Curriculum Vitae
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Maraya, Museum of Vancouver
2011 Maraya, Centre A, Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver
2008 Napa North, Kelowna Art Gallery, Alternator Gallery (catalogue)
2008 Napa North, Penticton Art Gallery, BC
2004 Best Picture, New China Town Barber Shop, Los Angeles
2000 BLOOM! (Hong Kong: City of Life), Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
1999 Perfect Memory, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC
1998 The Wedding Album, Gallery Under Glass, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Burnaby, BC
1997 BOOM! (Leipzig Kommt!), MediaLab, Galerie Eigen+Art, Leipzig, Germany
1996 The Crowning, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (catalogue)
1993 Love Stories, Floating Gallery, Winnipeg
1992 Love Stories, Gallery 44, Toronto
In the Presence, Gallery OO, Halifax
Love Stories, OR Gallery, Vancouver (catalogue)
1988 (Chinese Pictures), Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver
1987 Victory Square, OR Gallery, Vancouver
(Chinese Pictures), The Other Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta
enGULFed, Eric Harvie Theatre, The Banff Centre
Group Exhibitions
2012 The 10th Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington (catalogue; received Award for Artistic Excellence for Napa North)
Art Dubai, Curated Special Projects, Dubai, UAE
Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility, Quinary Art Projects, Vancouver
Echoes of the Artist, Surrey Art Gallery
2010 Construction Sites, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC
2009 ImagiNation: New Cultural Topographies, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough, Ontario
2008 Heritage Complex, Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton, Ontario (catalogue)
ImagiNation: New Cultural Topographies, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa (catalogue)
2007 Exquisite Crisis & Encounters, Asian Pacific American Institute of New York University, New York
Ping-Pong, ACC Gallery Weimar, Weimar, Germany
Limits of Tolerance, Centre A, Vancouver
2006 Ciao da Vancouver: Portraits of a City, Velan Centre for Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy
Wrong Gallery: Edition #125, Lobby Gallery, Vancouver
Earth: World Urban Forum Festival, Vancouver
2005 Surrey: Past, Present & Future, Surrey Art Gallery
Those Who Teach, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver
2004 Drawing Life, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey (catalogue)
Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris (touring, catalogue)
Mutations<>Connections, Centre A, Vancouver
Faculty Show, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Vancouver
2003 Happy Beautiful Desirable, Track 16, Los Angeles (catalogue)
Creep: MFA Thesis Exhibition, University of California, Irvine
Young Photography: Multiple Expressions, UB Anderson Gallery, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Images as Projections, Warren Robbins Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Young Photography, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2002 Fellows’ Exhibition, Nieman Center, Columbia University, New York
The Projected Image: Visual to Political, J. Wayne Reitz Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville
Generica, University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine
2001 Facing History, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver (catalogue)
2000 On Location: Public Art for the New Millennium, Vancouver Art Gallery
Public: Untitled, Roundhouse Community Arts Centre, Vancouver
Download, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver
1998 Traditions, Imaginations and Independent Nations, National Gallery of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur (catalogue)
Home Base, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC (catalogue)
1997 Framed, Or Gallery, Vancouver
1996 wORk, Or Gallery, Vancouver
1995 Blue Shift, collaborative web project, http://www.netinterior.com/blue
World Tea Party, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, BC
1994 Racing Through Space, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver
Cultural Survival, The New Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
1993 Feng Shui, Locus + and On Edge Productions, All Saints Church, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England (catalogue)
Dual Cultures, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, B.C. (catalogue)
Personal Histories, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, B.C.
