Identity, Language & Place

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.

Figurative painter and collage artist exploring identity, gender, displacement and the representation of the female body.

Vancouver artist using photography, painting and image manipulation to examine value, migration, representation and overlooked subjects.

Painter using layered text, humour and contradiction to explore communication, knowledge, belief and personal experience.

Painter working through abstraction, figuration and textile references to explore memory, intimacy and the construction of images.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Sorour Abdollahi works in painting. The practice engages city and architecture, identity and cultural memory, and place and memory.

Deborah Bakos works in painting. The practice engages landscape, abstraction, figure and portraiture, and identity and cultural memory.

Birgit Coath’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages identity and cultural memory.

Deanna Fogstrom works in painting. The practice engages city and architecture, forest and coast, and identity and cultural memory.

Jan Kasparec works in oil painting. The practice engages landscape, city and architecture, identity and cultural memory, and place and memory.

Vanessa Lam works across painting and mixed media. The practice engages identity and cultural memory and material practice.

Lauren Morris’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages identity and cultural memory.

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.

Peter Wyse works in acrylic painting. The practice engages identity and cultural memory and place and memory.