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Vancouver’s Chinatown Through the Eyes of Artist and Printer Sing Lim

A look back at the life of a Chinatown legend.

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Meet the Artist Behind English Bay’s Laughing Men Statues

Yue Minjun never anticipated the impact his A-maze-ing Laughter sculptures would have on Vancouver.

Cindy Sherman art

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When a Self-Portrait is So Much More

Cindy Sherman, one of the world’s most influential contemporary artists, comes to the Vancouver Art Gallery.

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Going ‘Above The Trees’ With Artist Brent Comber

The Vancouver artist creates his work from fallen wood collected around British Columbia.

VancouverMuralFestival_Kathy Painting Process_Credit Gabriel Martins

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Vancouver Artist Kathy Ager Comes Home

<em>Bigger Than Life</em>.

Taking on a project for this year’s Vancouver Mural Festival has pushed this local artist way out of her comfort zone.

Trevor Baird

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Trevor Baird

Pop.

The Vancouver-born ceramicist creates one-of-a-kind vases and sculptures influenced by comics and pop culture narratives.

Julia Mior

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Julia Mior

Negotiation for space.

Part of what sets Mior’s textiles apart from contemporary museum discourse is that she actually wants people to use them.

Ola Volo

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Ola Volo

From the ocean to the moon.

Born in Kazakhstan and raised in Vancouver, rising art star Ola Volo whimsically combines the folklore of her heritage and the sentimentality of her upbringing into her paintings. Thanks to this rich cultural conversation, her style has become known across the continent as distinctly hers.

Ben Skinner

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Ben Skinner

Text interventions.

With thick-rimmed plastic glasses and a Coca-Cola branded t-shirt, Skinner blends right in with the resin-heavy, often text-based pieces that he has become known for.