Vancouver Drawing: Working Documents, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver
1992 Faculty Show, Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver
1991 Goya to Beijing, Vancouver Art Gallery (tour)
Echoes After The Storm; Tiananmen Memorial Art Exhibition, Asian Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
5th Anniversary Exhibition, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver
1990 Yellow Peril: Reconsidered, On Edge Productions, Vancouver (tour: Montréal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Halifax, Vancouver, Ottawa; catalogue)
Young Contemporaries, London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario (tour: Mississauga, Fredericton, Halifax, London, ville de Gatineau, Sudbury; catalogue)
1989 The Vancouver Exchange, Cold City Gallery, Toronto
In Transition: Chinese Canadian Artists in Vancouver. Chinese Cultural Centre (catalogue)
Fear of Others: Art Against Racism, Arts in Action, The Roundhouse, Vancouver (catalogue)
Postscript, AMS Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
1988 Fear of Others: Art Against Racism, Arts in Action, Carnegie Centre, Vancouver (catalogue)
Inaugural Exhibition, Gallery T.O.O., Vancouver
1987 Artists Against Apartheid, Firehall Theatre, Vancouver
Natural Selection, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta
The Drawing Room, The Other Gallery, Banff
Public Art Projects & Commissions
2012 Artists Walking Home, Catherine Pulkinghorn/221A Artist Run Centre, Vancouver
2011 Digital Natives: Twitter format texts on electronic billboard, Burrard Street Bridge, Vancouver. Other Sites, Vancouver. www.digitalnatives.co. (catalogue)
Time-Based: 4 video mashups from the Maraya public art project on outdoor screens, as part of Summer Live, City of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary Celebrations at Stanley Park.
2000 The Mount Pleasant Golf & Country Club: collaborative interactive community public art project consisting of a 18-hole miniature golf course in three sites in central Vancouver; tournament, tours, prizes, web site. collective echoes public art collective, Vancouver. Semi-permanent. (catalogue)
1997 Welcome to the Land of Light, permanent commission. Concord Pacific Developments & City of Vancouver, Drake Street Plaza, Vancouver.
1992 Out of Place: site-specific installations using electronic message boards, print and television media. Association for Noncommercial Culture, Vancouver. Temporal (catalogue)
1991 Private Addresses: site-specific works outside private residences. Association for Noncommercial Culture, Vancouver. Temporal.
The Flyer Project: 16-page tabloid of artists’ works delivered to 30,000 residences. Association for Noncommercial Culture, Vancouver. Temporal.
Performance
2005 Pop Goes the Hood, with poet Fred Wah; Spatial Poetics, Powell Street Festival & Video In, Vancouver
1991 Shock Culture, with Gu Xiong, Western Front, Vancouver
1987 In Light of Sound, with David Hykes’ Harmonic Choir, Banff Centre, Banff
1986 Whizz-Bang, with Impossible Theatre, Banff Centre, Banff
Education
2001-03 M.F.A., University of California, Irvine
2002 The Projected Image: Visual to Political, National Graduate Seminar, The Photography Institute, Columbia University, New York
1991 The Problematics of Public Art, with Rosalyn Deutsche, Krzystof Wodiczko, Allan Sekula, Simon Fraser University Summer Intensive, Vancouver, Canada
1986 Art In Situ, with Daniel Buren, Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver
1985 Architectural Design Summer Intensive, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1982-86 B.F.A., University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Public Collections
Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada Council Art Bank, Surrey Art Gallery, Kamloops Art Gallery, Burnaby Art Gallery, Camosun College of Art, Victoria, BC, The Banff Centre for the Arts
Curatorial Projects
1997 CITY AT THE END OF TIME: Hong Kong 1997, with Scott Toguri McFarlane. International exhibition, symposium, poetry readings, web site, and publications on Hong Kong’s social and cultural identity. Artspeak, Access, Helen Pitt & Foto•Base Galleries, Vancouver Art Gallery, Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre. The Pomelo Project, Vancouver. (catalogue)
1995 Cross Currents: Invitational. National photographic exhibition, Nhan Duc Nguyen representing Pacific region. Gallery 44, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto.
