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Polyphony - Master of Fine Arts 2019 Interim Exhibition
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Michael O'Brian Exhibition Commons, 2nd Floor
Opening Reception | March 22, 7-9pm
The Jake Kerr Faculty of Graduate Studies is pleased to present the Graduate Studies Interim Exhibition. Candidates from the Master of Fine Arts 2019 cohort will present their ongoing thesis research over the course of two days, March 20 + 27.
Crit Schedule:
Tuesday, March 20th
Guest: Melanie O’Brian, Director, SFU Galleries
9:30 - Emelina Soares
10:00 - Russna Somal
break
10:45 - Robin Gleason
11:15 - Marie-Pascale Lafreniere
lunch
1:00 - Keith Spencer
1:30 - Yijun Guo
break
2:15 - Mara Brashem
2:45 - Jennifer O’Keeffe-Almond
Melanie O’Brian is SFU Galleries Director/Curator.
Previously she was Curator at The Power Plant Contemporary Art
Gallery, Director/Curator at Artspeak and as Assistant Curator
at the Vancouver Art Gallery. She has curated over 60
exhibitions, edited over 15 publications since 2000, and holds
an MA in Art History from the University of Chicago.
Tuesday, March 27th
Guest: Candice Hopkins, Curator
9:30 - Sara-Jeanne Bourget
10:00 - Bob Jeffreys
break
10:45 - Teo Monsalve
11:15 - Sarah Ma
lunch
1:00 - Aaniya Asrani
1:30 - Dream Zhang
2:00 - Fadwa Bouziane - performance
break
3:00 - Fadwa Bouziane
Candice Hopkins is a curator and writer
originally from Whitehorse, Yukon. She is co-curator of the
forthcoming SITE Santa Fe biennial, Casa Tomada, opening in
August, 2018 and was a part of the curatorial team for documenta
14 in Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany. She is co-curator of
major exhibitions including Sakahàn: International Indigenous
Art, Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years, and the 2014 SITElines
biennial, Unsettled Landscapes in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her
writing is published widely and her recent essays and
presentations include “Outlawed Social Life” for South as a State
of Mind and Sounding the Margins: A Choir of Minor Voices at Small
Projects, Tromsø, Norway. She has lectured internationally
including at the Witte de With, Tate Modern, Dak’Art Biennale,
Artists Space, Tate Britain and the University of British
Columbia. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the
Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence in
Contemporary Art and the 2016 the Prix pour un essai critique sur
l’art contemporain by the Foundation Prince Pierre de Monaco. She
is a citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation.
Candice will be giving a talk in Rennie Hall on Monday,
March 26th at 11:30am, hosted by Graduate Studies and the Aboriginal
Gathering Place - all are welcome to attend.