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Sculpture & Installation
Material, spatial and public practices that broaden the atlas beyond two-dimensional art.
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Vancouver artist using photography, film, video, installation and theatre to examine history, technology and collective memory.
Vancouver polymath whose photography, film, music and installations drew on literary, philosophical and popular references.
Cowichan and Syilx artist whose work addresses Indigenous sovereignty, colonization, environmental destruction and ancestral territory.
Ligwilda’xw Kwakwaka’wakw contemporary artist working across media to examine colonial history, popular culture, land and Indigenous presence.
Vancouver artist whose photo, video, performance and installation work examines identity, migration, memory, tourism and contested ideas of place.
Dane-zaa and Swiss-Canadian artist known for transforming consumer materials into sculptural forms that engage Indigenous culture, display and commodity systems.
Conceptual and representational artist whose work across text, portraiture, sculpture and public art examines identity, language and spatial politics.
Vancouver artist using text, appropriation and exhibition conventions to examine how information circulates through art, media and popular culture.
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.
Vancouver-based visual artist and writer using sculpture, installation, painting and public art to examine technology, identity and contemporary culture.
Sculptor whose materially precise works reconsider ordinary objects, value, shelter, dependency and the emotional lives attached to things.
Artist creating expansive installations from images, objects, sound and theatrical structures that reorganize histories and cultural memory.
Vancouver artist whose sculpture, ceramics, performance and painting transform everyday objects and bodily experience through wit and repetition.
Artist known for staged tableaux that use video, photography and installation to slow down looking and reframe art-historical scenes.
Artist moving between painting and sculpture while incorporating found objects, images and text into materially playful arrangements.
Artist using dyed and sewn textiles to examine histories of modern painting, labour, gender and medium classification.
Artist examining subculture, activism, domestic architecture and civic space through painting, ceramics, sculpture and video.
Ceramic artist building richly layered sculptural forms from clay, glaze, gathered materials and accumulated surface.
Artist and filmmaker creating associative installations where film, sculpture, writing and exhibition design shape one another.
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.
Painter creating optical and spatial works in which simple forms, colour and installation alter the viewer’s bodily perception.
Sculptor using humour, popular culture and familiar animal or domestic forms to examine desire, consumption and cultural cliché.
Artist developing collaborative photo, film and performance projects that examine institutions, communities and how people represent themselves.
Artist and organizer adapting everyday actions, common spaces and responsive systems to create connections among people, technology and environment.
Visual and media artist exploring the spatial politics of history, language, community, migration, food and cultural translation.
Interdisciplinary artist and writer engaging language, embodiment, ecology, migration and queer cultural histories.
Artist whose drawing, photography and installation examine migration, labour, cultural memory and the changing spaces of cities.
Anishinaabe artist working through painting, sculpture and performance to explore memory, embodiment, cultural presence and urban Indigenous experience.
Métis artist and writer using found materials, land-based knowledge and economic histories to examine property, value and survival.
Tsimshian/Gitksan and Cree artist working across performance, video, sculpture and installation with humour, critique and embodied cultural presence.
Syilx artist whose installations and moving-image works engage archival materials, land, family history and the instability of documentary truth.
Dzawada’enuxw First Nations artist whose installations, paintings and light-based works address land, language, sovereignty and cultural continuity.
Artist using video, installation, performance and writing to investigate spectatorship, legal space, technology and the production of public events.
Artist working with textiles, film, music, publishing and appropriation to trace how cultural forms circulate and gather meaning.
Artist and curator using text, public space, archives and social research to examine civic memory, labour and collective knowledge.
Artist creating animation, installation, drawing and performance from oral history, family archives, migration and Japanese Canadian memory.
Artist using intricate drawing, animation and installation to build speculative worlds shaped by diaspora, surveillance, history and popular culture.
Interdisciplinary artist and researcher using sculpture, video, photography and tapestry to examine contested geographies and landscapes in transition.
Artist using drawing, fabric, installation and sculptural line to explore the body, clothing, language and the spaces between abstraction and figuration.
Ati Ahkami works in sculpture. The practice engages sculpture and public space.
Shannon Harvey works in installation. The practice engages sculpture and public space.
Kirsten Nash works across oil painting, acrylic painting, sculpture, and ceramics. The practice engages sculpture and public space and material practice.
Eric Neighbour works across painting, photography, and sculpture. The practice engages sculpture and public space.
Christina Norberg works across painting, sculpture, and drawing. The practice engages sculpture and public space.
Lee Roberts works in sculpture. The practice engages wildlife, sculpture and public space, and conceptual and language-based practice.
Tatiana Sanz works in sculpture. The practice engages sculpture and public space.
West Vancouver artist and gallery owner working across landscape and figurative painting, sculpture and printmaking.
Andrea Taylor works across painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, and drawing. The practice engages sculpture and public space and material practice.
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