1993 RACY SEXY, with Karin Lee, et al. National intercultural project with 33 artists in 9 community and cultural centres in Greater Vancouver. Visual art, film, video, theatre, dance, music, readings, and performance art on intersecting issues of race, culture, and sexuality. The Chinese Cultural Centre, Vancouver. (catalogue)
1991 SELF NOT WHOLE: Cultural Identity and Chinese-Canadian Artists in Vancouver, with Lorraine Chan. Visual arts exhibition, readings, performances, panel discussion, educators’ workshop. The Chinese Cultural Centre, Vancouver. Catalogue in English and Chinese. (catalogue)
Juries
2012 Operating and Project Grants: Visual Arts, Museums, Literary Organizations, City of Vancouver
2009 Canada Council Art Bank Purchase Program, Ottawa
Immigrant Services Society, New Faces of Vancouver photo exhibition
2007 Visual Arts Project Grants, The Canada Council, Ottawa
Visual Arts and Media Organizations Grants, City of Vancouver
2006 Hollybridge Public Art selection panel, 4Culture, City of Richmond
2002 Visual Arts Creation/Production Grants, Emerging, The Canada Council, Ottawa
2000 Artropolis, Vancouver
1999 Artist Live/Work Studios Residency & Rental Studio Awards, City of Vancouver
1997 Visual Arts Program Assistance & Annual Grants, Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg
1996 VIVA Award (Vancouver Institute for the Visual Arts/Shadbolt Foundation), Vancouver
Visual Arts Program Assistance & Annual Grants, Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg
Short-Term & Travel Grants, The Canada Council, Ottawa
1995 Water Department Portable Works Purchase Program, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle
Community Public Art Program, City of Vancouver
Canada/China Cultural Exchange Tour, Department of Canadian Heritage, Ottawa
Community Centre Artist-in-Residence Program, Vancouver Board of Parks & Recreation
1994 Major Arts Awards, Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg
Surrey Art Gallery Juried Art Show, Surrey, BC
Images and Objects X, BC Festival of the Arts, Assembly of BC Arts Councils (travelling juror)
1993 Visual Artists Awards, BC Arts Council, Victoria, BC
Explorations, The Canada Council, Trail, BC, and Vancouver
1992 Explorations, The Canada Council, Mayne Island, BC
Images and Objects X, BC Festival of the Arts, Assembly of BC Arts Councils (travelling juror)
Awards & Grants
Canada Innovation Fund, Department of Canadian Heritage, for Maraya Online Platform, 2010
Social Sciences Humanities Research Council, Research/Creation Grant (Principal Investigator), 2007
The Canada Council, Mid-Career/B Grant: 1992, 1997, 1999, 2005
The Canada Council, Short Term/Travel Grant: 1991, 1993, 1995, 1999
The Canada Council, Explorations: 1995
BC Arts Council: 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2008
Department of Foreign Affairs, Government of Canada, Travel Grant: 1997
University of California Lecturer Professional Development Award, 2004
Pacific Rim Research Program, University of California, MiniGrant, 2003
President’s Fund, Emily Carr Institute, 2007
VIVA Award (Vancouver Institute for the Visual Arts, Doris & Jack Shadbolt, founders): 1993
Teaching
2005+ Associate Professor, Faculty of Culture + Community, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada. Head of Critical & Cultural Studies 2006-08; Faculty of Graduate Studies & Research; Foundation.
1992-2005 Sessional Instructor (Visual Arts & Critical Studies), Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver.
2003-4 Adjunct Lecturer (Studio Art), University of California, Irvine.
2002 Teaching Associate, University of California, Irvine, Summer.
Teaching Assistant, University of California, Irvine. Visual Culture, Fall. (Instructor of Record)
1999-2001 Mentoring Artist, collective echoes public art collective, Vancouver.
Published Writings & Artist’s Projects
Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation Through the Lens of Cultural Diversity, cover photograph. Ashok Mathur, Jonathan Dewar, Mike DeGagné (eds.), Aboriginal Healing Foundation, Ottawa, 2011.
“Napa North: The Terroir! The Terroir!,” Rice Paper Magazine, Vancouver, BC, Vol. 14.2, April 2009.
“Detouring the Grand Tour: Venice 52, Kassel 12, Sharjah 8,“ Fuse Mazagine: Art Media Politics, Toronto, Vol. 31 No. 1, January 2008.
