Vanessa Kwan

Vanessa Kwan is an artist, writer, and curator based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.[1]

Background

Curatorial

Kwan's curatorial work includes positions held at the Richmond Art Gallery, British Columbia,[2] grunt gallery, Vancouver and the Vancouver Art Gallery. According to Kwan, her role as a curator often "consists of producing artist projects that engage with the community, are site-specific, and are generally not situated inside the gallery."[3] Kwan elaborates that she interested in "art practices that are not focused solely on the gallery, but might be produced elsewhere."[3]

Kwan is a member of Other Sights for Artist's Projects, a public art collective in Vancouver.

In addition to these artistic and curatorial activities, Kwan works closely with Vancouver-based artists, Hannah Jickling and Helen Reed on Big Rock Candy Mountain,[4] a project initiated in early 2015.[2]

Artistic Practice

Recently, Kwan created Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver, a public art work for the 2010 Winter Olympics.[5]

In 2013, Kwan created an interactive piece entitled Everything Between Open and Closed, a work that was temporarily sited at the Bob Prittie Burnaby Public Library as a part of its KIOSK event. For that project, the artist occupied the kiosk for two weeks creating signs that were posted on the walls of the kiosk, as a means of interacting with the community space.[6]

Residencies

In 2017, Kwan completed a post residency in Visual + Digital Arts at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Calgary, and received the Post Residency Award from the Banff Centre for Residency.[7]

gollark: yes, that is a problem.
gollark: The product of ALL happiness? This would result in a moral imperative to maximize the number of people as long as they are just barely at nonnegative happiness.
gollark: The secret service immediately explodes.
gollark: Imagine making software for people.
gollark: Can you just run all the UI stuff in one thread somehow?

References
  1. "New public art works that engage the senses coming to Vancouver". Vancouver Sun. 2017-12-20. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  2. "Something about Love | Richmond Art Gallery | Richmond, BC, Canada". www.richmondartgallery.org. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
  3. Argueta, Fiorela (2018). "A Conversation With A Curator". CiTR Discorder Magazine. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
  4. "Home". bigrockcandymountain.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  5. "Geyser for Hillcrest Park makes invisible water systems visible—and playful". Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  6. "KIOSK". www.burnaby.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  7. "Post Residency Award". banffcentre.ca. 9 March 2018.
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