Tim Lee is an artist based in Vancouver. A graduate of the MFA program at the University of British Columbia, his work is represented in museum collections worldwide. Recent exhibitions include New Work/New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art (New York), Intertidal, MuHKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst (Antwerpen, Belgium), Sliding Doors, Tate Modern (London), and Appearances, Musée d’art contemporain (Montréal). Upcoming exhibitions include solo shows at Presentation House Gallery (North Vancouver), CCA Wattis Institute (San Francisco), and the Contemporary Art Museum, (Houston), as well as the Sydney Biennale. He is represented by Cohan & Leslie (New York), Johnen & Schöttle (Cologne), Tracey Lawrence Gallery (Vancouver), and Lisson Gallery (London). (2008)
Alex Morrison’s work has been featured widely in group exhibitions across North America and Europe, as well solo exhibitions at Mercer Union (Toronto), the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), Buro Fredrich (Berlin), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin) and Frankfurter Kunstverein (Frankfurt). Morrison is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery in Vancouver. (2008)
Isabelle Pauwels is a graduate of the M.F.A. program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Los Angeles and Chigago, and at Mercer Union (Toronto), the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), the Or Gallery (Vancouver). Her work will be in forthcoming exhibitions at Signal Gallery (Sweden) and Artspeak (Vancouver). She is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery in Vancouver. In 2007 Pauwels was honoured with a VIVA award from the Jack and Dorris Shadbolt Foundation. (2008)
Since graduating from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1997, Kevin Schmidt has received considerable recognition as an important emerging artist. Select recent exhibitions include Presentation House Gallery (North Vancouver), Frankfurter Kunstverein (Frankfurt), ZierherSmith (New York), Edmonton Art Gallery (Edmonton), Blackwood Gallery (Mississauga), McKenzie Art Gallery (Regina), Fruitmarket Gallery (Edinburgh), and the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver). Schmidt is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery in Vancouver. (2008)
Mark Soo is an artist and curator based in Vancouver. Since graduating from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2001, his work has been shown in exhibitions in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, New York, Brisbane, Melbourne and Manchester. In 2004 Soo was the recipient of the Vancouver Foundation’s VADA Award, and in 2007 he received a British Columbia Arts Council Visual Arts Award. (2008)
Vancouver artist Corin Sworn’s current body of work examines experimental philosophies of early childhood and particularly child-centered education. She completed a BFA at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2002, and is pursing a MFA at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. Sworn has exhibited widely across Europe and North America, with exhibitions at Gasworks (London), the Kunstverein Wolfsburg (Wolfsburg, Germany), in Vancouver with the Contemporary Art Gallery, the Or Gallery and Artspeak Artist-Run Centre, and ZieherSmith (New York), among others. (2008)
Althea Thauberger’s photographs, films, videos, and performances invite reflection on self-definition, alienation, community and coercion within ‘natural’ worlds, and actual or pretend social/political structures. Sometimes existing in the public domain, Thauberger’s works often involve short and long term collaborations with their subjects. Thauberger earned a BFA in photography at Concordia University in 2000, and a MFA in studio art at the University of Victoria in 2002. Since then, her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in North America, Europe and Asia. Thauberger currently lives and works in Vancouver and Berlin. (2008)
Scott Watson (Canadian, b. 1950) is Director of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the 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). (2018)
Elizabeth Zvonar is a Vancouver based artist. Since graduating from Emily Carr Institute in 2001, her work has been shown in local, national and international exhibitions, including at the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Cohan and Leslie Gallery, (New York), Western Front Gallery, (Vancouver), Queensland University of Technology, (Brisbane), Geisai, (Tokyo), and Consolidated Works, (Seattle), amongst others. (2008)
2008, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver
88 pages, b/w and colour, paperback
$25.00 CAD
ISBN 978-0-88865-795-4
Exhibition catalogue from the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (18 January-27 April 2008).
Texts by Juan A. Gaitán, Monika Szewczyk, Scott Watson.
Exponential Future
Tim Lee is an artist based in Vancouver. A graduate of the MFA program at the University of British Columbia, his work is represented in museum collections worldwide. Recent exhibitions include New Work/New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art (New York), Intertidal, MuHKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst (Antwerpen, Belgium), Sliding Doors, Tate Modern (London), and Appearances, Musée d’art contemporain (Montréal). Upcoming exhibitions include solo shows at Presentation House Gallery (North Vancouver), CCA Wattis Institute (San Francisco), and the Contemporary Art Museum, (Houston), as well as the Sydney Biennale. He is represented by Cohan & Leslie (New York), Johnen & Schöttle (Cologne), Tracey Lawrence Gallery (Vancouver), and Lisson Gallery (London). (2008)
Alex Morrison’s work has been featured widely in group exhibitions across North America and Europe, as well solo exhibitions at Mercer Union (Toronto), the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), Buro Fredrich (Berlin), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin) and Frankfurter Kunstverein (Frankfurt). Morrison is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery in Vancouver. (2008)
Isabelle Pauwels is a graduate of the M.F.A. program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Los Angeles and Chigago, and at Mercer Union (Toronto), the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), the Or Gallery (Vancouver). Her work will be in forthcoming exhibitions at Signal Gallery (Sweden) and Artspeak (Vancouver). She is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery in Vancouver. In 2007 Pauwels was honoured with a VIVA award from the Jack and Dorris Shadbolt Foundation. (2008)
Since graduating from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1997, Kevin Schmidt has received considerable recognition as an important emerging artist. Select recent exhibitions include Presentation House Gallery (North Vancouver), Frankfurter Kunstverein (Frankfurt), ZierherSmith (New York), Edmonton Art Gallery (Edmonton), Blackwood Gallery (Mississauga), McKenzie Art Gallery (Regina), Fruitmarket Gallery (Edinburgh), and the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver). Schmidt is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery in Vancouver. (2008)
Mark Soo is an artist and curator based in Vancouver. Since graduating from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2001, his work has been shown in exhibitions in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, New York, Brisbane, Melbourne and Manchester. In 2004 Soo was the recipient of the Vancouver Foundation’s VADA Award, and in 2007 he received a British Columbia Arts Council Visual Arts Award. (2008)
Vancouver artist Corin Sworn’s current body of work examines experimental philosophies of early childhood and particularly child-centered education. She completed a BFA at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2002, and is pursing a MFA at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. Sworn has exhibited widely across Europe and North America, with exhibitions at Gasworks (London), the Kunstverein Wolfsburg (Wolfsburg, Germany), in Vancouver with the Contemporary Art Gallery, the Or Gallery and Artspeak Artist-Run Centre, and ZieherSmith (New York), among others. (2008)
Althea Thauberger’s photographs, films, videos, and performances invite reflection on self-definition, alienation, community and coercion within ‘natural’ worlds, and actual or pretend social/political structures. Sometimes existing in the public domain, Thauberger’s works often involve short and long term collaborations with their subjects. Thauberger earned a BFA in photography at Concordia University in 2000, and a MFA in studio art at the University of Victoria in 2002. Since then, her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in North America, Europe and Asia. Thauberger currently lives and works in Vancouver and Berlin. (2008)
Scott Watson (Canadian, b. 1950) is Director of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the 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). (2018)
Elizabeth Zvonar is a Vancouver based artist. Since graduating from Emily Carr Institute in 2001, her work has been shown in local, national and international exhibitions, including at the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Cohan and Leslie Gallery, (New York), Western Front Gallery, (Vancouver), Queensland University of Technology, (Brisbane), Geisai, (Tokyo), and Consolidated Works, (Seattle), amongst others. (2008)