“Improve Your (Community Public Art) Swing,” public:untitled catalogue, collective echoes, Vancouver, 2006.
“Art Calling Fool Scold: The Discursive Pedagogy of Roy Kiyooka,” All Amazed: For Roy Kiyooka, eds. John O’Brian, Naomi Sawada, Scott Watson. Arsenalpulp Press, Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2002.
“Jurors’ Statement,” Artropolis catalogue, Vancouver, 2001.
“Passing Hong Kong,” City at the End of Time: Hong Kong 1997 catalogue, eds. Scott McFarlane & Henry Tsang. The Pomelo Project, Vancouver/Montréal, 1998.
“Uncertain Pleasure: An Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art in Vancouver, curated by Hou Hanru,” review, ART Asia Pacific, Fine Arts Press, Sydney, Australia, Issue 17, 1998.
“Welcome to the Land of Light,” Front Magazine, March/April Vol. IX No. 4, Vancouver, 1998.
“Community Building and the Chinese Cultural Centre in Vancouver, Naming a Practice: Curatorial Strategies for the Future, Ed. Peter White. Banff Centre Press, Banff, 1996.
“Racy Sexy: An Utopian Collaboration?” with Karin Lee, Racy Sexy catalogue, eds. Beverly Yhap & Henry Tsang. Chinese Cultural Centre, Vancouver, 1995.
“Inside, Outside, Upside Down: In Search of Cultural Space with the Chinese Cultural Centre in Vancouver,” Questions of Community: Artists, Audiences, Coalitions, Eds. Daina Augaitis, Sylvie Gilbert, Lorne Falk, Mary Anne Moser, Banff Centre Press, Banff, 1995.
“RACY SEXY: In Search for Cultural Space”, Parallelogramme, Association of National Non-Profit Artists’ Centres, Toronto, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1994.
“Self Not Whole,” Rungh, Rungh Cultural Society, Vancouver, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1994.
Artist’s project,West Coast Line (special issue: Colour: An Issue), Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Vol. 28/1-2, 1994.
“Homage to Roy (Kiyooka),” with Harvey Chiang, The Bulletin, Japanese Canadian Citizens Association, Vancouver, Feb. 1994.
“To Visit the Tiger”, review, Rungh Magazine, Rungh Cultural Society, Vancouver, Vol. 1, No. 4, 1993.
Artists’ project with The Association for Noncommercial Culture, West Coast Line, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Vol. 27, No. 1, 1993.
“Shock Culture: A Performance,” Harbour Magazine, Montréal, Vol. 1, No. 4., 1992.
“Some Afterthoughts: Confessions of a Juror”, Images and Objects X: Contemporary BC Artists. Assembly of BC Arts Councils, Vancouver, 1992.
Cover image, Quarterly Commentary, Assembly of BC Arts Councils, Vancouver, June, 1992.
“In Search of a Cultural Centre,” Self Not Whole, Ed. Henry Tsang, Chinese Cultural Centre, Vancouver, 1991
“Shock Culture,” Front Magazine, The Western Front, Vancouver, March/April, 1991.
Artists’ project, Video Guide, Satellite Video Exchange Society, Vancouver, Issue 50, Spring, 1991.
Artists’ project, West Coast Line, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Vol. 24, No. 2, Fall, 1990.
Artist Lectures
2010 Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC
Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC
2008 Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa
Concordia University, Montréal
Penticton Art Gallery, Penticton, BC
Banff New Media Institute, The Banff Centre for the Arts
American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2007 University of British Columbia, Vancouver
University of Siegen, (with Glen Lowry) Siegen, Germany
Artcamp Un-Conference, SWARM/Alternator Gallery, Vancouver
University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, BC
2005 Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver
2004 University of California, Santa Cruz
2003 Track 16, Los Angeles
2002 Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California
2001 Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary
Camosun College, Victoria, BC
2000 Capilano College, North Vancouver, BC
1999 University of Lethbridge, Alberta
1999 St. Norbert Arts & Cultural Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Capilano University College, North Vancouver, BC
