AA Bronson
The Quick and the Dead

AA Bronson’s first solo exhibition in Canada since the demise of General Idea, The Quick & The Dead, brought together significant early and recent works that meditate on life, death and individuality.

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Thrown
Influences and Intentions of West Coast Ceramics

This exhibition presented over 700 ceramics produced since the 1960s that were influenced by the studio pottery movement of Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada.

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3×3
Flavin, Andre, Judd

An exhibition of works by Carl Andre, Dan Flavin and Donald Judd organised and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada / Organisée et mise en tournée par le Musée des beaux-arts du Canada; featuring archival materials, sketches and three major pieces by each artist.

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Belkin Invitational
UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

Jerry Allen, Dick Averns, Christine D'Onofrio and Jennifer Pickering.

This exhibition marked the graduation of four artists from the MFA in Visual Art program at the University of British Columbia: Jerry Allen, Dick Averns, Christine D’Onofrio, and Jennifer Pickering.

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Here and There
Works from the Collection

A summer exhibition featuring works recently acquired or donated to the permanent collection, including Kate Craig’s Flying Leopard Costume (c. late 1960s), Andrea Fraser’s Official Welcome (2002) and AA Breakfast (1995) by Wolfgang Tillmans.

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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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