Lectures and Talks
Capture Speaker Series | Artist Talk: Lucy Raven
Thu Apr 17, 2025 | 6 PM - 9 PM
Vancouver Art Gallery
Lucy Raven, Photo: Ari Marcopoulos, © Lucy Raven, Courtesy Lisson Gallery
Capture Photography Festival presents its third Speaker Series talk with artist Lucy Raven in conversation with exhibition curator Anthony Kiendl.
Join us for this opening celebration of Lucy Raven: Murderers Bar, beginning with a talk by Raven herself.
Raven will discuss her practice and the process of creating her newest work Murderers Bar (2025), which makes its world premiere in this exhibition.
She will then sit down with Kiendl, and together they will share their long-standing connections and the impulses which brought this work to be.
A reception and exhibition preview will follow.
Doors will open at 5:30 PM. The talk will begin at 6 PM. Seating is first come, first served.
This event is FREE for Ideas and Experiences Members and $10 for Access Pass Holders and the general public.
If cost is a barrier to you or if you have any access requests for this event, please reach out to learn@vanartgallery.bc.ca or call 604 662 4700.
This program is co-presented by the Vancouver Art Gallery and Capture Photography Festival as part of the 2025 Capture Speaker Series. Capture’s 2025 Speaker Series is generously supported by Wesgroup.
Lucy Raven: Murderers Bar is part of the 2025 Capture Photography Festival Featured Exhibitions Program.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Lucy Raven is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes film, photography, video, drawing, sculpture and sound. She is known for her works that examine the mechanics of film, photography and video—whether animated, digital, mechanical or cinematic. Originally from Tucson, AZ, Raven lives and works in New York City. She received a BFA in Studio Art and a BA in Art History from the University of Arizona, Tucson, in 2000, and an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, in 2008. Her work has been exhibited in solo presentations at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany (2024); Wiels, Brussels, Belgium (2022); Dia Chelsea, New York, NY (2021); Serpentine Galleries, London, UK (2016–17); Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (2016); VOX centre del’image contemporaine, Montréal, QC (2015); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (2014); Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany (2014); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2012); and Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV (2010). With Vic Brooks and Evan Calder Williams, the artist is a founding member of 13BC, a moving-image research and production collective. Raven teaches at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York.
Anthony Kiendl is an accomplished arts administrator, an award-winning curator and writer, an educator and community builder with over 25 years of experience in the arts at the provincial, national and international levels. Prior to his role as CEO & Executive Director at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Kiendl was the Executive Director & CEO of the Mackenzie Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan, and the Artistic Director of Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art in Winnipeg, Manitoba prior to that. He also led the Visual Arts Program and Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre for almost five years. He has participated in the Museum Leadership Program at the Museum Leadership Institute (formerly known as the Getty Leadership Institute) as a participant and mentor. Kiendl is also a member of the Canadian Art Museums Directors Organization since 2002 and the American Association of Art Museum Directors. In 2024, he was named to Vancouver Magazine’s Power 50 List.