395&FromArtistIndex=False", "kind": "institutional" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/germaine-koh/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-henry-tsang", "slug": "henry-tsang", "name": "Henry Tsang", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver media artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Video", "Photography", "Public art", "Digital media" ], "subjects": [ "identity-language-and-place", "moving-image-performance", "vancouver-cityscapes" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "downtown-vancouver" ], "summary": "Visual and media artist exploring the spatial politics of history, language, community, migration, food and cultural translation.", "significance": "Tsang’s projects make specific Vancouver sites and histories legible through video, photography, public art and participatory events.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist biography", "url": "https://henrytsang.ca/about/", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/henry-tsang/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-laiwan", "slug": "laiwan", "name": "Laiwan", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Installation", "Video", "Writing", "Performance" ], "subjects": [ "identity-language-and-place", "moving-image-performance", "text-conceptual-art" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Interdisciplinary artist and writer engaging language, embodiment, ecology, migration and queer cultural histories.", "significance": "Laiwan’s long involvement in Vancouver artist-run culture links contemporary practice with activism, writing and community formation.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "https://laiwanette.net/", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/laiwan/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-gu-xiong", "slug": "gu-xiong", "name": "Gu Xiong", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Drawing", "Painting", "Photography", "Installation" ], "subjects": [ "identity-language-and-place", "mapping-memory-place", "urban-photography-everyday-life" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "downtown-vancouver" ], "summary": "Artist whose drawing, photography and installation examine migration, labour, cultural memory and the changing spaces of cities.", "significance": "Gu’s Vancouver practice is central to understanding how migration and transnational experience shape contemporary art in the city.", "featured": false, "sources": [], "verification_status": "under-review", "indexable": false, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/gu-xiong/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-charlene-vickers", "slug": "charlene-vickers", "name": "Charlene Vickers", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Vancouver-based Indigenous artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Sculpture", "Performance" ], "subjects": [ "indigenous-art-and-land", "identity-language-and-place", "moving-image-performance" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Anishinaabe artist working through painting, sculpture and performance to explore memory, embodiment, cultural presence and urban Indigenous experience.", "significance": "Vickers brings materially direct and performative Indigenous perspectives to Vancouver’s contemporary art community.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Macaulay + Co.", "url": "https://mfineart.ca/artists/charlene-vickers/", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/charlene-vickers/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-gabrielle-lhirondelle-hill", "slug": "gabrielle-lhirondelle-hill", "name": "Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Vancouver-based Indigenous artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Sculpture", "Installation", "Writing" ], "subjects": [ "indigenous-art-and-land", "ceramics-material-practice", "identity-language-and-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Métis artist and writer using found materials, land-based knowledge and economic histories to examine property, value and survival.", "significance": "Hill’s practice makes the material politics of land and urban space central to Vancouver contemporary art.", "featured": false, "sources": [], "verification_status": "under-review", "indexable": false, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/gabrielle-lhirondelle-hill/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-skeena-reece", "slug": "skeena-reece", "name": "Skeena Reece", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Indigenous artist with Vancouver connections", "location": "Vancouver Island and Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Performance", "Video", "Sculpture", "Installation" ], "subjects": [ "indigenous-art-and-land", "moving-image-performance", "identity-language-and-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "vancouver-island", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Tsimshian/Gitksan and Cree artist working across performance, video, sculpture and installation with humour, critique and embodied cultural presence.", "significance": "Reece connects Vancouver performance history to broader Indigenous communities and institutions across coastal British Columbia.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "https://www.skeenareece.com/", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/skeena-reece/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-krista-belle-stewart", "slug": "krista-belle-stewart", "name": "Krista Belle Stewart", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Syilx artist with Vancouver training", "location": "Syilx territory; trained in Vancouver", "mediums": [ "Video", "Photography", "Installation", "Performance" ], "subjects": [ "indigenous-art-and-land", "moving-image-performance", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Syilx artist whose installations and moving-image works engage archival materials, land, family history and the instability of documentary truth.", "significance": "Stewart is labelled through her Vancouver education and exhibition connections while her Syilx territorial relationship remains primary.", "featured": false, "sources": [], "verification_status": "under-review", "indexable": false, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/krista-belle-stewart/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-marianne-nicolson", "slug": "marianne-nicolson", "name": "Marianne Nicolson", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Kwakwaka’wakw artist with Vancouver connections", "location": "Dzawada’enuxw territory and British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Installation", "Painting", "Glass", "Public art" ], "subjects": [ "indigenous-art-and-land", "public-art-and-sculpture", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Dzawada’enuxw First Nations artist whose installations, paintings and light-based works address land, language, sovereignty and cultural continuity.", "significance": "Nicolson’s work provides necessary nation-specific context for understanding contemporary Indigenous art shown and discussed in Vancouver.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "https://www.mariannenicolson.com/", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/marianne-nicolson/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-judy-radul", "slug": "judy-radul", "name": "Judy Radul", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver media artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Video", "Installation", "Performance", "Writing" ], "subjects": [ "moving-image-performance", "text-conceptual-art", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Artist using video, installation, performance and writing to investigate spectatorship, legal space, technology and the production of public events.", "significance": "Radul deepens the atlas’s media-art layer through work that makes systems of viewing and institutional authority visible.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "https://www.judyradul.com/", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/judy-radul/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-kathy-slade", "slug": "kathy-slade", "name": "Kathy Slade", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Textile", "Film", "Installation", "Books" ], "subjects": [ "ceramics-material-practice", "moving-image-performance", "text-conceptual-art" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Artist working with textiles, film, music, publishing and appropriation to trace how cultural forms circulate and gather meaning.", "significance": "Slade’s interdisciplinary work reflects Vancouver’s close relationship among visual art, artist books, music and curatorial practice.", "featured": false, "sources": [], "verification_status": "under-review", "indexable": false, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/kathy-slade/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-lorna-brown", "slug": "lorna-brown", "name": "Lorna Brown", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Public art", "Text-based art", "Photography", "Curating" ], "subjects": [ "text-conceptual-art", "public-art-and-sculpture", "identity-language-and-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "downtown-vancouver" ], "summary": "Artist and curator using text, public space, archives and social research to examine civic memory, labour and collective knowledge.", "significance": "Brown’s practice connects Vancouver public art with the city’s artist-run, archival and curatorial histories.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "https://www.lornabrown.ca/", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/lorna-brown/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-cindy-mochizuki", "slug": "cindy-mochizuki", "name": "Cindy Mochizuki", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Animation", "Installation", "Drawing", "Performance" ], "subjects": [ "moving-image-performance", "identity-language-and-place", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Artist creating animation, installation, drawing and performance from oral history, family archives, migration and Japanese Canadian memory.", "significance": "Mochizuki’s Vancouver practice connects experimental storytelling with place-specific histories and intergenerational memory.