Medium hub · 52 artist records

Sculpture & Installation

Material, spatial and public practices that broaden the atlas beyond two-dimensional art.

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Artists working in this medium

Contemporary Vancouver artistStan Douglas

Vancouver artist using photography, film, video, installation and theatre to examine history, technology and collective memory.

Vancouver artist — legacy recordRodney Graham

Vancouver polymath whose photography, film, music and installations drew on literary, philosophical and popular references.

Vancouver-based Indigenous artistLawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Lets’lo:tseltun

Cowichan and Syilx artist whose work addresses Indigenous sovereignty, colonization, environmental destruction and ancestral territory.

Contemporary British Columbia artistSonny Assu

Ligwilda’xw Kwakwaka’wakw contemporary artist working across media to examine colonial history, popular culture, land and Indigenous presence.

Contemporary Vancouver artistJin-me Yoon

Vancouver artist whose photo, video, performance and installation work examines identity, migration, memory, tourism and contested ideas of place.

Contemporary artist with Vancouver trainingBrian Jungen

Dane-zaa and Swiss-Canadian artist known for transforming consumer materials into sculptural forms that engage Indigenous culture, display and commodity systems.

Vancouver-born artist — wider practiceKen Lum

Conceptual and representational artist whose work across text, portraiture, sculpture and public art examines identity, language and spatial politics.

Contemporary Vancouver artistRon Terada

Vancouver artist using text, appropriation and exhibition conventions to examine how information circulates through art, media and popular culture.

Vancouver photoconceptual contextVikky Alexander

Canadian artist whose photography and installations examine consumer imagery, artificial nature, beauty and the construction of desire.

Contemporary Vancouver media artistPaul Wong

Video and media artist whose practice examines identity, race, sexuality, public memory and the social history of Vancouver.

Vancouver-based Indigenous artistDana Claxton

Hunkpapa Lakota artist working across photography, video, performance and installation to address Indigenous presence, representation and cultural memory.

Contemporary Vancouver artist and writerDouglas Coupland

Vancouver-based visual artist and writer using sculpture, installation, painting and public art to examine technology, identity and contemporary culture.

Contemporary Vancouver sculptorLiz Magor

Sculptor whose materially precise works reconsider ordinary objects, value, shelter, dependency and the emotional lives attached to things.

Contemporary Vancouver installation artistGeoffrey Farmer

Artist creating expansive installations from images, objects, sound and theatrical structures that reorganize histories and cultural memory.

Senior contemporary Vancouver artistGathie Falk

Vancouver artist whose sculpture, ceramics, performance and painting transform everyday objects and bodily experience through wit and repetition.

Contemporary Vancouver-connected artistAdad Hannah

Artist known for staged tableaux that use video, photography and installation to slow down looking and reframe art-historical scenes.

Contemporary Vancouver artistJack Kenna

Artist moving between painting and sculpture while incorporating found objects, images and text into materially playful arrangements.

Contemporary Vancouver textile artistColleen Heslin

Artist using dyed and sewn textiles to examine histories of modern painting, labour, gender and medium classification.

Contemporary Vancouver artistAlex Morrison

Artist examining subculture, activism, domestic architecture and civic space through painting, ceramics, sculpture and video.

Contemporary Vancouver ceramic artistGailan Ngan

Ceramic artist building richly layered sculptural forms from clay, glaze, gathered materials and accumulated surface.

Contemporary Vancouver artistJulia Feyrer

Artist and filmmaker creating associative installations where film, sculpture, writing and exhibition design shape one another.

Vancouver-based Indigenous artistRaymond Boisjoly

Haida and Québécois artist using text, photography and installation to examine language, Indigenous representation and cultural transmission.

Contemporary Vancouver artistDamian Moppett

Artist working across sculpture, drawing, painting and photography to examine artistic process, representation and the studio as a subject.

Contemporary Vancouver painterAndrew Dadson

Artist extending painting beyond the canvas through layered monochrome surfaces, environmental actions, photography and installation.

Contemporary Vancouver painterNeil Campbell

Painter creating optical and spatial works in which simple forms, colour and installation alter the viewer’s bodily perception.

