Esther Shalev-Gerz (née Gilinksy) was born in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1948. Her family moved to Jerusalem in 1957, where she graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. Since 1984, she shares her time between Paris and Cortes Island, BC. Internationally recognized for her significant contributions in the field of public art, photography and video, Shalev-Gerz investigates questions of memory, history, trauma, cultural identity and ethics in the contemporary world through her practice. Working in multiple media, from photographs and video installations to large-scale public commissions that merge architecture with landscape design, Shalev-Gerz’s monuments, installations and public sculptures are developed through active dialogue and consultation with people whose participation provides an emphasis on their individual and collective memories, accounts, opinions and experiences. In 2010 and 2012, two major retrospective exhibitions respectively displayed ten and fifteen of her installations, first in Jeu de Paume, Paris then in Musée des Beaux Arts de Lausanne. Space Between Time, her solo exhibition at Wasserman Projects, Detroit presented nine of her installations between April and July 2016. In 2017, a survey exhibition of her work was presented at the Serlachius Museum, Mantta, Finland. She has exhibited internationally in, amongst other places, San Francisco, Paris, Berlin, London, Stockholm, Vancouver, Geneva, Guangzhou and New York. From the beginning of her career with landmark monuments such as Oil on Stone (1983) and The Monument Against Fascism (1986), Shalev-Gerz has designed and realized permanent installations in public space in Hamburg, Israel, Stockholm, Wanas, Geneva, Glasgow and now Vancouver. Her work has been represented in over twenty-five monographs. For more information about the artist, visit www.shalev-gerz.net

Ian Wallace was born in Shoreham, England in 1943.  After completing his studies at the University of British Columbia and graduating with a Master’s Degree in Art History, he taught art history at UBC from 1967 to 1970 and at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design from 1972 to 1998. Wallace has been active in the creation, promotion and appreciation of innovative processes in contemporary art practice through writing, teaching and exhibiting his work.  Wallace has been an influential figure in the development of an internationally acknowledged photographic and conceptual art practice in Vancouver. Ian Wallace is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver; Hauser & Wirth, London, New York and Zurich; Jessica Silverman, San Francisco; and Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels. In 2004 he was the recipient of the Governor General’s Award for the Visual Arts and in 2013 appointed Officer of the Order of Canada. (2018)