Roy Arden (Canadian, b. 1957) is a Vancouver artist working in diverse media that includes photography, video, sculpture and collage. Arden studied at the Vancouver School of Art and the University of British Columbia and has been active as an exhibiting artist since the late 1970s. His archival works of the 1980s examined the nature of the photographic and questioned its role in the construction of history. Arden has had solo exhibitions at the Ikon Gallery and the Vancouver Art Gallery; his work has been included in exhibitions at Kunstmuseum Basel and the Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp. His work is in the permanent collections of major international museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Stedeljik Museum, Amsterdam. In addition to his work as an artist, Arden has taught, curated and published critical texts.

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).