1998 Public art presentation with Buster Simpson, Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver
Capilano University College, North Vancouver, BC
1997 MediaLab Eigen+Art, Leipzig, Germany
1996 Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
1995 Grant McEwan College, Edmonton, Alberta
1994 The New Gallery, Calgary
Camosun College, Victoria, BC
Simon Fraser University Arts & Cultural Administration Seminar, Vancouver
1993 Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC
Capilano College, North Vancouver, BC
1992 Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax
Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver
1991 Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
1990 Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver
Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
Conference Presentations
2012 Northwest Native Community Celebration, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington.
2011 The Land We Are: Arts, Culture and the Politics of Reconciliation, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.
2010 The Big Idea, with Glen Lowry and M. Simon Levin. Bidoun Projects, Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE.
Learning from Vancouver, with Glen Lowry and M. Simon Levin. The Western Front, Vancouver..
2009 Interactive Futures: Stereo, with Glen Lowry and M. Simon Levin. Intersections Digital Studios, Emily Carr University, Vancouver. http://hosting.epresence.tv/emilycarr/interactive_futures/watch/30.aspx
2008 Asia in the Mix: Urban Mobilities from Hong Kong to Dubai, via Vancouver, with Glen Lowry and Eugene McCann. Inter-Referencing Asia: Urban Experiments & the Art of Being Global International Conference on Inter-Asian Connections, Social Science Research Council (New York) and Dubai School of Government, Dubai, UAE.
When East Really is West: A Look at Some Models of Cultural DupliCities, Art and the New Culture City: Hong Kong, China and the Global Art System, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Pushing Historical Boundaries, Shaq’sthut – Gathering Place colloquium, Aboriginal Curatorial Collective, Sty-Wet-Tan Longhouse, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
2007 Creative Critical, Union for Democratic Communications, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.
Two False Creeks: From Vancouver to Dubai and Back, with Glen Lowry, TransCanada Two: Literature, Institutions, Citizenship, University of Guelph, Ontario.
Mediating Dubai: ”The World’s Fastest Growing City” On-line and Off, with Glen Lowry, The New Media Consortium, Spring Online Conference on The Convergence of Web Culture & Video, www.nmc.org.
Redress Express: Current Directions in Asian Canadian Art & Culture, Chinese Cultural Centre, Vancouver.
2004 Leaving It Be: Apathy, Activism and Ethnicity in Contemporary Practice, Powell Street Festival, Vancouver
2002 Beyond the Threshold: Predicament of Place, Gwangju Biennale Project 2 Symposium, Korea
IntraNation: Race, Politics and Canadian Art, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Vancouver
2001 Grants and Curators & Jurors panels, Artropolis, Vancouver
2000 Twisting the Box: The New Asian Museum Symposium, Centre A, Vancouver
A Working Discussion on Aboriginal Representation in the Art Gallery, Queen’s University & The Art Gallery of Ontario, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Long Ago in the Future: Creating a Past, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC
Roy Kiyooka Conference, Belkin Gallery, University of BC & Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver
1997 Dialogue with Navin Rawanchaikul, Traditions/Tensions: Contemporary Art in Asia, symposium, Asia Society (New York) & Vancouver Art Gallery, Robson Square Media Center, Vancouver
What is Canadian Art? Vancouver International Art ‘97, Trade & Convention Centre, Vancouver
Generation to Generation: Exploring Family Histories, Asian Heritage Month, Powell Street Festival, Vancouver
Public Infiltrations, International Conference in Critical Geography, Univ. of BC, Vancouver
1996 Re-entering the House of Flowers, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC
1995 Chinese Canadian Arts Conference, Chinese Canadian National Council, Vancouver
Culture in Struggle: Canada-Japan Minority Forum, Japanese Canadian Citizens Assoc., Vancouver
1994 Naming a Practice: Curatorial Strategies for the Future, seminar organized by Peter White, Bruce Grenville, et al, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta
Mined Cultures: Contemporary Artists and ‘Post’-Colonialism in the Commonwealth, symposium, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC
Alternative Frontiers, Mountain West Canadian Studies Conf., Simon Fraser Univ., Vancouver
1993 Survival and Practice, BC Festival of the Arts, Trail, BC
Fixing History, and Framing Ethnicity, University College of the Cariboo, Kamloops, BC
Survival and Practice, Community Arts Council, Vancouver, and Burnaby Art Gallery
1992 Representing the Self/Re-Presenting Culture, Vancouver Museum, Vancouver
Survival and Practice, BC Festival of the Arts, Vernon, B.C.
