Land
On Leonard George and place: An ode
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
1971
The Greater Vancouver Artist’s Gallery is founded
Vancouver in 1971
Destruction of the Maplewood Mudflats
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
1972
The Greater Vancouver Artist’s Gallery opens
Where are all the Black people?
Who is Graham Warrington?
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
1973
Local Initiatives Program administered by CAG
Analog Video
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
1976
The Immigration Act
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
1977
The Powell Street Festival
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
1980
Main Exit Gallery
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
1983
First Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong to Vancouver
The October Show and the second generation of Vancouver artist-run centres
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
1984
Expulsion of Sex Workers from Vancouver's West End
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
1986
Expo 86
Roy Kiyooka publishes an April Fool Divertimento
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
1988
Stan Douglas’ Television Spots
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
1989
Tiananmen Square massacre protests
In Visible Colours: An International Women of Colour and Third World Women Film/Video Festival and Symposium
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
1990
AIDS activist demonstrations at Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
1991
Baltej Singh Dhillon is the first RCMP officer permitted to wear a turban
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
1992
Christos Dikeakos: Sites & Place Names at CAG
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
1993
Access Gallery moves into permanent space, Gallery Gachet incorporates as a non-profit
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
1994
CAG curator Keith Wallace visits the Bienal de la Habana
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
1995
Nations in Urban Landscapes at CAG
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
1997
Delgamuukw v. British Columbia
APEC Conference
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
1998
VANDU founded
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
2000
Storyscapes: Reflections on Erasure and Story, 2000-2022
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
2001
CAG moves to 555 Nelson
Germaine Koh’s ... at CAG
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
2002
Woodward’s Squat
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
2003
Insite opens
Rosemary Brown, 1930–2003
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
2005
Centre A moves to the Downtown Eastside
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
2009
The Enough March
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
2010
VIVO Media Arts Centre’s Safe Assembly
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
2012
AKA Collective
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
2013
Burrard Marina Field House
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
2014
The Monuments of Piazza Italia
Zaccheus Jackson Nyce, 1977–2014
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
2015
For a New Accessibility Conference
Germaine Koh: Fallow at Charles H. Scott Gallery
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
2016
Trans Mountain pipeline expansion protests
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
2017
c̓əsnaʔəm: The city before the city
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
2018
Kwekwecnewtxw erected on Burnaby Mountain
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
2019
Deanna Bowen: Night Prowl at The WALL
Sreshta Rit Premnath: Those Who Wait at CAG
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
2020
COVID-19 lockdowns
Affordability crisis in Vancouver
In-Kind: Conversations with Arts Workers in So-Called Vancouver About Undocumented Resources Supporting the Sector
Jesse Gray: Mesomonuments at Artspeak
Jamie Lee Hamilton, 1955–2020
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
2021
New Growth: Latin American artists in Vancouver
Atmospheric river and Pacific Northwest floods
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
2022
Fire at 165 East Hastings
Housing
How it is: Chinatown, August 2022
Plaque commemorating Serafim “Joe“ Fortes installed at English Bay Beach
A Seat at the Table with
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting
Future
Legends of Vancouver
Constructing the World’s Greenest City: Legacy of Displacement and Dispossession in Vancouver
crying at work (a score for the future)
Renewed interest in materially-centered painting