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "https://cindymochizuki.com/", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/cindy-mochizuki/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-howie-tsui", "slug": "howie-tsui", "name": "Howie Tsui", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Drawing", "Animation", "Installation", "Ink" ], "subjects": [ "identity-language-and-place", "moving-image-performance", "text-conceptual-art" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Artist using intricate drawing, animation and installation to build speculative worlds shaped by diaspora, surveillance, history and popular culture.", "significance": "Tsui adds a distinctive narrative and digital dimension to Vancouver contemporary drawing and moving-image practice.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "https://howietsui.com/", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/howie-tsui/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-ruth-beer", "slug": "ruth-beer", "name": "Ruth Beer", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver artist and researcher", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Sculpture", "Video", "Photography", "Textile" ], "subjects": [ "ceramics-material-practice", "moving-image-performance", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Interdisciplinary artist and researcher using sculpture, video, photography and tapestry to examine contested geographies and landscapes in transition.", "significance": "Beer connects Vancouver art education with sustained research into resource systems, environmental change and material culture.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Emily Carr University", "url": "https://ecuad.ca/ecu-directory/ruth-beer/", "kind": "institutional" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/ruth-beer/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-lyse-lemieux", "slug": "lyse-lemieux", "name": "Lyse Lemieux", "dates": "Contemporary", "classification": "Contemporary Vancouver artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Drawing", "Textile", "Installation", "Sculpture" ], "subjects": [ "figure-portraiture-body", "ceramics-material-practice", "identity-language-and-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Artist using drawing, fabric, installation and sculptural line to explore the body, clothing, language and the spaces between abstraction and figuration.", "significance": "Lemieux brings a materially sensitive, drawing-led practice to Vancouver’s contemporary field and its conversations about embodiment.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "https://www.lyselemieux.com/", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/lyse-lemieux/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-michael-abraham", "slug": "michael-abraham", "name": "Michael Abraham", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Oil painting" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Michael Abraham works in oil painting.", "significance": "Michael Abraham is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.michaelabraham.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/michael-abraham/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-sorour-abdollahi", "slug": "sorour-abdollahi", "name": "Sorour Abdollahi", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "vancouver-cityscapes", "identity-language-and-place", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Sorour Abdollahi works in painting. The practice engages city and architecture, identity and cultural memory, and place and memory.", "significance": "Sorour Abdollahi is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.sorourart.wordpress.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/sorour-abdollahi/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-michael-abelman", "slug": "michael-abelman", "name": "Michael Abelman", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Acrylic painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Michael Abelman works in acrylic painting. The practice engages landscape.", "significance": "Michael Abelman is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.michaelabelmanpaints.blogspot.ca", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/michael-abelman/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-gaye-adams", "slug": "gaye-adams", "name": "Gaye Adams", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "text-conceptual-art" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Gaye Adams works in painting. The practice engages conceptual and language-based practice.", "significance": "Gaye Adams is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.gayeadams.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/gaye-adams/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-ati-ahkami", "slug": "ati-ahkami", "name": "Ati Ahkami", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Iran", "mediums": [ "Sculpture" ], "subjects": [ "public-art-and-sculpture" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Ati Ahkami works in sculpture. The practice engages sculpture and public space.", "significance": "Ati Ahkami is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.atiahkami.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/ati-ahkami/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-fran-alexander", "slug": "fran-alexander", "name": "Fran Alexander", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [], "summary": "Fran Alexander works in painting.", "significance": "Fran Alexander is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.franalexander.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/fran-alexander/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-justine-andrew", "slug": "justine-andrew", "name": "Justine Andrew", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "contemporary-painting-abstraction" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Justine Andrew works in painting. The practice engages abstraction.", "significance": "Justine Andrew is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.justineandrew.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/justine-andrew/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-patricia-banks", "slug": "patricia-banks", "name": "Patricia Banks", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Canada", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Patricia Banks works in painting. The practice engages landscape and place and memory.", "significance": "Patricia Banks is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.patriciabanks.ca", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/patricia-banks/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-deborah-bakos", "slug": "deborah-bakos", "name": "Deborah Bakos", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "contemporary-painting-abstraction", "figure-portraiture-body", "identity-language-and-place" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Deborah Bakos works in painting. The practice engages landscape, abstraction, figure and portraiture, and identity and cultural memory.", "significance": "Deborah Bakos is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.deborahbakos.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/deborah-bakos/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-ellen-bang", "slug": "ellen-bang", "name": "Ellen Bang", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia; British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Ellen Bang works in painting.", "significance": "Ellen Bang is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.deborahbakos.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/ellen-bang/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-riti-batra", "slug": "riti-batra", "name": "Riti Batra", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Photography", "Mixed media" ], "subjects": [ "contemporary-painting-abstraction", "ceramics-material-practice", "urban-photography-everyday-life" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Riti Batra works across painting, photography, and mixed media. The practice engages abstraction and material practice.", "significance": "Riti Batra is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [], "verification_status": "under-review", "indexable": false, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/riti-batra/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-aurelia-bizouard", "slug": "aurelia-bizouard", "name": "Aurelia Bizouard", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [], "summary": "Aurelia Bizouard works in painting.", "significance": "Aurelia Bizouard is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.aureliabizouard.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/aurelia-bizouard/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-jordan-blackstone", "slug": "jordan-blackstone", "name": "Jordan Blackstone", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Photography" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "wildlife-art", "figure-portraiture-body" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Jordan Blackstone works across painting and photography. The practice engages landscape, wildlife, and figure and portraiture.", "significance": "Jordan Blackstone is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.imaginethatjbphotography.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/jordan-blackstone/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-chris-blades", "slug": "chris-blades", "name": "Chris Blades", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Medium not specified" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [ "vancouver", "vancouver-island", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Chris Blades’s principal medium is not yet independently verified.", "significance": "Chris Blades is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.imaginethatjbphotography.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/chris-blades/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-mary-blaze", "slug": "mary-blaze", "name": "Mary Blaze", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Oil painting", "Mixed media", "Drawing" ], "subjects": [ "contemporary-painting-abstraction", "ceramics-material-practice" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Mary Blaze works across oil painting, mixed media, and drawing. The practice engages abstraction and material practice.", "significance": "Mary Blaze is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://blazeworksstudio.