Since 1965, Ian Wallace (b. 1943, Shoreham, England; lives/works: Vancouver) has been active as an exhibiting artist, writer and educator. He has been an influential figure in the development of an internationally acknowledged photographic and conceptual approach to artistic practice. Wallace uses photography and painting to investigate the relationship between these and other media, with a focus on the production of narrative, cinematic, literary and otherwise. After graduating with an MA in Art History from the University of British Columbia, Wallace taught art history at the university from 1967 to 1970, and then at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design from 1972 to 1998. In 2014, he was awarded the Chevalier de L’Ordre des Artes et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. In 2013, Wallace was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada, and was honoured with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. In 2004, he was the recipient of the Governor General’s Award for the Visual Arts. Wallace has presented numerous international solo exhibitions, including at Greta Meert, Brussels (2022); Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (2021); Parra & Romero, Madrid (2019); the Rennie Collection at Wing Sang, Vancouver (2017); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2015); Vancouver Art Gallery (2012, 1988–9, 1979); The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2010); Kunsthalle Zurich, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, and Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf (2008); Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden (1995–1998). He has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Museum der Moderne, Salzburg (2022); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2022); Sprengel Museum Hannover (2021); Parra & Romero, Madrid (2020); Kunsthalle Wien (2018); Fondazione Prada, Milan (2015); CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2014); Vancouver Art Gallery (2012); Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin (2010); Generali Foundation, Vienna (2008); Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (2006); Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (2005); Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2004); Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1995); Museum of Modern Art, New York (1995); and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1991).

Scott Watson (Canadian, b. 1950) is Director Emeritus and Research Fellow at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia. A curator whose career has spanned more than thirty-five years, Watson is internationally recognized for his research and work in curatorial and exhibition studies, contemporary art and issues, and art theory and criticism. His distinctions include the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art (2010); the Alvin Balkind Award for Creative Curatorship in BC Arts (2008) and the UBC Dorothy Somerset Award for Performance Development in the Visual and Performing Arts (2005). Watson has published extensively in the areas of contemporary Canadian and international art. His 1990 monograph on Jack Shadbolt earned the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 1991. Recent publications include Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry (2015); Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and their Contemporaries (2011), a finalist for the 2012 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize; “Race, Wilderness, Territory and the Origins of the Modern Canadian Landscape” and “Disfigured Nature” (in Beyond Wilderness, McGill University Press, 2007); and “Transmission Difficulties: Vancouver Painting in the 1960s” (in Paint, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2006).