Racism in the Arts, The Arts Tonight, CBC-FM Radio
1991 Self Not Whole, round table facilitator, Chinese Cultural Centre, Vancouver
Gu Xiong and the Chinese Avant-Garde, lecture, Simon Fraser University Downtown, Vancouver
Our Aesthetics, Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver
Yellow Peril, On Edge Productions, Video Inn, Vancouver
Other Professional Experience
External Examiner
MFA External Examiner, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, 2012
MFA Graduation Exhibition (External Guest Critique), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2008
Mentoring Artist
Community Complicity, Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, BC, 2007
REMIXX: SUR.RE. Surrey Youth New Media Project, Surrey Art Gallery, 2005
collective echoes, public art collective, Vancouver, 1998-2001
Residencies
True False Creeks, Self-Directed Co-Production, Banff New Media Institute, 2008
Community Complicity, Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, BC, 2007
Surrey: Past, Present & Future, Surrey Art Gallery, 2005
IntraNation, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, 2004
Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, 2000
MediaLab Eigen+Art, Leipzig, Germany, 1997
NOMAD program, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, 1993
Artist-In-Residence, The Western Front, Vancouver, 1990
Art Studio, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, 1986–87
Committees & Collectives
The Western Front, arts centre, Vancouver, Board of Directors, 2009-2011
West Coast Line, journal, Board of Directors, 2006 to present
City of Vancouver Public Art Review Advisory Committee, 2006-08
collective echoes, public art collective, 1998-2001
The Pomelo Project, Vancouver, Montréal, 1994-99
Cross-Cultural Advisory Committee, Chinese Cultural Centre, Vancouver, 1997-98
Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, Board of Directors, 1996-98
Vancouver Arts Initiative Advisory Committee to the Mayor, City of Vancouver, 1995-98
Images & Objects Advisory Committee, BC Festival of the Arts, 1994-96
BC Status of the Artist Advisory Committee, Province of BC, 1993
Contemporary Cultural Projects, Chinese Cultural Centre, Vancouver (co-founder), 1992-94
Tamahnous Theatre, Vancouver, Board of Directors, 1992-94
The Association for Noncommercial Culture, Vancouver, public art collective, 1991-93
The Or Gallery, Vancouver, Board of Directors, 1988-91
Catalogue Editor
Collective Echoes: projects for public space. collective echoes, Vancouver, 2006
City at the End of Time: Hong Kong 1997. The Pomelo Project, Vancouver, 1997
Racy Sexy: Race, Culture & Sexuality. The Chinese Cultural Centre, Vancouver, 1993
Self Not Whole: Chinese-Canadian Artists in Vancouver. Chinese Cultural Centre, 1992
Workshops
Artist-in-Residence, Burnaby, BC, elementary schools, ArtStarts in the Schools, 1998
Artist-in-Residence, Prince Rupert & Terrace, BC, elementary schools, 1997
Grant-Writing workshop, Chinese Canadian Artists Federation, 1997
Artist-in-Residence, Greater Vancouver schools, Artscape Program, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1995
Community-Building in the Arts workshop, Latitude 53 Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, 1995
Consulting
Outreach program, ArtStarts in the Schools, Vancouver, 1996
Canada/China Cultural Exchange Tour, Dept. of Canadian Heritage, Ottawa, 1995
Facilitator, BC Festival of the Arts, Kamloops, BC, 1995
Facilitator & Panelist, Images & Objects XI, Assembly of BC Arts Councils, Trail, 1993
Minority Artist Role-Model Program, Vancouver School Board/Children’s Festival, 1992
Selected Bibliography
Glen Lowry and Eugene McCann, “Asia in the Mix: Urban Form and Global Mobilities – Hong Kong, Vancouver, Dubai,” in Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global, (eds A. Roy and A. Ong), Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2011. http://www.sfu.ca/~emccann/LowryMcCann%20AsianintheMix.pdf
Robin Lawrence, “Dubai Mirrors Vancouver in Maraya,” The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, Dec. 6, 2011.
