Mowry Baden

March 9, 2019 - June 9, 2019

Mowry Baden
Marsupial, 2013
steel, aluminum, fabric, rubber
Collection of the Artist

This exhibition comprises internationally acclaimed Victoria-based artist Mowry Baden’s work from the late 1960s to the present. Baden is known for producing intricate, sometimes humorous sculptural works and installations that borrow from the fields of perceptual psychology, science and architecture, and often solicit the audience’s participation.

Mowry Baden deploys objects and forms that range from seat belts and reconfigured industrial devices, to purpose-built rooms in which ping-pong balls ricochet off the walls. The recipient of the prestigious Governor General’s Award and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Baden disrupts our reliance on vision and instills a heightened sensory awareness of our position in, and movement through, space. Works spanning more than forty years of Baden’s prolific career will be on view as part of this survey presentation.

Organized by the Vancouver art Gallery and Curated by Grant Arnold, Audain Curator of British Columbia Art


  • Mowry Baden with Mark Alldritt
    Calyx, 2008
    steel, aluminum, acrylic, circuitry and motor
    Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Gift of Mowry Baden, 2017
    Photo: Bob Matheson

  • Mowry Baden
    Punched and Grilled, 2015
    rubber, stainless steel
    Courtesy of the Artist
    Photo: Mark Alldritt

  • Mowry Baden
    Prone Gyres, 2000
    steel, plastic
    Courtesy of the Artist
    Photo: Michael Honer