Visit Emerging Indigenous Studio Award winner Cody Tolmie in person to celebrate the work and research of his residency. Drop in for a casual chat between 12 and 5 PM.

Tune in online to hear what Emerging Indigenous Studio Award winner Cody Tolmie has been up to during his time at Griffin!

We are pleased present: mini-conference, Arcs and Orbits: Art, Relationality and Innovation on site at Griffin Art Projects!

Join curators Lisa Baldissera and David MacWilliam for a hybrid (in person and online via Zoom) exhibition tour of Intersecting Orbits: Michael Morris and Joan Balzar. 

Drop by Griffin’s residency space to see what Indigenous Studio Award resident Rolande Souliere has been up to during her time at Griffin.

Tune in online to hear what Indigenous Studio Award resident Rolande Souliere has been up to during her time at Griffin!

For our concluding event, join us at Delany’s Coffeehouse to collectively explore the vibrant coffeehouse culture in Palestine. Together, we will engage in an informal conversation about the potentialities of cultural workers in the context of extreme conditions.

Join us in person for the opening reception of Intersecting Orbits: Michael Morris and Joan Balzar with collectors Rahmi Emin and Shawn Macmillan.

For the second event, join Elham Puriya Mehr in conversation with Viviana Checchia, the director of Derry Void, Ireland. This talk will focus on curatorial conviviality and how that can be explored through various formats and devices. Conviviality will be considered here as a condition for social interactions, specifically those connected with hospitality. The talk will share a variety of practical examples though focus principally on Vessel Art Project. Vessel’s practice will be explained and unpacked as embedded in an ongoing act of hosting and being hosted manifesting itself through public programming, commissioning and writing.

For the first event, we invite you to a curator talk by Elham Puriya Mehr, an independent curator based in Vancouver. Elham will present her video titled ‘The Third Space: The Affective Atmosphere of Coffeehouses,’ in which she unravels the intricate layers, affective atmosphere, and specters of the coffeehouse as a ‘third space.’

Join us in person for the opening reception of Imagined Observations.

As part of this year’s COMBINE Art Fair, this virtual roundtable brings the founders of the Art Fair—Monica Reyes Gallery, Unit 17 and WAAP (Wil Aballe Arts Projects)—together with an invited gallerist to speak on the importance of gallery-led collaboration within the Canadian arts ecology and to feature highlights from the fair!

Join us for a hybrid Curator’s Tour with Griffin Art Projects director and curator Lisa Baldissera and visit our residency Open Studios to celebrate the work and research of 2023 Paris-Vancouver Program Resident, Anne Bourrassé, and Griffin x ECU Fellowship Recipient, Maru Aponte! Drop in for a casual chat with the residents between 12 and 5 PM. 

Join us online to hear what the 2023 Paris/Vancouver Curatorial Residency Program Resident, Anne Bourassé, has been up to during her time at Griffin.

Join us online to hear what the recipient of the Griffin x ECU Fellowship Studio Award, Maru Aponte, has been up to during her time at Griffin.

This ongoing series builds on one of Griffin Art Project’s mandates: to make privately held art collections accessible to the public. Join us in person at Griffin Art Projects as Jeffrey Boone, collector and UBC MA candidate in Critical Curatorial Studies, and Glenn Alteen, curator and writer, discuss the embodied relations of art collections.

Join us for a pre-recorded talk by the inaugural recipient of the Emerging Indigenous Artist Studio Award, Miriam Berndt and collaborator, Musqueam Artist, Grace Ulu discussing land-based practices, unveiling family histories, and reconciling stories from their nuanced matrilineal heritage.

If you have always wanted to know how to start an art collection, join us at Griffin Art Projects for COMBINATIONS, an in-person social event for emerging collectors with gallerist Wil Aballe (Wil Aballe Art Projects)!

Join us in-person for a dynamic multi-event reception for SHIFT: Ecologies of Fashion, Form and Textile.

Join us in-person at Griffin Art Projects on Sunday, August 27 for a multi-event celebration to close the summer! From 12 - 2 PM, Griffin will host a reception for Per Diem: The Gerd Metzdorff Collection, a lushly illustrated full-colour publication featuring Canadian and international artists from Metzdorff’s stunning collection. Refreshment, food and remarks from Grant Mann and David Birdsall will celebrate the Metzdorff collection along with artists featured in the publication. At 2:30 PM, the final exhibition tour with Emmett Hanly will provide the inside scoop on this enigmatic collector’s choices. And from 12 - 5 PM, Griffin will also host Open Studios with artists Jaewoo Kang, ECU x Griffin Graduate Studio Award Winner Marion Landry, and August Curator-in-Residence, Bernard Liebov.

Join curator Bernard Leibov to hear about the curatorial process behind BoxoPROJECTS residencies, the Joshua Treenial and the interaction between the two!

Join Griffin Art Projects’ Indigenous Curatorial Assistant, Emmett Hanly, for a series of guided tours of Griffin’s current exhibition, Per Diem Part II: The Gerd Metzdorff Collection, on Sunday afternoons at 2:30PM throughout the season! 

Join the recipient of the Griffin x Emily Carr University Studio Award, Marion Landry, live over zoom to learn about her practice and what she has been up to during her time at Griffin.

Join Griffin Art Projects’ Indigenous Curatorial Assistant, Emmett Hanly, for a series of guided tours of Griffin’s current exhibition, Per Diem Part II: The Gerd Metzdorff Collection, on Sunday afternoons at 2:30PM throughout the season! 

Join Griffin Art Projects’ Indigenous Curatorial Assistant, Emmett Hanly, for a series of guided tours of Griffin’s current exhibition, Per Diem Part II: The Gerd Metzdorff Collection, on Sunday afternoons at 2:30PM throughout the season! 

Join Griffin Art Projects’ Indigenous Curatorial Assistant, Emmett Hanly, for a series of guided tours of Griffin’s current exhibition, Per Diem Part II: The Gerd Metzdorff Collection, on Sunday afternoons at 2:30PM throughout the season! 

Join us online to hear from artist and curator, Su Ying Strang, about her work in the arts and past curatorial projects including the archival exhibition and research lab Pulling Back the Paper (The New Gallery, 2021).

Su Ying Strang (she/her) is an artist and cultural worker based in Sikohkotoki on the traditional territories of the Siksikaitsitapi. Su Ying joined the Southern Alberta Art Gallery Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin in 2021 as the Gallery’s executive director, and previously served as director of The New Gallery in Mohkinstsis (2012–2021). She received a BFA from the Alberta University of the Arts (2010), has completed the Rozsa Arts Management Program (2016) and Banff Centre’s Cultural Leadership Program (2017), and was a fellow of the Salzburg Global Forum for Young Cultural Innovators (2020). Su Ying’s work in the arts is informed by an artist-centered and community-driven ethos, prioritizing thoughtful stewardship of artistic practices and accessibility to programming for audiences.