Lena Sin, “False Creek’s Dubai Clone,” The Province newspaper, Vancouver, Nov. 24, 2011,
Glen Lowry, “Napa North,” in Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation Through the Lens of Cultural Diversity, (eds. A. Mathur, J. Dewar, M. DeGagné), Aboriginal Healing Foundation, Ottawa, 2011.
Maraya Projects, with Glen Lowry and M. Simon Levin. Interactive Futures: Stereo, Intersections Digital Studios, Emily Carr University, Vancouver. http://hosting.epresence.tv/emilycarr/interactive_futures/watch/30.aspx, Nov. 2009.
Gu Xiong, “Henry Tsang, A Family Name,” online catalogue essay, Surrey Art Gallery, Sept. 2008, http://www.surrey.ca/files/Tsang1.pdf
Whitney Light, “Heritage Complex: From Stereotypes to Nuance,” Canadian Art, July 3, 2008.
Tejpal Ajji, “Heritage Complex,” catalogue essay, Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton, Ontario, June 2008.
Portia Priegert, “Valley’s Changing Landscape,” review, eVent! Magazine, Kelowna, BC, July 9, 2008.
Glen Lowry, “Terroir / as in Translation,” Edges of Diversity catalogue, Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, BC, 2008.
Caroline Vanderloo, “Complicated entanglements: Henry Tsang and cultural race politics, 1988-1995,” M.A. Thesis, Carleton University, Ottawa, 2007.
Joan Borsa, “Site- and Context-Oriented Curating: Staging Encounters Between Art and Everyday Realities,” Ph.D. thesis, Concordia University, Montreal, 2006.
Kristin Hargrove, “Sunpist: Exploring the Alienation Resulting from Orange County’s Post-World War II Development,” M.A. thesis, California State University Fullerton, 2005.
Ashok Mathur, “Leaving It Be: What We Talk About When We Talk About Political Shifts,” Fuse magazine, Vol. 28 #2, May 2005.
Robin Laurence, “Show Travels a Shifting World,” The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, July 1, 2004.
Chris Ziegler, “The Simulated Simulacra: Henry Tsang’s Visit to the Other Orange County,” OC Weekly, May 2, 2003.
Scarlet Cheng, “Aesthetic Thesis Statement,” Los Angeles Times, May 1, 2003.
Gordon Brent Ingram, “Contests over social memory in waterfront Vancouver: Historical editing & obfuscation through public art,” On the Waterfront (online magazine, Universitat de Barcelona ISSN 1139-7365), Nr, 2 Feb. 2002, http://www.ub.es/escult/Water/tress/gordon.htm
Josephine Mills, “Reconsidering the Risks of Civic Public Art Funding,” Money_Value_Art: State Funding, Free Markets, Big Picture, YYZ Books, Toronto, 2001.
Roy Miki and Rita Wong (ed.), Cultural Struggle and Art Practices, in Across Currents: Canada-Japan Minority Forum, JC Publications, Vancouver, 2001.
Monika Kin Gagnon, Other Conundrums: Race, Culture and Canadian Art, Arsenal Pulp Press et al, Vancouver, 2000.
Anne Muir, Art in the Streets, documentary, 28 min., 2000. Moving Images, Vancouver distributor
Janet Smith, “Public Space Program,” The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, Sept. 28, 2000.
Lisa Smedman, “Tee Time in Mount Pleasant,” The Vancouver Courier, July 9, 2000.
Adad, “Putt Putt Putting through Mount Pleasant,” The Loop, Vol. 6, No. 2, Sept. 2000.