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/mary-blaze/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-wim-blom", "slug": "wim-blom", "name": "Wim Blom", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Photography" ], "subjects": [ "vancouver-cityscapes", "text-conceptual-art", "urban-photography-everyday-life", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Wim Blom works in photography. The practice engages city and architecture, conceptual and language-based practice, and place and memory.", "significance": "Wim Blom is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.wimblom.ca", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/wim-blom/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-mark-boyko", "slug": "mark-boyko", "name": "Mark Boyko", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "text-conceptual-art" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Mark Boyko works in painting. The practice engages conceptual and language-based practice.", "significance": "Mark Boyko is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.iantangallery.com/mark-boyko", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/mark-boyko/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-dennis-brown", "slug": "dennis-brown", "name": "Dennis Brown", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia; Canada", "mediums": [ "Oil painting" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Dennis Brown works in oil painting.", "significance": "Dennis Brown is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.dennisbrownpainting.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/dennis-brown/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-kris-brownlee", "slug": "kris-brownlee", "name": "Kris Brownlee", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Drawing" ], "subjects": [ "wildlife-art" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Kris Brownlee works across painting and drawing. The practice engages wildlife.", "significance": "Kris Brownlee is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.acageybee.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/kris-brownlee/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-dianna-burns", "slug": "dianna-burns", "name": "Dianna Burns", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "contemporary-painting-abstraction", "figure-portraiture-body" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Dianna Burns works in painting. The practice engages landscape, abstraction, and figure and portraiture.", "significance": "Dianna Burns is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.saatchionline.com/diannaburns", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/dianna-burns/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-jenny-catton", "slug": "jenny-catton", "name": "Jenny Catton", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia; Canada", "mediums": [ "Medium not specified" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "forest-and-coast", "figure-portraiture-body" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Jenny Catton’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages landscape, forest and coast, and figure and portraiture.", "significance": "Jenny Catton is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.jennywang.me", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/jenny-catton/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-deb-chaney", "slug": "deb-chaney", "name": "Deb Chaney", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [], "summary": "Deb Chaney works in painting.", "significance": "Deb Chaney is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.debchaney.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/deb-chaney/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-chris-charlebois", "slug": "chris-charlebois", "name": "Chris Charlebois", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Canada", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "forest-and-coast" ], "regions": [ "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Chris Charlebois works in painting. The practice engages landscape and forest and coast.", "significance": "Chris Charlebois is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.christophercharlebois.ca", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/chris-charlebois/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-niina-chebry", "slug": "niina-chebry", "name": "Niina Chebry", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Medium not specified" ], "subjects": [ "wildlife-art", "contemporary-painting-abstraction" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Niina Chebry’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages wildlife and abstraction.", "significance": "Niina Chebry is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.niinachebry.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/niina-chebry/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-wei-cheng", "slug": "wei-cheng", "name": "Wei Cheng", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Ceramics" ], "subjects": [ "ceramics-material-practice" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Wei Cheng works in ceramics. The practice engages material practice.", "significance": "Wei Cheng is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.wcheng.studio", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/wei-cheng/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-warren-chiu", "slug": "warren-chiu", "name": "Warren Chiu", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Oil painting", "Photography" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [], "summary": "Warren Chiu works across oil painting and photography.", "significance": "Warren Chiu is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.warrenchiu.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/warren-chiu/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-paul-chizik", "slug": "paul-chizik", "name": "Paul Chizik", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [], "summary": "Paul Chizik works in painting.", "significance": "Paul Chizik is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.paulchizik.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/paul-chizik/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-david-cho", "slug": "david-cho", "name": "David Cho", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "David Cho works in painting. The practice engages landscape.", "significance": "David Cho is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.davidtcho.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/david-cho/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-sung-ah-cho", "slug": "sung-ah-cho", "name": "Sung ah Cho", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Medium not specified" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Sung ah Cho’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages landscape.", "significance": "Sung ah Cho is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [], "verification_status": "under-review", "indexable": false, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/sung-ah-cho/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-birgit-coath", "slug": "birgit-coath", "name": "Birgit Coath", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Medium not specified" ], "subjects": [ "identity-language-and-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Birgit Coath’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages identity and cultural memory.", "significance": "Birgit Coath is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.birgitcoath.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/birgit-coath/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-richard-cole", "slug": "richard-cole", "name": "Richard Cole", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia; British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "mountain-art", "forest-and-coast", "figure-portraiture-body" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "sea-to-sky", "whistler", "vancouver-island", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Richard Cole works in painting. The practice engages landscape, mountain subjects, forest and coast, and figure and portraiture.", "significance": "Richard Cole is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [], "verification_status": "under-review", "indexable": false, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/richard-cole/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-sherry-cooper", "slug": "sherry-cooper", "name": "Sherry Cooper", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia; British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Medium not specified" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Sherry Cooper’s principal medium is not yet independently verified.", "significance": "Sherry Cooper is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.artforcecollections.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/sherry-cooper/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-kelly-crawford", "slug": "kelly-crawford", "name": "Kelly Crawford", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Kelly Crawford works in painting. The practice engages landscape.", "significance": "Kelly Crawford is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [], "verification_status": "under-review", "indexable": false, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/kelly-crawford/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-lorn-curry", "slug": "lorn-curry", "name": "Lorn Curry", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "figure-portraiture-body", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Lorn Curry works in painting. The practice engages figure and portraiture and place and memory.", "significance": "Lorn Curry is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.lorncurry.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/lorn-curry/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-engin-dalyanci", "slug": "engin-dalyanci", "name": "Engin Dalyanci", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Painter with documented North Shore connection", "location": "North Vancouver, British Columbia (profile location; current status unverified)", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "vancouver-cityscapes", "contemporary-painting-abstraction" ], "regions": [ "north-shore" ], "summary": "Painter whose listed work MY CITY-3 explores abstract architectural imagery; a North Vancouver artist profile provides a regional connection.", "significance": "The dated location on a third-party artist profile does not establish current Vancouver residency. Identity and exhibition claims require further corroboration.