The Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver is a registered charitable organization founded in 1977. We promote the understanding and appreciation of contemporary art by hosting a regular schedule of members-only events featuring prominent artists, curators, critics and collectors from around the world. In 2017 the Society will award a $10,000 Artist Prize to a local emerging artist who has been out of post-secondary education for 5 years or less.
Charitable Registration # 888445061 RR0001
Board of Directors
Jennifer Mawby
President
Tej Basi
Treasurer
Lesley Anderson
Communications Chair
Jas Lally
Membership Chair
Erica Fremeau
Programming Co Chair
Michaela Mitchell
Programming Co Chair
Dane Armour
Programming Co Chair
Sande Waters
Artist Prize Chair
Anita Cirillo
Fundraising Chair
Our History
Selected Artists We Have Worked With
Fiona Ackerman
Derya Akay
Vikky Alexander
Kim Kennedy Austin
Carl Andre
Roy Arden
Sonny Assu
Rebecca Belmore
Lynda Benglis
Ross Bleckner
Raymond Boisjoly
Eli Bornowsky
Shary Boyle
Joan Brown
Vanessa Brown
Genevieve Cadieux
Aaron Carpenter
Anthony Caro
John Chamberlain
Dale Chihuly
Barb Choit
Dana Claxton
Nathan Coley
Alex Colville
Douglas Coupland
Beau Dick
Kim Dorland
Stan Douglas
Roni Horn
Luis Jacob
Donald Judd
Gathie Falk
Geoffrey Farmer
Eric Fischl
Betty Goodwin
Piero Golia
Rodney Graham
K8 Hardy
Adad Hannah
Colleen Heslin
Jeremy Hof
Paul Housley
Shawn Hunt
Jessica Jackson Hutchins
Garry Neill Kennedy
Janice Kerbel
Marie Khouri
Wanda Koop
Tiziana La Melia
Evan Lee
Micah Lexier
Glenn Lewis
Mark Lewis
Attila Richard Lukacs
Ken Lum
Rita McBride
Elizabeth McIntosh
Landon Mackenzie
Myfanwy Macleod
Liz Magor
Robert Mangold
Agnes Martin
Duane Michals
Guido Molinari
Tegan Moore
Robert Murray
Toni Onley
Laura Owens
Ross Penhall
Ryan Peter
Judy Pfaff
Joseph Plaskett
Mary Pratt
Mark Prent
Les Ramsay
Sylvain Sailly
Jayce Salloum
Aurel Schmidt
Peter Schuyff
Allan Sekula
Jack Shadbolt
Judith Shea
Tony Sherman
Gordon Smith
Michael Snow
Nancy Spero
Simon Starling
Jessica Stockholder
Corin Sworn
Takao Tanabe
Brendan Lee Satish Tang
Erdem Tasdelen
Reece Terris
Diana Thater
David Thauberger
Mina Totino
Claude Viallat
Stephen Waddell
Carol Wainio
Ian Wallace
Andy Warhol
Joyce Wieland
Lawrence Weiner
Paul Wong
Alison Yip
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
Elizabeth Zvonar
Curators
Germano Celant
Director, Fondazione Prada, Milan
Director, Fondazione Prada, Milan
Diego Cortez
Co-Founder, Mudd Club, NYC
Co-Founder, Mudd Club, NYC
Francois-Marc Gagnon
Research Fellow, Art Canada Institute
Henry Geldzahler
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Massimiliano Gioni
New Museum, NYC
Jens Hoffmann
Director, Jewish Museum, NYC
Walter Hopps
Director, Menil Collection, Houston
Sidney Felsen
Founder, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Philip Leider
Editor-In-Chief, Artforum, NYC
Shamim Momin
Los Angeles Nomadic Division
Matthew Teitelbaum
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Marcia Tucker
Founder, New Museum, NYC
Critics
Suzi Gablick
Virginia Commonwealth University
Grace Glueck
The New York Times
Dave Hickey
University of Nevada Las Vegas
University of Nevada Las Vegas
Donald Kuspit
State University of New York at Stony Brook
John Bentley Mays
The Globe and Mail
Werner Schmalenbach
Kunstsammlung NRW
Barry Schwabsky
The Nation
The Nation
Patrons
Rene Blouin
Galerie Rene Blouin, Montreal
Ian Davidson
Davidson Johnston Architects
Arthur Erickson
Architect
Avrom Isaacs
Isaacs Gallery, Toronto
Rafael Jablonka
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
Leo Castelli Gallery, NYC
Bob Rennie
Rennie Collection at Wing Sang
Andrea Rosen
Andrea Rosen Gallery, NYC
Holly Solomon
Holly Solomon Gallery, NYC
Herbert & Dorothy Vogel
Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, NYC
Marcia Weisman
LA MoCA
Byron Aceman
Byron Aceman Collection