2016

Born in Langley, British Columbia, in 1981, Raymond Boisjoly is an Indigenous artist of Haida and Québécois descent who lives and works in Vancouver. In 2008 he received his Master of Fine Arts at the University of British Columbia, having completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (now University) in 2006. His work investigates technology, Aboriginal identity, the relationship between text and image as well as the limits of the visible.

Kelly Lycan is an installation and photo-based artist in Vancouver, British Columbia. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1992), and her Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles (1998). Lycan’s primary interests are the way objects are placed and displayed in the world and the cycle of value and exchange they go through. Re-purposing and re-contextualizing ordinary things is a consistent part of her practice. Lycan investigates the distinctions between experience and reproduction translating this through sculpture and photography while referencing collections and methods of display found in museums, institutional gift shops, cheap retail stores, or high-end department stores. Lycan reinterprets and reassembles various high and low objects through strategies of exhibition, blurring the distinction between content and style, production and mass-consumption, and originals verses copies. Her work has been exhibited in exhibitions across Canada, the United States and Europe.