Born in 1977 in Berkeley Babak Golkar spent his formative years in Tehran before moving to Vancouver in 1996. He obtained a BFA in Visual Arts from Emily Carr Institute in 2003 and an MFA from the University of British Columbia in  2006.

Emily Neufeld was born in Alberta, on Treaty 6 and 7 land, and now lives and works on the unceded territory of the Squamish, T’seil Waututh and Musqueum in North Vancouver. Her practice investigates place and how humans change and are changed by the surrounding environment, and the layers of memory and psychic history that accumulate in our material world.

Distinguished NSCAD alumna Kelly Lycan is a photo-based installation artist who resides in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Lycan’s work investigates the way objects and images are placed and displayed in the world and the cycle of value they experience. She employs photography and sculpture in order to engage them beyond medium specificity.

Lindsay McIntyre is a film artist with an MFA in Film Production from Concordia and a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Alberta. She applies her interest in analogue technologies, film chemistry and structure to make award-winning short 16mm films and expanded cinema performances.

Taryn Sheppard is a Vancouver based artist and architect. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto (Master in Architecture, ‘10) and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University (Bachelor of Fine Arts, ‘05).

Karen Tam is an artist whose research focuses on the various forms of constructions and imaginations of cultures and communities, through her installation work in which she recreates spaces of Chinese restaurants, karaoke lounges, opium dens, curio shops and other sites of cultural encounters.

Emilie Crewe (b. 1987, Québec City, Canada) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Her artwork often takes the form of video installation, single-channel video, multi-channel video and sketch-work (drawings, collections & archives).

Lorenzo Fusi (b. 1968) is the Artistic Director and Curator of the I Yerevan Biennial. He was the Artistic Director of PIAC (Prix International d’Art Contemporain) of the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco (2014-2020), and the Visiting Academic Curator at the Alberta University of the Arts, where he directed the Illingworth Kerr Gallery between 2016-2018.

Sierra Tasi Baker, MSc, BEnvD is an award-winning Squamish Nation, Coast Salish, Kwakwaka’wakw, Tlingit, Haida & Hungarian designer, community consultant, entrepreneur, artist, and storyteller. Her work focuses on furthering Indigenous design and research methodologies whilst focusing on daylighting hidden histories and reconciliatory narratives.

Griffin Art Projects is pleased to welcome our first Emily Carr University Studio Residency Award Recipient, Sara-Jeanne Bourget, to our residency studio. Bourget was born in Lévis, Québec in 1988.

Emily Rosamund is a writer and artist, whose research stems from an interest in how historically situated performances of self are intertwined with developments in financial and informatic infrastructures. Her current work focuses on the implications of financialization and metrification for recent art practices that explore online identity and selfhood.

“I want to create layers of meaning, not just by building relationship, making connection and creating dialogues of the art works, but also by bringing alight the invisibles, the gaps or intervals, and the mystery. It is achieved by expanding the dimension of time and space in my works.”

Adrian Norvid was born in London, England and lives and works in Montreal. He received his MFA from York (Toronto) and has a BFA in Music also from York. Norvid has shown widely in Canada including solo shows at Galerie B312 (Montreal), AXE Neo7 (Gatineau), La Mussee de Joliette (Joliette), AKA (Saskatoon) and Julia Garnatz (Cologne.)

Janet Werner is a painter whose work has focused for many years on the fictional portrait. Her recent paintings are based on figures drawn from popular culture, including models, dolls, celebrities and figurines.

Zoe Kreye creates interdisciplinary art projects that explore transformation, embodiment and collective experience. Recent projects include De Fem (WAAP, Vancouver), Make Our Own Air (SPACE, London), Our Missing Body (Hochparterre Berlin, Western Front, Kamloops Art Gallery), FutureLoss (grunt gallery), Unlearning Practices (Unit Pitt , Goethe Satellite, %3Crotor%3E Graz).

Mahdyar Jamshidi is a photo-based artist and researcher who works and resides in Tehran, Iran. He received his Bachelor of Photography from Islamic Azad University in Tehran in 2007 and his Masters in Studio Art (Photo-Media) from the University of Sydney in 2012, and his Doctoral of Business Administration from the University of San Jose Recoletos, Philippines in 2016.

Xuuya’ - Terrance Richard Baker (Haida/Skwxwu7mesh/Hawaiian), is a traditional artist and storyteller who was born in the waterways close to his mother’s homeland in Haida Gwaii. He began carving at the age of 6, and was self-taught until the age of 16, when he began to knife carve with Skwxwu7mesh artists Stan Joseph, and Floyd Joseph.

Steven Cottingham is an artist and curator based in Vancouver. His recent work investigates the spectral qualities of material culture and labour relations under capitalism, with particular attention to real estate markets and unceded territory.

The Griffin Art Projects is collaborating with PortLiving, to facilitate an international Curatorial Residence Program. The project is an innovative partnership which brings career support and cultural development opportunities to local artists so that they may grow international relationships by bringing established curators to Vancouver so they may know, engage with and enrich our community.

We are happy to welcome Berlin based artist, Beate Terfloth to our Artist in Residence program. Terfloth (b. 1958) engages with an artistic practice that conveys a sense of vast openness through the simple use of reduction.