Kelly Wood
Continuous Garbage Project 1998-2003

Marking the completion of a long project, this exhibition was the first opportunity to view Kelly Wood’s The Continuous Garbage Project in its entirety.

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Various Properties

Curated by Heather Bjorgan, Alice Edwards, Katie Spicer and Kiriko Watanabe, the inaugural exhibition of the Critical Curatorial Studies graduate program presented recent acquisitions to the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery permanent collection.

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Rebecca Belmore

Co-curated by Charlotte Townsend-Gault and Scott Watson, the exhibition featured new installation, video and photographic work created over the summer during a residency at the Belkin Satellite.

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Dogwood
UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

An excellent opportunity to view the work of five emerging artists whose practices explore the mediums of painting, photography, video and installation: Sean Alward, Gavin Hipkins, Tim Lee, Natasha McHardy, Ann Shelton. An illustrated catalogue is available.

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The Art of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

Co-curated by Scott Watson, Director of the Belkin Gallery; Zheng Sheng Tian, Independent Scholar and Artist, Delta, BC; and Yan Shan Chen, Senior Researcher of Art at the Shenzhen Art Academy, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China, this exhibition features the propaganda arts and rare materials of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. 1966-1976.

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Andrea Fraser
Exhibition

Canada’s first exhibition of work by New York artist Andrea Fraser. The exhibition focuses on recent and new performance-based video works and includes Official Welcome performed at the opening reception and realized into video for the exhibition.

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Conception
The Conceptual Document 1968-1972

Curated by Catherine Moseley, this touring exhibition originated at the Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art and Design in England and focused on the key years of the development of Conceptual Art, now recognized as one of the one of the most critical developments in the globalization of contemporary art.

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From Sierra Maestra to la Habana
The Drawings of Chago

Presenting 40 drawings by Santiago “Chago” Armada (1937—1995), a Cuban artist who first came to prominence as the official cartoonist of the revolutionary forces at Sierra Maestra and then as a soldier who served in several battles. These experiences as well as his later criticism “from within the Revolution” have made Chago a greatly revered figure among succeeding generations of Cuban artists

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Present
UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

An excellent opportunity to view an exciting, new generation of artists, working in media such as printmaking, drawing, installation and painting; featuring the work of Sylvia Grace Borda, Keith Langergraber, Daphne Locke and Misa Nikolic.

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Recent Acquisitions to the Collection

A three-part exhibition of works acquired and donated to the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery permanent collection including: Mr. Peanut Mayoralty Campaign, 1974; In the Spirit of Fluxus; and Henri Chopin and Brion Gysin.

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Stephen Andrews
Likeness

Recent work as well as encaustic drawings and bookworks from the late 1980s and 1990s by Toronto artist Stephen Andrews. Guest curated by Annette Hurtig.

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Peter Doig

The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is proud to present the first exhibition in Canada of paintings by leading British artist Peter Doig. Organized by Kitty Scott, Acting Associate Curator, National Gallery of Canada, this exhibition features a selection of major landscape paintings produced during the 1990s-2000. These paintings are loaned from public and private collections in Europe and North America.

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Marcel Dzama
More Famous Drawings

The drawings of Winnipeg artist Marcel Dzama contain quirky characters inspired from sources as diverse as The Wizard of Oz, Captain America, Beatrix Potter, science textbooks, porn magazines, television cartoons and the bizarre in all times.

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UBC Masters of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

Heidi May, Cheryl Larson, Evan Lee and Mohamed Somani

Featuring the work of Cheryl Larson, Evan Lee, Heidi May and Mohamed Somani.

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Quartet for the Year 4698 or 5760
Improvisation for 4 Film Projectors

Vancouver interdisciplinary artist Laiwan collaborates with virtuoso bass clarinetist Lori Freedman from Winnipeg to premiere this multimedia artwork. Playing on the idea of millennial year (4698 and 5760 are the Chinese and Jewish years respectively for 2000) Quartet uses 16mm film, music improvisation, live performance, sculptural installation, computer media and the internet. It is a celebration of our improvisational musical body, spontaneous time and space, and the presences/absences of cultural histories within a critique of the limitations of machines.

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