The Vancouver Art Gallery is presently planning to build and move to a new, stand-alone, iconic building. We support this goal and we support the director, Kathleen Bartels and the VAG Board as they work towards its realization. We believe it is time for a new gallery and that the benefits it will bring to visual arts culture in Vancouver, British Columbia and Canada are beyond question and will be shared by everyone. We are visual arts professionals; artists, critics, art writers, educators, curators, gallery workers and gallerists, we feel it is time our opinion was heard. If you are a visual arts professional and want to see a new Vancouver Art Gallery, add your name to the list by e-mailing newvag@newvag.ca
- Michael Turner, writer and critic
- Eli Bornowsky, artist
- Stephen Waddell, artist and Instructor Emily Carr University of Art & Design
- Andy Sylvester, Owner, Equinox Gallery
- Alison Yip, artist
- Gordon Smith, artist
- Catriona Jeffries, Owner/Director Catriona Jeffries Gallery
- Kevin Schmidt, artist
- Hadley + Maxwell, artists
- Michael Morris, artist
- Olga Chagoutdinova, artist
- Alex Morrison, artist
- David MacWilliam, Dean Faculty of Visual Art & Material Practice Emily Carr University of Art & Design
- Greg Girard, artist
- Renée Van Halm, artist
- Reid Shier, Director/Curator Presentation House Gallery
- Scott Billings, artist
- LaTiesha Fazakas, art consultant
- Jeff Wall, artist
- Jason Fitzpatrick, artist
- Mark Timmings, Timmings & Debay Design
- Gu Xiong, artist and Professor, UBC
- Monique Mouton, artist
- Adam Harrison, artist, Curator CSA Space and Volker Bradtke, Dusseldorf
- Yasmin Nurming-Por, art consultant
- Allan Switzer, artist
- Ken Lum, artist
- Barrie Jones, artist and Instructor, UBC
- Eric Metcalfe, artist
- Rebecca Brewer, artist
- Roy Arden, artist
- Etienne Zack, artist
- Jonathan Middleton, Director/Curator Or Gallery
- Marian Penner Bancroft, artist and Instructor Emily Carr University of Art & Design
- David Ostrem, artist
- Elizabeth McIntosh, artist and Instructor Emily Carr University of Art & Design
- Neil Campbell, artist and Instructor Emily Carr University of Art & Design
- Paul Wong, artist, Artistic Director On Main
- Holger Kalberg, artist
- Al McWilliams, artist
- Sarah Macaulay, Macaulay & Co. Fine Art
- Mark Soo, artist
- Alexandra Oliver, poet and art writer
- Glenn Alteen, Director grunt gallery
- Jeff Khonsary, Publisher Fillip Magazine
- Scott McFarland, artist
- Gareth James, artist and Assistant Professor University of British Columbia
- Christos Dikeakos, artist
- Lauren Rice, artist
- Greg Bellerby, Director/Curator Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art & Design
- Nicole Ondre, artist
- Richard Prince, artist and Professor UBC
- Allyson Clay, artist and Professor SFU
- Jeremy Hof, artist
- Cate Rimmer, curator Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art & Design
- Aaron Peck, writer and critic
- Charo Neville, curator Kamloops Art Gallery
- Fred Herzog, artist
- Sophie Brodovitch, Assistant Director Equinox Gallery
- Monte Clark, Monte Clark Gallery
- Tiziana La Melia, artist
- Philippe Raphanel, artist and lecturer Emily Carr University of Art & Design
- Peter Culley, poet and art writer
- Raymond Boisjoly, artist
- Jordy Hamilton, artist
- Darrin J. Martens, Director/Curator, Burnaby Art Gallery
- Keith Wallace, Associate Director/Curator Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
- Trent Larson, artist
- Arni Haraldsson, Associate Professor, Emily Carr University of Art & Design
- Pantea Haghighi, Director/Curator Republic Gallery
- Nigel Prince, Executive Director Contemporary Art Gallery
- Ben Reeves, artist and Associate Professor Emily Carr University of Art & Design
- Khan Lee, artist
- Bryan Mulvihill, artist
- Douglas Reynolds, Director/Owner, Douglas Reynolds Gallery
- Danny Kostyshin, artist
- Raissa Alvero, Associate Director Douglas Udell Gallery
- Amy Kazymerchyk, Curator and Events/Exhibitions Coordinator VIVO
- Landon Mackenzie, artist and Professor Emily Carr University of Art & Design
- Nan Capogna, curator Richmond Art Gallery
- Jordan Strom, curator Surrey Art Gallery
- Elspeth Pratt, Associate Director, Visual Arts S.F.U.