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist-managed Saatchi Art profile", "url": "https://www.saatchiart.com/fish", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/engin-dalyanci/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-christian-dahlberg", "slug": "christian-dahlberg", "name": "Christian Dahlberg", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "vancouver-cityscapes" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Christian Dahlberg works in painting. The practice engages city and architecture.", "significance": "Christian Dahlberg is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.christiandahlberg.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/christian-dahlberg/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-carolina-de-la-cajiga", "slug": "carolina-de-la-cajiga", "name": "Carolina de la Cajiga", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Medium not specified" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [], "summary": "Carolina de la Cajiga’s principal medium is not yet independently verified.", "significance": "Carolina de la Cajiga is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.delacajiga.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/carolina-de-la-cajiga/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-dave-denson", "slug": "dave-denson", "name": "Dave Denson", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Drawing" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Dave Denson works across painting and drawing.", "significance": "Dave Denson is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.davedenson.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/dave-denson/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-lindsay-dew", "slug": "lindsay-dew", "name": "Lindsay Dew", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Medium not specified" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [], "summary": "Lindsay Dew’s principal medium is not yet independently verified.", "significance": "Lindsay Dew is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.lindsaydew.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/lindsay-dew/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-elyse-dodge", "slug": "elyse-dodge", "name": "Elyse Dodge", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "contemporary-painting-abstraction" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Elyse Dodge works in painting. The practice engages landscape and abstraction.", "significance": "Elyse Dodge is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "https://www.elysecreative.myportfolio.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/elyse-dodge/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-tom-douglas", "slug": "tom-douglas", "name": "Tom Douglas", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "British Columbia; Canada", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Tom Douglas works in painting. The practice engages place and memory.", "significance": "Tom Douglas is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.tomdouglas.ca", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/tom-douglas/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-robyn-drage", "slug": "robyn-drage", "name": "Robyn Drage", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver artist, illustrator and designer", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Oil painting", "Painting", "Drawing", "Printmaking", "Illustration" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "figure-portraiture-body" ], "regions": [ "vancouver" ], "summary": "Vancouver artist, illustrator and educator working across painting, drawing, printmaking and design, with landscapes, portraits and objects in her fine-art portfolio.", "significance": "Drage's artist-owned portfolio documents a cross-disciplinary Vancouver practice connecting fine art and illustration.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Official artist portfolio", "url": "https://robyndrage.com/portfolio/fine-art/", "kind": "artist" }, { "label": "Artist biography and contact", "url": "https://robyndrage.com/contact/", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/robyn-drage/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-kathleen-drumheller", "slug": "kathleen-drumheller", "name": "Kathleen Drumheller", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Medium not specified" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Kathleen Drumheller’s principal medium is not yet independently verified.", "significance": "Kathleen Drumheller is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.kathleendrumheller.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/kathleen-drumheller/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-louise-dzee", "slug": "louise-dzee", "name": "Louise Dzee", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Acrylic painting", "Watercolour" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Louise Dzee works across acrylic painting and watercolour.", "significance": "Louise Dzee is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.dzeelouise.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/louise-dzee/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-penny-eisenberg", "slug": "penny-eisenberg", "name": "Penny Eisenberg", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Canada", "mediums": [ "Oil painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "vancouver-cityscapes", "contemporary-painting-abstraction" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Penny Eisenberg works in oil painting. The practice engages landscape, city and architecture, and abstraction.", "significance": "Penny Eisenberg is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.pennyeisenberg.ca", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/penny-eisenberg/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-marney-rose-edge", "slug": "marney-rose-edge", "name": "Marney-Rose Edge", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Oil painting", "Acrylic painting", "Watercolour" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Marney-Rose Edge works across oil painting, acrylic painting, and watercolour. The practice engages landscape.", "significance": "Marney-Rose Edge is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.marneyroseedge.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/marney-rose-edge/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-collin-elder", "slug": "collin-elder", "name": "Collin Elder", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary Victoria-based BC landscape painter", "location": "Victoria, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Oil painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "forest-and-coast" ], "regions": [ "vancouver-island", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Victoria-based oil painter whose ecological-restoration and biology background informs his studies of coastal landscape and wilderness.", "significance": "Elder provides a Vancouver Island and wider BC landscape connection; current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist landscape portfolio", "url": "https://www.collinelder.com/landscapes", "kind": "artist" }, { "label": "Madrona Gallery biography", "url": "https://www.madronagallery.com/artists/collin-elder", "kind": "official" }, { "label": "Capital Regional District public-art record", "url": "https://www.crd.ca/programs-services/arts-culture/find-landmarks-public-art/genera-helmcken-trestle-mural", "kind": "institutional" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/collin-elder/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-melanie-ellery", "slug": "melanie-ellery", "name": "Melanie Ellery", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia; Canada", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "contemporary-painting-abstraction" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Melanie Ellery works in painting. The practice engages abstraction.", "significance": "Melanie Ellery is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.melanieellery.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/melanie-ellery/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-denna-erickson", "slug": "denna-erickson", "name": "Denna Erickson", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Oil painting" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Denna Erickson works in oil painting.", "significance": "Denna Erickson is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.dennaerickson.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/denna-erickson/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-ken-faulks", "slug": "ken-faulks", "name": "Ken Faulks", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Drawing" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "contemporary-painting-abstraction" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Ken Faulks works across painting and drawing. The practice engages landscape and abstraction.", "significance": "Ken Faulks is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.kenfaulks.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/ken-faulks/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-judith-fairwood", "slug": "judith-fairwood", "name": "Judith Fairwood", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Medium not specified" ], "subjects": [ "forest-and-coast" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Judith Fairwood’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages forest and coast.", "significance": "Judith Fairwood is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.myartclub.com/artist.php?xyz=725#PG_INFO", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/judith-fairwood/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-john-ferrie", "slug": "john-ferrie", "name": "John Ferrie", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Medium not specified" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "figure-portraiture-body" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "John Ferrie’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages landscape and figure and portraiture.", "significance": "John Ferrie is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.johnferrie.