Lectures and Talks
Black Art Matters: Nya Lewis In Conversation with Anique Jordan
Wed Feb 10, 2021 | 4 PM
Vancouver Art Gallery
Anique Jordan, Kloth, 2019, Courtesy the Artist and Zalucky Contemporary, Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid
Join guest curator Nya Lewis on Wednesday, February 10 at 4 PM for a conversation with artist and curator Anique Jordan, broadcast live on the Gallery’s Instagram account.
Presented from February 8 to 11 in conjunction with the exhibition Where do we go from here?, this series of talks on Instagram will highlight the work of Black and Indigenous vanguards, whose practices draw attention to the voices of underrepresented communities.
Also being presented in this series:
February 8, 4 PM: Jessie Addo »
February 9, 4 PM: Rebecca Bair »
February 11, 4 PM: Tania Willard »
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Anique Jordan is an artist, writer and curator who looks to answer the question of possibility in everything she creates. As an artist, Jordan works in photography, sculpture and performance often employing the theory of hauntology to challenge historical or dominant narratives and creating, what she calls, impossible images. Jordan has lectured on her artistic and community engaged curatorial practice as a 2017 Canada Seminar speaker at Harvard University and in numerous institutions across the Americas. In 2017 she co-curated the exhibition Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood at the Art Gallery of Ontario. As an artist, she has exhibited in galleries such as Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery of York University (AGYU), Art Gallery of Guelph, Doris McCarthy Gallery, the Wedge Collection, Art Gallery of Windsor, Gallery 44 and Y+ Contemporary. She has received numerous awards, grants and fellowships and in 2017 was awarded the Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Artist of the Year award. Jordan completed a residency at the University of the West Indies (Trinidad and Tobago), was the 2018-19 Artist-in-Residence at Osgoode Hall Law School and the most recent recipient of the Hnatyshyn Emerging Artist award. Her work appears in public and private collections nationally.
Nya Lewis is a Vancouver-based, award-winning independent curator and MFA candidate at OCAD University. Moved by the goal of equitable access to art and diverse stories in Canada, her work is the culmination of African resistance, love questions, actions, study and embrace. Currently she serves as the Founder and Director of BlackArt Gastown, a year-round programmer for Vancouver Queer Film Festival, and a contributing curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Museum of Anthropology. A writer, activist and community organizer committed to building just and inclusive cultural and social infrastructure in Vancouver, Lewis’ work celebrates the strength and perseverance of Black Canadian culture, history and its diversity.