- Scott Watson, Professor and Head, Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, Director Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery UBC
- Kate Steinmann, Director of Publications and Senior Editor, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Associate Editor, Fillip, Vancouver, Associate Editor, Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Vancouver
- Holly Ward, artist
- Brenda Cleniuk, Director/Curator, Neutral Ground & Guest Curator, LIVEBiennale
- Cornelia Wyngaarden, artist
- Jesse Birch, Exhibitions Curator Western Front and Instructor Emily Carr University of Art & Design.
- Randall Anderson, artist
- Karin Bubas, artist
- Steven Tong, Curator CSA Space
- Noah Becker, artist
- Michele Di Menna, artist and founder of The Society for Actually Happening Art
- Lauryn Youden, artist
- Mark DeLong, artist
- Jeff Ladouceur, artist
- Natalia Tkachev, Director of Blanket / Cologne
- Barbara Cole, Executive Director of Other Sights for Artists' Projects
- Stephanie Aitken, artist, Langara Fine Arts Faculty
- Adam Gandy, artist
- Kim Kennedy Austin, artist
- Randy Gledhill, artist, Director LIVE Biennale
- Justin Muir, Executive Director Malaspina Printmakers
- Erdem Tasdelen, artist
- Jane Irwin, artist, trustee of the VAG & visual arts committee chair
- Kate Armstrong, artist, writer, independent curator
- Jim Jardine, artist
- Jason Gowans artist
- Graham Dalik, independent curator
- Davida Kidd, artist, Visual Arts Faculty UFV
- Andrew Pommier, artist
- Peter Gazendam, Artist and Associate Director, Artspeak
- Eun Kyung Kim, Artist
- Luke Ramsey, artist
- Peter Thompson, Managing Director Two Rivers Gallery
- Sarah Todd, Curator Western Front Media Arts
- Manuel Piña-Baldoquín, Associate Professor. AHVAT University of British Columbia
- Lindsay Brown, art writer and arts advocate
- Jo Cook, artist and publisher
- Shengtian Zheng, Managing editor, Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
- Howie Tsui, artist
- Wil Aballe, Art Projects
- Tim Lee, artist
- Omer Arbel, designer
- Marie Khouri, artist
- Vanessa Disler, Artist
- Emily Hill, artist
- James Nizam, artist
- Marlene Madison, artist, curator, program director
- Mitch Speed - artist and critic
- Dr. Randy Lee Cutler artist and writer, critical + cultural studies Emily Carr University of Art and Design
- Joanna Speed, artist
- Yunhee Min, Artist
- Logan Sturrock - artist, student
- Kalli Niedoba, artist
- Evan Lee, artist
- Derya Akay, artist
- Viktor Briestensky, artist
- Elizabeth Zvonar, Artist
- Kuh Del Rosario, artist
- Deirdre Hofer, Manager Equinox Gallery
- Sara Graham, artist
- Charlie Satterlee, independent curator
- Guadalupe Martinez, artist
- Malcolm Levy, Director: New Forms Festival
- Vanessa Brown, artist
- Jeremy Shaw, artist
- Mohammad Salemy, independent curator
- Willem Smit, Artist
- Roselina Hung, artist
- Marina Roy, artist and Associate Professor & Graduate Supervisor, Visual Art, UBC
- Kate Hyde, artist
- Devon Knowles, artist
- Megan Hepburn, Artist
- Carrie Walker, artist
- Mike Grill, Artist
- Sean Weisgerber, Artist
- Eden Veaudry, artist
- Andrew Morrison, photographer
- Jennifer Winsor, Winsor Gallery
- Jamie Dolinko, artist
- Rina Liddle, visual artist
- Peter Hagge, artist
- Sean Arden - Artist, Director, Technician
- Monique Fouquet, artist
- Lucas Soi, Director/Curator, Soi Fischer
- Heather Martin - Designer / Educator
- Scott Bertram, Artist
- Jay Gazley, artist
- Deanne Achong, artist
- Isabelle Houde, artist
- Ron Tran, artist
- Chris Campbell Gardiner, artist
- Soledad Muñoz, artist
- Owen Kydd, artist
- Fiona Ackerman, artist
- Karen Love, curator
- Cari Green, filmmaker and Instructor, Vancouver Film School
- Colin Browne, writer, filmmaker, Professor, SFU Contemporary Arts
- Karen Matthews, Costume Designer
- Elena Feder, Independent Scholar and curator
- Karen Henry, curator, public art planner
- Jeremy Green, artist
- Jonathan Syme, Artist
- Jeff Bosworth, Artist
- Nicholas Brown, independent curator
- Shepherd Steiner, critic and art historian
- Kitty Scott, Curator Modern and Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Ontario
- Lyse Lemieux, Artist
- Douglas Coupland, Writer and Artist
- Johnathon Vaughn Strebly, Designer, Photographer, Educator
- John G. Boehme, Artist and Educator
- Robert Youds, Artist
- Jack Jeffrey, Artist
- Megan Dickie, Artist
- Jeen Yee, Manager, Petley Jones Gallery
- Daniel Laskarin, artist, Chair of the Dept. of Visual Arts, University of Victoria
- Hank Bull, artist
- Ariane Noël de Tilly, Postdoctoral Research & Teaching Fellow, University of British Columbia
- Maureen Ryan, Art History and 19th Century Studies, UBC
- Kiriko Watanabe, Assistant Curator West Vancouver Museum
- Darrin Morrison, Director/Curator West Vancouver Museum
- Toni Latour, artist, educator, Capilano University
- George Rammell, artist
- Ken Wallace, artist
- Johannes Zits, artist
- Ed Pien, artist
- IAIN BAXTER& ( the &MAN ) , artist
- Michael Batty, artist
- Lynda Gammon, Associate Professor, Visual Arts, University of Victoria
- Dr. Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe, F.S.A, Associate Dean Graduate Studies | Faculty of Graduate Studies | Office of the Dean The University of British Columbia
- Laura Baird, artist
- Naomi Sawada, Manager of Public Programs, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC
- Brian Jungen, artist
- Gary Pearson, Artist
- Yolande Martinello, Director Artists for Kids
- Jennilee Marigomen, Artist & Art Director, 01 Magazine
- Adam O'Reilly, Development Coordinator, Printed Matter, Inc.