Contemporary Vancouver sculptorMyfanwy MacLeod

Sculptor using humour, popular culture and familiar animal or domestic forms to examine desire, consumption and cultural cliché.

Contemporary Vancouver artistAlthea Thauberger

Artist developing collaborative photo, film and performance projects that examine institutions, communities and how people represent themselves.

Contemporary Vancouver artistGermaine Koh

Artist and organizer adapting everyday actions, common spaces and responsive systems to create connections among people, technology and environment.

Contemporary Vancouver media artistHenry Tsang

Visual and media artist exploring the spatial politics of history, language, community, migration, food and cultural translation.

Contemporary Vancouver artistLaiwan

Interdisciplinary artist and writer engaging language, embodiment, ecology, migration and queer cultural histories.

Contemporary Vancouver artistGu Xiong

Artist whose drawing, photography and installation examine migration, labour, cultural memory and the changing spaces of cities.

Vancouver-based Indigenous artistCharlene Vickers

Anishinaabe artist working through painting, sculpture and performance to explore memory, embodiment, cultural presence and urban Indigenous experience.

Vancouver-based Indigenous artistGabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill

Métis artist and writer using found materials, land-based knowledge and economic histories to examine property, value and survival.

Contemporary Indigenous artist with Vancouver connectionsSkeena Reece

Tsimshian/Gitksan and Cree artist working across performance, video, sculpture and installation with humour, critique and embodied cultural presence.

Syilx artist with Vancouver trainingKrista Belle Stewart

Syilx artist whose installations and moving-image works engage archival materials, land, family history and the instability of documentary truth.

Kwakwaka’wakw artist with Vancouver connectionsMarianne Nicolson

Dzawada’enuxw First Nations artist whose installations, paintings and light-based works address land, language, sovereignty and cultural continuity.

Contemporary Vancouver media artistJudy Radul

Artist using video, installation, performance and writing to investigate spectatorship, legal space, technology and the production of public events.

Contemporary Vancouver artistKathy Slade

Artist working with textiles, film, music, publishing and appropriation to trace how cultural forms circulate and gather meaning.

Contemporary Vancouver artistLorna Brown

Artist and curator using text, public space, archives and social research to examine civic memory, labour and collective knowledge.

Contemporary Vancouver artistCindy Mochizuki

Artist creating animation, installation, drawing and performance from oral history, family archives, migration and Japanese Canadian memory.

Contemporary Vancouver artistHowie Tsui

Artist using intricate drawing, animation and installation to build speculative worlds shaped by diaspora, surveillance, history and popular culture.

Contemporary Vancouver artist and researcherRuth Beer

Interdisciplinary artist and researcher using sculpture, video, photography and tapestry to examine contested geographies and landscapes in transition.

Contemporary Vancouver artistLyse Lemieux

Artist using drawing, fabric, installation and sculptural line to explore the body, clothing, language and the spaces between abstraction and figuration.

Contemporary artist — regional connection under reviewAti Ahkami

Ati Ahkami works in sculpture. The practice engages sculpture and public space.

Contemporary artist — regional connection under reviewShannon Harvey

Shannon Harvey works in installation. The practice engages sculpture and public space.

Contemporary artist — regional connection under reviewKirsten Nash

Kirsten Nash works across oil painting, acrylic painting, sculpture, and ceramics. The practice engages sculpture and public space and material practice.

Vancouver-connected artistEric Neighbour

Eric Neighbour works across painting, photography, and sculpture. The practice engages sculpture and public space.

Vancouver-connected artistChristina Norberg

Christina Norberg works across painting, sculpture, and drawing. The practice engages sculpture and public space.

Vancouver-connected artistLee Roberts

Lee Roberts works in sculpture. The practice engages wildlife, sculpture and public space, and conceptual and language-based practice.

Contemporary artist — regional connection under reviewTatiana Sanz

Tatiana Sanz works in sculpture. The practice engages sculpture and public space.

West Vancouver painter and sculptorLuis Sopena

West Vancouver artist and gallery owner working across landscape and figurative painting, sculpture and printmaking.

Vancouver-connected artistAndrea Taylor

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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