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/john-ferrie/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-michael-fitzsimmons", "slug": "michael-fitzsimmons", "name": "Michael Fitzsimmons", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Medium not specified" ], "subjects": [ "figure-portraiture-body" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Michael Fitzsimmons’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages figure and portraiture.", "significance": "Michael Fitzsimmons is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.michaelfitzsimmons.ca", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/michael-fitzsimmons/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-deanna-fogstrom", "slug": "deanna-fogstrom", "name": "Deanna Fogstrom", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "vancouver-cityscapes", "forest-and-coast", "identity-language-and-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Deanna Fogstrom works in painting. The practice engages city and architecture, forest and coast, and identity and cultural memory.", "significance": "Deanna Fogstrom is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.dfogstrom.weebly.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/deanna-fogstrom/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-tim-fraser", "slug": "tim-fraser", "name": "Tim Fraser", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Tim Fraser works in painting.", "significance": "Tim Fraser is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.timfraser.ca", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/tim-fraser/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-adam-gibbs", "slug": "adam-gibbs", "name": "Adam Gibbs", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Photography" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [], "summary": "Adam Gibbs works in photography.", "significance": "Adam Gibbs is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.adamgibbs.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/adam-gibbs/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-amelia-garvin", "slug": "amelia-garvin", "name": "Amelia Garvin", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Medium not specified" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Amelia Garvin’s principal medium is not yet independently verified.", "significance": "Amelia Garvin is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.ameliagarvin.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/amelia-garvin/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-roy-geronimo", "slug": "roy-geronimo", "name": "Roy Geronimo", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Oil painting", "Acrylic painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "vancouver-cityscapes", "wildlife-art" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Roy Geronimo works across oil painting and acrylic painting. The practice engages landscape, city and architecture, and wildlife.", "significance": "Roy Geronimo is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [], "verification_status": "under-review", "indexable": false, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/roy-geronimo/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-wes-giesbrecht", "slug": "wes-giesbrecht", "name": "Wes Giesbrecht", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Abbotsford, British Columbia (historical directory claim; current status unverified)", "mediums": [ "Oil painting" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [ "fraser-valley" ], "summary": "Wes Giesbrecht works in oil painting.", "significance": "Wes Giesbrecht is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [], "verification_status": "under-review", "indexable": false, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/wes-giesbrecht/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-valerie-giles", "slug": "valerie-giles", "name": "Valerie Giles", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Watercolour", "Drawing" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [], "summary": "Valerie Giles works across watercolour and drawing.", "significance": "Valerie Giles is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.danesecorey.com/artists/valerie-giles/", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/valerie-giles/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-donna-giraud", "slug": "donna-giraud", "name": "Donna Giraud", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Acrylic painting" ], "subjects": [ "contemporary-painting-abstraction" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Donna Giraud works in acrylic painting. The practice engages abstraction.", "significance": "Donna Giraud is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.donnagiraudart.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/donna-giraud/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-lori-goldberg", "slug": "lori-goldberg", "name": "Lori Goldberg", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia; Canada", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Lori Goldberg works in painting.", "significance": "Lori Goldberg is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.lorigoldberg.ca", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/lori-goldberg/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-harris-gulko", "slug": "harris-gulko", "name": "Harris Gulko", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia; British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "forest-and-coast", "contemporary-painting-abstraction" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Harris Gulko works in painting. The practice engages landscape, forest and coast, and abstraction.", "significance": "Harris Gulko is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/harris-gulko", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/harris-gulko/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-drena-hambrook", "slug": "drena-hambrook", "name": "Drena Hambrook", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "figure-portraiture-body", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Drena Hambrook works in painting. The practice engages landscape, figure and portraiture, and place and memory.", "significance": "Drena Hambrook is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.ourartgroup.com/gallery/drena_hambrook/", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/drena-hambrook/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-shannon-harvey", "slug": "shannon-harvey", "name": "Shannon Harvey", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Installation" ], "subjects": [ "public-art-and-sculpture" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Shannon Harvey works in installation. The practice engages sculpture and public space.", "significance": "Shannon Harvey is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.mky100.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/shannon-harvey/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-brent-heighton", "slug": "brent-heighton", "name": "Brent Heighton", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "mountain-art", "wildlife-art", "forest-and-coast", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Brent Heighton works in painting. The practice engages mountain subjects, wildlife, forest and coast, and place and memory.", "significance": "Brent Heighton is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.brentheighton.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/brent-heighton/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-robert-held", "slug": "robert-held", "name": "Robert Held", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia; Canada", "mediums": [ "Glass" ], "subjects": [ "forest-and-coast", "ceramics-material-practice" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Robert Held works in glass. The practice engages forest and coast and material practice.", "significance": "Robert Held is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.robertheld.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/robert-held/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-dana-irving", "slug": "dana-irving", "name": "Dana Irving", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia; British Columbia; Canada", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "text-conceptual-art", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "vancouver-island", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Dana Irving works in painting. The practice engages landscape, conceptual and language-based practice, and place and memory.", "significance": "Dana Irving is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.danairving.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/dana-irving/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-eri-ishii", "slug": "eri-ishii", "name": "Eri Ishii", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia; Canada", "mediums": [ "Oil painting" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [ "vancouver", "vancouver-island", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Eri Ishii works in oil painting.", "significance": "Eri Ishii is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.eriishii.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/eri-ishii/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-sonya-iwasiuk", "slug": "sonya-iwasiuk", "name": "Sonya Iwasiuk", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Medium not specified" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "figure-portraiture-body", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Sonya Iwasiuk’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages landscape, figure and portraiture, and place and memory.", "significance": "Sonya Iwasiuk is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.sonyaiwasiuk.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/sonya-iwasiuk/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-shakun-jhangiani", "slug": "shakun-jhangiani", "name": "Shakun Jhangiani", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Acrylic painting", "Mixed media" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "contemporary-painting-abstraction", "ceramics-material-practice" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Shakun Jhangiani works across acrylic painting and mixed media. The practice engages landscape, abstraction, and material practice.", "significance": "Shakun Jhangiani is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.shakunjhangiani.