Canada’s preeminent contemporary arts award recognizes artist for practice that confounds old categories and points to new imaginaries OTTAWA, ON, Nov. 18, 2023 /CNW/ – Kablusiak is the grand winner of the $100,000 2023 Sobey Art Award, Canada’s preeminent prize for contemporary visual arts. The announcement was made this evening by 2022 Sobey Art Award […]
The Vancouver Art Gallery envisions a future program and collection for the 21st century
Hyung-Min Yoon, The Doors, 2016, inkjet print on plastic film, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Partial gift and partial purchase with proceeds from the Audain Emerging Artists Acquisition Fund.
VANCOUVER
.- On December 12, the Vancouver Art Gallery opens its new exhibition, Where do we go from here?, which proposes to think critically about the role of both art and institutionssuch as galleries and museumsin the process of producing narratives about the past, present and future.
Acting on the Vancouver Art Gallerys statement in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement this summer, Where do we go from here? developed as an opportunity to consider the Gallerys own collecting and exhibition history. Reflecting on the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Gallery in 1931, this exhibition both acknowledges the under representation of African diasporic artists in our col