Artists in Conversation: Teresita Fernández and Liz Larner
Thu Oct 29, 2026 | 6:30–8 PM
Teresita Fernández, Photo: Axel Dupeux; Tom Power, Portrait of Liz Larner, Courtesy of the Artist
Join us for a conversation between internationally acclaimed artists Teresita Fernández and Liz Larner, moderated by Eva Respini, Co-CEO & Chief Curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery and presented in conjunction with the exhibition Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change.
Fernández and Larner will discuss their artistic practices through the interconnected themes of landscape, materiality and our relationship to the natural world. Their conversation will consider landscape not simply as a physical environment but as a site shaped by histories, power dynamics, colonialism and resource extraction.
Working across sculpture, installation, and using diverse materials, Fernández and Larner’s conversation will extend the questions raised in Future Geographies: how do artists reimagine our relationship with the land and how might these relationships shape possible futures?
Free for Circles of Giving and Experiences Members, $5 for Ideas Members and $10 for Access Pass Holders.
This event is $10 for the general public in addition to the cost of Gallery admission for the general public.
Experiences and Circles of Giving Members can bring one complimentary guest.
Capacity is limited. Registration is required. Doors open at 6 PM.
If cost is a barrier to you or if you have any questions around accessibility at this event, please reach out to learn@vanartgallery.bc.ca or call 604 662 4700.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Teresita Fernández expansively rethinks what constitutes landscape: from the subterranean to the cosmic, from national borders to the more elusive psychic landscapes we carry within. Her practice unravels the intimacies between matter, human beings and locations. Fernández exposes the complex narratives that stem from distorted colonial histories, elaborating on these themes in subtle ways that insist on intertwining beauty, the socio-political, the intimate and the immense. Fernández is a 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship; an American Academy of Rome Fellowship; Creative Capital Award; Meridian Cultural Diplomacy Award; the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award; and a NEA Individual Artist’s Grant, among others. Her works have been exhibited internationally including at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Menil Collection; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain; SITE Santa Fe; The Smithsonian Museum of American Art; MASS MoCA; and Castello di Rivoli, Italy, among others. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Liz Larner lives and works in Bellingham, Washington. She holds a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts. For over thirty years, Larner has reimagined the possibilities of sculpture in plastic, bronze, fiberglass, paper, ceramic, aluminum, steel, rubber, epoxy, mirror, textiles and even bacteria. Creatively feminist in her approach, Larner draws from the experimental vocabulary of minimal and post-minimal precedents in a way that occasions fresh angles on questions of gender, the body and the sustainability of life as we know it. An inventor of forms, Larner’s sculptures defy simple summary or description.