SINCE THEN
Rebecca Belmore // Dana Claxton // Leah Decter // Demian Dinéyazhi' // Mark Emerak // Cliff Eyland // Félix González-Torres // Helga Jakobson // Garry Neill Kennedy // Janet Kigusiuq // Cheryl L'Hirondelle // Kent Monkman // Peter Morin // Lisa Myers // Jude Norris // Rúrí // Justin Sorensen // Derek Sullivan // Ione Thorkelsson // Rachael Thorleifson // Chih-Chien Wang // Christopher Wool
Central Gallery
September 23 to December 30, 2017
Curated by Kegan McFadden
Postulating what the future might hold, this exhibition looks to histories of survival as a starting point for a conversation about the possibilities of endurance, cross-cultural exchange and legacy. By looking at artwork that depicts survival, that alludes to hybridity and transformation, and that carries with it the physical markers of distress as part of their conceptual make-up, Since Then challenges preconceived notions of what it is to endure from both a historical and a contemporary point of view.
ALTERNATION
Roy Arden // Rebecca Belmore // Edward Burtynsky // Wally Dion // Aganetha Dyck // Farheen HaQ // Alex Janvier // Komar and Melamid // Eileen Leier // Glenn Lewis // Ken Lum // Divya Mehra // Daphne Odjig // Jana Sasaki // Henry Speck // Takao Tanabe // Joyce Weiland // Tania Willard // Jin-me Yoon // Sharyn Yuen
Central Gallery
July 15 to September 9, 2017
Curated by Adrienne Fast, Interim Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery
This year marks the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, an event that is being met by a wide spectrum of responses that range from sincere celebration to profound ambivalence and thoughtfully considered refusal. Many people have noted that 1867 is an arbitrary choice for the origin of the country: only Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were then united by the British North America Act, while other histories of nations that have inhabited this land extend tens of thousands of years further back in history…
CANADIAN VISIONARY
Lawren Harris
Central Gallery
July 15 to September 9, 2017
Curated by Ian M. Thom, Senior Curator–Historical, Vancouver Art Gallery
Through both his life and work Harris helped establish an identity for Canadian art. He not only saw the artistic and cultural potential of this country, but also made works that have helped to define the very identity of Canada. Furthermore, he had the courage to take his own art into the realm of abstraction at a time when most of the public was unwilling to follow.