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/shakun-jhangiani/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-patricia-johnston", "slug": "patricia-johnston", "name": "Patricia Johnston", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Canada", "mediums": [ "Oil painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "forest-and-coast" ], "regions": [ "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Patricia Johnston works in oil painting. The practice engages landscape and forest and coast.", "significance": "Patricia Johnston is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.patriciajohnston.ca", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/patricia-johnston/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-paul-jorgensen", "slug": "paul-jorgensen", "name": "Paul Jorgensen", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Medium not specified" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "figure-portraiture-body" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Paul Jorgensen’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages landscape and figure and portraiture.", "significance": "Paul Jorgensen is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.jorgensenart.net", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/paul-jorgensen/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-niknaz-kahnamoui", "slug": "niknaz-kahnamoui", "name": "NikNaz Kahnamoui", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Canada; Iran", "mediums": [ "Acrylic painting", "Mixed media" ], "subjects": [ "ceramics-material-practice" ], "regions": [], "summary": "NikNaz Kahnamoui works across acrylic painting and mixed media. The practice engages material practice.", "significance": "NikNaz Kahnamoui is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.niknazk.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/niknaz-kahnamoui/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-jutta-kaiser", "slug": "jutta-kaiser", "name": "Jutta Kaiser", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Mixed media" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "ceramics-material-practice" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Jutta Kaiser works in mixed media. The practice engages landscape and material practice.", "significance": "Jutta Kaiser is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.juttakaiser.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/jutta-kaiser/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-jan-kasparec", "slug": "jan-kasparec", "name": "Jan Kasparec", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Oil painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "vancouver-cityscapes", "identity-language-and-place", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Jan Kasparec works in oil painting. The practice engages landscape, city and architecture, identity and cultural memory, and place and memory.", "significance": "Jan Kasparec is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.jankasparec.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/jan-kasparec/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-annah-kassen", "slug": "annah-kassen", "name": "Annah Kassen", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Medium not specified" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [], "summary": "Annah Kassen’s principal medium is not yet independently verified.", "significance": "Annah Kassen is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.annahkassen.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/annah-kassen/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-katsumi-kimoto", "slug": "katsumi-kimoto", "name": "Katsumi Kimoto", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia; British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "forest-and-coast", "contemporary-painting-abstraction" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "vancouver-island", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Katsumi Kimoto works in painting. The practice engages landscape, forest and coast, and abstraction.", "significance": "Katsumi Kimoto is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.katsumikimoto.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/katsumi-kimoto/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-janna-kumi", "slug": "janna-kumi", "name": "Janna Kumi", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Medium not specified" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Janna Kumi’s principal medium is not yet independently verified.", "significance": "Janna Kumi is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.jannakumi.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/janna-kumi/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-vanessa-lam", "slug": "vanessa-lam", "name": "Vanessa Lam", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Mixed media" ], "subjects": [ "identity-language-and-place", "ceramics-material-practice" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Vanessa Lam works across painting and mixed media. The practice engages identity and cultural memory and material practice.", "significance": "Vanessa Lam is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.vanessalamfineart.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/vanessa-lam/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-bob-leatherbarrow", "slug": "bob-leatherbarrow", "name": "Bob Leatherbarrow", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "British Columbia; Canada", "mediums": [ "Glass", "Drawing" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "forest-and-coast", "ceramics-material-practice" ], "regions": [ "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Bob Leatherbarrow works across glass and drawing. The practice engages landscape, forest and coast, and material practice.", "significance": "Bob Leatherbarrow is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.leatherbarrowglass.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/bob-leatherbarrow/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-isaac-john-lewis", "slug": "isaac-john-lewis", "name": "Isaac John Lewis", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Ceramics", "Drawing" ], "subjects": [ "ceramics-material-practice" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Isaac John Lewis works across painting, ceramics, and drawing. The practice engages material practice.", "significance": "Isaac John Lewis is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.isaacubanart.myartchannel.com/about", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/isaac-john-lewis/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-min-ma", "slug": "min-ma", "name": "Min Ma", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Canada", "mediums": [ "Oil painting", "Acrylic painting", "Drawing" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "figure-portraiture-body" ], "regions": [ "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Min Ma works across oil painting, acrylic painting, and drawing. The practice engages landscape and figure and portraiture.", "significance": "Min Ma is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.artymgallery.com/paintings/min-ma", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/min-ma/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-chris-macclure", "slug": "chris-macclure", "name": "Chris MacClure", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Canada", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "text-conceptual-art" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Chris MacClure works in painting. The practice engages landscape and conceptual and language-based practice.", "significance": "Chris MacClure is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.chrismacclure.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/chris-macclure/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-joel-mara", "slug": "joel-mara", "name": "Joel Mara", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia; British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "mountain-art", "forest-and-coast", "figure-portraiture-body", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "north-shore", "sea-to-sky", "whistler", "vancouver-island", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Joel Mara works in painting. The practice engages landscape, mountain subjects, forest and coast, figure and portraiture, and place and memory.", "significance": "Joel Mara is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.joelmara.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/joel-mara/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-anya-marnet", "slug": "anya-marnet", "name": "Anya Marnet", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Anya Marnet works in painting. The practice engages landscape.", "significance": "Anya Marnet is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.aemarnet.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/anya-marnet/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-tony-max", "slug": "tony-max", "name": "Tony Max", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Canada", "mediums": [ "Medium not specified" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [], "summary": "Tony Max’s principal medium is not yet independently verified.", "significance": "Tony Max is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.tonymax.net", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/tony-max/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-richard-mcdiarmid", "slug": "richard-mcdiarmid", "name": "Richard McDiarmid", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Oil painting", "Acrylic painting", "Watercolour" ], "subjects": [ "contemporary-painting-abstraction" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Richard McDiarmid works across oil painting, acrylic painting, and watercolour. The practice engages abstraction.", "significance": "Richard McDiarmid is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.paintedlightart.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/richard-mcdiarmid/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-kathleen-menges", "slug": "kathleen-menges", "name": "Kathleen Menges", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Abbotsford-based BC abstract painter", "location": "Abbotsford, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Oil painting", "Mixed media" ], "subjects": [ "contemporary-painting-abstraction" ], "regions": [ "fraser-valley" ], "summary": "Abbotsford-based abstract painter working with cold wax, oil, encaustic and mixed media.", "significance": "Menges expands the atlas's BC painting context beyond Vancouver; the gallery documents her Abbotsford studio.