Vancouver’s newest art fair will be the inspiration for a discussion on the nurturing of arts ecologies. Check back soon for more details!

Join us for the splash opening of the second iteration of COMBINE Art Fair with Lisa Baldissera (Griffin Art Projects), Tobin Gibson (UNIT 17), Wil Aballe (WAAP), Monica Reyes (Monica Reyes Gallery) and special guest gallerist, Montreal-based Hugues Charbonneau (Galerie Hugues Charbonneau) as we celebrate another art fair season.

This set of powerful and moving short films that reimagines histories and diasporic futures, marks the end of the ReMIX History public program series. A special Q+A with selected directors will follow the screening.

Join the recipient of the Griffin Art Projects Emily Carr University Education and Outreach Fellowship Award, Lacey Jane Wilburn, to learn what she has been up to through her time at Griffin!

Join the recipients of the Paris - Vancouver curatorial research residencies in person as they introduce their research and works in progress as situated practices of care and kinship.

Join the 2022 France/Canada Curatorial Residency Program awardee, Clelia Coussonnet, to learn what she has been up to through her time at Griffin!

Accompanying Stan Douglas: Allegories of the Present at Griffin Art Projects, ReMIX History is a public program series including film screenings, conversations with curators and panels with artists and musicians.

Griffin Art Projects’ Director, Lisa Baldissera will present a live virtual curator’s tour of Griffin’s current exhibition, Stan Douglas: Allegories of the Present, followed by a Q+A period.

This event celebrates the public launch of Wetland Project: Explorations in Sound, Ecology and Post-Geographical Art, an artists’ book produced by Brady Marks and Mark Timmings.

Accompanying Stan Douglas: Allegories of the Present at Griffin Art Projects, ReMIX History is a public program series including film screenings, conversations with curators and panels with artists and musicians.

Griffin Art Projects’ Adjunct Curator, Dr. Karen Tam, and The Polygon Gallery’s TD Curatorial Fellow, Oluwasayo Olowo-Ake, will co-host an engaging panel discussion with artists and musicians to explore migration, sound and place. The conversation will delve into acoustic mappings of history, the land and waters, sonic architecture, and the impact that migrations have had on the creation of diasporic and border-crossing sounds and music.

Join us for a hybrid Montreal-Vancouver Curator Talk online and in-person!

Join artist James Harry for a talk about his most recent piece for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in collaboration with SOS Children’s Village BC. Harry is of Squamish (Swxwú7meshḵ) and European descent and is the recipient of the 2022 Griffin Art Projects Indigenous Studio Award. With Q&A led by Indigenous Curatorial Assistant, Emmett Hanly.

Accompanying Stan Douglas: Allegories of the Present at Griffin Art Projects, ReMIX History is a public program series including film screenings, conversations with curators and panels with artists and musicians.

Join the recipient of the Griffin Art Projects Indigenous Studio Art Award, James Harry, to learn what he has been up to through his time at Griffin!

Join the recipient of the Griffin Art Projects Annual Emily Carr University Studio Residency Award, Kyla Gilbert, to learn what she has been up to through her time at Griffin!

Join the recipient of Griffin’s BIPOC Studio Art Award, Parvin Peivandi, to learn more about what she has been up to throughout her time at Griffin Art Projects!

Parvin Peivandi is an artist who makes art across disciplines including sculpture, ceramics, painting, drawing, performance, installations, and community art projects. Born and raised in Iran of Kurdish descent, Peivandi makes art influenced by Western Minimalism and Iranian literature and architecture. By deconstructing the architectural elements and juxtaposing conventional and unconventional materials together, she explores the spaces of personal and public narratives, memories of the place and the dynamics of social/political systems.

Karen Zalamea (she/her) is a Filipino-Canadian artist, educator, and cultural worker based in Vancouver, Canada, the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəyə̓ m (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Zalamea’s interdisciplinary practice is rooted in photography and critically considers methodologies, materiality, and modes of presentation. Her research centres on the camera mediated relationship between body and space, as well as the material and representational potential of the photographic surface.

After the From the Eye Straight Down to the Soul panel discussion, join us for Chats & Chews, an informal post-conference discussion. Bring an appetizer and/or a drink, and join us in conversation to unpack the ideas sparked during the panel discussion. Initially conceived as part of the Whose Chinatown? virtual conference, Chats & Chews are intended as informal mingling sessions for community members to connect and come together to explore the themes discussed in the previous panel over casual conversation, virtual drinks and snacks.

Join Griffin Art Projects’ adjunct curator, Dr. Karen Tam and special guests for an engaging panel discussion focused on art collecting. Drawing on themes explored in Griffin’s current exhibition, Per Diem: The Gerd Metzdorff Collection, this panel explores how collecting art begins, how collections evolve over time and the relationships that develop between artists and collectors.