- Tonik Wojtyra, citizen & artist
- Justin Patterson, artist
- Judith Penner, writer and art books editor
- Melissa Mercier, Artist
- Alex Heilbron - Artist
- Brian McBay, Executive Director 221A
- Dorothy Barenscott, Ph.D Art History Faculty, Fine Arts Department Kwantlen Polytechnic University
- Shelley Penfold, artist
- Alfred Lamoureux, Founder and Creative Director HOVbrand
- Haema Sivanesan, Executive Director Centre A
- Elizabeth Barnes, artist
- Sherry Killam, artist
- Mowry Baden, Artist
- Ann Webb, Executive Director, Canadian Art Foundation and Publisher, Canadian Art magazine
- Charles Rea, artist
- Laurel Terlesky, artist
- Jonah Gray, curator
- Lee Plested, curator The Commons
- Erik Von Muller, gallerist
- Ilze Bebris, artist
- Peter Gough, Vice President, Society of Canadian Artists
- Dax Morrison, artist
- Robert Kardosh, Director, Marion Scott Gallery/Kardosh Projects
- Merete Lewis, Associate, Mayberry Fine Art
- Galen Davison, Artist
- Bev Bingham , Artist
- Marianne Katzman, director of Katzman Kamen Gallery
- Rosanne Bennett, artist
- Alf Bogusky, Art Museum Director and Consultant
- Caliden J. Robinson . Artist
- Justin Hooke, artist
- Pablo Griff, Artist
- Sung Pil Yoon, artist
- Johanne Young, Chown River Gallery
- Ben Wilson, Technical Director Western Front Society
- Lindsay Wiens, managing director Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver
- Gathie Falk, artist
- Wai Lui, Principal & Creative Director Wai Lui Design Studio
- Joni Low, art writer
- Marie-Helene Tessier, writer, artist
- Kim Spencer-Nairn, Executive Director Capture Photography Festival
- kez sherwood - artist
- Fabrizio Gallanti, Associate Director, Programs Canadian Centre for Architecture
- Nadina Tandy , artist
- Fabiola Carranza, MFA candidate, UBC
- Emma LaMorte, artist
- Karilynn Ming Ho - artist
- Jann LM Bailey, Executive Director, Kamloops Art Gallery
- Jasmine Reimer-Artist
- Julian and Kaaren Brown, Co-founders of The Kingston Prize, Canada's Portrait Prize
- Adrian Walker, artist
- John Goldsmith, Artist and Professional Photographer, Vancouver
- Yi Xin Tong, artist
- Scot Ritchie, designer, illustrator
- Kevin Eastwood, filmmaker
- Thaddeus Holownia, Professor & Head, Department of Fine Art Mount Allison University
- Jaime Clay artist, designer, musician, and Instructor Emily Carr University of Art & Design
- Christine D'Onofrio, Artist
- Leora Morinis, writer, curatorial assistant, MoMA, NY
- Kate Nobel, Gallery and Publications Assistant, Or Gallery
- Susi Milne, artist and poet
- Richard Reid, artist
- Neil J. Pelman, Architect/Photographer
- Elizabeth Topham, artist
- Daphne Harwood, textile artist
- Pierre Coupey, artist, editor, writer, educator
- Valerie Metz, professional artist
- Ron Kliewer + Reaction Creative, Graphic Designer
- Brenda Fredrick, artist and professor, University of the Fraser Valley
- Wynne Palmer, artist
- Marja-Leena Rathje, artist
- Roxanne Gregory, artist and author
- Will Rafuse, Artist
- Katie Brennan, artist & Curator of the Lake Country Art Gallery
- Torrie Groening, artist
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