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Photo-based and photoconceptual practices central to Vancouver’s international art history.
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Internationally influential Vancouver artist whose constructed photographs connect pictorial traditions, cinema and the everyday spaces of the city.
Vancouver artist using photography, film, video, installation and theatre to examine history, technology and collective memory.
Artist and educator combining photography and monochrome painting while treating Vancouver as both social space and art-historical context.
Vancouver polymath whose photography, film, music and installations drew on literary, philosophical and popular references.
Vancouver artist whose photo, video, performance and installation work examines identity, migration, memory, tourism and contested ideas of place.
Conceptual and representational artist whose work across text, portraiture, sculpture and public art examines identity, language and spatial politics.
Vancouver artist whose photography and archival work examine urban transformation, economic landscapes and the construction of history.
Canadian artist whose photography and installations examine consumer imagery, artificial nature, beauty and the construction of desire.
Video and media artist whose practice examines identity, race, sexuality, public memory and the social history of Vancouver.
Hunkpapa Lakota artist working across photography, video, performance and installation to address Indigenous presence, representation and cultural memory.
Artist known for staged tableaux that use video, photography and installation to slow down looking and reframe art-historical scenes.
Artist producing meticulously observed paintings of architecture and urban space that question the apparent neutrality of photographic vision.
Artist working across drawing, painting and photography with images that combine narrative uncertainty, humour and the uncanny.
Vancouver artist using photography, painting and image manipulation to examine value, migration, representation and overlooked subjects.
Photographer whose staged figures and atmospheric landscapes draw on cinema, fashion and the emotional construction of place.
Artist known for video works that appear nearly still, using subtle motion to test the boundary between photography and film.
Photographer observing figures, labour and ordinary environments through carefully composed images grounded in the social world.
Photographer whose sustained studies of cities, architecture and changing neighbourhoods connect personal history with wider urban transformation.
Haida and Québécois artist using text, photography and installation to examine language, Indigenous representation and cultural transmission.
Artist working across sculpture, drawing, painting and photography to examine artistic process, representation and the studio as a subject.
Artist extending painting beyond the canvas through layered monochrome surfaces, environmental actions, photography and installation.
Artist developing collaborative photo, film and performance projects that examine institutions, communities and how people represent themselves.
Visual and media artist exploring the spatial politics of history, language, community, migration, food and cultural translation.
Artist whose drawing, photography and installation examine migration, labour, cultural memory and the changing spaces of cities.
Syilx artist whose installations and moving-image works engage archival materials, land, family history and the instability of documentary truth.
Artist and curator using text, public space, archives and social research to examine civic memory, labour and collective knowledge.
Interdisciplinary artist and researcher using sculpture, video, photography and tapestry to examine contested geographies and landscapes in transition.
Riti Batra works across painting, photography, and mixed media. The practice engages abstraction and material practice.
Jordan Blackstone works across painting and photography. The practice engages landscape, wildlife, and figure and portraiture.
Wim Blom works in photography. The practice engages city and architecture, conceptual and language-based practice, and place and memory.
Warren Chiu works across oil painting and photography.
Adam Gibbs works in photography.
Eric Neighbour works across painting, photography, and sculpture. The practice engages sculpture and public space.
Andrea Taylor works across painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, and drawing. The practice engages sculpture and public space and material practice.
Taisha Teal works across oil painting, acrylic painting, photography, ceramics, and drawing. The practice engages material practice.
Drew Van Unen works across painting and photography.
Terrill Welch works across oil painting and photography. The practice engages landscape and forest and coast.
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