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Rodney Graham’s works humourously consider notions of doubling and historical modes of self-representation. Graham is part of a generation of Vancouver artists, including Ken Lum, Roy Arden, Stan Douglas and also Ian Wallace and Jeff Wall, with whom he played with in the punk band U-J3RK5. These artists established the …
Whereas modernist-era painting was rigidly fixed to the idea that a presentation of an image should stay as true to the authentic …
The work of the Brazilian artist Marepe has evolved from a deep connection with the local traditions, customs, and materials of Bahia, …
Broomberg & Chanarin approach photography as a form of conceptual ethnography. Much of their work has been concerned with the gathering of …
Park Seo-Bo’s works reflect 50 years of exploring the role of the artist as a channel through which energy manifests itself in …
Trained as a miniature painter in Lahore, Pakistan, Ambreen Butt uses the dramatic imagery and storytelling from her native country’s traditional art …
With an emphasis on repetition, formal perfection and materiality, Liza Lou’s sculptures and environments thrive on the tension between the apparent impossibility …
Katharina Grosse’s approach to painting is not limited by the traditional rectilinear proportions of the canvas or even the architectural margins of …
Howard Hodgkin’S work comes directly out of the French tradition known as Intimism, which coincides with the rise of middle class life …
Before the late ‘60s most women artists, struggling to participate in the male-dominated art world, had overwhelming disincentives to put feminist meanings …
Returning in Athens from a few years in London, Sofia Stevi co-founded Fokidos 21, an artist-led project space in Athens and began …
David Reed has contributed as much in terms of expanding the vocabulary of abstract painting. With a rare combination of technical virtuosity, …
Issued by President Franklin Roosevelt on 19/2/42, the Executive Order 9066, authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national …
The work of James Coleman over the last 40 years has transformed the role of image and sound in visual art, and …
For decades, Pierrette Bloch has streaked, dripped, and blotted ink on paper or masonite*. Occasionally she would collage maculated scraps together, or …
Lee Bul is considered one of the foremost women artists from Asia to emerge in the international art scene in the ‘90s. …
Since the early ‘70s, Marina Abramovic has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form, exploring her physical and emotional …
In his practice, Shadi Habib Allah is interested opening up suggestive modes of navigation across circulation networks of people, technologies, objects, images …
Sonny Assu has been raised as an everyday average suburban white-kid by his grandparents, it wasn’t until he was eight years old …
Born in Iraqi Kurdistan, Walid Siti lived in the former Yugoslavia before seeking political asylum in London during increasing aggression against those …
The group exhibition “Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone”, takes its title from a 1994 book by science fiction writer Ian McDonald. In …
Roy Colmer was a painter, photographer, graphic designer and video & film artist. One of his well-known projects is “Doors, NYC”, From …
Kader Attia was born in France and spent his childhood between France and Algeria. The more he grew up, the more he …
Featuring over fifteen large-scale works on paper the exhibition “Pour Paintings” highlights the exuberant invention and uncommon beauty underlying Sigmar Polke’s work. …