Aggie is a feature-length documentary that explores the nexus of art, race, and justice through the story of art collector and philanthropist Agnes “Aggie” Gund’s life. Emmy-nominated director Catherine Gund focuses on her mother’s journey to give viewers an understanding of the power of art to transform consciousness and inspire social change. Aggie is internationally recognized for her robust and prescient support of artists–particularly women and people of colour–and her unwavering commitment to social justice issues. The film opens with Aggie selling Roy Lichtenstein’s “Masterpiece” for $165 million to start the Art for Justice Fund. The proceeds from one of the highest grossing artworks ever sold fuel a monumental effort to reform the American criminal justice system and end mass incarceration. The film captures Aggie as a true maverick, who demonstrates the unique role and potential of collectors and benefactors to use art to fight injustice. This is untapped terrain, and we see Aggie leading the way.

Join Griffin’s artist-in-residence Shoora Majedian to learn more about what she has been up to throughout her time at Griffin Art Projects!

Shoora Majedian received her MFA at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She received a Post-bacc in Painting and Drawing from SAIC in Chicago and MA from Tehran University. Shoora has participated in national and international exhibitions in Tehran, Chicago, Toronto, and Vancouver.

Originally from El Salvador, Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo's areas of research and art production are concerned with issues of collective memory, historical trauma, migration and identity explored through multimedia approaches to drawing, which involve printmaking, stop-motion animation and installation work. His art process is an intuitive construction of memory as a form of personal myth-making that casts political expressions, voices modes of resistance, and most recently speaks to a process of reconciliation, repair and healing. He has exhibited extensively across Canada and internationally, attended art residencies and received multiple awards/grants/fellowships from the Canada Arts Council, the City of Vancouver, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Santa Fe Art Institute among others. A former resident of Montréal, he lives in Vancouver where he currently teaches at Emily Carr University.

50 works of art to 50 states. 2500 extraordinary gifts from one ordinary couple.

A follow up to award-winning documentary ‘Herb & Dorothy’, the film captures an ordinary couple’s extraordinary gift of art to the nation as they close the door on their life as collectors. When Herb and Dorothy Vogel, a retired postal clerk and librarian, began collecting works of contemporary art in the 1960s, they never imagined it would outgrow their one bedroom Manhattan apartment and spread throughout America. 50 years later, the collection is nearly 5,000 pieces and worth millions. Refusing to sell, the couple launches an unprecedented gift project giving artworks to one museum in all 50 states. The film journeys around the country with the Vogels, meeting artists who are famous or unknown, often controversial, striking today’s society with questions about art and its survival.

Join Griffin Art Projects and The Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver in conversation with collectors Grant Mann and David Birdsall for a virtual discussion revolving around the collection of Gerd Metzdorff. Building on one of Griffin Art Project’s mandates to make privately held art collections accessible to the public, this ongoing series is presented in partnership with the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver.

Featuring the stories of extraordinary art collectors, the Vogels and Agnes Gund, these three documentaries will inspire you to consider how anyone can appreciate, love and buy art, no matter your background. And that there is more than one way to be an art collector.

Join Griffin Art Projects’ Director, Lisa Baldissera for a live virtual curator’s tour of Griffin’s current exhibition, Per Diem: The Gerd Metzdorff Collection.

Lisa Baldissera has worked as an independent curator, consultant and writer, and in curatorial roles in public art galleries in Western Canada since 1999, including Senior Curator at Contemporary Calgary (2014-16) and Chief Curator at the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon (2012-14).

Aileen Bahmanipour is an Iranian-Canadian visual artist and currently is living and working on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) people. She has received her BFA in Painting from the Art University of Tehran and MFA in Visual arts from the University of British Columbia. Bahmanipour has exhibited her work in a body of solo and group exhibitions internationally as well as in Canada, including her solo and group exhibitions at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Vancouver’s grunt gallery, and Two Rivers Gallery. She is the recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant in 2017, Early Career Development grant from BC Arts Council in 2019, Canada Council for the Arts and BC Arts Council’s grant in 2021.

Bill Burns’ work about advanced industrialism, donkeys, goat’s milk, salt, safety gear, and honey bees has been shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Mendes Wood Gallery, Sao Paulo; 303 Gallery, New York; the Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.He has published artists’ books with publishers in Canada, Germany, USA, UK, Austria, and Denmark. His most recent titles include A Book About the Power 100, published by Verlag Mark Pezinger, Vienna (2018) and Hans Ulrich Obrist Hear Us, published by YYZ BOOKS and Black Dog Publishing, London, UK (2016). His artists’ editions are included in collections at Tate Britain, London, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Getty Center, Los Angeles. Mr Burns is also Artistic Director of the Dogs and Boats and Airplanes Experimental Children’s Choir. The choir has produced live performances and audio works at festivals in Australia, Argentina, the UK and Canada.

Join artist Esteban Pérez for a virtual artist talk, hosted live over Zoom, to learn more about his practice as well as his experience as the inaugural artist in residence at the Similkameen residency, an off site residency located in BC’s interior.

“During the residency, I want to focus my time-space on two ideas: noise as time; and reversibility of time. For both ideas, I am interested in deconstructing sound and video within a given space in order to create an evolving sensorial landscape. I want to explore sonic and video mapping to question rigid geometries of time and space” - Esteban Pérez