Roy Inouye, Trudy Dirk, “Racist Art Display Out of Place,” Kamloops This Week, Kamloops, BC, Canada, Sept. 18, 1998.
Andrew Hunter, “Criticisms of Art Exhibit are Subjective,” Daily News, Kamloops, BC, Sept. 24, 1998.
Henry Tsang, “Art Gallery Banners Didn’t Need a ‘Non-Racist’ Disclaimer,” Daily News, Kamloops, BC, Oct. 13, 1998.
Andrew Hunter, “Home Base: Notes to an Installation,” Home Base catalogue, Kamloops Art Gallery, 1998.
Janet Duckworth, “Art on the Rim,” Pacific Rim, summer 1997, Vancouver.
Jeff Derkson, “Mimetic Spaces and Withheld Bodies,” The Crowning catalogue, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 1996.
Scott McFarlane, “To Be Just,” The Crowning catalogue, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 1996.
Robyn Gillam, “Questions of Community: Artists Audiences Coalitions,” review, Border/Lines, No. 40, April 1996, Toronto.
Heesok Chang, “Allegories of Community: Chinese-Canadian Art in Vancouver.” in Vancouver: Representing the Postmodern City, (ed. Paul Delaney), Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver, 1994.
Lisa Robertson, “Benched Art: Negotiating the Rhetorics of Taste,” Parallelogramme, Vol. 20, #3, 1994, Toronto.
Gabriel Yiu, “Racy Sexy,” Ming Pao Sunday Magazine, Dec. 5, 1993. (Chinese)
Peter Wilson, “Racy Sexy,” Vancouver Sun, November 27, 1993.
David Whetstone, “Church-Gathering for “Ritual Event,” The Journal, Newcastle, U.K., Aug. 27, 1993.
Monika Kin Gagnon, “Seizing Space,” Out of Place catalogue, Association for Noncommercial Culture, Vancouver, 1993.
Katherine Sutherland, “Signing Identity,” conference paper, Alternative Frontiers, Mountain West Canadian Studies Conference, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 1993.
Ann Rosenberg, “VIVA Award Winners,” Vancouver Sun, May 1, 1993.
Ian Edwards, “Hot Shots of ’93,” Vancouver Sun, May 8, 1993.
Chris Dafoe, “From Confrontation to Transformation (Paul Wong),” Globe & Mail, Toronto, Feb. 9, 1993.
Monika Kin Gagnon, “Can-Asian, eh? Three Hyphenated Canadian Artists,” Dual Cultures catalogue, Kamloops Art Gallery, January 1993.
Sydney Jones, “Chinook Jargon,” Kamloops Daily News, January 11, 1993.
Elissa Barnard, “In the Presence,” The Chronicle-Herald, Halifax, June 25, 1992.
Heesok Chang, “Orticulations.” Interruptions catalogue, Or Gallery, Vancouver, 1992.
Larissa Lai, “Chinese Boxes.” Interruptions catalogue, Or Gallery, Vancouver, 1992.
Kirsten McAllister, “Displaced Generations: Critiquing Work from the Cultural Margins,” Interruptions catalogue, Or Gallery, Vancouver, 1992.
Alison D’Oyley, “Tsangian Theory,” Artbeat, Vancouver, Spring 1992.
Ann Rosenberg, “Power and Pain of Cultural Identity,” Vancouver Sun, November 23, 1991.
Joanne Birnie-Danzker. “Caught Between Cultures,” Vancouver Magazine, November, 1991.
Kevin Griffin, “Self Not Whole,” Vancouver Sun, November 2, 1991.
Ellen Ramsey, “Goya to Beijing,” Front Magazine, Vancouver, July/August, 1991.
Ann Rosenberg, “Politics Permeate Performance Art,” Vancouver Sun, March 16, 1991.
Peter Day, “Views on Nature, View of Nature,” Young Contemporaries catalogue, London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario, 1990.
Brian Mulvihill, “In Transitions,” Front Magazine, Vancouver, October 1989.