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Art Works Gallery artist biography", "url": "https://artworksbc.com/collections/kathleen-menges", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/kathleen-menges/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-jennifer-mitton", "slug": "jennifer-mitton", "name": "Jennifer Mitton", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia; Canada", "mediums": [ "Oil painting", "Acrylic painting", "Watercolour" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "figure-portraiture-body" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Jennifer Mitton works across oil painting, acrylic painting, and watercolour. The practice engages landscape and figure and portraiture.", "significance": "Jennifer Mitton is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.jennifermitton.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/jennifer-mitton/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-tana-lynn-moldovanos", "slug": "tana-lynn-moldovanos", "name": "Tana Lynn Moldovanos", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Acrylic painting" ], "subjects": [ "figure-portraiture-body" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Tana Lynn Moldovanos works in acrylic painting. The practice engages figure and portraiture.", "significance": "Tana Lynn Moldovanos is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [], "verification_status": "under-review", "indexable": false, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/tana-lynn-moldovanos/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-lauren-morris", "slug": "lauren-morris", "name": "Lauren Morris", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Medium not specified" ], "subjects": [ "identity-language-and-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Lauren Morris’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages identity and cultural memory.", "significance": "Lauren Morris is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.lmdesignsstudio.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/lauren-morris/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-kirsten-nash", "slug": "kirsten-nash", "name": "Kirsten Nash", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Oil painting", "Acrylic painting", "Sculpture", "Ceramics" ], "subjects": [ "public-art-and-sculpture", "ceramics-material-practice" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Kirsten Nash works across oil painting, acrylic painting, sculpture, and ceramics. The practice engages sculpture and public space and material practice.", "significance": "Kirsten Nash is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "https://www.artofwhere.com/artists/knash-kirstennash", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/kirsten-nash/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-eric-neighbour", "slug": "eric-neighbour", "name": "Eric Neighbour", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Photography", "Sculpture" ], "subjects": [ "public-art-and-sculpture" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "north-shore", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Eric Neighbour works across painting, photography, and sculpture. The practice engages sculpture and public space.", "significance": "Eric Neighbour is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.klorker.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/eric-neighbour/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-christina-norberg", "slug": "christina-norberg", "name": "Christina Norberg", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Sculpture", "Drawing" ], "subjects": [ "public-art-and-sculpture" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Christina Norberg works across painting, sculpture, and drawing. The practice engages sculpture and public space.", "significance": "Christina Norberg is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.christinanorberg.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/christina-norberg/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-michael-otoole", "slug": "michael-otoole", "name": "Michael O'Toole", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Acrylic painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "vancouver-cityscapes", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Michael O'Toole works in acrylic painting. The practice engages landscape, city and architecture, and place and memory.", "significance": "Michael O'Toole is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.otooleart.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/michael-otoole/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-lisa-ochowycz", "slug": "lisa-ochowycz", "name": "Lisa Ochowycz", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "forest-and-coast", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "north-shore" ], "summary": "Vancouver painter making atmospheric, place-responsive work shaped by landscape, memory and experiences in the North Shore mountains.", "significance": "Lisa Ochowycz is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist biography", "url": "https://lisaochowycz.ca/about/", "kind": "artist" }, { "label": "Artist artworks", "url": "https://lisaochowycz.ca/artworks/", "kind": "artist" }, { "label": "Eastside Culture Crawl profile", "url": "https://culturecrawl.ca/artists/lisa-ochowycz", "kind": "institutional" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/lisa-ochowycz/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-glenn-payan", "slug": "glenn-payan", "name": "Glenn Payan", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Medium not specified" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "figure-portraiture-body", "identity-language-and-place", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Glenn Payan’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages landscape, figure and portraiture, identity and cultural memory, and place and memory.", "significance": "Glenn Payan is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.glennpayan.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/glenn-payan/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-paul-paquette", "slug": "paul-paquette", "name": "Paul Paquette", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia; British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "forest-and-coast" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "north-shore", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Paul Paquette works in painting. The practice engages forest and coast.", "significance": "Paul Paquette is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [], "verification_status": "under-review", "indexable": false, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/paul-paquette/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-ross-penhall", "slug": "ross-penhall", "name": "Ross Penhall", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "vancouver-cityscapes", "contemporary-painting-abstraction" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Ross Penhall works in painting. The practice engages landscape, city and architecture, and abstraction.", "significance": "Ross Penhall is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.rosspenhall.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/ross-penhall/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-veronica-plewman", "slug": "veronica-plewman", "name": "Veronica Plewman", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "contemporary-painting-abstraction" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Veronica Plewman works in painting. The practice engages abstraction.", "significance": "Veronica Plewman is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.v-a-plewman.ca", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/veronica-plewman/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-terri-rodstrom", "slug": "terri-rodstrom", "name": "Terri Rodstrom", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Watercolour", "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "wildlife-art" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Terri Rodstrom works across watercolour and painting. The practice engages landscape and wildlife.", "significance": "Terri Rodstrom is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.terrirodstrom.weebly.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/terri-rodstrom/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-carole-rayer", "slug": "carole-rayer", "name": "Carole Rayer", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Oil painting" ], "subjects": [ "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Carole Rayer works in oil painting. The practice engages place and memory.", "significance": "Carole Rayer is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.ourartgroup.com/image/carole_rayer/", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/carole-rayer/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-christine-reimer", "slug": "christine-reimer", "name": "Christine Reimer", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "British Columbia; Canada", "mediums": [ "Acrylic painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "contemporary-painting-abstraction" ], "regions": [ "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Christine Reimer works in acrylic painting. The practice engages landscape and abstraction.", "significance": "Christine Reimer is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.christinereimer.ca", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/christine-reimer/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-lee-roberts", "slug": "lee-roberts", "name": "Lee Roberts", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Sculpture" ], "subjects": [ "wildlife-art", "public-art-and-sculpture", "text-conceptual-art" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Lee Roberts works in sculpture. The practice engages wildlife, sculpture and public space, and conceptual and language-based practice.", "significance": "Lee Roberts is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.leerobertsart.com/", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/lee-roberts/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-sam-siegel", "slug": "sam-siegel", "name": "Sam Siegel", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia; British Columbia; Canada", "mediums": [ "Oil painting", "Acrylic painting" ], "subjects": [ "forest-and-coast" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Sam Siegel works across oil painting and acrylic painting. The practice engages forest and coast.", "significance": "Sam Siegel is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.samsoriginalart.