Mapping, Memory & Place

Vancouver artist known for large-scale painting and works on paper that connect mapping, memory, geography and psychological space.

Artist examining architecture, pattern, visual convention and the politics of private and public space.

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.

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.

Vancouver artist whose photography and archival work examine urban transformation, economic landscapes and the construction of history.

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

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

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.

Painter using observation, colour and spatial compression to turn everyday interiors, streets and objects into shifting pictorial structures.

Painter examining how ordinary scenes, memory and photographic reference become unstable through paint, surface and perception.

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.

Photographer whose sustained studies of cities, architecture and changing neighbourhoods connect personal history with wider urban transformation.

Painter whose geometric and patterned abstractions use repetition, colour and hand-built structure to create shifting optical spaces.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Patricia Banks works in painting. The practice engages landscape and place and memory.

Wim Blom works in photography. The practice engages city and architecture, conceptual and language-based practice, and place and memory.

Lorn Curry works in painting. The practice engages figure and portraiture and place and memory.

Tom Douglas works in painting. The practice engages place and memory.

Drena Hambrook works in painting. The practice engages landscape, figure and portraiture, and place and memory.

Brent Heighton works in painting. The practice engages mountain subjects, wildlife, forest and coast, and place and memory.

Dana Irving works in painting. The practice engages landscape, conceptual and language-based practice, and place and memory.

Sonya Iwasiuk’s principal medium is not yet independently verified. The practice engages landscape, figure and portraiture, and place and memory.

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

Joel Mara works in painting. The practice engages landscape, mountain subjects, forest and coast, figure and portraiture, and place and memory.

Michael O'Toole works in acrylic painting. The practice engages landscape, city and architecture, and place and memory.

Vancouver painter making atmospheric, place-responsive work shaped by landscape, memory and experiences in the North Shore mountains.

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.

Carole Rayer works in oil painting. The practice engages place and memory.

Ray Ward works in painting. The practice engages place and memory.

Corrinne Wolcoski works in painting. The practice engages landscape, forest and coast, and place and memory.

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