Centre A Gala & Auction 2018

Navin Rawanchaikul works in various media including sculpture, painting, performance, photography, and film. In 2010, Rawanchaikul was awarded the national Silapathorn citation from the Thai Ministry of Culture in the field of visual arts. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at MoMA P.S.1 in collaboration with Public Art Fund, New York (2001); Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong (2008); and Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore (2011). He represented Thailand at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011) and has participated in numerous group exhibitions around the world. Rawanchaikul lives and works in Chiang Mai, Thailand and Fukuoka, Japan. Navin Party is from a project of the same name, executed collaboratively with current Centre A Executive Director/Curator, Tyler Russell between 2006-2008. Works from this series have been exhibited at Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, the Venice Biennale, and Café for Contemporary Art in North Vancouver.

Morris Lum is a photographer/artist whose work explores the hybrid nature of the Chinese-Canadian community through photography, form and documentary practices. His work also examines the ways in which the Chinese history is represented in the media and archival material. Morris is currently working on a cross North America project that looks specifically at the transformation of the Chinatown    

Courtesy of the Artist and Unit 17.

As Lead Donor, your contribution will be recognized on Centre A’s website and the exhibition printed matter, including a published catalogue.

Adad Hannah was born in New York in 1971, spent his childhood in Israel and England and moved to Vancouver in the early 80′s. Having completed his BFA at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 1998, and his MFA from Concordia University in 2004, he now works between Montreal and Vancouver. Hannah is known for his opulent tableaux-vivant that reference renowned paintings. His work spans photography, video, performance, and installation. Interested in visual citation, repetition, duplication, seriality, reflection, mise en abyme, and recovery, Hannah creates beautiful and detailed time-based photographs that ask us to reconsider the traditional ideas surrounding the still. Through his practice Hannah gives life to the worlds and narratives captured within his images.

As Lead Donor, you will be acknowledged on the exhibition wall text, on our website, and other related printed matter, including an exhibition catalogue. You will also be invited for an exclusive solo preview of the exhibition before it opens to the public, and two reserved seats at Tropicopolitan Objects.

Courtesy of the artist and Back Gallery Project

Byron Peters is an artist and writer based in Vancouver. Peters’ solo and collaborative works have been exhibited at The Darling Foundry, Montreal; Parasite, Hong Kong; The White Building, London; The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York; The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; and others. His recent film, Pure Difference, the first in the series Anti-Racist Mathematics & Other Stories, premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2018.

One of the leading proponents of the early 1990s Cynical Realist movement, Fang Lijun’s work encapsulates the disillusionment of China’s youth; a generation defined by the events at Tiananmen Square and China’s internal domestic policies. Constructed around loose narratives Fang’s images personalise sentiments of disenchantment, angst, and rebellion; his fictional suggestions conveyed through his illustrative style and re-occurring bald-headed protagonist. Fang’s practice exhibits a rarefied technical skill rigorously studied through his Social Realist training; his combination of this aesthetic with references to contemporary comics, folk art, and dynastic painting characterize a national identity in flux, distilling a position of integrity from tradition and the modern world.

Gu Xiong, a multimedia artist from China, now lives in Canada. He is an expert in painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, photography, video, digital imagery, text, performance art, and installation. Gu Xiong’s practice centres on the creation of a hybrid identity arising from the integration of different cultural origins. Through the critical angle of visual art, his work encompasses sociology, geography, economics, politics, and literature, as well as the dynamics of globalization, local culture and identity politics, through which he constitutes an amalgamation of multiple cultural histories and seeks to create an entirely new identity. The construction of a new level of being is Gu Xiong’s primary interest.

(Image courtesy of the artist)

(Image courtesy of the artist)

(Image courtesy of the artist)