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/sam-siegel/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-tatiana-sanz", "slug": "tatiana-sanz", "name": "Tatiana Sanz", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Sculpture" ], "subjects": [ "public-art-and-sculpture" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Tatiana Sanz works in sculpture. The practice engages sculpture and public space.", "significance": "Tatiana Sanz is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.onceuponatimetana.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/tatiana-sanz/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-luis-sopena", "slug": "luis-sopena", "name": "Luis Sopena", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "West Vancouver painter and sculptor", "location": "West Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Oil painting", "Sculpture", "Printmaking" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "mountain-art", "figure-portraiture-body" ], "regions": [ "north-shore", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "West Vancouver artist and gallery owner working across landscape and figurative painting, sculpture and printmaking.", "significance": "Sopena's West Vancouver gallery, training and coastal landscape work connect the North Shore to the wider regional art scene.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website and landscapes", "url": "https://www.luissopenaart.com/Landscapes.ubr", "kind": "artist" }, { "label": "Caulfeild Gallery artist biography", "url": "https://caulfeildgallery.com/our-artists/luis-sopena/", "kind": "official" } ], "verification_status": "verified", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/luis-sopena/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-linda-thompson", "slug": "linda-thompson", "name": "Linda Thompson", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "wildlife-art" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Linda Thompson works in painting. The practice engages landscape and wildlife.", "significance": "Linda Thompson is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.lindathompsonart.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/linda-thompson/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-andrea-taylor", "slug": "andrea-taylor", "name": "Andrea Taylor", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia; British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Photography", "Sculpture", "Mixed media", "Drawing" ], "subjects": [ "public-art-and-sculpture", "ceramics-material-practice" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Andrea Taylor works across painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, and drawing. The practice engages sculpture and public space and material practice.", "significance": "Andrea Taylor is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.andreataylor.ca", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/andrea-taylor/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-taisha-teal", "slug": "taisha-teal", "name": "Taisha Teal", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Oil painting", "Acrylic painting", "Photography", "Ceramics", "Drawing" ], "subjects": [ "ceramics-material-practice" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Taisha Teal works across oil painting, acrylic painting, photography, ceramics, and drawing. The practice engages material practice.", "significance": "Taisha Teal is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.taishateal.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/taisha-teal/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-drew-van-unen", "slug": "drew-van-unen", "name": "Drew Van Unen", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting", "Photography" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [ "vancouver", "north-shore", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Drew Van Unen works across painting and photography.", "significance": "Drew Van Unen is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.drewvanunen.wordpress.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/drew-van-unen/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-david-wilson", "slug": "david-wilson", "name": "David Wilson", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Medium not specified" ], "subjects": [ "forest-and-coast", "figure-portraiture-body" ], "regions": [], "summary": "David Wilson’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages forest and coast and figure and portraiture.", "significance": "David Wilson is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.davidwilson.ca", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/david-wilson/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-ray-ward", "slug": "ray-ward", "name": "Ray Ward", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Ray Ward works in painting. The practice engages place and memory.", "significance": "Ray Ward is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.rayward.ca", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/ray-ward/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-caroline-weaver", "slug": "caroline-weaver", "name": "Caroline Weaver", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Caroline Weaver works in painting.", "significance": "Caroline Weaver is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.caroline-weaver.ca", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/caroline-weaver/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-terrill-welch", "slug": "terrill-welch", "name": "Terrill Welch", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "British Columbia; Canada", "mediums": [ "Oil painting", "Photography" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "forest-and-coast" ], "regions": [ "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Terrill Welch works across oil painting and photography. The practice engages landscape and forest and coast.", "significance": "Terrill Welch is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.terrillwelchartist.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/terrill-welch/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-corrinne-wolcoski", "slug": "corrinne-wolcoski", "name": "Corrinne Wolcoski", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "landscape-painting", "forest-and-coast", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "sea-to-sky", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Corrinne Wolcoski works in painting. The practice engages landscape, forest and coast, and place and memory.", "significance": "Corrinne Wolcoski is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.mountaingalleries.com/wolcoski", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/corrinne-wolcoski/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-peter-wyse", "slug": "peter-wyse", "name": "Peter Wyse", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia; British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Acrylic painting" ], "subjects": [ "identity-language-and-place", "mapping-memory-place" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Peter Wyse works in acrylic painting. The practice engages identity and cultural memory and place and memory.", "significance": "Peter Wyse is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.peterwyse.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/peter-wyse/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-carollyne-yardley", "slug": "carollyne-yardley", "name": "Carollyne Yardley", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Contemporary artist — regional connection under review", "location": "Location not independently verified", "mediums": [ "Oil painting" ], "subjects": [ "wildlife-art", "figure-portraiture-body" ], "regions": [], "summary": "Carollyne Yardley works in oil painting. The practice engages wildlife and figure and portraiture.", "significance": "Carollyne Yardley is included as a contemporary artist with a regional connection under editorial review. Current Vancouver residency is not claimed.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.carollyne.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/carollyne-yardley/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-alysha-yakimishyn", "slug": "alysha-yakimishyn", "name": "Alysha Yakimishyn", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Watercolour", "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "forest-and-coast" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "vancouver-island", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Alysha Yakimishyn works across watercolour and painting. The practice engages forest and coast.", "significance": "Alysha Yakimishyn is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.yakimishyn.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/alysha-yakimishyn/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-chin-yuen", "slug": "chin-yuen", "name": "Chin Yuen", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia; British Columbia; Canada", "mediums": [ "Painting" ], "subjects": [ "contemporary-painting-abstraction" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "vancouver-island", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Chin Yuen works in painting. The practice engages abstraction.", "significance": "Chin Yuen is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.chinyuenart.com", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/chin-yuen/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" }, { "id": "VA-ARTIST-donna-zhang", "slug": "donna-zhang", "name": "Donna Zhang", "dates": "Contemporary record", "classification": "Vancouver-connected artist", "location": "Vancouver, British Columbia; British Columbia", "mediums": [ "Medium not specified" ], "subjects": [ "figure-portraiture-body" ], "regions": [ "vancouver", "british-columbia-coast" ], "summary": "Donna Zhang’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages figure and portraiture.", "significance": "Donna Zhang is included for a documented Vancouver connection. This atlas links the record only to media, subjects and places supported by available evidence.", "featured": false, "sources": [ { "label": "Artist website", "url": "http://www.whiterockgallery.com/Donna_Zhang.htm", "kind": "artist" } ], "verification_status": "documented", "indexable": true, "canonical_url": "https://vancouverartists.ca/artists/donna-zhang/", "dataset_version": "3.0.0", "verification_date": "2026-08-30" } ] }